millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 161 | Thursday, 15 June 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS pNIFTY 9618.15 (+11.25) pSENSEX 31,155.91 +52.42) pDOW JONES 21,328.47 (+92.80) pNASDAQ 6,220.37 (+44.90) pRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.05 (+0.39) pRUPEE/EURO 72.03 (+0.17) qGOLD/10GM 29,250 (-70.00) qSILVER/K 39,100 (-50.00) CM MAMATA GOVT EXTENDS THIS WIN HAS TAUGHT ‘WORD OF MOUTH, MEETS GOVERNOR, INTEREST ME NEVER TO GIVE AUDIENCE SUPPORT DISCUSSES SITUATION SUBSIDY ON CROP UP ON DREAMS: IMPORTANT FOR IN THE HILLS PG3 LOANS PG5 BOPANNA PG15 SMALL FILMS’ PG16 Quick News44 BJP STALWARTS WILL MEET SONIA AND OTHER REGIONAL LEADERS 12 dead in massive ‘12 big defaulters identified fire at London by RBI to be named soon’ Govt, Opposition go into residential tower LONDON: A huge blaze on NEW DELHI: The Finance Ministry on Wednesday engulfed a 24-sto- Wednesday said names of the 12 big defaulters rey residential tower block in identified by the RBI for initiation of bankruptcy huddle over Prez choice west London housing over 100 proceedings will soon be made public. families, killing at least 12 peo- The RBI on Tuesday said it has identified SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE Opposition leaders on Wednes- ple and injuring 74 others, with 12 large loan defaulters who account for 25 per day met to chalk out a strategy for police suspecting the death toll cent of the total NPAs in the banking sector and NEW DELHI: The BJP on the upcoming presidential poll but could rise further. those will be referred to respective banks for fil- Wednesday upped the ante in its no names were discussed in the The fire at Grenfell Tower ing insolvency proceedings. These cases will be efforts to garner maximum sup- first round of talks of a nine- party on the Lancaster West Estate Eyewitnesses described accorded priority by the National Company Law port for its presidential candidate sub-group set up for the purpose, in Latimer Road was reported people trapped in the burn- Tribunal (NCLT). with the three-member party panel members said. at 01:16 local time. About 600 ing tower, in north Kensington, The Finance Ministry further said that speaking to a number of allies as 10 opposition leaders met in people were believed to have screaming for help and yelling NCLT was being strengthened to fast-track well as opposition parties, amid the Parliament chamber of the been inside the tower’s 120 flats for their children to be saved. bankruptcy proceedings under the Insolvency indication that its nominee will file Leader of Opposition in Rajya when the blaze ripped through Firefighters rescued many and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). nomination next week. Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad. the building. people and are still trying to “You have got 12 cases that have been identi- Party sources have indicated The leaders including Azad and The Metropolitan Police, put the fire out in the 24-storey fied, the names will be shortly announced, and that the NDA candidate for the Mallikarjun Kharge from the Con- which previously had put the block 12 hours on. they account for as much as 25 per cent of the top constitutional post is likely to gress, JD-U’s Sharad Yadav, RJD’s number of fatalities at six, now Police say there may still be bad assets,” Finance Ministry’s Principal Eco- file his nomination before Prime Lalu Prasad, CPI-M’s Sitaram raised the death toll to 12. people in the building who are nomic Advisor Sanjeev Sanyal said. Minister Narendra Modi leaves for Opposition leaders at a meeting in Delhi on Wednesday PTI Yechury and NCP’s Praful Patel. Commander Stuart Cundy, unaccounted for. Each of the defaulters identified by RBI owes the US on June 25. Derek O’Brien of the TMC, R S of the Metropolitan Police ear- Eyewitnesses said they saw over Rs 5,000 crore to banks. MPOST They ruled out filing of nomi- briefed PM Modi about the poll BSP and Praful Patel of the NCP, Bharathi of the DMK, Ram Gopal lier said the recovery operation lights - thought to be mobile nation by its candidate this week as at a meeting on Wednesday with sources said. He will also reach out Yadav of the SP and Satish Chandra would be complex “over a num- phones or torches - flashing the consultation process will take other party top brass. to most of the regional outfits from Misra from the BSP were also present ber of days.” at the top of the block of flats, Multiple people injured in more time with Union ministers Home Minister Rajnath Singh, South India. at the 10 -member group’s meeting. He said it was likely to be and trapped residents coming Rajnath Singh and M Venkaiah Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Finance Minister Arun Jait- Azad said: “A sub-committee some time before police could to their windows - some hold- Naidu, two members of the BJP Naidu were appointed by BJP pres- ley, who is also a member of the was formed in which leaders of identify the victims, and it was ing children. San Francisco shooting panel, scheduled to meet Congress ident Amit Shah on June 12 to hold panel, will sound out leaders such nine parties were included, as there too early to speculate on the It is understood that “sev- chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday as talks with opposition parties and as Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) was a need for a smaller commit- cause of the fire. eral hundred” people would SAN FRANCISCO (KRON): Multiple people they work to evolve a consensus. allies in a bid to select a consensus leader Nitish Kumar, while Singh tee,” he said. The fire is thought to have have been in the block when have been injured in a shooting in San Francisco They are likely to meet Left candidate for the poll. may confer with West Bengal This was the first meeting of the started because of a faulty the fire broke out shortly Wednesday morning. The shooting happened at leaders following the meeting with The notification for the July 17 Chief Minister and TMC supremo group on Wednesday. refrigerator on the 3rd or 4th after midnight, most of them around 9:00 a.m. in the area of 17th and Utah. Gandhi. polls was issued on Wednesday, Mamata Banerjee. “The nitty gritty details were floor of the building soon after sleeping. This location is near a large UPS center. The It is learnt that the ruling coali- beginning the nomination process The home minister is also likely not discussed. No names have been midnight and destroyed flat “This is an unprecedented shooter has been shot and is being taken to a tion’s candidate will file their nom- for the election. The last date for fil- to speak to Shiv Sena chief Uddhav short-listed yet,” he said after the after flat. incident. In my 29 years of hospital. Witnesses say they heard several shots ination on June 23. Highly placed ing papers is June 28. Thackeray. 30-minute meeting. By noon, the building being a firefighter, I have and saw people running out the UPS building. sources added that senior BJP lead- Naidu on Wednesday spoke to Amid consultation among “The process has just started. looked to be just smoking ruins never ever seen anything of No officers were injured in the shooting. ers Venkaiah Naidu and Rajnath Anbumani Ramadoss of the PMK, political parties, the BJP has given In such conditions, the selection but the fire again took hold, this scale,” London Fire Bri- Police are advising the public to avoid the area. Singh - part of the BJP’s Presiden- N Rangaswamy of the All India little indication of its choice for the of a final candidate is impossible.” and cladding began to fall to gade chief Dany Cotton told Officers are doing a search of the area. They are tial poll panel with Arun Jaitley - NR Congress, Satish Mishra of the top post. he added. the ground. reporters. AGENCIES asking people in the area to shelter in place until further notice. AGENCIES Women cabbies in GOVT TO CHIEFS OF REGULATORY BODIES CM AT SSKM HOSPITAL The government will rural areas to get Can’t take both salary, pension interest-free loan never compromise on MPOST BUREAU NEW DELHI: The Centre will the issue of terrorism launch a new scheme to provide NEW DELHI: The chairpersons and MJ AKBAR interest-free loan to women self- members of regulatory bodies can- help groups in rural areas on the not take both salary and pension, the purchase of small commercial Centre has said. vehicles, to boost public trans- Existing norms provide that In today’s port and generate employment. chairpersons and members shall be The new scheme is likely to deemed to have retired from central paper be called ‘Pradhan Mantri Gram or state government service on the chairpersons and full-time members Parivahan Yojana’ and launched date of their appointment to any reg- of Telecom Regulatory Authority of on August 15. It will be on the ulatory authority. India (TRAI), Insurance Regulatory ... lines of the ongoing rural roads “In case such officers are in receipt and Development Authority (IRDA), CITY scheme, ‘Pradhan Mantri Gram of pension, the same shall be deducted Central Electricity Regulatory Com- Sadak Yojana’. in accordance with the prevailing mission (CERC), Securities and HUSBAND HELD AT GUNPOINT, WIFE RAPED 4 “The scheme will be a revolu- orders applicable to the re-employed Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and NATION tionary move as it will not only pensioner,” the Department of Per- Competition Commission of India revamp the public transport sys- sonnel and Training (DoPT) said.