Delhi monday, february 13, 2017 www.thehindu.in ● Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 7 ● No. 37 ● CITY EDITION ● 28 Pages ● Rs. 8.00 Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad, Malappuram and Mumbai • • BRIEFLY South Kashmir seethes after Home Ministry’s Sasikala presents legislators website hacked 7 die in Kulgam encounter NEW DELHI: The website of the Ministry of Home Affairs was hacked on Sunday. The before media, denies coercion Clashes break out authorities blocked it for the after the killing of rest of the day. The Ministry, More MPs join however, denied that the four militants website had been hacked, Panneerselvam saying it was “down for repair.” group, as leaders PEERZADA ASHIQ The website was blocked by the National Informatics Centre as trade charges SRINAGAR: Restive south Kash- soon as the hacking was noticed mir was seething again after in the morning. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT seven people, including four ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 militants and two soldiers, CHENNAI: AIADMK interim were killed in an encounter general secretary V.K. in Kulgam, 70 km from Srin- Single-point military Sasikala on Sunday denied agar, on Sunday. adviser soon? that party MLAs were being It all began when four mil- NEW DELHI: The Centre is keen held captive at a resort on the itants, who were holed up in on appointing a single-point East Coast Road to prevent a house in Nagbal village of military adviser within the year them from joining the fac- Frisal area, were surrounded to promote synergy among the tion of Chief Minister O. by the security forces during Jawans being deployed near the encounter site at Frisal in Services. But there are Panneerselvam. the night. A gunfight erupted Kulgam district on Sunday. — PHOTO: NISSAR AHMAD apprehensions that it would end Presenting the MLAs, al- CLAIMING MAJORITY SUPPORT: AIADMK interim general secretary V.K. Sasikala, flanked by MLAs, on Sunday morning when up being another ceremonial legedly confined at the speaking to the media at a resort in Koovathur on East Coast Road on Sunday. — PHOTO: PTI they opened fire at a search with bullet injuries. One of Lance Naik Bhandoriya Go- post in the absence of a clear- Golden Bay Resorts in party. the injured civilians, identi- pal Singh, 33, and Sepoy cut authority. Koovathur since Tuesday resort for the first time since present.] Panneerselvam’s faction, “The terrorists had taken fied as Mushtaq Ibrahim, a Raghubeer Singh, 32. Three night, before the media, Ms. Tuesday. When asked how long the taking the number of MPs to the owner’s son hostage. We resident of Srigufwara, suc- more soldiers sufered ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 Sasikala declared that they The AIADMK leader MLAs would remain at the 10. The Lok Sabha MPs who had no option but to storm cumbed to injuries in a Srin- injuries. were all by her side of their earlier held a meeting with resort, Ms Sasikala angrily switched camps were B. Sen- the house,” said Army Bri- agar hospital. Opposition National Con- free will. the party MLAs at the resort. asked the reporter, “Which guttuvan (Vellore), J. Jay- gadier R. Chakarwarty. ference leader Ali Mo- Family of three found “You see for yourself how When asked how many paper are you from?” and asingh Thiyagaraj Natterjee “While doing so, two sol- From Lashkar, Hizb hammad Sagar said Chief dead in Begampur independent they (the AI- MLAs were with her, Ms went on to say, “So you have (Thoothukudi), R.P. diers and a civilian were shot “Two militants belonged Minister Mehbooba Mufti by the terrorists. Later, all the to Hizbul Mujahideen and had claimed that she ordered NEW DELHI: A couple and their ADMK MLAs) are and talk Sasikala evaded a direct some information (about Marutharajaa (Perambalur), freely and are sincere that reply. She said, “You can government formation) in S. Rajendran (Villupuram) terrorists were killed by the two others were associated the forces to exercise re- minor daughter were found security forces.” with the Lashkar-e-Taiba straint while dealing with ci- dead at their rented home in there should not be any dis- count for yourself.” [While advance?” and Parthiban (Theni). repute to the government,” separately addressing her le- Earlier on Sunday, five Lok Clashes broke out in south (LeT),” said Brigadier vilians. Begampur’s Rajiv Nagar Kashmir after the news of Chakarwarty. “Their death is “Sunday’s incident Extension on Sunday morning. Ms. Sasikala told journalists, gislators, she repeatedly Sabha members and one Ra- who were allowed inside the claimed 129 of them were jya Sabha member joined Mr. ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 the killing of the four milit- bound to impact the morale showed the reality. Why was The bodies of the mother and ants spread. Eyewitnesses of the terrorists.” the Standard Operating Pro- daughter, which bore told The Hindu that the se- The four slain militants cedure (SOP) not followed?” strangulation marks, were found curity forces “fired into the were all residents of Kulgam. he asked. on a bed. The man, meanwhile, crowds to break up the fast- The civilian was identified J&K government spokes- was found hanging. The police Congress intolerant of the mandate spreading protests.” as Ashiq Reshi, a govern- man Naeem Akhtar said the now suspect that the man killed According to figures re- ment employee and father of government “will look into them both before committing leased by two hospitals in a three-month-old child. An the matter and find out the suicide himself. of the people, says Venkaiah Naidu south Kashmir, 15 civilians Army spokesman identified circumstances that led to ½ CITY | PAGE 3 were treated, including 12 the deceased soldiers as such a situation.” ‘When PM responded sponded to the criticism by Ashwin fastest to to Oppn. criticism, the Opposition, Parliament 3 held for robbery at Satyarthi’s home House was stalled’ was not allowed to function,” reach 250 wickets he added. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT bel Peace laureate Kailash took away articles, including HYDERABAD: Indian off-spinner SHARATH S. SRIVATSA In his conversation with The Hindu Satyarthi, with the arrest of the citation of the recogni- Ravichandran Ashwin on Sunday the Editor of BusinessLine NEW DELHI: The police on three brothers from Sangam tion and a replica of the No- created a record by claiming BENGALURU: The Union Minis- , Raghavan Sunday claimed to have Vihar. On February 7, the bel medal. 250 Test wickets in the least ter for Urban Development, Srinivasan, who pointed to cracked the case of the burg- brothers allegedly broke into number of matches in his 45th and Information and Broad- the lack of a national con- lary at the apartment of No- the Kalkaji apartment and ½ DETAILS ON PAGE 9 Test, eclipsing legendary casting M. Venkaiah Naidu sensus resulting in stalling of Australian fast bowler Dennis on Sunday said the Congress Parliament, the Minister Lillee. Lillee had completed the was stalling Parliament as it Venkaiah Naidu speaking at said: “The Opposition must milestone in 48 Tests. was yet to reconcile itself The Huddle in Bengaluru on have its say and the govern- with its defeat in the Lok Sunday. — PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR ment should have its way be- ½ SPORTS | PAGE 18 Sabha polls and had become cause the mandate is with intolerant of the mandate of party-to-party and leader-to- the government.” the people. leader basis,” the Minister EDUCATIONPLUS “I went to Sonia Gandhi’s said at the concluding ses- ½ PAGE 15 4 Pages [Congress president] resid- sion of The Huddle here. CONTINUED ON METROPLUS ence, seeking cooperation. “However, when Prime ½ MORE REPORTS ON 4 Pages We are also in touch on a Minister Narendra Modi re- PAGES 14 & 15 No action yet on proposal to hike President’s pay VIJAITA SINGH A proposal to hike salaries of President, NEW DELHI: For over six months now, President Pranab Muk- Vice-President and herjee has been drawing less Governors is stuck salary than a Joint Secretary in the PMO in the Government of India as a proposal to increase the salaries of the President, the “When we realised that Vice-President and Gov- the President is drawing a ernors has been gathering salary less than even a Dir- dust in the Prime Minister’s ector-level oicer in the Oice (PMO). Government of India, we cal- The Home Ministry had culated the hike to be ₨5 lakh. proposed an increase in the The Cabinet Secretary, the salary of the President from seniormost in the govern- the current ₨1.5 lakh to ₨5 ment hierarchy, gets ₨2.5 lakh lakh per month. Similarly for currently,” said a senior gov- the Vice-President, the pro- ernment oicial. posal was to increase the An oicial said the delay in salary from ₨1.1 lakh to ₨3.5 processing the proposal lakh per month. could be due to a similar pro- Though the file to increase posal to hike the salaries of the salary of the two consti- parliamentarians — as re- tutional posts was moved six commended by a joint com- months ago, it was stuck in mittee on salaries and allow- the PMO, an oicial said. ances of members of Queries to the PMO went un- Parliament — meeting with answered. severe criticism. The com- The boost in salary is com- mittee headed by BJP MP mensurate with the recom- Yogi Adityanath had recom- mendations of the Seventh mended a hike in salary of Pay Commission, implemen- the MPs from current ₨1.4 ted last year. lakh a month to ₨2.8 lakh a The Commission gave its month.