https://www.facebook.com/centralchronicle CENTRAL www. centralchronicle.in CC Raipur, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 I Pages 12+4 I Price R 3.00 I City-Edition I Fastest growing English Daily of Chhattisgarh ‘The Forgotten Army’, has ensured Ex-servicemen hold rally NBA legend Kobe Bryant killed A SENSE OF FULFILMENT IN GUJARAT IN HELICOPTER CRASH IN PG-02 IN PG-03 IN PG-11 BRIEF Govt to sell 100 pc POLICE BATON CHARGE stake in Air India; issues bid document Issued the preliminary bid document for the strategic disinvestment with the deadline for West Bengal Chief Minister submitting New Delhi: In this file photo dated Aug 15, 2016, water Mamata Banerjee addresses cannon salute is accorded to Air Indias 787-800 during a workshop for expression of Dreamliner plane at Newark Airport. Various Air India students, in Kolkata, Monday. interest set as employee unions met on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, after March 17 the government, earlier in the day, announced the sale Mamata urges of 100 per cent stake in Air India as it issued the prelim- New Delhi, Jan 27 (PTI): Kolkata: West Bengal inary bid document for the strategic disinvestment. Chief Minister Mamata The government on document issued on India and Singapore Banerjee on Monday Monday announced sale of MondayManagement con- Airlines. It offers ground urged the opposition 100 per cent stake in debt- trol of the airline would handling servicesAir CPI(M) and the Congress laden Air India as it issued also be transferred to the India also has interests in to put aside narrow the preliminary bid docu- successful bidder This is Air India Engineering political differences and ment for the strategic dis- the second time in less Services, Air India Air fight together against investment with the dead- than two years that the Transport Services, the “fascist BJP govern- line for submitting expres- government has come out Airline Allied Services ment” at the sion of interest set as with proposal for selling and Hotel Corporation of Centre.Contending that March 17 As part of the stake in Air India, which IndiaThese entities are in NPR, NRC and CAA were strategic disinvestment, has been in the red for the process of being trans- correlated, Banerjee, Air India would also sell long The government has ferred to a separate com- who is also the TMC 100 per cent stake in low- set March 17 as the dead- pany — Air India Assets supremo, said the new cost airline Air India line for submitting the ex- Holding Ltd (AIAHL) — citizenship law was Express and 50 per cent pression of interest and would not be a part of Police baton charge Bihar Electricity Board employees protesting against the privatisation of power sector, in “anti-people”. shareholding in joint ven- (EoI)AISATS is an equal the proposed transaction, Patna, Monday. ture AISATS, as per bid joint venture between Air the document said. Plane crashes Gazani: Passenger plane Nirbhaya case crashed on Monday in a Padma Shri for Adnan Taliban-held area of Dummy execution CBSE relaxes exam norms Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, local officials Sami an insult to of four convicts For children of military personnel fighting ‘terrorism, left-wing extremism’ said.Arif Noori, performed in Tihar New Delhi, Jan 27 (PTI): spokesman for the provin- 130 cr Indians: NCP The board has in 2020 and wish to change cial governor, said the New Delhi: A dummy execution their centre of examina- of the four death row convicts in plane went down around Mumbai,Jan 27 (PTI): came a citi- The Central Board of directed that if stu- tion in the same city, they the Nirbhaya gangrape and mur- 1:10 p.m. local time in zen of the Secondary Education dents have missed would be allowed to do so. Amid a row over country in der case was performed at Tihar (CBSE) has decided to ex- It will also be permissible Deh Yak district, which is Jail on Monday, prison officials their practical exam- held by the Taliban. Two Pakistani-origin singer January tend the relaxation in if they want to change the Adnan Sami, who became 2016. He was said. Fresh death warrants were norms for children of examination centre to provincial council mem- issued by a Delhi court on ination, the same bers also confirmed the an Indian citizen in 2016, one of the armed forces personnel some other city,”he added. being chosen for Padma 118 people January 17 for the hanging of and those who died fight- should be conducted The board has directed crash. The number of Vinay Sharma (26), Akshay Shri award, the NCP on whose ing terrorism and left- that if students have people on board and their Kumar Singh (31), Mukesh as per their conven- Monday termed it as an names were announced on wing extremism for the missed their practical ex- fate was not immediately Kumar Singh (32) and Pawan “insult” to the 130 crore Saturday for the Padma upcoming board exams for ience by April 2, 2020 paramillitary forces who amination, the same known, nor was the cause (26) on February 1 at 6 am after Indians and a “damage Shri awards, with the class 10 and 12. After the are fighting terrorism and should be conducted as of the crash. the previously-scheduled hang- control” act by the NDA Ministry of Home Affairs ing on January 22 was post- Pulwama terror attack, Controller of left wing extremism for per their convenience by government “facing ques- list showing his home poned due to pending peti- the CBSE had in 2019 de- Examinations Sanyam the country and are mar- April 2, 2020 and if the stu- India decides tions” over the CAA, NRC state as Maharashtra.”If tions.Earlier in the day, the wife, cided to extend certain ex- Bhardwaj said.”In 2020, tyred in the line of duty dents wish to appear in ex- New Delhi: The govern- and NPR.In a dig, anyone from Pakistan mother and nephew of Akshay emptions to wards of mar- the CBSE has decided to during this period,” he amination in a subject of- ment on Monday decided Maharashtra Minorities chants ‘Jai Modi’, he can Kumar Singh met him in the tyrs of Armed forces and extend relaxations to the said.”Wards appearing for fered later, they will be to take steps for possible Development Minister and now get citizenship of prison, sources said. paramillitary forces, wards of armed forces and class 12 or 10 examination permitted to do so.” evacuation of over 250 NCP spokesperson Nawab India as well as a Padma Indians from Chinese city Malik also said that any Shri award.Selection of DIA MIRZA GETS EMOTIONAL of Wuhan, the epicentre Pakistani citizen can now Sami for the award is a Shah to chair 22nd Central of the fast spreading avail Indian citizenship by damage control exercise,” coronavirus.A meeting chanting ‘Jai Modi’.Sami, said Malik.The NCP chaired by Cabinet born in London to a leader later tweeted that Zonal Council meet Today Secretary Rajiv Gauba Pakistani Air force veter- many Indian Muslims de- reviewed India’s pre- an, applied for Indian citi- served the honours con- CM Bhupesh Bhghel also attend paredness to deal with zenship in 2015 and be- ferred by the country.” coronavirus amid mount- Raipur, Jan 27 (PTI): ing global concern over increasing number of BJP counters Oppn criticism of Union Home Minister cases in China and sever- Padma Shri to Adnan Sami Amit Shah will chair the al other countries. 22nd Central Zonal New Delhi: The BJP on Monday hit out at opposition parties over Council meeting here on To compensate their criticism of the Modi government’s decision to confer Padma Tuesday and it will be at- Shri on singer Adnan Sami, wondering if they only like those tended by chief ministers New Delhi: A 5-judge Muslims who are “against” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India and of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya border disputes, linguis- bench of the Supreme its institutions. Addressing a press conference here, BJP spokesper- Pradesh, Uttarakhand tic minorities or inter- Court is scheduled to hear son Sambit Patra referred to the Opposition criticism of the govern- and Chhattisgarh, said an state transport among on Tuesday the Centre’s ment for honouring Sami even though his father served in the official. others. plea seeking Rs 7,844 Pakistan air force.Countering the criticism, Patra raked up the Five zonal councils - “The meeting will take crore as additional fund alleged association of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s father Western, Eastern, place from 11 am to 3 pm from successor firms of with Italian dictator Mussolini and Germany’s Hitler to ask why she Northern, Southern and at Mayfair Lake Resort in US-based Union Carbide was given Indian citizenship.There was no immediate response from Central were set up under Naya Raipur, the upcom- Corporation, now owned the Congress on the BJP’s charge.Patra asserted that Sami is “high- Jaipur: Bollywood actress Dia Mirza gets emotional during the Jaipur Literature States Reorganization ing capital city of the by Dow Chemicals, for ly deserving” and was given the Padma honour on merit. Festival at Diggi Palace, in Jaipur, Monday. giving compensation to Act, 1956 to foster inter- state. Chief Ministers victims of 1984 Bhopal state cooperation and co- Kamal Nath (Madhya Gas tragedy.The bench, ordination.They are man- Pradesh), Yogi comprising Justices Arun dated to discuss and make Adityanath (Uttar Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Can’t ignore state’s anti-CAA resolutions: Sinha recommendations on any Pradesh), Trivendra Vineet Saran, M R Shah matter of common inter- Singh Rawat Lucknow, Jan 27 (PTI): and S Ravindra Bhat, will He expressed politician Shatrughan ment of the NRC, people est in the field of econom- (Uttarakhand) will at- hear the curative petition Sinha.