© 2006-2017 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. -Satish [email protected] - follow us: saturday, july 15, 2017 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 24 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow NEARBY Centre briefs MPs on China stando Sonia steps in to There will be no exing of muscles; a solution will be reached through dialogue, says govt. save Bihar govt. Vijaita Singh Jaishankar made a presenta- voys in Delhi had questioned New Delhi tion before 19 MPs that In- PM Narendra Modi’s “si- Calls up Nitish Kumar to resolve crisis The government told an all- dian troops were engaged in lence” on the issue. External Cross-border Maoists in party meeting of MPs it had a “face-off” with the PLA in Affairs Minister Sushma Swa- Smita Gupta Darjeeling: Bengal govt. called on Friday that China Doklam near the Sikkim- raj, Home Minister Rajnath New Delhi KOLKATA was trying to extend its con- Bhutan-China trijunction. Singh, National Security Ad- As the Bihar government The West Bengal government trol further down the Dok- Mr. Jaishankar told the viser Ajit Doval, besides the teetered on the brink, with has informed the Calcutta lam trijunction in an effort to MPs who attended the three- Foreign Secretary briefed the ruling alliance partners High Court that “Maoists gain a strategic advantage hour meeting that apart MPs. The decision to field Janata Dal (United) and from a neighbouring country over “Chicken’s Neck” in Si- from diplomacy, “other the most senior Ministers as Rashtriya Janata Dal locked have inltrated into the area” liguri, West Bengal, which channels” were also being well as top officials indicated in what looks like a battle to in the wake of the Darjeeling connects India to the rest of used to end the standoff and that the government was the finish, Congress presid- violence and would “target the Northeast. Crucial meet: Anand Sharma and Ghulam Nabi Azad after India is insisting that the pre- hoping to ensure consensus ent Sonia Gandhi stepped in government ocials” The government assured the meeting in New Delhi on Friday. * R. V. MOORTHY June 16 condition is reached across the board as diplo- on Friday. working there and also “burn the parliamentarians that at Doklam. matic efforts continue. As the national leader of Nitish Kumar down govt buildings.” there would no flexing of The meet was to clear the Doklam trijunction near The meeting came days (With inputs from the third party in Bihar’s muscles and a solution doubts on the ongoing stan- Sikkim. after Congress vice-presid- Suhasini Haidar) ‘mahagathbandhan,’ Ms. against him. NATION Ī PAGE 5 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD would be reached through doff with the Chinese With the help of satellite ent, who met with the Gandhi spoke to Chief Min- Thus far, both parties dialogue. People’s Liberation Army at maps, Foreign Secretary S. Chinese and Bhutanese en- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 ister and JD(U) chief Nitish have stood their ground, Kumar to try and resolve the with the RJD unwilling to let crisis and save the State gov- Mr. Yadav step down, and ernment. Later in the day, the JD(U) adamant that he SC to wait till govt. State Congress chief Ashok does so. The crunch will Highly explosive substance Choudhary held meetings come if the CBI follows up with Mr. Kumar and RJD su- the FIR against him with a gets Mallya extradited premo Lalu Prasad. charge sheet. Speaking to found inside U.P. Assembly For the Congress, which the media late on Friday, No wish to oversee process: Bench is still hoping to make a Mr. Prasad emphatically SIT to probe attack on comeback in 2019, the fail- said Mr. Tejawi Yadav would Amarnath pilgrims Krishnadas Rajagopal subsequent steps taken, a Chief Minister calls for NIA probe into ‘terror conspiracy’ ure of the Bihar experiment not resign. He also said re- SRINAGAR NEW DELHI Bench of Justices A.K. Goel of 2015 would not just be a ports in the media that Ms. The J&K police have set up a Even as there is no sign of and U.U. Lalit intervened to Special correspondent stance was found by a secur- bad omen; it would make Gandhi had spoken to him Special Investigation Team fugitive businessman Vijay say that the court did not LUCKNOW ity team during a routine things even tougher for a were “absolute rubbish”. into the attack on Amarnath Mallya being present to face wish to “oversee” the gov- In a major security lapse, a check on July 12. Congress-led opposition in RJD sources told The pilgrims as the preliminary judicial action, the govern- ernment's efforts to bring highly explosive substance The powdery substance the months to come as it Hindu: “Laluji has nurtured probe suggests militants ment assured the Supreme Mr. Mallya back. was discovered near one of contained in a packet was takes on the challenge of the this alliance; he had even “wanted to inict heavy Court on Friday that it was the benches of the Uttar Pra- handed over to the Vidhan Modi government. campaigned strenuously for casualty as ve magazines taking steps to extradite him Contempt case desh Assembly, prompting Sabha marshall after it was JD(U) candidates in 2015. He were emptied on the bus”. A from the United Kingdom Justice Goel made it clear Chief Minister Yogi sent for forensic testing. RJD under pressure will do whatever it takes to police ocial said at least 150 and that the extradition that the court would decide Adityanath on Friday to call Police commandos keep Revealing the forensic The current crisis was keep the present govern- empty cartridges or ve hearing was scheduled for the punishment in the con- for a probe by the National vigil at the Vidhan Sabha probe findings, Mr. triggered by Mr. Kumar’s ment alive.” magazine of AK-47 were December 4, 2017. tempt case against Mr. Mal- Investigation Agency (NIA). on Friday. * RAJEEV BHATT Adityanath informed the call for the resignation of However, when asked found near Batengoo. As Attorney-General K.K. lya when he was produced Mr. Adityanath said the House that the substance RJD leader and Deputy what that might involve, the Venugopal detailed India’s before it. It deferred the presence of the explosive and amounted to playing was Pentaerythritol tetrani- Chief Minister Tejaswi Ya- sources declined to com- NEWS Ī PAGE 8 extradition request made in case till then. substance in the high-secur- with the sentiments of 22 trate (PETN). DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD dav, who is the son of Mr. ment. February 2017 before the ity zone was “part of a dan- crore people of the State. Lalu Prasad, following TEJASWI WILL NOT QUIT, SAYS DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES U.K. government and the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 gerous terrorist conspiracy” The suspicious white sub- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 charges of corruption LALUĪ PAGE 8 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Inconsolable SC notice No sambar vada, poha at DGCA meets to Shah, Facing cash crunch, aviation regulator cuts down on snacks Srinivasan Somesh Jha “Items like Haldiram mix- arian meals to economy NEW DELHI ture, poha, meethi dahi, class passengers on do- Krishnadas Rajagopal Not just the national carrier sambar vada, sandwich, fla- mestic routes in a bid to save NEW DELHI Air India, even the aviation voured milk, juice, bread costs and “avoid mix-up” of The Supreme Court on Fri- regulator, the Directorate and butter are being served vegetarian and non-veget- day issued notice to ousted General of Civil Aviation by the canteen in the official arian food. BCCI president N. (DGCA) seems to have lost its meetings,” a circular issued Air India officials said the Srinivasan and Saurashtra appetite due to paucity of by the finance section of the move will help the debt- Cricket Association repres- funds. DGCA last month said, laden airline save ₹8 crore entative Niranjan Shah and In a bid to save govern- adding that such items may annually. asked them to file their ment funds, the DGCA is be avoided “keeping in view The DGCA has now direc- replies on how disqualified planning to stop serving cer- of the acute shortage of ted its staff to make a list of persons came to attend a tain food items to its em- funds (sic).” the items served in official crucial BCCI meeting as ployees during official meet- Recently, Air India meetings of the Civil Avi- nominees. ings. stopped serving non-veget- ation Ministry. It observed that State and member cricket associ- ations of the BCCI had no business to choose disqual- ified persons as their nom- inees. The Supreme Court will hear this issue exclusively on July 24. Kajal, daughter of Lance Naik Ranjeet Singh, wails as the mortal remains of her father are brought home in Burn village, 28 km from Jammu, on Friday. Ranjeet Singh and another soldier were killed on July 12 in cross-border ring. * AFP (REPORT ON PAGE 8) CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 5 lakh more A mummy gets a new life, sans oxygen people under I-T scanner German case protects the ‘Pharaoh’s daughter’, displayed at Hyderabad museum Special Correspondent Serish Nanisetti Mumbai led the effort for a New Delhi Hyderabad solution. “We went in for The Income Tax Depart- Princess Naishu’s mummy at preventive conservation. It ment has, in the second the State Museum in was a month-long process, phase of Operation Clean Hyderabad just got a longer to cut further deterioration Money (OCM), identified lease of life, after it was risk.