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auto sale figures, impressive
inflow of FDI, and rising air
traffic, to emphasise that con-
sumption has not slowed down
and the economy was moving
in the right direction.
“I will not jeopardise the
future of the country for my
present gains,” said the PM,
adding the Government would
focus on structural reforms
rather than giving doles to
win praises.
In an hour-long speech to
Company Secretaries, Modi
said his critics are seeing slow-
down in the last two quarters
but were ignoring that the BJP
Government had brought
down inflation from 10 per
cent in the UPA regime to 2.5
per cent, shrunk Current
Account Deficit to near 1 per
cent from 4 per cent, and
brought down fiscal deficit to
3.5 per cent from 4.5 per cent.
Drawing comparison with
the UPA regime, the PM said
GDP growth was 5.7 per cent
or less than that on eight occa-
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industry and the Centre, the
Bank of India on
Wednesday kept the interest
rate unchanged on concerns
over the rising inflationary
trend in the economy and low-
ered growth forecast from 7.3
per cent to 6.7 per cent for the
current fiscal. The Central
bank also cautioned the
Government against any stim-
ulus package to revive the
economy saying it could
adversely impact long-term
macroeconomic stability.
The six-member Monetary
Policy Committee (MPC) of
the RBI voted 5:1 for the deci-
sion, with only Ravindra
Dholakia voting for a 0.25 per
cent reduction in rates.
The RBI has taken note of
rising inflation, falling growth,
adverse impact of the Goods
and Services Tax (GST), and
decline in Kharif crop produc-
tion to keep the rate
unchanged.
While the repo rate, at
will stand at 6 per cent, the
reverse repo, at which the RBI
borrows from banks, will con-
tinue to be at 5.75 per cent.
In its last review in August,
it had slashed the benchmark
lending rate by 0.25 percentage
points to 6 per cent, the lowest
in six years.
policy review, the RBI said,
“The decision of the Monetary
Policy Committee is consistent
with a neutral stance of mon-
etary policy in consonance
with the objective of achieving
the medium-term target for the
Consumer Price Index inflation
of 4 per cent within a band of
+/- 2 per cent, while support-
ing growth,” the RBI said.
The RBI said that after a
record low in June, inflation is
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jam-packed, seats are going
vacant in premium trains due
to the flexi fare scheme.
According to figures, there are
no takers for as much as 15 per
cent of seats of total occupan-
cy in trains such as Rajdhani,
Shatabdi and Duronto Express.
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erence to budget airlines, as
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Government and took a jibe at
the “pessimists” for calling the
April-June growth of 5.7 per
cent as “doomsday.”
The PM was obviously
answering to points raised by
senior BJP leader and former
Finance Minister Yashwant
Sinha in a hard-hitting article
headlined “I need to speak up
now”, describing the economy
as a “mess” that will not resus-
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headline number to touch 4.6 18 forecast by Gross Value pending the implementation of
per cent by the March quarter. Added basis to 6.7 per cent GST taking place, the RBI said.
“The MPC decided to keep from 7.3 per cent earlier.
the policy stance neutral and
monitor incoming data close- Q1 of 2017-18 and the first and fuel; and international
ly. The MPC remains commit- advance estimates of Kharif crude prices which started ris-
ted to keeping headline infla- grain production are early set- ing from July, have firmed up
tion close to 4 per cent on a backs that impart a downside further in September, it said.
durable basis,” it said.
comparison to flexi fares.
The only silver lining in the
dynamic fare scheme is that the
Railways’ revenue was aug-
mented by C540 crore in the
first year of the controversial
fare scheme.
While passengers and
other stakeholders have raised
concern over the surge in fares,
a presentation in this regard to
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal
has suggested that passengers
have chosen to fly instead of
taking trains.
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elections.
“The Government is com-
mitted to reverse this
trend...We are capable of that
and ready to take decisions,”
said Modi, adding the decisions
taken by the Government will
take India to a new growth tra-
jectory.
The PM reminded his crit-
ics that of a time when India
was part of ‘fragile-5’ economy
growth and the BJP
Government pulled it out to
make it the fastest growing
economy for most part of its
three-year rule.
Speaking at length on
demonetisation, the PM said, “
November 8 will be known in
history as the first day of the
war against corruption. It was
this Government that had the
courage to take the demoneti-
sation decision.”
He pointed out that after
demonetisation cash to GDP
ratio has become 9 per cent,
down from 12 per cent before
November 8, 2016. “
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to the outlook. The imple-
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implementation of the Goods
and Services Tax (GST) regime,
the PM said he has asked the
GST Council to identify bot-
tlenecks and technological
hurdles faced by businesses
especially small and medium
enterprises.
The Government, he said,
is ready to make amends to
help small traders. Modi said
registration of 2.1 lakh out of
3 lakh suspected shell compa-
nies identified post note-ban
has been cancelled in a crack
down on the black money.
On FDI, Modi listed out
the extent of foreign direct
investment in the three years
since his Government took
over. “Liberalisation began in
1992. But see what’s happened
2014-2017. Seventy-five per
cent of FDI into construction
came in those 3 years.
“Fifty-six per cent FDI
came in mining sector, 53 per
cent of total FDI came into
computer software and
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also appears to have had an
adverse impact, rendering
prospects for the manufactur-
ing sector uncertain in the
short-term,” the RBI said.
The MPC said structural
reforms introduced in the
recent period will likely be
growth augmenting over the
medium to long-term, by
improving the business envi-
ronment, enhancing trans-
parency and increasing for-
malisation of the economy.
Calling for recapitalisation
of PSU banks, the RBI said, “It
adequately will ensure that cred-
it flows to the productive sectors
are not impeded and growth
impulses not restrained.”
While India’s retail infla-
tion swelled to a five-month
high of 3.36 per cent in August
on the back of costlier vegeta-
bles and fruits, the first advance
pose some uncertainties. Also,
There has been an increase
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A C2 per litre, the Centre now Dprice for “unhealthy and
wants States to cut sales tax or unhygienic” living as 90 per cent
VAT on petrol and diesel by 5
per cent to provide further
relief to consumers.
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley will soon write to all
State Chief Ministers urging
them to cut VAT on petrol an
diesel, Oil Minister
Dharmendra Pradhan told the
media on Wednesday.
“We proactively cut excise
duty. Now it is the turn of States
to reduce VAT,” he said.
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day after Lieutenant-
A Governor Anil Baijal raised
his reservation on introduction
of Bill in the House to regu-
larise 15,000 guest teachers, the
Delhi Government on
Wednesday ignored his objec-
tion and went ahead passing
the Bill in the Delhi Assembly.
After being passed by the
House through voice vote, the
Bill “Regularisation of services
of guest teachers and teachers
engaged under the ‘Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan’ Bill 2017”
introduced in the Assembly by
Deputy Chief Minister Manish
Sisodia in a special one-day ses-
sion of the Assembly is now to
be sent to the L-G for his
approval.
lowing Goyal’s announcement
regarding review of the
dynamic fare scheme in the
Railways last week.
As per the presentation by
Railway Board Commercial
Department, the Mumbai-New
Delhi Rajdhani Express carried
8,256 passengers in the ACII
coaches between July 1, 2016
and July 31, 2016. The figures
dipped to 7,124 for the same
period in 2017.
Similarly on the August
Kranti Express the passenger
turnout dropped from 8,228
passengers in 2016 to 5,849 in
2017 for the 2AC coaches in
July-September. It was estimat-
ed by the commercial experts
that the remaining passengers
might have taken flights.
Sources said that during
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elhi will have to pay a huge
of the buildings in the national
Capital are illegal, the Delhi
High Court has been told.
In an over 200-page report,
the three-member expert panel
— set up by the High Court to
look into illegal constructions —
has said that out of an estimat-
ed 4-4.5 million structures in
Delhi, “it can safely be said that
at least 90 per cent carry one
kind of violation of the extant
building bylaws or another”.
However, the panel added that
The AAP Government’s
stand is set to trigger a fresh
row between the L-G and the
Kejriwal Government. The L-
G on Tuesday had said matters
relating to services fall beyond
the legislative competence of
the Legislative Assembly of
the National Capital Territory
the meeting Goyal was
informed by a Board member
that former Railway Minister
Suresh Prabhu had complete-
ly disagreed with the decision
of the then Chairman Railway
Board AK Mital and incum-
bent Member Traffic Md
Jamshed on introducing the
flexi fare scheme in all the
express trains.
However, Prabhu gave a
verbal consent to introduce
the scheme only for three
months initially, which con-
tinues till date, since the nation-
al transporter generated high-
er revenue at the cost of low
occupancy. The new chairman
Railway Board Ashwani Lohani
too has held meetings in this
regard and stated that the
scheme would be reviewed in
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Claiming that the “magni-
tude of the illegal construction
is huge”, the panel blamed the
Delhi Government and the
civic bodies for the “current
mess” for which “the city will
pay a huge price in unhealthy
and unhygienic living for the
generations to come”.
“The violations range from
construction without sanctioned
plans to construction on open
lands marked in layout/location
plan as belonging to the
Municipal Corporation of Delhi
(MCD) or the Delhi Gover-
nment,” the panel has said.
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of Delhi and that the pro-
posed legislation was “not in
accordance with the
Constitutional scheme”.
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal launched a tirade
against the L-G, the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) and the
bureaucracy, alleging a nexus
among them.
The Opposition soon after
which walked out to mark
their protest.
Hitting out at the L-G for
opposing the Bill, Kejriwal said,
“What secrets were in these files
that they cannot be shown to
us? I want to tell the L-G that I
am an elected Chief Minister of
Delhi and not a terrorist and
Sisodia is an elected Education
Minister, not a terrorist.”
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the interest of the passengers.
The flexi fare scheme came
into effect on September 9,
2016 wherein only the first 10
per cent of the seats were
booked at the regular fare.
Thereafter, the fare increases by
10 per cent with every 10 per
cent of the seats booked.
The flexi fare scheme is not
applicable for First Class AC
and Executive Class, since the
fare is already higher and at
times, under the flexi scheme,
the fare of III AC increases to
match that of the First AC
Class. The scheme is applicable
to all premium trains including
Rajdhani, Shatabdi and
Duronto Express. As many as
42 Rajdhani, 46 Shatabdi and
54 Duronto trains are current-
ly in operation.
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35-year-old man was
A arrested from
Mumbai for allegedly stealing
$1,400 from the hand baggage
of a Chinese national at the
Indira Gandhi International
Airport on September 30.
Chen Yang, who was trav-
elling from Delhi to Mumbai,
found the zip of his bag open
after the X-ray screening.After
checking his bag, he found that
$1,400 had been stolen from his
hand baggage.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police, IGIA, Sanjay Bhatia, said,
“After the matter was reported
to the police, they started scan-
ning the CCTV footage and saw
one Rajesh Kapoor taking
money out of Yang's bag.”
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It was found that the culprit
had taken a flight to Mumbai.
Learning this, the CISF and local
police at the Mumbai Airport
were informed and the culprit
was nabbed from there, the
senior police official said.
Kapoor had been previously
involved in similar thefts at
railway stations and Indira
Gandhi International Airport.
In January, he had stolen
three credit cards from a cabin
bag in a flight and 16 bottles of
imported perfume were pur-
chased with those stolen cred-
it cards. He was arrested in that
case. He used to target pas-
sengers who travel by air
because he felt that there were
less chances of being caught as
nobody suspects such inci-
dents to be happening at the
airport or in flight.
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50-year-old ex-Indian
A Navy serviceman, who
posed as a Delhi Police Sub-
Inspector, was arrested for
allegedly stealing a BMW car at
knife point in South Delhi's
Mahipalpur on Wednesday.
Additional Deputy
Commissioner of Police, South
district, said the accused has
been identified as Bharat Singh,
a native of Haryana.
According to the senior
police officer, the incident took
place on October 3 when
Khemchand, who was driving
the vehicle, dropped the owner
of the car at the IGI Airport
and was heading towards
Gurugram for some work.
"When the complainant
reached Mahipalpur near the
Raddisson Hotel, the accused
who was wearing a Delhi Police
uniform with two stars (Sub-
Inspector) stopped the car,
asking for a lift. Khemchand
agreed and the accused sat
inside the car. After a while, the
accused flipped out his knife
and first took away the mobile
phone of the victim and then
asked him to get out of the car,
threatening to kill him if he
does not follow orders," said the
Additional DCP.
Scared on seeing the knife,
the victim got out of the car
immediately and the accused
drove away with it.
The car belongs to M/s
Gupta HC overseas private lim-
ited, an Agra based compa-
ny.The driver immediately made
a PCR call and he was taken to
the Vasant Kunj (South) police
station where, based on his
statement, a First Information
Report under relevant sections
of the Indian Penal Code was
registered and investigation in
the matter was started.
A police team was imme-
diately constituted and efforts
were made to trace the accused.
On October 4, acting on a
tip off the team reached Khekri
Daula Toll Plaza in National
Highway 8 in Gurugram where
the accused was trying to tow
away the car using a crane.
"We recovered the BMW
car, arrested Bharat Singh and
also recovered a knife and
mobile phone from his pos-
session. Further investigation in
the matter is on," said the
senior police officer.
The accused had retired
from the Indian Navy in the
year 2001, police further said.
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Branch on Wednesday
claimed to have arrested a
notorious criminal who was
accused of firing at police per-
sonnel at Connaught Place.
Bhisham Singh, Deputy
Commissioner of Police
(Crime) said, "Aashu Sharma,
who was involved in firing at
police personnel in August
this year has been arrested."
"On the night of August 2
at around 11pm, a scuffle broke
out between a group of six men
and a cigarette vendor near
Shivaji bus terminal in
Connaught Place to open the
shop and give them cigarettes.
Since the vendor refused, a
scuffle ensued. A passerby
informed a police team which
had placed barricades nearby.
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I World Cup matches, the
Delhi Traffic Police (DTP) has
issued an advisor y on
Wednesday alerting com-
muters about the potential traf-
fic snarls on Delhi roads.
Since the matches at the
Jawaharlal Nehru stadium will
be held on October 6, 9, 12 and
16, for the convenience of pub-
lic and spectators, certain traf-
fic restrictions will be affected
around Jawaharlal Nehru
Stadium with a view to ensure
smooth flow of traffic, said
Garima Bhatnagar, Joint
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spot, the group of men opened
fire on the police team. Police
team too fired back four rounds
in defence. After a brief
encounter, the police team
arrested four accused from the
spot, while two of the men
managed to escape. Following
which police had registered a
case at the Connaught Place
police station," said a senior
police officer.
The officer said that on
September 30, an Assistant
Sub-Inspector of Crime Branch
received a tip off that Ashu,
wanted in the firing incident in
Connaught Place in August
would come near Power house
in Dwarka sector 1 to meet his
aide. Accordingly, a team was
formed under ACP Jasbir Singh
and a trap was laid to nab the
accused. The accused, Ashu
Sharma was nabbed by the
team.
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Commissioner of Police
(Traffic).
The officer said that traffic
on three corridors — Bhishma
Pitamah Marg, JLN Stadium
Marg and CGO Road — will be
affected because of the restric-
tions between 2pm and 11pm
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"During interrogation,
Ashu revealed that he is a class
10 drop out and fell into bad
company. He joined a gang led
by one Aman Bhatia and start-
ed committing crime. In 2014,
Ashu along with his associates
Aman, Ankit and Hunny killed
a 24-year-old man in Bindapur
and dumped his mutilated
body under the jurisdiction of
Delhi Cantt police station, fol-
lowing which, Ashu was sent to
jail for three years," said Singh.
The officer added that on
the night of August 2 during
the scuffle between the paan
vendor and his associates,
when the police team came,
Ashu allegedly provoked Amit
Bhatia to fire on police.
Although Aman and two oth-
ers were arrested by the police
after a brief encounter, Ashu
along with another gang mem-
ber managed to escape.
on match days. No heavy and
commercial vehicles will be
allowed to ply on Bhishma
Pitamah Marg and JLN
Stadium Marg. The movement
of heavy and commercial vehi-
cles including buses will not be
allowed on Maharishi Raman
Marg and Max Mueller Marg.
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Commuters can use Ring Road,
Chetna Marg, Defence Colony
and Lodhi Road as alternative
routes for travelling in South
Delhi. Commuters are advised
to use the stretch between
Ring Road and Ashram for
travelling towards south Delhi,
said a statement from the traf-
fic police.
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D arrested two key mem-
bers of an international Fake
Indian Currency Notes (FICN)
racket and recovered high qual-
ity FICN amounting to C 6 lakh
in C2,000 denomination.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police, Special Cell, Sanjeev
Kumar Yadav, said the accused
has been identified as
Jahiruddin (52) and Kranti
Chaudhary (35), both resi-
dents of Bihar.
Surveillance was mounted
on the movement of members
of the FICN syndicate and
requisite Intelligence was col-
lected. Secret sources were also
deployed to gather more infor-
mation. During surveillance, it
was revealed that FICN is being
suspectedly pumped in India.
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T and a juvenile was appre-
hended for allegedly snatching
a high end camera of a Belarus
national woman in south-east
district's Hasrat Nizamuddin
on Wednesday.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police, south-east district, Romil
Baaniya said the accused has
been identified as Abdul Samad
(22) and Salman (21), both
resident of Nizamuddin basti.
The DCP further said that
the incident took place on
October 3 at around 1 pm,
when the victim was entering
the Humayun Tomb. “Two
persons came from behind
and snatched her camera and
fled from the spot," he said.

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ntroducing a Bill in Delhi
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Assembly to regularise
guest teachers in Delhi
Government schools, Deputy
Chief Minister Manish Sisodia
affirmed that the Bill was intro-
duced after due legal consulta-
tions.
The Education Minister
further asked, “Why was
Lieutenant-Governor object-
ing to it when he had cleared
the Government's proposal to
regularise the services of
around 150 Kashmiri migrant
teachers employed in the city's
schools on contractual basis
since 1994?”
“We do not agree with the
Lt-Governor's assertion that
the matter comes under ser-
vices. It is a matter of education
and his stand amounts to
insulting the Constitution, the
teachers and the entire educa-
tion system. Education does
not just mean constructing
schools. Recruitments and
appointments of teachers can-
not be treated separately,”
Sisodia further added.
During the debate, Leader
of Opposition (LoP) Vijender
Gupta said the AAP
Government's real intention
was not regularisation, but
politicisation of the issue, for
which it “has not actually fol-
lowed the laid down proce-
dures governing a Bill.”
Gupta said, “The founda-
tion of the bill is flawed. One
has to go by the rule of law, not
rhetoric.”
Reacting to Gupta's objec-
tion, Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal said that
through his offer of an instant
dialogue, he wanted to expose
the hollowness of the
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special one-day Delhi
A Assembly session on
Wednesday has been extend-
ed for a sitting on Monday to
discuss the proposed Metro
fare hike. Transport Minister
Kailash Gahlot on Wednesday
introduced a resolution in
the Assembly, opposing the
hike. The discussion and pass-
ing of the resolution will hap-
pen on Monday.
Gahlot said that the pro-
posed hike is an “insensitive
approach” and urged the
Union Ministry of Urban
Development to “actively and
quickly intervene”. He also
said that the hike would be a
burden on people reeling
under the effect of the Goods
and Services Tax, demoneti-
sation and fuel price hike.
The Aam Aadmi Party
Government has been has
been opposing the move of
the Delhi Metro Rail
Corporation (DMRC) over
the proposed hike from
October 10. The DMRC has
already hiked the fare in May
this year and if the proposed
hike is comes in force it will
second hike in a year.
Opposition. “If you have the
guts, then confront us openly.
Do not take cover behind offi-
cials and fire at us,” Kejriwal said.
Gupta hit back saying
Kejriwal may be a good politi-
cian, but not a capable admin-
istrator.
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L ieutenant-Governor Anil
Baijal on Wednesday
approved the Delhi
Government's Higher
Education and Skill
Development Loan Guarantee
Scheme under which students
will be provided loans by banks
with the Government as a
guarantor.
Students will get education
loans of up to C10 lakh from
banks while the Government
will be their guarantor. While
approving the scheme, the
Lt-Governor has asked the
Delhi Government to incor-
porate all safeguards as men-
tioned by Deputy Chief
Minister Manish Sisodia in a
time-bound manner.
Last month, Sisodia, who
also holds the education port-
folio, had accused the
Lt-Governor of “blocking” the
education loan scheme when
the latter had asked the Delhi
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Government to consult the
Centre on it.
In response to Sisodia's
accusations, Baijal had written
to the Deputy Chief Minister,
dubbing his statement as
“unfortunate”. In a letter to
Sisodia, the L-G had suggest-
ed incorporation of some safe-
guards including ensuring of
responsibilities of the lending
institutions and linkage of loan
with Aadhar number in the
education loan scheme.
Thereafter, the Deputy CM
had written a letter to Baijal,
apprising him that the
Government has already incor-
porated many of safeguards
and would further include
ideas for betterment of the
scheme.
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal had also appealed to
the Lt-Governor to approve the
scheme, saying it ensured best
quality education to poor stu-
dents.
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T he Associated Chambers of
Commerce of India
(ASSOCHAM) in a survey
found that around 60 per cent
of parents were satisfied with
the decision to send their
wards to Delhi Government-
run schools and that there
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D Kejriwal on Wednesday
asked city residents to devote ten
minutes everyday to inspect
their household for signs of
mosquito- breeding as a means
to prevent dengue and chikun-
gunya. The Chief Minister was
speaking at the inauguration
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was a need to invest in securi-
ty and infrastructure.
The survey conducted by the
body's corporate social respon-
sibility wing, interacted with
around 5,000 parents whose
children are enrolled with Delhi
Government schools to ascertain
their level of satisfaction.
“About 60 per cent of par-
ceremony of the ‘Perfect Health
Mela’, a health fair organised
from October 4-8 at the
Talkatora Stadium here by an
NGO.
“I, Delhi Health Minister
and Deputy Chief Minister, did
a lot of research, and we
realised that if people, in every
household, devoted at least 10
minutes in the morning to
check any signs of mosquito-
ents were satisfied with the
decision to send their wards to
Delhi Government schools,”
the sur vey by the
ASSOCHAM said.It also noted
that most parents appreciated
that the Government schools
gave importance to improving
education and the holistic
development of their children.
breeding or potential places of
breeding, we can prevent the
occurrences of dengue and
chikungunya,” he said.
“Prevention is better than
cure and therefore, people of
Delhi must resolve that they will
declare a war against vector-
borne diseases. This year the
number of cases of dengue and
chikungunya compared to those
recorded last year, are a lot less.
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R opportunities for collabo-
rations and the Indian diaspo-
ra has an important role in
building bridges between India
and the world, President Ram
Nath Kovind has said.
Addressing the Indian
community here on Tuesday,
President Kovind, who is the
first Indian leader to visit
Djibouti, spoke about India's
high growth trajectory and
said it is opening new oppor-
tunities for collaboration.
"The rise of India is open-
ing new opportunities for col-
laboration. Our diaspora has an
important role in building
bridges between India and the
world," he said.
Kovind, who arrived here
yesterday on the first leg of his
four-day visit to Djibouti and
Ethiopia, his maiden trip
abroad since taking office,
asked the Indian diaspora not
to leave their roots.
"We should not ignore or
isolate our roots, no matter
where we stay," he said.
He said its a great honour
for him to be the first Indian
President to visit the African
Country. "This is no coinci-
dence but a conscious decision.
Our relations with beautiful
continent of Africa are special
in our hearts," he said.
"Ocean that connects us
may be Indian in name, but
belongs to all of us. Let it bind
us together, as it had centuries
ago," he said.
The President also thanked
Djibouti for helping India in
evacuating Indians from
Yemen in 2015.
"Operation Rahat that we
carried out from Djibouti spot-
lights our unflinching com-
mitment to our people abroad,"
he said.
Operation Rahat, the name
given to the evacuation process
in Yemen, was orchestrated
from the African nation of
Djibouti, which lies on the
other side of the Gulf of Aden
from Yemen.
The camp office in
Djibouti, a Country neigh-
bouring Yemen and across the
Red Sea, was set up to ensure
smooth implementation of
Operation Raahat.
The evacuees were taken to
Djibouti from where they were
brought back to India in Indian
Air Force (IAF) aircraft.
During his visit to the two
African nations, the President
is expected to sign agreements
on institutionalisation of for-
eign office consultation and
greater economic cooperation
with Ethiopia.
India's bilateral trade with
Djibouti stands at USD 284
million in 2016-17.
India has extended a line of
credit of USD 49 million to
Djibouti, mainly for con-
structing a cement plant.
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Wednesday agreed to establish
Foreign Office-level bilat-
eral consultations with an accord
signed during President Ram
Nath Kovind's visit.
The agreement to establish
the consultations was signed in
the presence of Kovind and his
Djiboutian counterpart Omar
Guelleh. Kovind thanked
Guelleh for his country's support
during Operation Rahat for
evacuating Indians from war-
torn Yemen in 2015, and also dis-
cussed cooperation in the mar-
itime and renewable energy
domains. He also urged for an
early ratification of Djibouti's
membership of the International
Solar Alliance and mentioned its
solar energy potential.
Earlier on Wednesday,
Kovind was accorded a ceremo-
nial welcome by Guelleh at the
Presidential Palace here before
leading delegation-level talks.
Kovind, who arrived here
yesterday on the first leg of his
four-day visit to Djibouti and
Ethiopia, is on his maiden trip
abroad since taking office. He is
the first Indian leader to visit
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M reforms are not enough to
revamp the UN Security
Council to meet the challenges
posed by the "creaking and
crumbling" world, India's
Permanent Representative Syed
Akbaruddin has said.
Underlining that the world
is in a state of "flux",
Akbaruddin said anxiety has
been generated by large move-
ments of people fleeing
extreme levels of armed conflict
and brutality across continents.
He said the demand for
much closer and more effective
multilateralism has increased
with a rise in threats of nuclear
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a petition challenging a Uttar Pradesh Government order mak-
escalation, armed conflict and
massive refugee flow.
"Yet, the spirit of global
partnership appears muted at
best. While we have created a
community of mutual depen-
dence, we are yet to create one
of mutual trust and respect.
Multilateralism itself would seem
to be in retreat," he said at the
debate on the annual report on
the work of the UN on Tuesday.
He said that collective
action "to proactively strive
for peace, justice and order"
was needed and India was
ready to work with Secretary-
General Antonio Guterres and
UN members in "finding a
pathway to a more lasting
peace and prosperity for all".

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New Delhi: In January next year, the
Supreme Court will hear and decide
a petition challenging the use of pel-
let guns as a crowd-control measure
in Jammu & Kashmir filed by the
Kashmir High Court Bar Association.
While posting the petition of the
lawyer body to January 18, the apex
court examined the additional affi-
davit filed by the association in SC
where it questioned the accession of
J&K to India and claimed that elec-
tions held in the state over the past
decades was "rigged". Taking excep-
tion to such remarks made in the affi-
davit, the bench headed by Chief
Justice Dipak Misra said, "How is your
additional affidavit relevant to the
issue in question (about pellet guns)."
Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar
drew the attention of the Court to
these contentious portions of the Bar
Association's affidavit and wondered
whose cause they espoused. Kumar
further claimed that the HC ought not
to have dealt with the question of
desirability of using pellet guns when
the issue at hand was of excessiveness.
Aggrieved citizens who bore pellet
injuries had recourse of compensa-
tion by approaching the appropriate
authority under the Criminal Manual.
The Bench, also comprising
Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY
Chandrachud remarked, "If court has
really wanted to know the reason for
using pellet guns, then we feel it was
a mistake." The Bench added that
since the Bar Association wants the
issue of pellet guns to be settled once
and for all, it will hear the appeal lim-
ited to the question of using pellet
guns. However, on the other issues of
compensation and other reliefs, the
HC was free to proceed with the PIL
pending before it filed by the lawyer
body. The Bar Association even
demanded the Court to examine a
report by an Expert panel formed by
the Centre to study alternatives to pel-
let guns as crowd-control measures.
The Centre had submitted the said
report in a sealed cover before the
apex court. The Bench assured the
petitioner that the report will be
"examined" at the relevant time.
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From Page 1
The court on May 16 had
appointed former CBI director
DR Karthikeyan, ex-India
Habitat Centre (IHC) Director
RMS Liberhan and retired dis-
trict judge Ravinder Kaur as
members of the committee. It
had directed them to inspect the
properties of all the three munic-
ipal bodies here and file a report
in six weeks. The court’s direc-
tion had come after it was flood-
ed with several PILs alleging
presence of illegal constructions
in all corners of Delhi. The PILs
also sought that a criminal case
be registered against the officials
of the corporation, who had
allegedly allowed such con-
structions to take place. Pursuant
to the court’s May 16 direction,
the panel submitted the report in
which it also said that the prob-
lem was compounded further by
the age of various colonies, rang-
ing from over 100 years to the
recent times. The report has said
that the problem was not just
confined to unauthorised
colonies but was also present in
the planned ones, apart from
urban villages whose boundaries
are not permanently defined
“and the regularised colonies
whose legacies are illegal and in
a sense, self-perpetuating”. It
has said that the committee
went around the city and saw
that in an area where there is
supposed to be no construction
at all, there was a resident pop-
ulation of 1.5 million living in
structures and shelters of various
sizes. It has also said that some
of the settlements were even
approved by the Government. “If
the Government and its agencies
are violators of the zonal plans,
who will come to the rescue of
law enforcement,” it added.
It has said that unless the
municipal corporations, as the
owners of the public spaces,
exercise control and supervision
on these areas, they will be lost
to the “unscrupulous”.

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From Page 1
Unlike the Centre, States
levy VAT as an ad valorem duty
which rises every time there is
an increase in price.
The Centre, he said, sacri-
ficed C26,000 crore in revenue
in the cut in excise duty. “States
are the biggest beneficiary.
They get all of the VAT collec-
tion plus they also get 42 per
cent of the central excise col-
lections. The amount remain-
ing with the Centre is used to
finance centrally sponsored
schemes in States,” he said.
The Centre had raised
excise duty by C11.77 per litre
on petrol and C13.47 a litre on
diesel between November 2014
and January 2016 to take away
gains arising from plummeting
international oil rates.
On Tuesday, it reduced
excise duty on petrol to C19.48
per litre from C21.48 per litre
and on diesel to C15.33 a litre
from C17.33 previously.
This after petrol price rose
by C7.8 since early July to
reach over three-year high of
C70.88 a litre in Delhi while
diesel rates had risen by C5.7 to
touch an all-time high of
C59.14.
Pradhan said States impose
VAT ranging from 26 per cent
to 38 per cent. “I urge all
States to reduce VAT by 5 per
cent in line with the cut in cen-
tral excise duty to provide
farmers and consumers with
one more slab of relief.”
BJP-ruled Maharashtra
levies 46.52 per cent VAT
(47.64 per cent in Mumbai) on
petrol, the highest in the
Country.
Andhra Pradesh has 38.82
per cent VAT on petrol while
BJP-governed Madhya Pradesh
levies 38.79 per cent VAT on
the fuel. BJP-led NDA governs
18 out of the 29 States.
Delhi and Himachal
Pradesh levy 27 per cent VAT
on petrol while Punjab has
36.04 per cent VAT. Haryana
levies 26.25 per cent VAT.
Pradhan defended the daily
revision in fuel prices saying it
helps pass on any benefit to
consumer instantly.
The Government in June
junked 15-year practice of fort-
nightly revision in rates and
moved to daily changes in
petrol and diesel in line with
international oil movements.
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From Page 1
“Taking into account these
factors, inflation is expected to
rise from its current level and
range between 4.2-4.6 per cent
in the second half of this year,
including the House Rent
Allowance by the Centre,” said
the policy statement. The RBI
said there are factors that con-
tinue to impart upside risks to
this baseline inflation trajectory.
Farm loan waivers by States and
States’ implementation of salary
and allowances are among these
factors.
“...An increase of (salary by)
States similar to that by the
Centre could push up headline
inflation by about 100 basis
points above the baseline over
18-24 months,” RBI said.
However adequate food
stocks and effective supply man-
agement by the Government
may keep food inflation more
benign than assumed in the
baseline, it said further.
Cautioning the Government
against a stimulus package, the
RBI contended that breaching
the fiscal deficit target will fire up
inflation and hurt long-term
macroeconomic stability.
It pointed out that farm
loan waivers combined with a
potential stimulus which the
Government is mulling now,
can result in a 1 percentage point
slippage in fiscal deficit, which is
pegged at 3.2 per cent for 2017-
18.
“Such a slippage can stoke
inflation by 0.50 per cent on a
permanent basis,” the RBI
warned.

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From Page 1
While taking a part in a dis-
cussion on the Bill, the CM said,
“We are Delhi’s masters, not the
bureaucracy.” His statement was
greeted with loud cheers and
table thumping by the Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs.
Kejriwal further also alleged
that the files relating to the reg-
ularisation of the teachers were
never shown to Sisodia, who also
holds the education portfolio by
the officials on the direction of
the L-G.
Baijal’s objection that the
Government did not consult
the Law Department before
introducing the Bill. “People did
not elect the law secretary, they
elected us. The country is run on
democracy, not bureaucracy.
They (bureaucrats) will follow
our orders,” he said. Since com-
ing to power in 2015, the AAP
and the bureaucracy have shared
an uneasy relationship with fre-
quent run over matters of juris-
diction, mainly due to the
Capital’s administrative structure
where the LG enjoys primacy
over the elected CM.
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Sabouteeking to put the house in order,
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has set
getting first hand knowledge of the
functioning, problems and issues relat-
ed to the national transporter, grappling
with tragedies like the Utkal Express
derailment and Elphinstone Foot
Overbridge (FOB) stampede.
On Tuesday, Goyal conducted a
marathon six-hour meeting that stretched
till 2 am on Wednesday as he huddled with
about 80-odd officials, including Railway
Board members and General Managers of
Zones and PSUs/PSEs under the Railway
Ministry. It was the second such lengthy
meeting in less than a week that Goyal
chaired, with the first one being at Mumbai
after the FOB tragedy.
Though Goyal instructed the participants
of the meeting not to divulge any proceed-
ings or deliberations of the late night meet-
ing to anyone including the media, sources
said that the Railway Minister talked tough
and sought to know one by one from the offi-
cials the core problems of the zones, func-
tioning of the network and significantly, the
role and operational structure of many
Railway PSUs.
The Managing Directors and GMs of
Railway's PSUs like Dedicated Freight
Corridor, IRCON, CONCOR, RITES, Rail
Vikas Nigam, Central Railside
Warehosuing, CRIS and Railtel among oth-
ers were present. The Minister sought to
understand whether PSUs with similar
work nature like RITES, IRCON and
RDSO, CRIS and Railtel, CONCOR and
CRW could be merged for better func-
tioning.
The in-camera meeting started at
around 8 pm and continued till 2 am with
the focus being more on safety issues.
Goyal asked the top rail officials to
express unhesitatingly their require-
ments for the improvement of rail oper-
ations particularly passenger services and
amenities. The role and tenure and the
decisions taken during Goyal's two pre-
decessors also came under scanner in the
free-wheeling discussion.
"The Minister tried to understand all
facets of the Indian Railways and most of
things he was not aware of. He was bit sur-
prised by the bureaucratic set-up of the
Rrailways as an organisation and indicated
that such a huge bureaucracy with no coor-
dination between departments like opera-
tions, mechanical, electrical, rolling stock and
the related PSEs causes hindrances and red-
tapism. He vowed to look into this aspect
at priority. He also talked about the several
Class I services like IRSME, IRTS, IRPS and
IRAS. He pondered over how it can be
streamlined into two services, merely tech-
nical and non-technical," said a senior offi-
cial present in the meeting.
given the CBI time till Monday to take which kickbacks were allegedly paid, was
instructions on whether it was open to registered at Delhi. In this regard, the
relax the travel ban on Karti Apex Bench issued notice on a fresh
Chidambaram, who has challenged the appeal of CBI questioning jurisdiction
lookout circular issued against him on of the Madras HC to hear Karti's case.
June 16 this year. The Bench told Mehta that the HC ;^ZBPQWPB_TPZTaBd\XcaP<PWPYP][XVWcX]VcWT[P\_PccWTX]PdVdaP[Ud]RcX^]^U'cW2^]UTaT]RT^UcWT0bb^RXPcX^]^U
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Minister P Chidambaram, is being serve the purpose of CBI by asking him
probed by CBI for allegedly receiving to inform the investigating officer three
kickbacks from a company INX Media days in advance before leaving the
in lieu of the Foreign Investment shores of the country.
Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance "Suppose there is no lookout circu-
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tenure of his father as Finance Minister. added. Mehta brought a sealed cover Jaitley as election-in-charge who is assisted with
After the lookout notice against containing evidence to show how Karti s political parties step up their activities for three other central ministers - Panchayat, rural
Karti was stayed by the Madras HC, the tampered with his bank accounts on his
CBI had rushed to the Supreme Court visit abroad. He said this evidence will
A the coming Assembly poll in Gujarat with
the BJP deploying a host of senior central lead-
development and sanitation Minister Narendra
Singh Tomar, Minister of State for the
and obtained a stay on the HC order. The be sufficient for the court to continue ers to mobilise support, particularly that of OBC Development of North Eastern Region, (Prime
Apex Bench of Chief Justice Dipak with the lookout circular. and tribal sections, Prime Minister Narendra Minister Office) Jitendra Singh and Minister of
Misra, Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Senior advocate Kapil Sibal object- Modi is to visit the State on October 6 to give a State for law and justice P P Choudhary. Former
Chandrachud felt that the legal question ed claiming that the evidence can’t be boost to BJP's election campaign and strategy Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhiryal
on whether the travel ban can be issued filed in the present case as CBI was free there. 'Nishank' has been camping in the Saurashtra
against a person willing to cooperate with to lodge a fresh case. In an election scenario where Patidar cam- region of Gujarat for last fortnight.
investigations could be paign under Hradik Patel has created `a wedge` Among the OBCs, the Kolis constitute about
decided by the Madras between the BJP and Patel community , the BJP 20 per cent of Gujarat's population, followed by
HC. The CBI also sought
time to take instructions in :0AC834584B218´B is pro-actively wooing the OBC chunk and the
tribals in the State. Hardik's overtures to the
Patels, which form about 15 per cent of Gujarat
populace, as per the 1931 Census. In 2015,
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D Narendra Modi in his
'Mann ki baat' exhorted people
to use their vacations to travel
within India and promote
domestic tourism, Union
Tourism Ministry announced
a mega 20-day event, 'Paryatan
Parv' (Tourism Festival) from
Wednesday to celebrate India
as a tourism destination.
Talking to reporters here,
KJ Alphons, Tourism Minister
said that his Ministry in col-
laboration with various central
ministries has planned a series
of cultural events at various
tourists hotspots across the
country, drawing focus on the
the cultural diversity of the
country and reinforcing the
principle of "Tourism for All".
All State governments as
would take part in the Tourism
Festival to be held from the 5th
to 25th October 201, showcas-
ing folk and classical dance &
music, handicrafts & hand-
looms and cuisine of the States
of the country.
"We want to tell our coun-
trymen that before going
abroad, do try to find India.
India has incredible hotspots
which must be visited," the
Minister said adding that the
'Parv' will be inaugurated at the
Humayun's Tomb on Thursday.
During 2016, the number
(DTVs) to the States/ UTs was
1653 million (provisional) as
compared to 1432 million in
2015 registering a growth of
15.5 per cent, as per the
Government data.
The Tourism Ministry has
invited people to share photos,
stories, travelogues on Twitter
about the festival. Two such
tweets will be retweeted by the
prime minister every day, the
Minister said.
Later, talking to select jour-
nalists, Alphons said that he
favoured promoting nightlife
culture as in Goa for enter-
tainment purpose.
Suman Billa, Joint
Secretary in the Tourism
Ministry, said that the event
will have three main compo-
nents --Dekho Apna Desh,
Tourism for All and Tourism
and Governance.
While Dekho Apna Desh
aims to encourage people to
visit their own country encour-
aging them to join video,
photograph and blog competi-
tions of sites visited during the
event, stories of India through
travelers' eyes, quiz, essay,
debate and painting competi-
tions for students to promote
travel to J&K and northeast
States, the Tourism for All will
comprise of various cultural
activities like dance, music,
theatre and exhibitions at var-
ious historical sites.
Tourism Secretary Rashmi
Verma talked about various ini-
tiatives undertaken by the
Ministry to promote the sector
in the country.
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Imining
could go a distance in deter-
future chemistry
between rebel Trinamool
Congress leader Mukul Roy and
BJP, the former Railway Minister
on Wednesday said the saffron
outfit was not communal which
was why the Trinamool had held
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tion in 1998-99.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated
development, Ratna Chatterjee,
the wife of Kolkata Mayor and
Minister Sovan Chatterjee, once
again failed to appear for inter-
rogation at the Enforcement
Directorate in Kolkata.
“BJP is never a communal
party which is why the Election
Commission has given recog-
nition to it. The BJP has been
fighting elections for so many
years because it is not a com-
munal party,” Roy who had
been suspended from the
Trinamool Congress a few days
ago for anti-party activities
said reminding the Trinamool
Congress had walked hand-in-
hand with the BJP since the
time of its birth in 1998-99.
“The Trinamool fought
elections in alliance with the
BJP from its birth to 2006,” he
said adding the Bengal ruling
outfit would not have been in
a position that it was now
without the BJP’s help. “How
can one forget that the
Trinamool was an NDA con-
stituent and was in the Union
Cabinet during this time?”
When asked about his
future plans vis-a-vis, the saf-
fron outfit sources close to Roy
said he would leave for Delhi on
Friday and would take a call
only after returning to Kolkata.
Roy had currently been vis-
iting the office of a new break-
away party created called
Nationalist Trinamool Congress
which was formed in 2015
allegedly at the behest of the
Trinamool leader when rela-
tionship between him and Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee
started worsening in the wake
of divulging the truth to the
Central Bureau of Investigation
which quizzed him in the multi-
crore Sharada chit fund case.
Roy, once called “Chanakya”
of the Trinamool Congress for
his “blood and iron policy that
made Trinamool Congress what
it is today while Mamata
Banerjee concentrated on huge
rallies and her Railway Ministry,”
has “wide and vertical” contacts
inside the party and is capable
of doing much harm to it organ-
isationally if the rank and file can
be “assured of a definite result,”
an MLA who sympathises with
the suspended leader said.
Meanwhile, in a scathing
attack on Roy, senior
Trinamool leader and Bengal
Minister Partho Chatterjee said
“What he is doing is a blunder
because in Trinamool Congress
there is no leader sans Mamata
Banerjee.
If you are not with her you
are nowhere. If my good friend
(Roy) is bent upon committing
this blunder then let him do it.
But he seems to have forgotten
the first lesson of politics that
is loyalty.”
Meanwhile, Ratna
Chatterjee the wife of Kolkata
Mayor and Minister Sovan
Chatterjee once again failed to
appear for interrogation at the
Enforcement Directorate in
Kolkata.
She was issued summons
for the second time but failed
to turn up as she was current-
ly being treated in England for
reported ailments.
Ratna Chatterjee was sum-
moned in the Narada case after
her husband during interroga-
tion told both ED and CBI that
he had no information about his
properties and business as all
were looked after by his wife. The
Mayor was seen in the Narada
sting video footage accepting
wads of currency notes from a
journalist who had faked as a
prospective investor in the State.
Subsequently, Chatterjee was
summoned along with 12 other
Ministers, MPs and senior TMC
leaders who were also purport-
edly seen in a similar act of tak-
ing money from the journalist.
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T adjourned till Monday the
hearing of the petition filed by
the 18 rebel AIADMK MLAs
challenging their disqualifica-
tion by Speaker P Dhanapal on
the grounds of rules under the
anti-defection laws.
Justice K Ravichandra
Babu who heard the case on
Wednesday also ordered that
the interim stay on the trust
vote to be held in the legislative
Assembly and the by-election
to be held in the 18 Assembly
constituencies represented by
the rebel MLAs too would stay
till further orders.
The hearing was adjourned
to Monday following the
request by Abhishek Manu
Singhvi, representing the rebel
MLAs who sought time for fil-
ing some more details associ-
ated with the case.
Justice Babu issued a notice
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later ended his life at Gonda on
Wednesday morning. A case
was registered and the bodies
were sent for autopsy.
As per reports, Anuradha
of Ramnath Hamlet of
Mankapur area got married to
Susheel Kumar of Karnailganj
Bazar area of Gonda few
months back. After marriage,
the couple moved to
Chandigarh as Susheel’s par-
ents stayed there.
To meet his sister,
Anuradha’s brother Deepak
Pandey aka Bunty used to
visit Chandigarh regularly.
Duing his visits, he came in
contact with Susheel’s sister
Menu (22) and the two fell in
love. Upon learning about
their affair, they opposed it
and asked the couple to part
ways.
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ihar Chief Minister Nitish
B Kumar on Wednesday
attended the one thousand years
of the birth anniversary
Mahamahotsava of 11th centu-
ry sage Swami Ramanujacharya
and an international Dharma
Samamelan and Maha Yagna at
Chandwa in Bhojpur district.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat also
attended the same event but the
two avoided sharing dais.
Three hours after Nitish’s
arrival and two hours after CM’s
return to Patna, Bhagwat arrived
at the venue. He was escorted by
Union Ministers Ravi Shankar
Prasad, Raj Kumar Singh and
Ashwini Kumar Choubey and
some Bihar Ministers and
addressed the conference for
over half an hour. This was RSS
chief ’s first visit to Bihar after
change of Government and
JD(U)’s move to join NDA.
There had been specula-
tions that Nitish would have no
hesitation in rubbing shoulders
with Bhagwat after rejoining
the BJP led NDA. But the CM
made his programme careful-
ly not to clash with RSS
sarsanghchalak’s programme.
Earlier, taking a swipe at
Nitish, RJD chief Lalu Prasad
had tweeted, “Munh me Ram,
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T tained minor injuries in
fresh exchange of fire along the
Line of Control in Digwar area
of Poonch on Wednesday.
Defence spokesman in
Jammu said, “Pakistan Army
initiated ‘unprovoked’ and
indiscriminate firing of small
arms, automatics and mortars
from 8.45 am along the LoC in
Poonch sector on Wednesday”.
In response, the Indian
side retaliated strongly and
effectively, he added.
Police spokesman in a
statement said, “Three sol-
diers injured in Digwar were
to Speaker Dhanapal returnable
by October 12 in response to a
petition filed by the DMK
questioning why the present
Deputy Chief Minister O
Panneerselvam and ten MLAs
were not disqualified for voting
against the trust vote motion
moved by Chief Minister
Edappadi Palaniswamy in
February 2017.
Panneerselvam, who was
then a dissident AIADMK
leader, along with the ten
MLAs had voted against the
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on failure to provide employ-
ment and cheating farmers on
Goods and Service Tax (GST)
and suggested that if the PM
could do nothing to resolve
these issues, he should pave
way for the Congress which
could come up with results
within the next six months.
Rahul was addressing a
gathering at Kathaura village in
Jagdishpur area of his
Parliamentary Contituency —
Amethi, on Wednesday
evening. Rahul started his three-
day tour to his Parliamentary
constituency on Wednesday.
“The BJP and RSS were
running schemes ideated and
started by us. Modi rejected
MNREGA outrightly, but later
saw merit in it. They opposed
Aadhar, but now they are link-
ing every scheme with it. Modi
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bana Palturam.”
Taking the advantage of a
huge crowd and presence of
hundreds of seers, Nitish sought
their blessings for his cam-
paign against dowry and child
marriage, which he launched on
October 2. He said, “A message
sent from this venue will be a
milestone in the elimination of
the social evils like child mar-
riage and dowry and also influ-
ence people in other States to
shun these practices. It will help
make this campaign a big suc-
cess,” the CM said.
Starting from September
25, two-days international
Dharma Sammelan began on
Wednesday which is being
shifted to hospital”.
The local residents
whose villages fall in the
direct line of fire of
Pakistan Army contin-
ue to live under the
shadow of gun. Since
early morning, Pakistan
Army violated ceasefire
agreement and targeted sever-
al civilian pockets. The schools
also remained closed in the
border belt for the second con-
secutive day to prevent any loss
of life and property.
Meanwhile, Raksha Rajya
Mantri Subhash Bhamre who
arrived here on a two-day visit
on Wednesday directed the
troops to maintain a high
trust motion defying the party
whip. Since then, the two
camps led by Panneerselvam
and Palaniswamy came togeth-
er and eased out VK Sasikala
from the post of general secre-
tary of the party.
The 18 rebel AIADMKs
were disqualified by the
Speaker because of the letter
they submitted to the then
Governor C Vidhyasagar Rao
informing him about their
decision to withdraw support
to Chief Minister Palaniswamy.
and the BJP opposed the intro-
duction of GST and now they
implemented it,” pointed out
Rahul.
“We wanted to introduce a
very simple GST where all
problems of taxation would
have been solved through one
tax regime. The highest slab
was not to be more than 18 per-
cent. But Modi and his team
failed to understand it. Now
they have introduced a com-
plicated form of GST and the
highest tax slab is as high as 28
per cent which is causing prob-
lems to everyone. Instead of
redressing trader’s problems
on GST, Modi is blaming the
Congress for the mess,” the
Congress leader said.
Rahul also reminded how
the PM cheated the nation by
assuring two crore jobs to
youths every year, C15 lakh of
black money being deposited in
each account, 50 per cent prof-
it to farmers over their produc-
tion cost, waiving off loans etc.
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attended by Dharmacharyas,
saints and scholars from across
the country. So far about one
crore people have attended the
ongoing Chaturmas Lakshm-
inarayan Mahayagna conducted
by Sri Lakshmi Prapann Jiyer
Swami ji. At the venue 1,008
mandaps around a huge mandap
and 1,132 havan kund have
been erected.
Paying his respects, Nitish
said Swami Ramanujacharya,
born in 1017 AD, had started
the practice of Guru and
Shishya and among his disci-
ples were Soordas and
Kabirdas. He had preached
equality saying no one was
superior on the earth and the
earth was for all living beings.
degree of vigil along the LoC.
He patted back of foot sol-
diers for foiling the nefarious
designs of inimical forces.
On his arrival in Nagrota,
headquarters of 16 corps he
was briefed by the GOC White
Knight corps Lt-Gen AK
Sharma on the prevailing secu-
rity situation and operational
dynamics of the corps.
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a clear indication of thaw in
Party’s first fami-
patron Mulayam Singh Yadav
is likely to attend the party’s
national convention at Agra on
Thursday. Party sources how-
ever indicated that the process
of reconciliation was still on and
the situation could change at the
last moment. Akhilesh warring
uncle Shivpal Yadav is likely to
stay away from the function.
A senior SP leader and Rajya
Sabha MP said that Mulayam
Singh has relented and would
attend the Agra convention start-
ing on Thursday. He said that it
was however not clear whether
Akhilesh would hand over the
reins of the party to his father.
Meanwhile, SP chief
Akhilesh Yadav said in Agra on
Wednesday that “Netaji has
blessed me and I extend him the
invitation for attending the
national convention’’. He also said
that the “uncle Shivpal Yadav
also congratulated me and gave
his blessings’’.
Akhilesh Yadav, however,
made no mention whether he
has invited Shivpal Yadav for
the national convention.
SP sources said that
notwithstanding his father and
SP patron Mulayam Singh call-
ing him ‘dhokhebaaz’ (going
back on the promise to hand
over the reins of the party),
Akhilesh is set to be re-elected
the party’s national president.
SP spokesman Rajendra
Chaudhar y said that all
arrangements were in place
for the convention at Agra and
over 15 thousand delegates
from across the country were
likely to participate.
Ahead of the convention,
Akhilesh had met Mulayam
Singh at the latter’s residence in
Lucknow which was labelled by
knowledagble sources as an
attempt to persuade the senior
leader to attend the function.
While getting himself
annointed as SP national chief
on January 1 this year, Akhilesh
had promised that he would
hand over the party reins to
Mulayam once the Assembly
polls were over.
Former SP general secretary
and Akhilesh’s bete noire, Shivpal
Singh Yadav has not been invit-
ed to the convention.
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ttar Pradesh Chief
U Minister Yogi Adityanath
on Wednesday led the BJP’s all-
Kerala March, Jana Raksha
Yatra, on its second day, cov-
ering on foot the eight-kilo-
meter stretch between Keecheri
and Kannur city through many
of the so-called party villages of
the CPI(M) in Kannur district,
the State’s Marxist capital, with
a call to Keralites and partymen
to work with determination for
putting an end to Marxist and
Jehadi terror.
How effectively the mes-
sage of the Yatra had been
conveyed to the people in just
one day was obvious on the sec-
ond day as hundreds of women
joined the Padayatra in which
thousands of workers and sup-
porters took part, led by Yogi
Adityanath, State president
Kummanam Rajasekharan,
captain of the Yatra, and many
other national and State leaders.
“This marks the start of a
big change in Kerala’s politics.
With the determination with
which this Yatra is undertaken,
we will prove that the land of
Kerala is not a land of Marxist
or Jehadi terror but it is the land
of development, nationalism
and spirituality,” the UP Chief
Minister said at a public meet-
ing held in Kannur city at the
conclusion of the second day’s
Padayatra (foot march).
“There is no place for vio-
lence in democracy. If the
CPI(M) believes in democracy,
they will have to change. They
shout slogans in the name of
secularism but behind those
slogans they nourish the ide-
ology of violence and encour-
age Jehadi terror. We cannot
allow these ideologies of terror
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to spread through the sacred
land of Kerala,” he said.
The UP Chief Minister said
that despite Kerala’s spiritual
richness, brutal manslaughter
was taking place in the State
under the leadership of the
CPI(M), which was heading the
ruling LDF. Pointing out that the
maximum number of murders
of RSS-BJP men had taken
place in Kannur, Chief Minister
Pinarayi Vijayan’s district, he
said it was high time this evil
tendency stopped.
The BJP’s 15-day Jana
Raksha Yatra, raising the slo-
gans “All have to live” and
“Against Jehadi and Red terror”,
was flagged off at Payyannur,
Kannur on Tuesday by party
chief Amit Shah who handed
over the saffron-green flag to
Kummanam in the presence of
thousands of activists and sup-
porters and families of victims
of CPI(M) terror in Kannur.
Speaking to newsmen ear-
lier in the day, Yogi Adityanath
said that Love Jehad was a real-
ity in Kerala and Karnataka.
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“Love Jehad is a dangerous ten-
dency. The High Court and the
Supreme Court had made
observations on these lines. The
State Governments should hold
investigations and adopt mea-
sures to control it, deal with it.”
The CPI(M) was following
a policy of terror against activists
of rival parties and this was true
in Kerala and Tripura where the
party was in power and in West
Bengal where they were in
power earlier, he said. “With this
Yatra, we will make the people
aware of the misrule of the
CPI(M). People are coming out
in large numbers in support of
this,” Yogi Adityanath said.
Amit Shah had on Tuesday
led the Yatra on foot (Padayatra)
on the nine-kilometer stretch
from Payyannur to Pilathara
through the party villages of the
CPI(M). Shah will join the
march again on Thursday to
lead the third leg of the
Padayatra from Mambaram to
Thalassery through Pinarayi,
the native village of Marxist
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
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his Government’s economic
policies by saying a “handful of
people” are trying to spread a
contagion of pessimism, but in
Bengaluru, former Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh
said the economic reforms and
its process was still incomplete
and called for a new design for
the country’s social and eco-
nomic policy.
He said, “The policy
should be a judicious mix of
both high rate of economic
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550 acre land bank on
Lucknow-Agra Expressway will
be acquired, so that industrial
activity could start. Apart from
this a 1,000-acre land bank is
being made in Noida,” Mahana
told reporters here.
The State Industrial Deve-
lopment Minister also said that
the State Investment Promotion
Board (Rajya Nivesh Protsahan
Board) will be constituted.
“To add more pace to
industrial development, a ded-
icated single window system
clearance department will be
made. Apart from this, under
the ease of doing business,
business reforms section plan
will be implemented in 20
departments,” the Minister said.
Mahana also informed that
land is being acquired for the
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Congress on Wednesday
lashed out at BJP president
Amit Shah over the references
he had made on Wednesday to
political violence, allegedly
sponsored by the CPI(M), in the
State while addressing a public
meeting in Payyannur, Kannur
as part of the launch of his party
all-Kerala Jana Raksha Yatra
against jehadi and Red terror.
While former Chief
Minister and senior Congress
leader Oommen Chandy said
the people of Kerala would
stand united against Shah’s effort
to ridicule the State, CPI(M)
secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
said the BJP chief ’s hands were
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and Vocational Training
Ashutosh Tandon said that the
Yogi Government is in favour
of construction of Ram temple
at Ayodhya but the people
should wait for the Supreme
Court verdict on the issue.
Tandon was speaking to
reporters after attending the
famous Chowk Ram Lila at
Faizabad on Tuesday night.
Stressing that he as a Hindu
devout and was in favour of res-
olving the contentious Ram
Mandir issue through talks but
since chances of a solution thr-
ough parleys had faded, it would
be better for the people to wait
for the Supreme Court order.
When asked whether the
issue could be resolved before
2019, the Minister said: “I am
very hopeful that the issue will
be resolved amicably but I am in
no position to give a date.” ?=B
containing economic inequal-
ities.” Singh is considered the
architect of the economic lib-
eralisation measures unleashed
in 1991. He was speaking at the
inauguration of the academic
session of ‘Bengaluru BR
Ambedkar School of
Economics’ on Wednesday.
“Development planning
and the Planning Commission
were designed to ensure that
while our economy grew,
inequalities did not grow. With
the abolition of the Planning
Commission fresh efforts have
to be made to keep inequality
under control,” Singh said.
He said the economic lib-
stained with the blood split in
the “genocide” of 2002 in
Gujarat, and Keralites would not
pay heed to his words.
In New Delhi, CPI(M) gen-
eral secretary Sitaram Yechury
rejected BJP chief Amit Shah’s
allegation that saffron workers
were being targeted and instead
accused the BJP and the RSS of
spreading “well-planned vio-
lence” in the State. “It is a case
of the pot calling the kettle
black. Why did they throw
bombs at Pinarayi Vijayan’s vic-
tory rally? They had been accu-
mulating arms since the day poll
results were declared,” he alleged.
“CPI(M) and the people of
Kerala and Bengal will give a
befitting reply to activities of BJP
democratically,” Yechury said.
The leaders’ attacks came
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T alleged that the BJP
Government has been promot-
ing ‘crony capitalism’ to help
select telecom companies. The
party said abuse of discretion by
Telecom Ministry would cause
loss to the public exchequer.
AICC spokesman Randeep
Surjewala said that latest in the
list of Narendra Modi
Government is the ‘Spectrum
Scam 2.0’ whereby BJP
Government is unilaterally and
surreptitiously deferring recov-
er y of spectrum auction
amount by six years causing an
interest loss of C23,821 crore to
the public exchequer.
Presenting the fact sheet at
AICC Press conference,
Surjewala said on August 8,
2016 the BJP Government
invited auction of spectrum in
700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz,
1,800 MHz, 2,100 MHz, 2,300
eralisation that he was associ-
ated with in 1991-96 and 2004-
2014 was above all the process
of opening of new opportuni-
ties for people born without
social and economic privileges.
Singh was the finance minister
in the Narasimha Rao
Government during 1991-96
and the prime minister for a
10-year period from 2004.
Singh said “This was for
me the guiding beacon behind
our economic reforms.”
“I must confess that the
process is still incomplete and
we need a lot of fresh thinking
to work out a new design for our
social and economic policy
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in response to Shah’s statements
in Payyannur on Tuesday that
violence and murders were
continuously occurring in all
places where CPI(M) had influ-
ence. West Bengal and Tripura
were examples of this, he had
said, adding that Kerala had
witnessed violence whenever
the left came to power.
“Those who ridicule Kerala
should understand that this is
a State that has risen above all
kinds of divisionist tendencies
and is keeping high standards
in thought and action in all sec-
tors of life and society. If Amit
Shah wants to find fault with
the entire State in the name of
some isolated incidents,
Keralites would oppose that
attempt in total unity,” Chandy
said in Kollam.
MHz and 2,500 MHz bands.
He said the auction policy for
spectrum was decided by the
Supreme Court in 2012 also
known as the ‘2G Case’.
“But auction ended on
October 6, 2016 with auction
sale of 965 MHz at a value of
C65,789.12 crore. Out of this, an
upfront amount to be paid was
C32,000 crore and the balance
amount to be paid in install-
ments was C33,789.12 crore.
There were three successful bid-
ders ie Reliance Jio (269.9 MHz
for C13,672 crore), Airtel (173.8
which will be a judicious mix of
both high rate of economic
growth and a strong focus on
containing the growth of eco-
nomic inequalities, and working
actively to reduce so,” he said.
Former RBI Governor and
Chairman of Madras School of
Economics C Rangarajan, Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah and oth-
ers were present at the inaugu-
ration of the academic session
that began with 50 students.
Singh noted that the insti-
tution was named after BR
Ambedkar who was a great
legal luminary, a great econo-
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Launching a frontal attack
against the BJP chief and Prime
Minister Narendra Modi,
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said at
Vengara in Malappuram dis-
trict where an Assembly by-
election is to take place on
October 11, “It was under the
leadership of Shah and Modi
that so many people were mas-
sacred in Gujarat in 2002.”
Alleging that Shah’s hands
were stained with the blood
spilt in the “genocide” of 2002
in Gujarat, the State CPI(M)
secretary said, “If a man with
such blood-stained hands talks
to Keralites in this fashion,
nobody is going to take his
words at face value. Amit Shah
is a wolf walking around in
sheep’s clothing.”
Both the Congress-led
MHz for C14,244 crore) and Idea
(349.20 MHz for C12,798 crore).
The auction amount was itself a
set back to the Government. The
brokerages firm IDFC Securities
Limited expected to raise
C80,000 crore thus there was
short fall of C14,281 crore below
the expectation. Even the bud-
get for fiscal 2017 pegged the
revenue target at C98,995 crore.
To this extent, auction amount
was less by C33,206 crore,”
Surjewala pointed.
The party alleged that in
order to help the telecom com-
panies in a clandestine manner,
an inter-ministerial committee
comprising of Telecom and
Finance Ministry was consti-
tuted and in flagrant violation
of the Supreme Court judg-
ment in 2-G Case and ignoring
the inviolable terms of auction,
the inter-ministerial committee
decided to alter the auction
terms by recommending pay-
ment of C33,789.12 crore with-
mist and a social reformer.
Singh said it should be
combined with the high rate of
economic growth, employment
generation at a phase “which is
robust enough to get rid of
unemployment in a reasonable
period of time, protect our
environment, control of pollu-
tion of our natural resource like
land, water and air, and having
a due regard to the quest of
social justice and equality.
Former RBI Governor R
Rangarajan speaking at the
inauguration of academic ses-
sion of Bengaluru BR
Opposition UDF and the
CPI(M)-headed ruling LDF
have already launched a huge
campaign against the BJP in
Vengara in the context of the
Jana Raksha Yatra. “I am chal-
lenging Amit Shah to take the
BJP’s Kerala march to Vengara
and to prove his party’s prowess
by winning the by-election,”
Kodiyeri said.
Opposition Leader
Ramesh Chennithala of the
Congress also came out against
the BJP president’s Payyannur
speech on Wednesday. “Amit
Shah should understand that
Kerala is not Gujarat. The
speech he had made at
Payyannur the other day was
extremely provocative,” he said,
adding that BJP’s Kerala march
was “Swayam Raksha Yatra”.
in 16 years (19 years after
counting the no-payment peri-
od of first three years) instead
of the original 10 years.
“Telecom Ministry and
Telecom Commission have
both put their stamps of
approval on this blatant abuse
of authority and misuse of dis-
cretion to cause a loss to pub-
lic exchequer. It is now await-
ing seal of approval from the
Union Cabinet,” Congress
charged in a statement.
Surjewala alleged that
Modi’s clarion call for ‘Zero
Tolerance for Corruption’ has
been repeatedly proving to be
‘jumlas’ in the light of series of
scams over last 40 months,
particularly, ‘Lalit Modi Gate’,
‘Vyapam Scam’, ‘Chhattisgarh
PDS Scam’, ‘GSPC Scam’,
‘Panama Papers Scam’, ‘Gir
Lion Sanctuary Land Allotment
Scam’, ‘Sahara-Birla Papers’,
‘Spectrum Non-Recovery Scam
1.0’ to name a few.
Ambedkar School of Economics
(BASE) here, said the country
suffered in GDP growth as the
gap of investment rate of pro-
ductivity of capital had widened.
He took the example of the
investment rate in the economy
in 2007-08 when the economy
grew at 9.4 per cent plus 38 per
cent of the GDP, but according
to the latest estimates it was 27.4
per cent. “So there is decline in
investment rates. That is much
of the cause on technical prob-
lem of growth in the investment
rates. And also increase in incre-
mental capital concentration.’’
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CNN and satellite news. It gave birth to the
neighbourhood ‘cable-wallah’, complete
with an array of massive satellite dishes on
his rooftop. Indians were suddenly exposed
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remember Santa Barbara and ‘The Bold
even more refined, the Communications
Convergence Bill of 2001. Moved by the
Vajpayee Government of the time and
drafted by a team led by eminent jurist
Fali Nariman, this was a forward think-
ing piece of legislation that did a remark-
ably prescient job of predicting how
of the Vajpayee Government but of course,
the 10 years of Congress rule saw little
attempts by the Government to regulate the
broadcast sector and the industry made
some feeble attempts at self-regulation.
Today, we live in an era where thanks
to the emergence of a new entrant into the
transport. With mobile networks getting
ever faster with 5G networks on their way
by 2020, there needs to be better regula-
tion. This Government, therefore, needs
to work on something, maybe getting
Nariman’s 2001 Act out of the filing
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campaign of ethnic cleansing
against Myanmar’s Rohingya
population fell pitifully short
of what was needed. Instead of the com-
prehensive arms embargo which could
have helped pressure Myanmar’s mili-
tary into ending the assault which has
created over half a million refugees in
the space of a month, the session in New
York produced little more than plati-
tudes. It will not be enough to protect
the Rohingya.
On August 25, this year, Myanmar’s
security forces, whose Commander-in-
Chief is Senior General Min Aung
Hlaing, began a campaign of violence
against the Rohingya which was unprece-
dented in scale and brutality.
What was described as a response to
coordinated attacks on police and Army
posts by an armed group, the Arakan
Rohingya Salvation Army, was in actu-
al fact, a massive scorched-earth cam-
paign designed to drive Rohingya from
their homes and country.
A traumatised population roughly
the size of Liverpool, poured seemingly
overnight into the muddy hills of south-
ern Bangladesh, turning the Rohingya’s
plight into an international humanitar-
ular bouts of violence, many had long
feared a catastrophe like the one
which is now unfolding.
Almost a year ago, Amnesty
International documented horrific vio-
lations against the Rohingya by the mil-
itary which we believe amounted to
crimes against humanity. It should not
have taken more deaths and displacement
to make the international community
take notice. Last night, world leaders had
a chance to take action — and they
missed it again.
The Rohingya’s nightmare is far
from over. Terrified and exhausted,
those remaining in Rakhine State are
rapidly running out of food as the
Myanmar authorities actively prevent
humanitarian aid from reaching them.
Videos and satellite imagery analysed by
Amnesty show that Rohingya villages —
some of them long deserted — contin-
ue to burn.
Not content with driving more than
half of the Rohingya population out of
the country, nor with lacing their route
with landmines, the security forces seem
determined to ensure the Rohingya
won’t be able to return to their homes at
all. The military have always insisted that
Myanmar is not the home of the
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inaction. A Security Council that cannot
stop ethnic cleansing is not fit for purpose.
We heard statements of indignation
echoed in the chamber but no unified
statement at the end of the meeting that
would have sent a strong message to the
Myanmar authorities to stop the human
rights violations.
In the absence of a comprehensive
United Nation embargo, it is now up to
individual Governments to take their own
actions to pressure Myanmar’s military.
Any Government concerned by the hor-
rors in Rakhine State should immediate-
ly suspend all arms transfers, training and
military cooperation with Myanmar.
Speaking at the United Nation General
Assembly earlier last month, British
Prime Minister Theresa May announced
that the United Kingdom would be doing
just that, and others must now follow suit.
The European Union, which cur-
rently has an arms embargo against
Myanmar, must now extend it to include
all forms of military assistance. While
there is understandable interest in State
Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu
Kyi’s apparent fall from grace, it is
important that this does not detract
attention from those who hold real
power over the Army.
As well as the crucial arms embargo,
the Council must use its power to pres-
sure Myanmar to end all violations of
human rights and crimes against human-
ity and allow unrestricted access to
Rakhine State for humanitarian agencies,
the United Nation, independent journal-
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Nation, world leaders failed to use the
diplomatic tools at their disposal to stop
an ethnic cleansing campaign.
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Rohingyas cleansed out of Myanmar are
not successful, an unequivocal message
must come from the international com-
munity. In the face of mass destruction,
killings and hundreds of thousands dis-
placed, inaction is not an option.
(Courtesy: Daily Telegraph)
(The writer is Director of Amnesty
International UK)

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E 2, 2015, the birth anniversary of
Mahatma Gandhi also marked
the beginning of the most ambitious
national programme on cleanliness —
The scale and detail of the initiative eas-
ily dwarfed any previous such project
launched in post-independent era.
The three years have seen impres-
sive progress being logged on account
of making cleanliness a national main-
stream subject. Probably the best out-
put scored by Swachh Bharat was the
tremendous increase in awareness lev-
taining to cleanliness and sanitation.
The mission aims to achieve clean India
objective by October 2, 2019.
In the last three years, Swachh
Bharat focused on constructing indi-
vidual toilets and community toilets,
besides enabling solid waste manage-
ment. While the first two years of the
Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan went into set-
ting up the necessary regulatory and
policy changes to facilitate the scientif-
ic processing of waste, in the third year,
the programme shifted its focus on
bringing about behaviour change
among citizens in order to inculcate a
sense of cleanliness.
The Swachh Bharat encouraged
city municipalities and citizen bodies
to be a part of this initiative through
various schemes and campaigns such
as Swachhata Hi Seva, Segregation at
Source campaign, City Compost Policy,
Swachhata Pakhwada and
Swachhagrahi. But inspite of the excite-
ment generated and actions taken, the
Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan initiative
seems to be losing steam as it struggles
to rise above the usual definitions of
cleanliness and hygiene signified by
broomsticks and photo ops by luminar-
ies of the society and polity.
Three years is a long time but the
serious phase of Swachh Bharat
Abhiyaan, consisting of in-depth waste
segregation processing and recycling,
is yet to begin on a mass scale. This is
made more difficult by the lack of sys-
tems and infrastructure that can sup-
port high volume waste segregation that
works in tandem with recycling con-
cepts. This is the critical need of the
hour as this can enable the transition
of this initiative to the next stage.
The slow progress of Swachh
Bharat Abhiyaan in the arena of waste
segregation and recycling is partly due
to the manpower related problems. In
the last three years, sanitation workers
have refused to collect waste door-to-
door and have gone on strikes on issues
related to non-payment of salaries and
contractor-related concerns in many
cities, such as Delhi, Chandigarh and
Bengaluru. Also, in many cities, the
door-to-door collection has failed to
integrate the informal sector. This has
seriously compromised the progress of
Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan and given a
set back to the initiative.
Waste-processing front has been a
challenge for the Swachh Bharat
Abhiyaan. In cities like Chandigarh,
waste processing has come to a grind-
ing halt due to ongoing public interest
litigation against the local waste man-
agement plant. Similarly, no process-
ing system has been put in place for
management of waste in Jharkhand,
Daman & Diu and Dadra and Nagar
Haveli.
Additionally, in 11 States of Andhra
Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh,
Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab,
Maharashtra, Mizoram, Odisha,
Uttarakhand and West Bengal, less than
10 per cent of the waste is currently
being processed. This state of affairs is
becoming a major hurdle for the
progress of Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan.
As the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan
struggles to overcome these prob-
lems, the levying of the Goods and
Services Tax (GST) on recycling and
composting is proving to be the prover-
bial final nail in the coffin for the
Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan effort.
Simply put, increased tax slabs for
recyclables is killing the recycling sec-
tor. Composting machines are attract-
ing 12 per cent tax against the eight per
cent previously. While on one hand the
Government is trying to promote city
compost, imposing five per cent GST
will have a negative impact on its pro-
duction and promotion. Given these
obstacles, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan
will find moving ahead even tougher
unless the Government takes urgent
remedial measures and restores confi-
dence in the recycling sector.
The Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan has
provided the much-needed impetus to
the solid waste management sector, but
unless the Government consciously
puts in place regulations that are
respected and followed incidents such
as the Ghazipur landfill accident and
Deonar Mumbai incident will occur
again. Aim must be to create sustain-
able practices in solid waste manage-
ment that will not only establish regu-
lated environment but would also
help facilitate creation of systems that
can support segregation at source,
sustainable processing and minimised
use of land for waste disposal. Given the
population pressures and volume of
waste being generated today, it is time
for Swachh Bharat to evolve to the next
stage by making waste segregation and
recycling a part of daily life.
(The writer is an environmental
journalist)
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T Wednesday cautioned the
Government against a stimulus
package to revive the sagging
growth, arguing that breaching
the fiscal deficit target will fire
up inflation and hurt long-term
macroeconomic stability.
It pointed out that farm
loan waivers, combined with
a potential stimulus which
the government is mulling
now, can result in a 1 per-
centage point slippage in fis-
cal deficit which is pegged at
3.2 per cent for 2017-18. “Such
a slippage can stoke inflation
by 0.50 per cent on a perma-
nent basis,” RBI warned.
A slippage of 0.50 per cent
on the 3.2 per cent target can
result in inflation moving above
0.25 per cent of its baseline
estimate, it said. The combined
fiscal deficit of the Centre and
states is over 6 per cent and ‘the
national fiscal stance can hard-
ly be described as tight’, it said.
“In other words, we should be
very cautious lest fiscal actions
undercut macroeconomic sta-
bility,” RBI Governor Urjit Patel
told reporters at the customary
post-monetary policy interac-
tion.
As of August end, the gov-
ernment has already run up
96.1 per cent of its fiscal deficit
targets for 2017-18 as it has
advanced spending in core
infra sectors like roads, ports
and railways. In the fourth bi-
monthly Monetary Policy
Report 2017-18 on Wednesday,
RBI left the key lending rate
unchanged at 6 per cent and
reverse repo at 5.75 per cent,
despite calls for a cut to boost
growth.
It has revised upwards its
retail inflation target to up to 4.6
per cent for the March quarter
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for DA for Government
employees and possible fiscal
slippages arising from farm
loan waivers and potential stim-
ulus measures.
In the face of a steady
decline in growth numbers --
GDP expansion slipped to three
year low of 5.7 per cent for the
June quarter --Government is
planning to unveil a fiscal stim-
ulus. The GDP growth has
been falling consistently for
the past six quarters. RBI,
which is tasked with maintain-
ing inflation at 4 per cent, plus
or minus 2 per cent, under the
inflation targeting framework,
has been repeatedly flagging
concerns on fiscal slippages
along with the farm loan
waivers which it fears will wreck
the credit culture. The inflation
number is also watched very
keenly by global rating agencies
while forming their view on the
sovereign credit. An adverse out-
look or rating action can increase
the borrowing costs for the
Government.
All the major global rating
agencies have placed the coun-
try rating at 'BBB-', which is just
one notch above the junk grade,
although with a stable outlook.
Referring to a 2005 study, the
central bank said that ‘higher
fiscal deficits per se can lead to
an increase in inflation expec-
tations and actual inflation’. It
underlined that there is a long-
running relationship between
fiscal deficits and inflation in the
country.
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NEW DELHI: The implementation of GST had an in July from 4.5 per cent a year ago, as manufactur- completes her four-year term on
adverse impact on manufacturing and may delay ing sector, especially capital goods, put up a dismal Friday. Kumar, aged 59 years, is
investment revival, the Reserve Bank said on performance. Growth of the manufacturing sector, at present one of the four man-
Wednesday while hoping that there will be simpli- which makes up 77.6 per cent of the industrial pro- aging directors of the SBI. A09=8B7:D<0A0BC74
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per cent projected earlier. It said that the ‘teething prob- a dozen local taxes including excise, service tax of three years from the date of ;>0=BF78;4
lems’ linked to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and and VAT, and has transformed India into a sin- taking over the charge on or BD??>AC8=66A>FC7
bandwidth constraints may get resolved ‘relatively soon’, gle market for seamless flow of goods and services. after October 7, an order issued C7A>D678=2A40B43
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investment activity, which is already hampered by ness will have to file monthly returns online. Those bad loans while supporting C746>EC
stressed balance sheets of banks and corporates,” RBI businesses opting for composition scheme has the growth through increased lend-
said. Industrial production grew a meagre 1.2 per cent option to file quarterly returns. PTI ing. Huge non-performing five associate banks. State Bank
assets (NPA) of public sector of Bikaner and Jaipur, State
lenders is a major cause of Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank
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payments efficient and more Managing Director – Kumar faces the daunting task
MUMBAI: For effective trans- interest rates to serve the role of secure, the Reserve Bank of India Compliance and Risk, and of addressing the issue of mas-
mission of policy rate to bor- an external benchmark. on Wednesday said it will issue Managing Director and Chief sive NPAs of the bank.
rowers, an RBI study group on “The T-bill rates are risk free revised directions by October 11 Executive Officer of SBI Capital Gross NPAs of the public
Wednesday suggested banks and also transparent. They also to allow ‘inter- operability’ among Markets Limited, the merchant sector banks rose to C6.41 lakh
should switchover to a new have a reliable term money mar- prepaid payment instruments banking arm of the bank, crore at the end of March 2017
interest rate calculation regime ket curve. CD rates relate to the (PPIs). PPIs are substitute of paper according to his biodata. as against C5.02 lakh crore a
from the existing MCLR system. credit market directly in the currency or cash that prepaid pay- He had earlier served as year ago, according to a Finance
The Study Group recommend- sense that banks could meet their ments industry issues in the form Chief General Manager, Project Ministry data. As many as
ed the T-Bill rate, the certificates marginal requirement of funds of paper coupons, mobile wallets Finance and Leasing Strategic 1,762 wilful defaulters owed
of deposit (CD) rate and the from this market. CDs also have or electronic formats. It is expect- Business Unit, it said. Kumar C25,104 crore to State Bank of
Reserve Bank's policy repo rate a reliable term money market ed that PPIs can inter-operate has held several key assign- India as on March 31, 2017, it
are better suited than other curve,” the report said. PTI within six months of the revised ments across various business said. A wilful default occurs
directions, RBI said in the verticals, including two overseas when a borrower does not
RBI, suggest ‘that an increase in August, RBI flagged possible ‘Statement on Developmental and assignments in Canada and honour an obligation despite
fiscal deficit to GDP ratio by 100 fiscal slippages due to farm loan Regulatory Policies’ on Wednesday. the UK. having the capacity to pay or
bps can lead to a permanent waivers and potential stimulus “Inter-operability amongst KYC Bhattacharya became the siphons off funds by disposing
increase of about 50 bps in infla- measures. Other upside risks to compliant PPIs shall be imple- first woman chairperson of SBI of assets without the knowledge
tion’. In upside isks to its infla- its estimate include the expect- mented within six months of the in 2013 for three years. She was of the bank. SBI and its erst-
tion forecast, where it expected ed increases in salaries and date of issuance of the revised given a year's extension in while associates alone wrote off
price rise to move up to 4.6 per allowances by states and short- master directions, which will be October last year to ensure C27,574 crore NPAs in 2016-17,
cent by the March quarter of term uncertainty because of issued within a week, i.E., by continuity as the SBI was then according to a data by the
2018 from 3.4 per cent in the GST rollout. October 11, 2017,” it said. PTI in the process of absorbing Reserve Bank of India.

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NEW DELHI: Disappointed by the
RBI’s move to leave the key rate
unchanged, India Inc on Wednesday
said the central bank should have
accorded precedence to revving up
economic growth while curbing
inflation. The industry argued that
a rate cut would have propelled
demand as interest rates remain
unduly high. “In context of the cur-
rent industrial situation, we felt
there was a need for a further cut in
the repo rate. Growth conditions
remain under strain which is reflect-
ed in the persistently weak invest-
ment activity and the first quarter
GDP growth numbers,” Ficci
President Pankaj Patel said.
“While RBI in the policy state-
ment cites inflationary pressures to
remain a concern, Ficci feels that we
need to give equal consideration to
growth prospects,” he added. The
RBI Wednesday kept policy rate
unchanged at 6 per cent as was wide-
ly expected in view of upward trend
in inflation even as it cut the growth
forecast to 6.7 per cent for the cur-
rent fiscal.
However, it slashed the Statutory
Liquidity Ratio (SLR), the portion of
deposits held by banks in
Government securities by 0.5 per cent
to 19.5 per cent, freeing over C57,000
crore to bank funds for lending. “The
RBI should have taken a bold move
and cut the policy interest to boost the
growth as the inflation level is still well
within control,” said Assocham
PresidentSandeepJajodia. Heclaimed
that while the it is always faced with
the dilemma of choosing between
growth and inflation, the overall
national sentiment at present is for
reviving growth and employment as
the trade and industrial activity, par-
ticularly in the informal sector, is fac-
ing some disruption from GST. PTI
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MUMBAI: Bankers have said
the Reserve Bank policy stance
was on the expected lines and
that its continuing focus on
inflation fighting will ensure
investor confidence on the
country. In the fourth bimonth-
ly policy statement, RBI today
left the repo rate unchanged at
6 per cent. State Bank chairman
Arundhati Bhattacharya said
given the several tectonic shifts
that the economic structure is
undergoing, the benefits of
which will take some time to be
fully absorbed, the policy
stance should be looked at as an
interim measure that calls for
calibrated spending by
Government in infrastructure,
large projects and affordable
housing to provide support
for growth numbers. “At a tac-
tical level, the Government
must address the capital situa-
tion at public sector banks to
ensure that credit disbursal to
the productive sectors contin-
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ues uninterruptedly,”
Bhattacharya said.
Describing the policy
stance as expected, ICICI Bank
managing director Chanda
Kochhar said “by retaining the
focus on inflation targets, this
policy ensures that the confi-
dence of the investors on
macroeconomic indicators will
continue.” Further policy action
will be contingent on the evo-
lution of the output gap and its
impact on the inflation trajec-
tory, she added.
The MPC has not viewed
the recent growth slowdown as
being structural in nature and
is expecting it to be transient
with growth prospects likely to
improve over the medium
term, Kochhar said. Bank of
MUMBAI: Stating that status policy stance was
expected given the upside risks to inflation and
there is only slim chances of a rate cut this year,
analysts said any change in the policy hinges
on the way inflation and growth trajectories
evolve. “Likelihood of a rate cut during the
remaining months of this fiscal is bleak
unless retail inflation surprises on the down-
side and comes lower than RBI's expectations/
guidance,” Sunil Kumar Sinha, principal econ-
omist at India Ratings said in a note.
Its bigger rival Crisil said the growth num-
bers in the second quarter will play an impor-
tant role, hinting that RBI will move in to
accommodate the concerns. “If the risks to
growth rise, and inflation undershoots monetary
policy committee's forecast, then there is a pos-
sibility of a rate cut. The second-quarter GDP
data will be a key deciding factor,” it said, adding
"if growth sulks down further, it can potential-
ly bring down core inflation, too. A dip in core
can provide a faster downside to overall infla-
India managing director
Dinabandhu Mohapatra said,
“the MPC has acknowledged
tion.” Care Ratings expects no change at the next upward inflationary bias while
policy review in December but there can be some also being mindful of downside
action in the March quarter provided inflation risks to growth due to various
remains within 4 per cent band. “The scope for domestic and international
further rate cuts in this year would be restrict- macroeconomic factors.”
ed to 0.25 per cent, which would materialise only Indian Banks Association
if the inflation trajectory significantly under- chairman Rajiv Rishi said,
shoots expectations,” domestic rating agency Icra “managing inflation is the core
chief executive Naresh Takkar said. theme of MPC and the latest
Sinha said even through the RBI is acknowl- retail inflation reading of 3.4 per
edging that the output gap is widening but it cent with a potential upside risk,
is still not sure whether this is happening due did not support a repo rate cut
transient or sustained headwinds and there- at this juncture.” He said banks
fore would like to remain in wait and watch expect a lot of improvement in
mode. But RBI's guidance on inflation is more the economy in the medium to
clear when it says retail inflation has risen by long term perspective. RBI also
around 2 percentage points in two months, reduced the statutory liquidity
excluding food there is a generalised momen- ratio (SLR) by 50 bps from 20
tum building up in prices of domestic items per cent to 19.50 of banks' net
driven by crude oil and farm loan waivers by demand and time liabilities
states and fiscal slippages at centre/state will from the fortnight beginning
add to this momentum, he added. PTI October 14. PTI

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NEW DELHI: Reliance
Communications on Wednesday said it
has filed an application with the
National Company Law Tribunal
(NCLT) for withdrawal of the scheme
of demerger of its tower business.
The tower business demerger scheme
is being withdrawn as RCom’s tower
deal with Brookfield is currently being
reworked following termination of
wireless merger talks with Aircel, a
company source explained.
An RCom statement said: “The
RITL tower demerger scheme shall, in
due course, be taken up for application
with the required changes”. Reliance
Infratel Ltd is a subsidiary of Reliance
Communications and holds the com-
pany's tower assets, numbering 43,000
towers. The Aircel tenancies would have
been a sweetener for Brookfield in the
tower deal, but the recent collapse of
merger talks between RCom and Aircel
has prompted a renegotiation on con-
tours of the deal between the Anil
Ambani company and the Canadian
firm. The renegotiated deal will be filed
afresh with the NCLT in a new demerg-
er petition, the source said.
The original deal envisaged
Brookfield picking up a 51 per cent
stake in RCom's tower business, and
carried a deal value of C11,000 crore.
The valuation was, however, based on
the combined Aircel-RCom entity
offering tenancies post-merger to the
tower company, analysts had said.
“As announced in the media release
by the company on October 1, 2017 and
for reasons already stated, the merger
agreement for the combination of
RCOM's wireless business with Aircel
has been allowed to lapse with mutual
consent,” the RCom statement said.
Accordingly, it said, an application
for withdrawal of the said merger
scheme has been filed with NCLT on
October 3, 2017. “Furthermore, as a
consequence, the application for the
withdrawal of the scheme of the
demerger of the tower business under
RITL has also been concurrently filed
as on 3 October 2017,” the statement
added. Reliance Communications,
which is reeling under a debt of about
C47,000 crore, had cited ‘legal and reg-
ulatory’ delays for termination of merg-
er talks with Aircel. PTI
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MUMBAI: Benchmark Nifty
extended gains for the fourth con-
secutive session to end at 9,914.90
today, up 55 points, after the
Reserve Bank decided to hold
rates in line with expectations. The
Reserve Bank of India's Monetary
Policy Committee maintained
status quo in its fourth bi-month-
ly monetary policy meeting, leav-
ing the benchmark repo rate
unchanged at 6 per cent, citing
upward trend in inflation.
Overseas, most European
stocks gained. Japanese and Hong
Kong share markets led Asian
stocks higher in holiday- thinned
trading after US stocks rose to
record highs. The Nifty opened
higher at 9,884.35 and moved in
a range of 9,938.30 and 9,850.65
before ending at 9,914.90, up
55.40 points, or 0.56 per cent, from
its last close. It saw an intra-day
movement of about 87.65 points.
On the sectoral front, Pharma rose
by 1.71 per cent, followed by
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MUMBAI: Stocks ended in
positive territor y on
Wednesday under-
pinned by rate-sen-
sitive realty and
banking shares after
the Reserve Bank
decided to hold
rates in line with
expectations.
Domestic institu-
tional investors
played sheet-anchor
for the market, which rallied
for the fourth straight day.
Energy 1.67 per cent, FMCG 1.45
per cent, PSU Bank 0.57 per cent,
Realty 0.47 per cent, Auto 0.36 per
cent, Infra 0.21 per cent and Media
0.18 per cent.
However, Metal and IT fell
0.15 per cent and 0.06 per cent,
respectively. Major index gainers
were Sun Pharma, Reliance, ITC,
According to traders, the RBI’s
decision to keep the interest
rate on hold is in
sync with investor
expectations.
A strengthening
rupee, which
breached the 65 level
against the dollar
during the day,
pepped up mood.
The BSE Sensex
ended up 174.33
points, or 0.55 per cent, at
31,671.71.
Aurobindo Pharma, Kotak Bank
and Tata Motors. Losers were
Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, Eicher
Motors, Axis Bank and Coal
India. The broader markets
extended their gains as both the
Nifty midcap and smallcap
indices rose 0.34 per cent and
0.77 per cent, respectively. PTI
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Narendra Modi's Pradhan
Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, a flag-
ship project on financial inclu-
sion.
“One of the great challenges
the Indian economy always
faced was that it was cash-cen-
tric,” Jaitley said. He said since
the first day in office, the gov-
ernment has taken initiatives to
drive India in the direction of
making the economy less cash-
based, the report said. “In 2014,
we discovered that although we
had a very large banking net-
work in India, only 58 per cent
of Indians or Indian families are
connected to the banking sys-
tem,” he said, adding that it
means 42 per cent of the popu-
lation was completely outside
financial inclusion.
“Therefore, the very first
challenge before the
Government was how to bring
them into the banking network.
These are the people in rural
areas, these are the people in trib-
al areas, these are the people in
geographically remote areas.
There were people who came
from parts of central India which
were impacted by left-wing
extremism,” Jaitley said.
In the days that followed, the
Modi administration launched a
the long-term deal to import 7.5
million tonnes per year of LNG
from Qatar, helping save C8,000
crore. “This is how market struc-
ture has changed,” Tripathi said.
“The point which I am trying to
drive is that we are moving from
a supply constraint market to a
supply surplus market.”
Tripathi said market structure
has changed from a time when
Indian firms struggled to get an
appointment with LNG exporters
to gas suppliers now running after
the world's fastest growing energy
market. This has primarily hap-
pened because availability has
increased and prices have slumped
in global energy markets. Though
he did not name the two other con-
tracts for which GAIL, India's
biggest gas distributor, is seeking
price renegotiation, officials said he
was referring to LNG contracted
from the US and Russia. PTI
Cellular and Vodafone which
are in the process of merging.
“In light of the IMG report,
TRAI is requested to provide
views on whether existing
applicable band-wise spectrum
cap of 50 per cent of total spec-
trum assigned in a band for a
LSA (Licensed Service Area)
and and overall cap of 25 per
cent of total spectrum assigned
in LSA across bands, should
continue or needs review,” said
the letter, seen by PTI.
It asked TRAI to provide
views on the new band-wise
and overall spectrum caps, in
case of a review. It also men-
tions that IMG, in its report,
European Union for the first
time,” IEA said in its latest
renewables market analysis and
forecast. IEA said the solar PV
and wind together represent 90
per cent of India’s capacity
growth as auctions yielded
some of the world's lowest
prices for both technologies.
Earlier this year, the solar
and wind power tariffs
dropped to all time low of
C2.44 per unit and C3.46 per
unit in tariff based competi-
tive bidding conducted by
Solar Energy Corporation of
India (SECI). IEA said India's
move to address the financial
health of its utilities and tack-
le grid-integration issues drive
a more optimistic forecast.PTI
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NEW DELHI: Regulator Sebi
on Wednesday said it has raised
the FPI investment limit in
Central Government securities
to C1,89,700 crore to boost
inflow of foreign funds into
Indian capital markets. Earlier,
the limit for foreign portfolio
investors (FPIs) was about
C1,87,700 crore. The move is
part of Sebi's effort to enhance
inflow from overseas investors
into the country's capital mar-
kets. PTI
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DHAKA: Bangladesh on
Wednesday signed a whopping
$4.5 billion third line of credit
(LoC) agreement with India for
its infrastructure and social
sector development with
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley pledging to back
the country's develop-
ment initiatives. The
agreement was signed in
the presence of Finance
Minister Jaitley and his
Bangladeshi counter-
part AMA Muhith after the two
leaders held talks here.
“Bangladesh has developed
significantly on the socioeco-
nomic front in the past seven
years,” Jaitley said following the
signing of the deal. “We have
stood by Bangladesh’s attempts
to develop and we will do so in
mission to visit every house,
every family. Banking corre-
spondents and representatives
visited every home, enabling
India to open 300 million bank
accounts in both rural and urban
areas in three years, he said.
NEW DELHI: Union minister
Hardeep Singh Puri on
Wednesday said all the stake-
holders should pitch in to meet
the goal of providing houses to
all the urban poor by 2022, ask-
ing the private sector not to miss
the ‘opportunity’ that affordable
housing sector in India offers.
Referring to China, he said
infrastructure and housing sec-
tors significantly contribute to the
growth of any country and high-
lighted various initiatives of the
Government, including 'infra-
structure status' to housing sec-
tor which will make easier for
developers to avail loans.
“If we are able to meet our
goal of building 18-20 million
affordable houses in 4,041 urban
centres by 2022, then it will
require efforts not just by the
Government, but by all the stake-
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and Reliance Communications
had requested for removing the
spectrum caps, while Airtel
had represented against it.
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the future. This significant
agreement is a continuation of
that effort,” he said. Speaking on
the occasion, Muhith said,
"Bangladesh and India have
excellent relations at the
moment.”
“They stood by
us during our inde-
pendence. We hope
they will continue to
do so in the future,”
Muhith said. The
$4.5bn LoC was
announced during Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to
India in April. Economic
Relations Division Secretary
Kazi Shofiqul Azam signed the
deal on behalf of Bangladesh,
while MD of the Export-Import
Bank of India (Exim) David
Rasquinha signed for India.PTI
The progress was impressive,
but a new challenge loomed: the
majority of the accounts had zero
balance, he said. “So the rules
were amended to allow account
holders to have zero balance,”
Jaitley was quoted as saying.
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ing an Assocham event here. “I
think private sector is an impor-
tant stakeholder by any yardstick
and I hope you will not miss this
opportunity,” Puri said.
He said those who have the
privilege of living in ‘affluence’
perhaps ‘underestimate or not
fully comprehend’ the impor-
tance of a pucca house. “It is
IMG noted that the matter
‘merits examination and inputs
from regulator’ and accord-
ingly, the telecom department
has decided to consult TRAI
on the issue of spectrum limit.
As per the current rules,
operators in each access area
are not allowed to exceed the
cap of 25 per cent of total
radiowaves assigned in 700,
800, 900, 1800, 2100, 2300 and
2500 Mhz bands, and 50 per
cent within a specific band. In
case of a merger and acquisi-
tion, if merged entity exceeds
the stipulated limits it has to
surrender the excess spec-
trum within one year. PTI
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DHAKA: After the Centre
taking a hit of C26,000 crore by
cutting excise duty on oil,
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
on Wednesday nudged states
to cut sales tax or VAT on
petrol and diesel to provide
further relief to consumers
from high fuel prices. Jaitley,
who is here on three-day offi-
cial visit, said the C2 per litre
cut in excise duty on petrol and
diesel was done to give relief
from relentless increase in
prices and leave more money
in hands of consumers.
“Now it is up to State
Governments if they are con-
cerned with the issue (to cut
sales tax or VAT),” he told
reporters here. Referring to
opposition ruled states, he said
some state governments, par-
ticularly in Kerala and Delhi,
were at the forefront of demand-
ing a cut in duties. “And there-
fore State Governments must
really look at their own VAT col-
lections,” he said. Jaitley said a
large part of taxes collected on
petroleum products goes to
states. Besides their own VAT
collection, they also get 42 per
cent of central duties. PTI
something which is transfor-
mative for the future, not only
the individual but for the entire
family and the generations to
come,” he said while citing his
example. He said his previous
generation, who came from
Pakistan, initially sought shel-
ter from the ravages of parti-
tion by living and seeking
shelter in refugee camps.
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Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on
Wednesday asked states to take
action to curb sale of adulterated
food items and poor quality gold
jewellery during the festival season.
In a letter written to State
Governments, Paswan said though
consumers are at relief in view of ‘sta-
ble’ prices of most essential com-
modities, but the issue of sale of adul-
terated sweets and other food items
is a concern. Even sale of poor qual-
ity jewellery during festival period
is a matter of concern even as the
Govt is implementing a ‘gold hall-
marking' scheme to assure quality
and protect consumers, he said. PTI
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I determine the motive behind
the Las Vegas massacre for
nearly three days were on
Wednesday hoping to get valu-
able clues with the questioning
of shooter Stephen Paddock’s
longtime girlfriend upon her
return from abroad.
Marilou Danley, described
as a “person of interest”, arrived
in Los Angeles from Manila
late on Tuesday night and was
immediately whisked away by
FBI agents for questioning.
The 62-year-old woman, an
Australian citizen of Filipino
origin, had been in a live-in
relationship with Paddock for
some years.
Danley, according to trav-
investigation into that female”,
but subsequently established
contact with her and put out a
statement that she was “no
longer being sought out”.
In Australia, one of
Danley’s sisters suggested that
Paddock had sent her out of the
US in order to plot his attack,
telling Channel 7 in an inter-
view: “I know she (Marilou)
don’t know anything as well,
like us. She was sent away. She
was away so that she will be not
there to interfere with what he’s
planning.”
Danley, according to
reports, was married to fellow-
Australian Geary Danley in
1990 and that the two lived
together in Queensland till
2003, when they moved to
Nevada. The couple filed for
divorce in 2015, but court
Prior to the arrival of
Danley, police concluded their
raid on Paddock’s second home
in Reno, Nevada that yielded
another five firearms, taking
the total number of weapons
recovered to 47. While 23 had
earlier been found in his 32nd
floor room of Mandalay Bay
hotel, another 19 along with a
large quantity of ammunition
and explosive material was
seized from his Mesquite home,
125 km away from Las Vegas.
New information released
by the authorities pointed to
the meticulous planning that
the gunman had made to carry
out what turned out to be the
deadliest mass shooting in
modern US history. His arsenal
of firearms included devices to
that enable a shooter to file bul-
lets rapidly, similar to the speed
of automatic rifles. Paddock
had outfitted 12 of his firearms
with these devices, called
bump-stocks, according to the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Washington: The Trump
Administration will “firmly”
decide the role of Pakistan in
Afghanistan so the country
needs to hear NATO’s demand
and rein in terror groups, US
Defence Secretary Jim Mattis
said on Wednesday.
Mattis said US President
Donald Trump’s new strategy for
Afghanistan and South Asia has
been welcomed almost uni-
formly by leaders in the region
as well as the 39 countries con-
tributing troops to the NATO-
led campaign. Trump, while
announcing the new strategy for
Afghanistan, had criticised
Pakistan for providing safe
havens to terror outfits.
“We will firmly address
Pakistan’s role. NATO’s demands
need to be heard and embraced
in Islamabad,” Mattis said in his
appearance before the Senate
Armed Services Committee dur-
ing a Congressional hearing on
South Asia.
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India if it realises that the “tide
has shifted” and stop providing
safe havens to terrorists on its
soil, US Defence Secretary Jim
Mattis has said.
Mattis told members of the
powerful Senate Armed Services
Committee on Tuesday that the
Trump administration is being
very clear and firm in what it
expects from Pakistan and is
using all aspects of the
Government to bring about the
change, working internationally.
His statement comes weeks
after President Donald Trump
announced his Afghanistan
and South Asia policy in which
he adopted a tough policy
against Pakistan. It also came
ahead of Pakistan Foreign
Minister Khawaja Asif ’s talks
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lines of effort being put togeth-
er now in Secretary of
Treasury’s office, Secretary of
State’s office, my own office, the
intel agencies. We are also
working with Secretary General
Stoltenberg to ensure that
NATO’s equities are brought to
bear,” Mattis said responding to
a question on why would
play as a neighbour, and poten-
tially a very strong economic
benefit to Pakistan, if Pakistan
can find a way to carry out its
international responsibilities
and end any kind of safe haven
inside their country, he noted.
“There’s a great deal that
Pakistan can benefit eco-
nomically, diplomatically,
financially for its
Government; economically
for its people; by finally sens-
ing that the tide has shifted
against this,” Mattis said.
He said that the Trump
administration believes that it
would be highly difficult to sus-
tain any stabilisation in South
Asia, not just in Afghanistan,
but certainly anywhere around
Pakistan and India unless safe
havens are removed.
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to Manila on September 15 --
two weeks before the Las Vegas
massacre. She then flew to
Hong Kong on September 22,
returning to Manila three days
records cited by media reports
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Paddock had in recent months
transferred large sums of
money, totalling about
$100,000, to someone in the
Philippines. It was not imme-
diately clear if the money trans-
arsenal of guns, ammunition
and explosives that Paddock
had put together over a period
of time. The focus of ques-
tioning Danley, according to
former FBI agent Steve Gomez,
would be on the arsenal.
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Road Forum (BRF) in May this
have also been time and again charging their
neighbour Pakistan with similar allegations.
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fer was meant for Danley.
“Currently she’s a person of
interest,” Las Vegas Sheriff
Joseph Lombardo told a news
conference on Tuesday, hours
before Danley’s arrival in Los
Angeles. A day earlier, the
police had initially said that
they were “continuing the
of those weapons? Did she see
him operating these weapons,
training, working on these
weapons? Did she know where
he obtained these weapons?
Were there associates that were
obtaining the weapon for him?
… Those are very important
questions to answer,” Gomez
far from scrapping it, he is
considering kicking the deci-
sion to Congress. Ahead of an
October 15 deadline, several
officials familiar with White
House deliberations told
Trump has made it clear he
does not want to certify Iran’s
compliance with the accord.
year due to its sovereignty
concerns over the nearly USD
60 billion CPEC, a flagship pro-
ject of China’s prestigious One
Belt One Road (OBOR), which
passes through Pakistan-occu-
pied Kashmir (PoK).
Having returned from his
maiden trip to India last week
wherein he met his counterpart
Nirmala Sitharaman and Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, US
Defence Secretary Jim Mattis
today appeared to be a strong
opponent of China’s ambitious
OBOR initiative.
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UN with its envoy Maleeha
Lodhi accusing India of spread-
ing terrorism in the Valley,
drawing a sharp reaction from
India which described her dia-
tribe as a “lonely voice from the
wilderness”.
Pakistan’s Ambassador and
Permanent Representative to
the UN Lodhi, during a debate
of the General Assembly, also
alleged that India made a “false
claim” of conducting surgical
strike across the LoC to pro-
voke conflict with Pakistan.
She warned New Delhi
that “any aggression” by it
would receive a “matching and
effective response”.
“This claim, and India’s
repeated threats to conduct
such strikes across the LoC,
constitute flagrant violations of
the UN Charter’s injunction
against the use or threat of use
of force,” Lodhi said during the
debate on the Report of the
Secretary General on the work
of the world body.
She said that the UN
should not “ignore these open
threats to use force” by India.
Continuing her tirade
against India, Lodhi alleged,
“To cover up its crimes against
the Kashmiri people, and to
divert world attention, India
resorts to daily violation of the
ceasefire along the Line of
Control in Kashmir.”

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chief under investigation for the achievements of President
organisational structure, system
and work style, since Xi took
alleged sedition, a court spok- Xi Jinping’s sweeping military over during the 18th National
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vened dramatically in the cri-
over Catalan leaders’ bid for
warning if the Spanish Govern-
ment intervenes or arrests him,
it could be ‘the definitive mistake’.
after the force was accused of
failing to rein in pro-indepen-
dence protesters.
build a strong Army and expand
China’s global influence.
The documentary comes
state-run Xinhua agency
reported.

Independence, accusing them of
threatening the country’s stabil-
ity and urging the state to defend
“constitutional order.”
The 49-year-old king aban-
doned his previously measured
tone over tensions with Catalonia
on Tuesday as the standoff
We’ll find out what that means.
King Felipe spoke after
hundreds of thousands of Cat-
alans rallied in fury at violence
by police against voters during
a banned referendum on inde-
pendence for their region on
Sunday. Catalan regional lead-
ers held the vote in defiance of
the national Government
which brands it illegal — as did
Felipe on Tuesday.
The National Court in
Madrid summoned Josep Luis
Trapero and three other sus-
pects to a hearing on Friday,
said the spokesman, who asked
not to be named. The accusa-
tions refer to unrest in
Barcelona on September 20
and 21 after national security
forces raided regional Gover-
nment offices in a crackdown
against the independence drive.
ahead of the 19th Congress of
the ruling Communist Party of
China (CPC), to begin here
from October 18 during which
Xi is set to get a second term
as general secretary. As per the
practice followed by the party,
top leaders will get two five-
year terms and retire after 68
years of age.
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script or smart improvisation. So the
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2017 — it is hard to imagine if it would
have generated buzz in the first place.
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an actor, I had to figure out how to deliv-
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all the films that are a part of the festi-
[Pd]RWTSWXbUXabcYTfT[[Tah er my lines naturally,” says Barun Sobti, val circuit are thought-provoking and
[X]TbPhbRPaahX]VcWT who is back in his hometown, busy pro- serious. Our film does not fall in any of
PRRTbb^ahfT[[ST_T]Sb moting his film Tu Hai Mera Sunday, set these genres. Rather it is the happiest film
^]^]Tb_Tab^]P[Xch to release on October 6. of 2017. Though I don’t understand the
7Xb_^[ZXYTfT[[Tah The Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon concept, people feel that if a film has been
fame actor, who made his Bollywood received well at a festival, it automatical-
[X]TXbPePX[PQ[T^][X]T debut in 2014 with the not-so-success- ly attracts respect — which in turn works
°FTPccT\_cTSc^ ful Main Aur Mr Riight, feels the USP for us,” says the actor who has been in the
RWP]VTcWT^dc[^^Z^U of the film was its easy relatable lan- news recently for his TV series Iss Pyaar
_^[ZXFTZT_ccWT guage, context and realism. “It is sim- Ko Kya Naam Doon III, which is ending
ple and comes naturally to everyone. abruptly this week.
caPSXcX^]P[TbbT]RT Though good scripts are in abundance, However, Sobti has no complaints
QdcSTbXV]TSXcU^a it is the actors who fail to narrate the whatsoever about it tanking so soon. “I
cWTf^\P]^U language in consonance with the audi- think I am among the very
c^SPh±cWT ence or interpret the roles in a contem- few privileged people
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ball, they end up figuring out the real
UaXT]Sb medium, be it TV, films
or digital shows. Acting
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XcP[[ST_T]Sb^]W^f to look like we had been playing togeth- RP\TaPX] the enormous potential
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to figure out the difference between play- fX[[QT\PST´ potential of television
ing on a turf and a beach,” recalls Sobti, which will definitely
who loves watching football but unfor- boost the socio-econom-
tunately doesn’t find time to play. ic structure of the coun-
³8cbPeTah “For the dialogues, we had work- try. Personally, for me, the
SXUUTaT]ca^[T8 shops for 25 to 30 days. We worked on experience has been great so far.”
P\aTP[[h the scenes one after the other. Everything The film also stands out for being an
was recorded and the angles were figured amalgamation of actors from various
TgRXcTSc^_[Ph out — a wholesome rehearsal for the platforms. Working with an ensemble
\hRWPaPRcTa actors, director and the director of pho- cast of senior and fresh actors has been
QTRPdbTXcb tography. And in the end, we started a different experience altogether for
PRcdP[[hPa^[T shooting and there was hardly any scene Sobti. “I got to learn a lot from everybody.
cWPcbTTb\TX]PeTah that gave any trouble,” shares the 33-year- None of us had an attitude or ego; rather
old actor. we appreciated the one who was really
SXUUTaT]c[XVWc8P\ For Sobti, working with Dhaimade good at something. Everyone keeps on
UX]SX]VcWTa^[T`dXcT has been a feast. “He is the centre of mad- asking, ‘What is your takeaway from the
RWP[[T]VX]Vc^S^8cbP ness and intelligence. I really enjoyed film?’ Other than the experience, I have
R^\_[TcT[h]TfcPZT^] working with him because, for one made really good friends. Dhaimade
thing, he is so open to suggestions that always says that keep the lot together,
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S^X]VAPRT" fX[[QT he will accept it. Also, not only do you script will be made.”
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° 902@D4;8=4 cover yourself.” understood as being choosy and diffi-
54A=0=34I With the film gaining recognition cult. “I am a very simple person. I read
after being screened at various film fes- a script and if I like it, I go ahead with
tivals — the British Film Institute London it. Neither do I sit and ponder upon it,
0RcaTbb9D78 Film Festival (BFI) in 2016, New York nor do I think of breaking stereotypes.”
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W Hai Mera Sunday coming
closer, Milind Dhaimade
ed from the Everest Brand
Solutions as the national
creative director in 2015 to
work on films. And started
working on some scripts. “A
fellow colleague had the idea of
a Sunday football routine at
Juhu beach and this got me
thinking what would happen if
they could not play one
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weekend. This struck me
that Mumbai has very little
space for happiness. And
through these five boys I have
showcased what is Mumbai for
me,” says Dhaimade, who
took two years to flesh out the
story.
However, he does
associate the limit-
ed space in Mumbai with the
hard-to-get opportunity in the
f i l m
industry. “But new talent still
finds some space, especially
with the digital platform and
technology becoming more
accessible. However, I do
feel that finding an audience for
your film is really difficult
with people still working with
the formula of earning back
what they invested in the first
week of the release. This
approach must come to an end.
Only then will films with good
content be made,” shares
Dhaimade, who takes a tea
break from making sure that the
screening of the trailer is perfect.
Dhaimade took three
months for casting as he feels
that when one is working on real
life characters, it’s hard to place
a star. “I wanted to have con-
vincing actors and not run after
stardom. And I did make the
right choice as these actors have
genuinely invested time and
energy,” says Dhaimade.

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Prime Minister and the govern-
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d_R^\X]V0ePcPa bT`dT[ role in Dibakar Banerjee’s 2008 release Oye have not always been boosting sports in India.”
2P\Ta^]bPXS°:PcT Lucky! Lucky Oye!, she says her journey truly considered popular or Srinivas said that the gov-
started with Anurag Kashyap’s crime-saga Gangs mainstream in India, ernment is working towards
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bX]RT^da films” as she thought “it was very hard (to get national arena. There is a silver should be more women coach-
R^[[PQ^aPcX^]^] good work) and people here are too strange and lining for sportswomen as three es and a higher representation of
sleazy.” women athletes won medals at women in top positions at the
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fPb^]T^UcWT Richa says about surviving in the industry but women’s cricket team is creating the gaps.” He said, “There should
\^bcaTfPaSX]V^U adds she is not “bitter” as that would make her a niche for themselves. More and tion of women in sports.” always very active, strong, show- be a conducive environment for
\hRPaTTa8RP]c a cynic. more female athletes have dis- India lacks a sports culture ing speed and agility whereas girls in sports.” Elstoft agreed on
“I am angry with women who are ready to played game-changing perfor- whereas Australia has a strong women athletes were shown as the need for child protection
fPXcc^bTTWTa sleep with producers, because sure it is your mances in recent years, winning one. But even that has a few passive, model-like, quite oppo- arrangement in sports. He said,
QaX]VcWT personal choice and you want to grow fast but fans and inspiring girls to excel. troughs. Talking about it, site to their male counterparts. “Things need to be managed
RWPaPRcTa^U because you do it, people expect it from others,” They have broken social stereo- Australia’s Acting High However, things started chang- well at the grassroot level.”
A^]P[c^[XUT± says Richa. types to prove their mettle time Commissioner Chris Elstoft ing after she highlighted the bias. Srinivas said that we
AT[TPbTSX] The actor says her anger is also extended to and again. said, “People in Australia still Holmes said, “The representa- should break the stereotypes
the paparazzi culture which focuses heavily on Such was the case with think that men’s disciplines are tion started changing both in by making women partici-
!(0ePcPa star kids. Deepa Malik, who was paralysed better than women’s. This per- articles and photographs.” pate in sports which are not
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aTR^aSU^aWXVWTbc even click pictures of their diapers, and it goes 30. Yet she broke the shackles of about the competition between role to play to encourage more them, such as wrestling and
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through such experiences where she has lost and won a silver medal in short progress in our women soccer first priorities of the government women to sports. “India is one
^U!'QX[[X^]CWT films because of politics and fake friendships. put at the Paralympics. “I refuse team.” He also said that women’s is to make sports a compulsory of the few countries which has
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bT`dT[b^UcWT befriend them, do brunches and lunches and the she after her win. women’s participation is lower. for it. Sports should be seen as more job reservation for
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cWTPcTabbcPacX]V for a film. They would go to a producer and tell sports, panellists sorted out change it. as a recreational tool. There are surest way of attracting more
them that I met with her, and she doesn’t seem through a mesh of issues. Sport Australian broadcaster still some issues in our way to women.” He said there was no
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empowerment of this neglected section of
society for the last three years.
QProposals are being mooted to dilute the role
of Gram Sabhas while giving green clearances
to projects? What are your views on them?
There are some provisions under different
Acts to make sure that this does not happen. For
instance, the provisions of the Forest Rights Act,
2006 needs to be strictly adhered to, keeping in
view legislative intent of the said Act and the pri-
macy of the Gram Sabhas in democratic gov-
ernance. The act doesn’t provide any exemption
to any category of projects.
Moreover, section 5 of the Forest Rights Act,
2006 empowers the holders of forest rights, the
Gram Sabhas and the village level institutions
to protect wildlife, forests, water catchment
areas, biodiversity and the cultural and natur-
al heritage of forest dwellers. It also aims to
ensure that the decisions taken in the Gram
Sabha to regulate access to community forest
resources and stop any activity which adverse-
ly affects the wild animals, forest and the bio-
diversity are complied with.
It needs to be pointed out that the central role
of the Gram Sabhas in development initiatives is
not unique to the Forest Rights Act, 2006. It also
finds a mention in the Panchayats (Extension to the
Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA) where consul-
tation with Panchayats is a necessary precondition
for identification of any land in the Scheduled Areas
for development projects. The Right of Fair
Compensation and Transparency in Land
Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act,
2013, requires consent of the Gram Sabha for acqui-
sition of land in Scheduled Areas for development.
The role of the Gram Sabha has received affir-
mation from the Supreme Court in the Odisha
Mining Corporation vs Ministry of Environment
and Forests and Others, 2013 (6) SCALE 57, where-
in the apex court has clearly stated the central role
of Gram Sabhas (which in Odisha is called Palli
Sabha) in entertaining and determining commu-
nity or individual forest rights claims.
The court also specified that the Gram Sabha
was free to consider all the community, individual
as well as cultural and religious claims over and
above the claims which have already been received
from Rayagada and Kalahandi districts.
QNarendra Modi has voiced his opinion on skill
development which includes the tribals. What are
the steps being taken in this regard?
In India the total number of tribals is 10.45 crore
which constitutes 8.6 per cent of the total popula-
tion of the country. Out of this, only 5.09 crore
Scheduled Tribe persons are workers. The fact that
tribals need special attention is obvious from their
low social, economic and participatory indicators.
Skill is a catalyst for economic growth and com-
munity development. There is an urgent need for
skill development among young aspirants in a sys-
tematic manner. Skill building empowers individ-
uals and improves social acceptance.
Skill knowledge and development is important
given the increasing pace of globalisation and tech-
nological changes in the world. Skill building
improves the efficacy and contribution of
labour towards production and is also an
instrument to empower the individual and
improve their social acceptance.
The Government of India has opened new
windows for skill development and creation of
job opportunities within the country. Funds are
being provided for skill development under
Special Central Assistance to Tribal Sub-Plan
(SCA to TSP) and through Article 275 (1) grants
to the states. In their turn, the states assess the
skill requirement and send proposals to the
Ministry for funding in various trades, be it as
drivers, nurses and so on.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs runs a
scheme for Vocational Training Centres (VTCs)
whereby free vocational training facilities are
areas is demand-driven.
The Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship (MSDE) is setting up one multi-
skills institute in all districts under the scheme of
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY).
The goal this year is to start state-of-art skill cen-
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O tation of GST w.e.f. July
1, 2017 there may be
instances where the retail
sale price of a pre-packaged
commodity is required to be
changed. In this context,
Minister for Consumer
Affairs Food and Public
Distribution had allowed the
manufacturers or packer or
importers of pre-packaged
commodities to declare the
revised retail sale price in
addition to the existing retails
sale price, for there months
w.e.f. July 1, 2017 to
S eptember 30, 2017.
Declaration of the changed
retail sale price was allowed
to be made by way of stamp-
ing or putting sticker or
online printing.It was also
clarified that for reducing
the Maximum Retail Price
(MRP), a sicker with the
revised lower MRP (inclusive
of all taxes) may be affixed
and the same will not cover
the MRP declaration made by
the manufacturer or the
packer, as the case may be, on
the label of the package.
Use of unexhausted pack-
ing material/wrapper was
also been allowed up to
September 30, 2017 after
making the necessary correc-
tions.
The Industries further
requested to extend the permis-
sion for some more time and
therefore, considering the
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weavers and consumers started on
October 3. The exhibition is an ini-
tiative of the office of Development
Commissioner for Handlooms,
Ministry of Textiles, Government
of India through National
Handloom Development
Corporation (NHDC) Limited to
provide direct access to the hand-
loom weavers to market their
products to consumers in vari-
ous cities of India.
The art of handloom weav-
ing has traditional values
attached to it and each region
has exquisite varieties. The
uniqueness of silk products such
as Pochampalli, Paithani,
Kanjivaram, Banarasi, Jamdani,
Baluchari, and Ikkat, among
others attracts customers across
the globe with exclusive weaves,
designs and traditional motifs.
Through these exhibitions,
handloom agencies not only
market their products at reason-
able rates but also get to know cus-
tomers’ choice with regard to
colour, design and weaving for
future improvement of the prod-
uct.
Government of India has
launched the Handloom Mark
scheme for handloom products
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products, to encourage and to
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T of Mahatma Gandhi as Swachhta
Diwas and of culmination the Swachhta
Pakhwada, the team – NDMC, RWAs,
MTAs, shopkeepers, NGOs and other vol-
unteers had contributed their Shramdaan
at Connaught Place.
Puneet Kumar Goel, Municipal
Council Delhi officiating Chairperson,
released a booklet titled, Segregation of
Waste at Source and gave away Swachhta
Awards to the organisations and partici-
pants, who adjudged the best one,
amongst Gymkhana Club, Gurudwara
Bangla Sahib, Pandara Road Market
Association, RWA Laxmibai Nagar, Nehru
Park and four NDMC schools, on the
basis of their contribution in terms of
swachhta initiatives undertaken during the
year.
Expressing his thanks to the team who
had extended their positive and sustained
contribution during the Swachhta
Pakhwada undertaken by the Council, the
Chairperson said that our most significant
contribution would be to upkeep not only
our households and surroundings, but
also to inspire our close ones to
extend their positive contribution towards
it.
He said that the focus should be pri-
marily on most marginalised households,
living in the slum areas of NDMC. And
added that it should be an ongoing sus-
tained endeavour, which would be help-
ful to lay the foundation of Swachh
Bharat – Swasth Bharat and make the mis-
sion a success.
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1706 allottees who have failed
to construct their factory build-
ing by December 31, 2016 on
the industrial plots allotted to
them under the Scheme of
Relocation of Industries. As
per the terms of allotment/lease
deed, the allottees were
required to construct their fac-
tory building on the allotted
plots within one year from the
date of physical possession of
plots taken by them in the
year 2000 and afterwords. This
time period had been extend-
found vacant during the survey
conducted by DSIIDC in the
m/o July, 2017. This non-perfor-
mance on part of these allottees
shows lack of seriousness and
results to blatant violations of
the terms of allotment/lease
deed and defeats the very pur-
pose of the Relocation Scheme.
About 13000 allottees of
indusTrial. plots/flatted facto-
ries, as the case may be, have not
paid the lease rent of their
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M ed several National
Highways projects and a project
for development of Muktyala to
Vijayawada stretch of Krishna
River (National Waterways – 4),
along with Nitin Gadkari, Union
Minister for Shipping, Road
Transport, Highways and Water
Resources, River Development
and Ganga Rejuvenation at a
function. Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister N Chandrababu Naidu
was also present on the occasion.
Seven NH projects were
dedicated to the nation and
foundation stones were laid for
six NH projects in Andhra
Pradesh, the total cost of all the
projects being C4,193 crore.
Foundation stone for the Phase-
I for development of Krishna
River was also laid. In the first
phase of the project, the stretch
between Muktayala to
Vijayawada will be developed for
transportation. The total project
cost is C7,015 crore and the
length of the waterway 315 km.
Speaking on the occasion
Gadkari said that the Union
Government would spend more
than C1 lakh crore on improving
National Highways in Andhra
Pradesh and it would give a
tremendous boost to the devel-
opment of the state. He said a six
lane access controlled green-
field Amaravathi Expressway
will be built to connect the new
capital city Amaravathi with
Anantapur and also provide
connectivity to Kurnool and
Kadapa. The project has been
approved with a total length of
557 km and cost of about
C25,000 crore.
Gadkari also said that the
project for development of
Muktayala to Vijayawada section
of NW-4 will provide an efficient
logistics solution to boost the
economic growth of the region
and facilitate the development of
the capital city Amravati during
its early development stage as
substantial construction mater-
ial is expected to be transported
on this stretch.
The Minister also said that
under Sagaramala programme,
several port-related projects
would be taken up in the state.
The capacity of the
Visakhapatnam port would be
expanded.
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the past upto December 31,
2016 with the approval of
Lessor/ LG. These plots under
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Court have been allotted to the
applicant units declared eligible
for allotment of alternative
individual plots under the said
scheme floated by the
Government of NCT of Delhi
in the year 1996 for the purpose
of shifting their industrial activ-
ities there after construction of
plots and closure of their indus-
trial activities at the old facto-
ry addresses existing in various
non-conforming/residential
areas of Delhi.
The list of all 1706 allottees
is available on DSIIDC’s website
giving the details of names and
application no. of allottees along
with particulars of allotted plots
of one show cause notice dated
May 18,2017 before, under
speed post. DSIIDC in order to
facilitate all allottees under the
said scheme has given the
option of online or offline pay-
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F warned England to expect

a repeat of the carnage
caused by Mitchell Johnson
four years ago when Australia
unleash their pace attack in the
upcoming Ashes Tests.
A fully firing Australian
attack looks formidable, with
spearhead Starc returning this
week from a foot injury to vie for
a place with Pat Cummins, Josh
Hazlewood, Nathan Coulter-
Nile, Jackson Bird and James
Pattinson.
"We've got a really solid
attack and we complement each
other," he said in the Sydney
Daily Telegraph Wednesday.
"If it's not me, you've got Pat
Cummins who can bowl fast
bouncers and Josh Hazlewood
bowling consistent line and
length.
"It'll be much like that attack
did when Johnno took all those
wickets, I think we complement
each other really well.
"Throw in Jackson Bird,
and Coulter-Nile is back bowl-
ing really well. So we've got five
really good guys there and if
Patto is fit to go, six."
With Starc again raring to
go, Pattinson is the only injury
cloud with inflammation in his
back. But England are in a state
of disarray ahead of their arrival
in late October.
As well as an unsettled bat-
ting line-up, they could be with-
out talismanic all-rounder Ben
Stokes, who is suspended until
further notice after his arrest
during a night out.
Starc believes there is a
chance for Australia's bowlers to
land early psychological blows
on England, whose top order is
relatively inexperienced aside
from Alastair Cook and Joe
Root. "They've obviously got
Root and Cook up the top, who
have played a lot of cricket and
are probably their main guys
with the bat," he said.
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T
he name 'Colombia' is synony-
mous to salsa and football. A
country which treat their football
as a religion has redefined their pres-
ence in footballing world after an
astonishing performance in the FIFA
World Cup 2014. Despite an absence of
12 years from the grand stage, the team
in yellow and dark blue grew from
strength to strength and reached the
quarter finals - thanks to the star
power of James Rodriguez and Juan
Cuadrado.
Their U-17 side coached by
Orlando Restrepo are no different.
Qualifying for the World Cup after a
gap of 8 years the team is still counted
among the favourites for the World Cup
and are deemed as toughest challenge
in the group by Indian under-17 coach
Luis Norton de Matos.
"Colombia is the toughest of all in
our group. They are a strong physical
squad and looks like a team who knows
their strengths and weaknesses," said de
Matos. "They are very fast and can cre-
ate a lot of problems for their rivals."
Leaving no leaf unturned, Colombia
deserve full marks for their dedication
to be in the showpiece Final in Kolkata
on 28th October. While most of the
teams arrived in India less than a week
before the start of the tournament,
Colombians landed in New Delhi two
weeks prior to their first match -
against Ghana on 6th October. To get
some match practice in these condi-
tions, Restrepo's boys played a friend-
ly match against under-20 side of
Minerva Punjab in Gurgaon and won
it 1-0.
Los Cafeteros' assistant coach
Alfredo Araujo explained the reason
behind the early arrival.
"We are back in this tournament
after a while," said Araujo. "So we don't
want to be underprepared. Coming to
India two weeks earlier gives us the time
squad full of talented and versatile play-
ers.
Like the senior team, the forward
line of the under-17 team glints of a
luminous future. Yadir Bentacur (right
winger) and Jaminton Campaz (left
winger) are two different set of wingers
on either side of flanks. An ambipedal
Campaz is a pocket-size winger who
uses his pace and trickery to terrorize
the defenders. Bentacur, on the other
hand, is a tall, well-built versatile play-
er and can play as a No 10 (player
behind the striker) too.
Brayan Gomez, a centre-attacking
midfielder, is another interesting
prospect of the South Americans.
Blessed with silky feet, this kid with a
diminutive figure is a treat to watch. A
certain threat in free-kick situations,
In heart of the defence, plays the
BF>C0=0;HB8B captain Thomas Gutierrez. A ball-play-
ing centre-back, Gutierrez is a creative
option at the back of the field. Also
2>;><18058GCDA4B quick feet, the skipper can be a
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experienced manager with a profile of
managing 13 teams over a span of 26
;8:4C74B4=8>A years in Colombia. Taking charge of the
C40<C745>AF0A3 under-17 squad in August last year,
;8=4>5C74D=34A Restrepo propelled the team to a fourth
spot in the Campeonato Sudamericano
&C40<6;8=CB>5 Sub-17 in Chile, subsequently qualify-
0;D<8=>DB ing for the under-17 World Cup (along
5DCDA4H038A with Brazil, Paraguay and Chile); leav-
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Argentina and Uruguay.
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Restrepo likes to play in a 4-2-3-1
formation but switches to 4-4-1-1 or a
4-4-2 depending on the game. They
start off with a lot of intensity early in
the game as opponents are pressed deep
in their own half.
As mentioned earlier, the team
likes to see a lot of possession. So win-
ning the ball quickly, after losing it, is
a priority that sees a lot of zonal press-
ing and zonal man outnumbering by the
Colombian tacticians.
The team likes to play a lot of lat-
eral short passes but quickly reacts and
catches pace at the first exposure of
space in the forward line, especially on
the wings, which are the primary out-
lets of attack and are supported by over-
lapping full-backs. Diagonal long pass-
es from one flank to another and long
balls from the back to wide forwards are
a common occurrence.
In the middle, CAM plays an
important role to build attack through
layoffs and one-touch passes for the for-
wards. Presence of two defensive mid-
fielders or a double pivot —
Etilso Martínez and Andres Perea —
makes it difficult for the opponents to
launch couter-attacks, even somehow
managed, having two quick centre
backs — Andres Cifuentes and
Gutierrez — is another challenge to out-
run.
For Colombians, football is a reli-
gion, and winning a game is all they care
about. "Like any other team, we came
in this tournament to win, that's our
goal," said assistant coach Araujo.
But Colombia is not just any other
team and with a balanced squad, they
are certainly the team under spotlight
to go the distance in this tournament.
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A Colombian coach Orlando Restrepo is not
willing to downplay the importance of any team
in their group. He is of the opinion that there are
no easy teams in the World Cup.
"We are preparing for all the teams in the
group," said Restrepo. "All the teams are good,
there are no bad teams in a World Cup, so whether
it's India, Ghana or USA none can be taken light-
ly. Each of them have their own strengths. And
we have tried to work on building our team to face
each of them with full intensity."
Indian under-17 team recently played
Colombia in Mexico during a four-nation tour-
nament and were easily beaten 0-4. Restrepo asked
not to read too much into it as he thinks Blue Cubs
were under-prepared at that time.
"We have played against India already, in
Mexico, where we also played against Chile in the
tournament. They arrived there for first time and
had little time to adapt to the time difference and
the weather conditions.
“It was a big task for them to play with being
jet lagged. So they lost to us with that margin," said
the Colombian coach.
Restrepo now see them as a tough test as he
is expecting to be an improved side with crowd
on their side.
"Here they (India) are at home, they know the
conditions, they have the fans backing, and I am
sure they are working on different areas to improve
and do their best in the World Cup," said the 60-
year-old coach.
Restrepo said they have prepared well for this
football extravaganza as he feels his team is ready
for the opening match against Ghana on Friday.

 
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Sharapova 6-2, 6-2 to reach the quar-
terfinals.
Halep landed 74 percent of her first
double-faults.
"First of all, I think she played an
incredible match, probably the best she's
played against me in all of our previous
meetings," said Sharapova, who is still
rebuilding her game after serving a dop-
ing suspension. "And I wasn't as sharp.
I wasn't seeing the ball as well. I wasn't
moving up and down as well as I have
been against her."
Peng Shuai also advanced, beating
Monica Niculescu 6-3, 6-2, while
Caroline Garcia defeated Elise Mertens
7-6 (4), 6-4 and Jelena Ostapenko beat
Samantha Stosur 6-3, 7-5.
after losing the first set, sang a song while
advanced to the China Open quarter-
finals.
The eighth-seeded Australian rallied
to beat Mischa Zverev 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
Wednesday, finding some degree of
redemption for his ill-tempered, sus-
pension-earning performance against
the German last year in Shanghai.
after losing the first set and smashing his
racket, choosing at one point to sing
along with the stadium soundtrack.
"Obviously, didn't have a great one
last year. Obviously, got suspended
after that," Kyrgios said. "I just wanted
to go out there and redeem myself a lit-
tle bit from last year."
Kyrgios missed the end of the 2016
season after being suspended by the
men's tour and fined $25,000 for "tank-
ing" a match and insulting fans during
a second-round loss to Zverev at the
Shanghai Masters. The ATP said Kyrgios
was sanctioned for "conduct contrary to
the integrity of the game" following an
investigation into his behavior.
Kyrgios said his latest victory was
more a statement about his playing abil-
ity than anything.
"I just wanted to prove to myself
how much I have improved," he said.
Also, third-seeded Grigor Dimitrov
eliminated Juan Martin del Potro 7-6 (6),
7-5, Steve Darcis defeated Dusan Lajovic
6-3, 6-4 and fifth-seeded Roberto
Bautista Agut beat Aljaz Bedene after the
British player retired from the match in
the second set.
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R Belinda Bendic for Switzerland at the
Hopman Cup, while Japan will make its
first appearance in 16 years at the inter-
national mixed team event.
After the last Hopman Cup, Federer
went on to win the Australian Open and
Wimbledon, his 18th and 19th Grand
Slam singles titles.
Two-time Grand Slam singles
Angelique Kerber will represent
Germany with ATP No. 4 Alexander
Zverev, tournament officials said
Wednesday.
Yuichi Sugita and Naomi Osaka will
play for Japan, while Australia will be
represented by Daria Gavrilova and
Thanasi Kokkinakis.
The other teams in Dec. 30-Jan. 6
event at Perth Arena are: the United
States: Jack Sock and CoCo Vandeweghe;
Russia: Svetlana Kuznetsova and Karen
Khachanov; Belgium: David Goffin and
Elise Mertens; and Canada: Eugenie
Bouchard and Vasek Pospisil.
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serve of Kevin Anderson and advanced
to the quarterfinals at the Japan Open on
Wednesday by beating the U.S. Open
finalist 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (2).
Anderson landed 24 aces in the
match, but the 52nd-ranked American
overcame the barrage and will next face
top-seeded Marin Cilic.
Cilic advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 vic-
tory over Yasutaka Uchiyama, a Japanese
player who won in his ATP main draw
debut in the first round. Cilic dropped
only four points out of 34 on his first
serve. Adrian Mannarino and eighth-
seeded Diego Schwartzman also
advanced to the quarterfinals.
Mannarino beat Jiri Vesely and
Schwartzman defeated Bernard Tomic.
Fourth-seeded David Goffin, last
year's runner-up, started his campaign
with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Feliciano
Lopez. The Belgin will next face quali-
fier Matthew Ebden in the second
round.