FIGHT FOR RIGHT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2016 Vol. 2
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Taking Cots Is Stealing? What About Vijay Mallya, Asks Rahul Gandhi New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi labored today to convert an uhoh moment into a point of attack. "When farmers leave with cots, they are called chors (thieves). When an industrialist escapes with 9,000 crores, he's called a defaulter," he said in Uttar Pradesh, referring to liquor baron Vijay Mallya who has refused to return to India to face banks to whom his defunct Kingfisher Airlines owes big money. Yesterday, Mr Gandhi launched a 2,500-km tour of Uttar Pradesh, during which he will cover more than half of the 403 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh, which will vote early next year. Mr Gandhi's debut meeting with farmers was designed as an informal meeting on khats or cots. They turned into the scene-stealers, with farmers scurrying away
NEWS IN BRIEF Maoist Kill Man Over Suspicion Of Being Police Informer In Chhattisgarh Raipur: A former deputy head of a village panchayat was killed by suspected Maoists in an insurgency-hit pocket of Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district, police said today. Khejan Sonwani, 45, was shot dead late last night at his house CONTD.
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Must Upload FIRs Online Within 24 Hours Of Filing Case: Supreme Court To States New Delhi: The Supreme Court today directed all States and Union Territories to upload the FIRs on their websites within 24 hours of registration at police stations. A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and C Nagappan, CONTD.
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DigiLocker To Digitally Store Vehicle Documents Launched New Delhi: DigiLocker - the country's first secured cloudbased platform for the storage, issuance and verification of documents and certificates in a digital manner - was launched in New Delhi on Wednesday. The innovative measure was jointly launched by Minister of Road Transport and Highways CONTD.
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'Dressing Up' Like Farmers Doesn't Mean Rahul Gandhi Gets Their Pain: BJP
carrying them on their shoulders in Deoria in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, minutes after Mr Gandhi left the large public ground. The cots had been rented for the event at between Rs. 700 to
Rs. 1,000 each. Locals seen walking away with cots that had been laid out by Congress Mr Gandhi's comeback today drove his party's allegation that ON
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New Delhi: Taking a swipe at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi over his 'Kisan yatra', the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said getting dressed like a farmer and sitting on a cot (Khaat) does not show that he understands the pain of the poor. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told ANI that as far as Rahul Gandhi is concerned, he is a "child born with a silver spoon" and today by sitting on a cot (Khaat) he cannot become one of the poor and needy. "To understand the poor and to understand their pain, did he even for one day lead a life of a CONTD. ON PAGE 5
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Want Accountability For 26/11, US Tells Pak After PM Modi's Strong Remark Washington: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it clear that "a single nation" is responsible for terrorism in South Asia, the US has reminded Pakistan emphatically that it expects justice for the 26/11 attack on Mumbai, the worst ever terror strike in India. "We've been very clear that we want to see accountability and justice in the case of the Mumbai attacks, and as you noted, there were American citizens who lost their lives in that," said US State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner on Monday. 166 people were killed when a group of 10 ter-
rorists from Pakistan sailed into Mumbai and laid siege to some of the city's biggest landmarks. During his visit to Delhi last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that America fully supports India's demand for Pakistan to punish the men responsible for 26/11 as well as January's terror attack on the air force base in
40,000 Along India's Coast Being Ahead Of ASEAN, PM Narendra Modi Meets Evacuated In Massive Tsunami Drill Japanese Counterpart Shinzo Abe In Laos New Delhi: A monster earthquake of 9.2 magnitude was simulated on Wednesday morning south of Sumatra in Indonesia for a two-day tsunami drill, in which 23 countries are participating. A tsunami triggered by an earthquake that big will hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the whole of India's east coast, including Chennai. In today's drill, coordinated by UNESCO, Indian authorities will practice evacuating
40,000 people from the coast in less than three hours, the time that a tsunami emerging from the Indonesia region will take to hit India. The drill in 10 states
Pak Army Chief Faults India's 'Raining Bullets In Kashmir', Praises China Islamabad: In remarks that will amplify the tension with India, Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif today pledged to continue "diplomatic and moral support to the freedom movement" in Kashmir, whose people he described as "our lifeline." "The true solution for this struggle for self-determination resides not in raining bullets upon the defenceless Kashmiri
people but in heeding to their voice and respecting their aspirations," said Pakistan's army chief on the country's observation of Defence Day. After 22-year-old terrorist Burhan Wani was shot dead in July, the Kashmir Valley plunged into chaos and a relentless cycle of violence that lasted over a month, with huge mobs targeting security forces and police CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Wish I Could Say 'Told You So', But Won't Gloat: Yogendra Yadav On AAP Controversies New Delhi: Commenting on Anna Hazare expressing his disappointment towards the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has been hit by a bevy of controversies, former AAP member and Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav said that he earlier tried to warn the party that they were heading in the wrong direction. "I wish I could say I told you so. A year and a half ago I and Prashant warned, alerted, cried, pleaded did everything to stop them from doing what they were doing. But, what's the point in saying I told you so, because this is not a
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moment to gloat or celebrate the demise of the dream called the Aam Aadmi Party," Mr Yadav told ANI. He said that it is not just the demise of AAP but along with it of the common man's dream of clean politics. "While we may not be in that party, it is a
dream of millions of Indians, a dream of clean politics. When that dream sinks, it's just not these power hungry opportunists people who happen to control Aam Aadmi Party sink, but all of us sink," he said. He further said that Mr Hazare's CONTD. ON PAGE 5
and union territories will last more than 15 hours. The Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Earth Sciences, The National Disaster M a n a g e m e n t CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Vientiane: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe after arriving in Vientiane and discussed ways to strengthen strategic bilateral ties. "Discussing stronger ties with Japan...PM Narendra Modi meets Japan PM Shinzo Abe," the Prime Minister's Office tweeted as the almost 45 minutes-long bilateral talks began. PM Modi will attend the 14th ASEAN India Summit and 11th East Asia summit tomorrow.
He will also have bilaterals with leaders of Myanmar and South Korea. There could be more "pull aside" talks tomorrow with leaders, officials said. This is PM Modi's
second meeting with Abe in less than six months. They had met on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington in April. CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Pathankot in which seven military personnel were killed. "We want to see full accountability for these terrible attacks," the US state department spokesperson reiterated today. Earlier this week, PM Modi addressed the G20 summit in China and did not name Pakistan CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Narendra Dabholkar Murder: CBI Names Jailed Doctor Virendra Tawde As Key Conspirator Mumbai: Three years after renowned rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was murdered in broad daylight in Maharashtra, an ENT specialist has been named as the main conspirator by the CBI. Virendra Singh Tawde, who has been linked to the rightwing group Sanatan Sanstha, has been named in a charge-sheet submitted CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Punctuality Of Trains US Has Elevated Its Ties With India To Over 82 Per Cent Across The Board: Barack Obama Improves of New Delhi: Railways formance
W a s h i n g t o n : Welcoming India's growing role in the AsiaPacific region, the US has said it will continue to work with other countries in the region for "addressing political and security challenges." "We've elevated our ties with India across the board, and we welcome India's growing role in the Asia Pacific," Barack Obama said in a major policy speech on AsiaPacific region in Laos on Tuesday. This is for the first
time that a US President has visited Laos. Obama said to maintain peace and deter aggression, the US has deployed more of its most advanced military
India Summons Pak High Commissioner, Protests Discourtesy To Indian Envoy New Delhi: India today summoned Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit to protest the last minute cancellation of an event in Karachi, where India's envoy to Pakistan, Gautam Bambawale was supposed to speak. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said, "Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit was summoned today to MEA and conveyed the concern of GOI by Secretary (West) on discourtesy to Indian High Commissioner. He was also conveyed our hope that our accredited diplomats in Pakistan will be allowed to dis-
charge their normal functions without hindrance". In a snub, Karachi Chamber of Commerce yesterday cancelled an event where Mr Bambawale was supposed to speak apparently over his remarks yesterday on Pakistan's interference in Kashmir. Mr Bambawale, who is on his first visit to Karachi after assuming office in January this year, was told about the cancellation "just half an hour before the event, invite for which was received and accepted by him a couple of weeks ago", say sources. The organisers did not give a reason immediCONTD. ON PAGE 5
capabilities to the region, including ships and aircraft to Singapore. "And by the end of the decade, a majority of our CONTD. ON PAGE 5
have improved the overall punctuality rate after improvisation on the Ghaziabad-Mughalsarai route, with mail and express trains improving their performance by over four per cent to clock 80.83 per cent punctuality during April-August. The overall punctuality rate of the railways has increased to 82.09 per cent in August from 81.62 per cent in the corresponding period last year. The punctuality per-
mail/express trains during April-August this year was 80.83 per cent as compared to 76.66 per cent for the corresponding period last year, an increase of 4.17 per cent. Besides, the punctuality rate of local trains between April and August this year was 77.45 per cent as compared to 73.99 per cent for the same period in 2015. The overall punctuality rate has improved CONTD. ON PAGE 5
Maharashtra Needs Full-Time Home Minister, Says Uddhav Thackeray Mumbai: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray today met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and put forward his demand for a full-time Home Minister, following recent attacks on police personnel in the state. "We are not demanding that there should be a separate Home minister merely because we have a penchant to do so. The police, society and the state want a fulltime minister, a Home minister who can function efficiently," he said. Mr Thackeray met Mr Fadnavis over the concerns harboured by fam-
ilies of policemen after the attacks. Mr Thackeray also sought stringent action against those involved in attempted drowning of a policeman during immersion of Ganesh idol in Kalyan in Thane district. During the meeting,
the chief minister said a committee will be formed to address issues related to police and families. Their family members will be included in this committee, he said. Mr Fadnavis, who holds the Home portfoCONTD. ON PAGE 5