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Punctuality Of Trains Improves To Over 82 Per Cent
New Delhi: Railways 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 Contd on page 5
Delhi Minister Hits Out At Najeeb Jung For Seeking Details Of Foreign Tours
New Delhi: DigiLocker the country's first secured cloud-based 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 Contd on page 5
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court today directed all States and Union Territories to upload the FIRs on their websites within 24 hours of Contd on page 5
DigiLocker To Digitally Store Vehicle Documents Launched
'Dressing Up' Like Farmers Doesn't Mean Rahul Gandhi Gets Their Pain: BJP New Delhi: Taking a swipe at Congress vicepresident 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 poor? He is the one who spends his holiday in Europe and here by getting dressed like a farmer and by acting
Ahead Of ASEAN, PM India Summons Pak High Commissioner, Protests Narendra Modi Meets Japanese To Indian Envoy Counterpart Shinzo Abe In Laos Discourtesy New Delhi: ndia today Chamber of Commerce
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 Contd on page 5
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 discharge their normal functions without hindrance". In a snub, Karachi
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 immediately for the cancellation. However, the Indian officials feel that Mr Bambawale's comments yesterday on Pakistan's interference in Kashmir which was India's interContd 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
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Taking Cots Is Stealing? What About Vijay Mallya, Asks Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi labored today to convert an uh-oh 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 carrying them on their shoulders in Deoria in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, minutes after Mr Gandhi left the large
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from doing what they were doing. But, what's the point in saying I told you so, because this is not a 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 remarks could trigger a thought among the people that all politicians are bad and this is even sadder. He said that the only Contd on page 5
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 the government at the centre has surrendered the needs and rights of farmers for big corporates. The 46-year-old No 2 of the Congress has in the past chrisContd 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 terrorists 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 Pathankot in which seven military person-
nel 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 but said "a single nation
US Likely To Sell Guardian Drones To India: Sources Washington: The US is likely to respond positively to India's request for 22 unarmed hightech multi-mission Predator Guardian drones for maritime surveillance, especially in the Indian Ocean. The move comes after India was designated a 'major defence partner' of the US in June. Within weeks of that
US Has Elevated Its Ties With India Across The Board: Barack Obama W a s h i n g t o n : Welcoming India's growing role in the Asia-Pacific 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 capabilities to the region, including ships and aircraft to Singapore. "And by the end of the decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out
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 selfdetermination 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 stations and bases in anger. Pakistan declared Wani a martyr and said the clashes, which killed nearly 70 people and injured over 10,000, were a new attempt by the people of Kashmir to break free from India. Delhi has blamed Pakistan for funding, seeding and aggravating the violence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an aggressive comeback to Pakistan's accusation of human rights atrocities in Kashmir by referring, in his Independence Day speech, to Contd on page 5
is spreading agents of terror in our region." At the conference of the leaders of the world's largest economies, the PM also spoke to Chinese President Xi Jingping to make clear India's concerns about a huge trade corridor being built by China for Contd on page 5
of the Pacific. And our allies and partners are collaborating more with each other as well. So our alliances and defence capabilities in the Asia Pacific are as strong as they've ever been," he said. "We've also forged Contd on page 5
designation, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Barack Obama at the White House in early June, the Indian Navy had sent an official letter of request (LoR) in February to Department of Defense towards purchase of 22 high-tech multi-mission Predator Guardian UAVs. 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 by the CBI in Pune, the city where Mr Dabholkar was murdered. He has been in jail since June. 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 families of policemen after the attacks. Mr Thackeray also sought stringent action Contd on page 5