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The International News Weekly INDIA November 10, 2017 | Toronto 12 Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his former mentor L.K. Advani to wish him on his 90th birthday. Actor Prakash Raj wants apology on note ban Agencies CHENNAI: A year since the implementation of demonetisation, actor-filmmaker Prakash Raj on Wednesday demanded an apology from the central government for committing the "biggest blunder". In a post titled "To whomsoever it may concern", Prakash wrote on Twitter: "While the rich found ways to convert their black money into shiny new notes, this disruptive impact made millions suffer helplessly and the unorganised sector workers went for spin. Would you mind saying sorry for the biggest blunder of our time?" On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes which, he said, was aimed at "eradicating black money and terror funding". Last week, Prakash -- a popular name in the Kannada, Telugu and Tamil film industries -- supported actor Kamal Haasan's views on "Hindu extremists". A month ago, Prakash had also condemned the "silence" of Modi on certain sections "celebrating" the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru on social media. He had said Modi's silence was "chilling". Uber to test flying cars in 2020 Continued from page 01 The flying taxi takes the woman back to another "roof airport", where an Uber vehicle taxi is waiting for her. She returns home to her children without suffering any stress from daily commute. The company predicted that a oneand-a-half hour car journey from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to the Lakers' home court Staples Centre could take less than 30 minutes using a combination of flying cars and regular cars. Moreover, Holden said it would actually be cheaper to fly with Uber than your own car. Los Angeles, the second-largest US metropolitan area, is the third city announced to be working with Uber on the programme after Dallas-Fort Worth and Dubai. "Los Angeles is one of the most congested cities in the world today," said Holden, "They essentially have no mass transit infrastructure. This type of approach allows us to very inexpensively deploy a mass transit method that actually doesn't make traffic worse."
The International News Weekly India November 10, 2017 | Toronto 13 Modi and Kejriwal responsible for Delhi pollution: Congress Agencies NEW DELHI: The Congress on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government and the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government must share the responsibility for the pollution in the national capital. The party also asked why they have not framed a policy in the past six months to control it. "The Narendra Modiled central government and AAP government in Delhi are responsible for Delhi pollution. They cannot run away from their responsibility by blaming others," said Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala. "PM Modi goes to Paris and talks about climate change but doesn't he see climate change in Delhi when the toxic smog envelopes the city," asked Surjewala. "Be it Modi or Kejriwal government, they cannot run away from their responsibility," he said. Surjewala added: "What steps have the central government taken to ensure the farmers around the National Capital Region (NCR) don't burn stubble. Have they been incentivised. Have special machines been provided in these regions -- which roll the stubble and dispose them." "Do Modi and Kejriwal government even know that if the stubble is left behind in the farmland, new crop can't be produced there," asked Surjewala. The Congress leader further said: "No farmer would burn their farmlands willingly. So, the government should have come up with a policy planning, parameters to ensure that such a situation was controlled. These arrangements should have been made about six months back." He said, "What steps have they taken to stop the construction work and vehicular pollution in Delhi. what is their long-term policy to ensure a pollution-free environment?" Asked why Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was refusing to meet Kejriwal, Surjewala said: "There is no objection in meeting. Kejriwal is more than welcome to meet Captain Amarinder Singh or anybody else." "However, the responsibility has to be shared between Modi and Kejriwal. Meetings can also be photoops. We need to go beyond photo-ops and optics into real action to protect the environment," he said. Why Modi is silent on corruption in BJP, ask Rahul Agencies NEW DELHI: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a report that market watchdog Sebi had imposed penalties on several entities, including Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani's family, for "manipulative trade", while the party demanded that Rupani must resign. "Na khaunga na khane dunga ki kahani. Shah-zada, Shaurya aur ab Vijay Rupani (Another story of 'will not do corruption myself, nor allow others')," Gandhi tweeted. The Congress demanded that either the Gujarat Chief Minister must resign or Modi should break his "silence" and dismiss him over the allegations after the Sebi charged 22 entities, including Rupani's Hindu Undivided Family (HUF), with "manipulative trades" in a little known company Sarang Chemicals. "'Zero tolerance for corruption' has become 'zero tolerance for honesty'. India has witnessed a series of scams, scandals and skullduggery involving sons, daughters and a number of BJP leaders. PM Modi, is however on a 'Maun Vrat' (silent). "The latest in this series is the brazen malpractice and fraud indulged by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani's HUF," said Congress spokesperson Akhilesh Pratap Singh, adding that the Sebi found Rupani's family entity guilty of malpractices and artificial trading. The party demanded that Rupani should resign immediately. "An investigation should be undertaken about the dubious dealings of Rupani HUF with Sarang Chemicals Ltd. including the reasons and considerations for artificially manipulating the trade volume and consequent price of shares of the company," said Singh. He sought a probe into whether any insider trading took place and whether any benefits, monetary or otherwise, were exchanged, the connection of Rupani-owned sharetrading firm Rasiklal & Sons with Sarang Chemicals Ltd and if any other entities also need to be investigated. Singh also said it was time for Modi to break his silence on corruption and face accountability. 1,800 income-tax officers involved in raids on Jayalalithaa's aide Sasikala Indo-Asian News Service CHENNAI: In a massive operation involving around 1,800 officials, the Income Tax Department on Thursday conducted raids at the premises of, among others, close relatives of jailed AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala and her nephew T.T.V. Dinakaran across Tamil Nadu and the neighbouring states. Those raided in one of the biggest operations in a single day by officials comprising 10 teams across Tamil Nadu -- including state capital Chennai -- Bengaluru in Karnataka, Hyderabad, Delhi, and other places from 6 a.m. onwards included not only AIADMK leaders' close relatives, but also business houses and other associates, a tax official who did not wanted to be identified told IANS. The senior official said the searches were conducted in connection with unexplained routing of cash postdemonetisation through shell companies allegedly connected to Sasikala and Dinakaran. He said the Income Tax department will look at the routing of funds within India whereas other agencies will look into the routing of money outside India. The places raided included the residence of M. Natarajan, Sasikala's husband, in Thanjavur, Kodanad Tea Estate belonging to late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, Jazz Cinemas, Midas Distilleries, Sharada Paper and Boards, Senthil Group of Companies, Nilgiri Furniture in Coimbatore, Jaya TV, Namadhu MGR and several other premises in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The operation was kept secret, so much so that the raiding tax officials hired private cabs and had pasted wedding stickers on the windscreens of vehicles involved in the operation so as not to arouse suspicion. Dinakaran dubbed the raids "politically motivated" and said he will not be frightened by such actions of the Centre, adding that the officials knocked at their door when his wife was preparing for cow 'puja'. "Even if I am arrested and jailed for 20 years, I will come out and serve the state at the age of 74," he remarked. Jaya TV, a satellite channel, and Namadhu MGR Tamil daily, a mouthpiece of the AIADMK, are now under the management control of the Sasikala faction. Ram temple in Ayodhya by 2018: VHP Agencies BHUBANESWAR: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday said that it will take every measure to ensure the construction of a grand Ram temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh by 2018. The issue will be discussed and an action plan for its implementation would be drawn up, VHP Spokesperson Surendra Jain told reporters here at a press conference. The VHP, which began the Ramjanmboomi movement for the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya in the 1990s, will be holding its three-day Central Managing Committee for the first time in Odisha's capital. "In this meeting, construction of Ram temple issue will be widely discussed and an action plan for its implementation would be chalked out. Now, there won't be any delay. We will take every step to construct the temple by 2018," he said. The VHP leader said representatives from all states would participate in the meet which will begin on November 27. Besides, there will be representation from 50 foreign countries. He said religious conversion, cow protection and jehadi terrorism would be prominent issues discussed. Accusing the Christian missionaries of conspiring against Hindus, he demanded that the state government make public the report of the Naidu Commission, which probed the murder of Hindu monk Laxmananand Saraswati. "So that people could know who were the culprits in the case." Jain alleged that despite there being a law against conversion in Odisha, the state government failed to protect Hindus from conversion and condemned it for changing the name of Abhimanyu Samsnt Sinhar road to Mother Teresa road.
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