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Email: editor@canadianparvasi.com Contact Number : 905-673-0600 November 09, 2018 | Toronto | Pages 12
Gunman kills 12 in California
bar packed with students
Shooter found dead; no idea if there is terror link, says official
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Thousand Oaks
(United States): A gunman
killed 12 people, including
a police officer, when he
opened fire in a country music
bar packed with college
students in California, officials
and witnesses said on
Thursday.
Police said the gunman
was found dead inside the bar
on the outskirts of Los Angeles
although it was not immediately
clear if he was killed
by officers or shot himself.
Speaking at press conference
in the wee hours
of Thursday, a sheriff said
around a dozen other people
had been injured. He said the
motive of the shooting and
the identity of the shooter
were not known.
It was the second mass
shooting in America in less
than two weeks.
Witnesses said that the
gunman, who was wearing a
black trenchcoat, throw several
smoke grenades inside
the Borderline Bar and Grill
before he started he shooting
at around 11.20pm on
Wednesday night.
"It's a horrific scene in
there. There is blood everywhere,"
Ventura County
Sheriff Geoff Dean told reporters.
"We have no idea if there
is a terrorism link to this or
not. As you know, these are
ongoing investigations and
that information will come
out as soon as we are able to
determine exactly who the
suspect was and what motive
he might have had for this
horrific event."
SGPC objects to kirpan
portrayal as regular
dagger in SRK’s ‘Zero’
"Nothing has led me to
believe or the FBI there is
a terrorism link here. We
certainly will look at that option."
Dean said the dead police
officer, who was named
as Ron Helus and had been
on the force for 29 years, was
among the first on the scene.
"They found 11 victims
that had been killed," said
Dean of the first response
unit before detailing that the
death of Helus brought the
toll to 12, not including the
gunman.
Continued on page 02
Indians too can apply to join British force
The British government
relaxed its armed
forces recruitment criteria
for Commonwealth nationals,
including Indians &
Canadians to meet a shortage
in its ranks.
According to a statement,
the UK Ministry of
Defence (MoD) laid out the
details before the House of
Commons, which involves
a waiver of the current requirement
of a minimum
of five-year residency in
the UK to apply to join the
country’s Army, Navy or
Fireworks, LED lighting
mark 'Bandi Chhor Diwas',
Diwali at Golden Temple
Air Force.
This would open up opportunities
to interested
people based in countries
like India, Australia, Canada,
Bangladesh and Kenya,
according to the statement.
“We have now decided
Amritsar : A fireworks display and LED
lighting marked the celebrations of 'Bandi
Chhor Diwas' and Diwali as thousands of
devotees flocked to the Golden Temple complex
here on Wednesday.
The traditional fireworks display was
a spectacular event even though its timing
was reduced to just 10 minutes this year
owing to pollution concerns. The complex,
where the holiest of Sikh shrines, the 'Harmandar
Sahib' is located, was illuminated
with LED lights, giving it a glittering look.
There was festive spirit at the shrine
complex in this Sikh holy city as thousands
of people came here to offer prayers and
seek blessings.
Acting Jathedar (chief) of the Akal
Takht, Harpreet Singh, read out his message
to the Sikh community on the occasion.
The domes, buildings and floors of the
shrine complex were cleaned and lit up for
the occasion. The day is celebrated in the
Sikh religion as 'Bandi Chhor Diwas' (prisoner
liberation day). On this day, the sixth
Sikh guru, Guru Hargobind, returned to
Amritsar after being released along with 52
princes from imprisonment by the Mughal
emperor Jahangir from Gwalior prison in
1619.
The guru and the princes arrived in Amritsar
during the Diwali festivities. Since
then, the Bandi Chhor Diwas and Diwali
celebrations coincide at the Golden Temple
complex. Elsewhere in Punjab, markets
wore a festive look on the occasion of Diwali
but traders said that sales were down.
to remove the five-year
UK residency criterion for
Commonwealth citizens
and increase recruitment
to 1,350 across the Royal
Navy, British Army and
Royal Air Force (RAF),”
reads the MoD statement.
“Applications will be
accepted from all Commonwealth
countries, although
in order to mitigate
the risks associated with
unaccompanied minors
traveling to the UK without
the guarantee of a job,
Continued on page 02
Amritsar : Shiromani
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
(SGPC) has objected
to actor Shah Rukh Khan
wearing the ‘gatra kirpan’
(one of tfive articles of Sikh
faith) in the movie Zero.
SGPC additional secretary
Diljit Singh Bedi said on
Tuesday that ‘gatra kirpan’
could only be worn by a baptised
Sikh, but a scene in the
movie and posters showed
the kirpan as an ordinary
dagger. “At least an actor of
Khan’s stature should have
known that or should have
researched thoroughly,” he
said.
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Gunman kills 12 in California bar packed with students
Continued from page 01
The venue in the quiet,
upscale Thousand Oaks
suburb had been hosting
an event for college students,
with possibly several
hundred young people
in attendance, Captain
Garo Kuredjian of the Ventura
County Sheriff's office
said earlier.
Matt Wennerstron, a
20-year-old college student
and regular at the bar, said
the shooter fired a shortbarreled
pistol that apparently
had a 10-15 round
magazine.
"It was just semi-automatic,
as many shots as he
could pull, and then when
it started to reload that's
when we got people out
of there and I didn't look
back."
He said he and others
smashed their way out
of the bar onto a balcony
and then jumped down to
safety. "One bar stool and
straight through a window,"
he told reporters.
TV footage showed
SWAT teams surrounding
the bar, with distraught
revelers milling around
and using their cell phones
as lights from police cars
flashed.
Holden Harrah, a
young man who saw the
incident, cried as he told
CNN that a place where he
goes every week to have
fun with friends had been
a scene of carnage.
"A gentleman walked
in the front door and shot
the girl that was behind
the counter. I don't know if
she is alive," he said.
The Los Angeles Times
quoted a law enforcement
official as saying at least 30
shots had been fired.
An unnamed witness
told the newspaper that
someone ran into the bar
around 11.30 pm and started
shooting what looked to
be a black pistol.
"He shot a lot, at least
Indians too can apply to join British force
Continued from page 01
we will not be accepting applications
from those under 18.”
Special rules already allow citizens
of Ireland and Gurkhas from
Nepal to join the British armed
forces. The five-year UK residency
requirement for Commonwealth recruits
was first waived in 1998, before
being reintroduced in 2013.
A limited waiver to the residency
requirement was introduced in
May 2016 to recruit up to 200 Commonwealth
personnel per year to fill
skilled shortage posts. This limited
waiver has now been widened, with
the RAF and Navy beginning recruitment
of Commonwealth applicants
right away and the Army to accept
such applications from early 2019.
Applications from citizens of
countries outside the Commonwealth
will not be accepted.
A National Audit Office (NAO)
report had revealed in April this
year that the UK’s armed forces are
short of around 8,200 soldiers, sailors
and air personnel. Among measures
to meet this shortage, women are
now allowed to apply for all roles in
the British military for the first time
in history.
Britain currently employs 4,500
Commonwealth citizens in the
armed forces, with 3,940 in the Army,
480 in the Royal Navy and 80 serving
in the RAF.
30 times. I could still hear
gunshots after everyone
left," the Times quoted the
man as saying. It was the
latest chapter in America's
epidemic of gun violence.
Only 10 days ago a gunman
killed 11 worshipers
at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
That shooting was
politically sensitive: the
suspect, Robert Bowers,
who said he wanted to kill
Jews, argued that a Jewish
advocacy group had been
aiding a Central American
migrant caravan denounced
repeatedly by
President Donald Trump
in the run-up to Tuesday's
midterm election.
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hotel and casino with high
power weapons killed 58
people.
Carl Edgar, a 24-yearold
regular at the Thousand
Oaks club, said he
was in the bar with about
20 friends and had not been
able to reach some of them
since the shooting. They
may have turned their
phones off, he said.
"A lot of my friends
survived Route 91," he told
the Times. "If they survived
that, they will survive
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dagger in SRK’s ‘Zero’
Continued from page 01
In the movie, Khan plays the role of a vertically
challenged man. Bedi said the SGPC has demanded
that the scene be deleted from the movie and its posters
showing the kirpan be withdrawn. Delhi Sikh
Gurdwara Management Committee general secretary
Manjinder Singh Sirsa has also lodged a police complaint
against Khan and movie director Aanand L Rai.
Makers: It’s a katar
The makers of 'Zero' have issued a statement that
reads: “The image shows a dagger popularly known as
'katar'... and is nowhere close to a 'kirpan' that carries
the distinguished blessing of being Khalsa."
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Minister already met with 22 bands in Trans Mountain consultation redo
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Natural Resources
Minister Amarjeet
Sohi has personally met
with leaders of nearly two
dozen Indigenous communities
since the Federal Court
of Appeal struck down the
Canadian government’s approval
of the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion in
August.
The court said the original
consultations with Indigenous
communities affected
by the pipeline plans was
insufficient so the government
is planning another attempt.
Sohi has already met
with people from 22 communities,
including most of
those behind the successful
court challenge, as he tries
to set rules for a new round
that he hopes will satisfy
the court’s conditions. Sohi
says this new round of talks
has no deadlines and will
follow the court’s blueprint.
“I take this very very seriously,”
Sohi said Monday,
a few days after his latest
trip to meet with communities
in British Columbia.
“We need to do things differently.”
In rejecting the government’s
approval of the
pipeline plan at the end of
the summer, the court said
the consultation plan was
sound but wasn’t properly
executed. The panel sent to
meet with people affected
by the pipeline was given
no mandate to do anything
with what it heard. The
bureaucrats took notes but
provided little in the way
of feedback or answers to
questions raised by different
band councils. In many
cases the communities were
told their concerns could be
dealt with after the pipeline
was built but got no guarantee
they actually would be.
Sohi said this time the
government has a mandate
to adjust the project
to deal with communities’
concerns where possible.
Where it’s not possible, the
government will explain in
detail why.
A band councillor from
one of the communities in
the court challenge that
halted Trans Mountain’s
expansion is not buying that
the government is sincere.
“We’re definitely not seeing
a change in behaviour,” said
Khelsilem, a band councillor
at Squamish Nation. (He
uses one name.)
Squamish’s territory
sits partially on Burrard
Inlet, the coastal fjord in the
Vancouver metro area that
is home to the Westridge
Marine Terminal — the end
of the pipeline.
About five oil tankers
a month leave the terminal
loaded with both crude and
refined oil products destined
largely for the United
States. An expanded Trans
Mountain pipeline would
triple the amount of oil flowing
to the terminal and the
number of tankers would
jump to 34 a month.
Khelsilem said his community
had neither the time
nor funding needed to do
a proper assessment of the
pipeline or its impacts the
first time, and says nothing
has changed about that.
Sohi insists the government
is not proceeding on
the assumption cabinet will
approve the pipeline a second
time. But the Liberals
just spent $4.5 billion to buy
the existing pipeline from
Kinder Morgan Canada in
a bid to ensure the construction
goes ahead.
Kinder Morgan got cold
feet last winter after the
British Columbia government
threatened to regulate
how much Alberta bitumen
could flow through an expanded
pipeline and went to
court to determine if it had
the legal authority to do so.
The Canadian government
tried to broker a deal
but at the end of May announced
it would just buy
the existing pipeline and the
work already done on the
expansion, build the new
one, and then sell it back
to the private sector when
time and economics warranted
it.
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Canada and United States not facing
asylum seeker crisis: UNHCR official
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA : Neither Canada
nor the United States
is experiencing a crisis in
asylum claims, says the
United Nations' assistant
high commissioner for
refugees.
Volker Turk, an Austrian
in charge of refugee
protection for the UN, was
in Ottawa this week to
meet with Canadian border
officials. He said in an
interview that Canada's
recent spike in irregular
migrants is nothing compared
to the millions of
refugees who pour every
year into much poorer
countries.
Likewise, the migrant
caravan making its way
through Mexico toward
the United States, numbering
in the low thousands of
people, is small compared
to the vast migrations
borne in recent years by
countries like Lebanon,
Jordan and Turkey, which
have taken in over five million
Syrian refugees.
"A lot of the media
debate that we often see
is that there are hordes of
people coming to the industrialized
world -- that's
absolutely not true," Turk
said.
North America has
largely been shielded from
the true global crisis of 68.5
million displaced persons
in the world fleeing war
and conflict, he said.
"I think it's important
to put everything in perspective
and to bear in
mind that when people
talk about a 'crisis' these
days, these crises are far
away from North America
or from Europe, they are
taking place often in the
poorest countries in the
world who need our support,
need our solidarity
and who need also our humanity."
Political rhetoric whipping
up public concern
over the asylum-seekers
has been rising in recent
weeks, led by politicians in
both Canada and the United
States.
In Canada, the federal
Conservatives regularly
refer to the influx of tens
of thousands of asylum
seekers crossing "irregularly"
into Canada via nonofficial
entry points from
the U.S. as a border crisis
and have used the issue to
galvanize their base and
criticize the Liberal government.
In the U.S., President
Donald Trump has spoken
more and more harshly on
the issue of "illegal aliens"
as he continues to push for
a wall across his country's
border with Mexico.
In the lead-up to the
American midterm elections
this week, he was especially
aggressive on the
migrant caravan: he said
its participants are part
of an invasion and has deployed
the military to the
border.
Nevertheless, Turk
said, the U.S. continues
to have a "robust" asylum
system with checks and
balances.
Turk said 90 per cent of
the world's refugees who
cross international borders
do so far away from
both Canada and the United
States.
"I think it is important
never to lose sight of what
we face globally today. The
real crises in this world
are in the Ugandas of this
world, are in Turkey, are
in Jordan, are in Lebanon,
are in Ethiopia, are in
Pakistan and Iran, where
countries host literally
millions of refugees year
in and year out," he said.
Canada has indeed
been cognizant of this and
has been closely monitoring
the rise in migration
patterns, particularly in
the Americas, according
to government documents
obtained under access-toinformation
law.
Officials within the International
Trade Department
have raised concerns
about this, notably over
how the Trump administration's
"hard-line rhetoric"
could lead to an influx
of irregular migrants from
Central America into Canada.
Trump has moved to
end temporary protected
status for hundreds of
thousands of foreign nationals
living in the U.S.
and has vowed to kill the
Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program
for people who grew
up in the U.S. after their
parents brought them illegally
as minors.
Canadian officials
noted in a September 2017
briefing document that
two-thirds of America's
DACA beneficiaries are
Mexican nationals, and
warned that if a lot of them
decided to come to Canada,
it would place tremendous
pressure on Canada's asylum
system.
Canada has been working
with Turk's agency to
help Mexico build its capacity
to handle asylum
claims from Central Americans.
The work has included
training provided by Canadian
immigration officials
to their Mexican counterparts
on assessing refugee
claims and protecting
claimants.
Turk says the effort has
already seen success, with
asylum applications in
Mexico rising from 2,000 in
2016 to 10,000 in 2017.
"Mexico traditionally
has been a country of transit,
so many people did not
apply for asylum," he said.
"Even in the last couple
of days we have seen an
increase in asylum applications
(in Mexico), so
it's obvious that Mexico
needs support both when
it comes to the asylum
system as well as when it
comes to helping them integrate
refugees."
Celebration of Ontario’s Hindu Heritage
Mississauga : A packed
house of close to 3000 people
gathered at the International
Centre to celebrate
Ontario’s Hindu Heritage,
at the Hindu Heritage Celebration
event attended by
leading political figures and
dignitaries and highlighted
by the presentation of the
first Global Hindu Award to
Dr. Subramanian Swamy,
Member of Parliament, India
and one of India’s leading
intellectuals and ardent
champion of Hindu causes.
Ontario’s Hindu heritage,
witnessed through
more than 500,000 people of
Hindu faith in the province,
was formally recognized
in the Ontario legislature,
when all parties unanimously
approved a private
member’s bill, tabled by
MPP Joe Dickson, to declare
November as Ontario’s
Hindu Heritage Month.
Following up on that recognition,
a group of dedicated
Hindus, with support from
several temples in Greater
Toronto, celebrated the
first Hindu Heritage event
in November 2017 at Vishnu
Mandir, long recognized
as one of the most visible
beacons of Hindu faith in
the region. The success of
the event motivated the organizers
to make the event
an annual affair on a bigger
scale and the International
Centre was chosen to host
this year’s Hindu Heritage
Celebration event.
Speaking to a vocal
and enthusiastic audience,
Dr. Swamy spoke about
India’s and Hinduism’s
great heritage and how
they were closely intertwined.
He referred to the
interaction between India
and China for more than
two millennia, giving the
example of Bodhidharma,
a Buddhist monk from
Kanchipuram in South
India, who took his knowledge
of Indian martial arts
to China, where it subsequently
evolved to what
we now know as Karate.
Other examples he cited of
Indian and Hindu culture’s
spread included far flung
places such s Indonesia and
Latvia. He spoke passionately
and with authority
on the importance of Ram
Mandir to Hindus and the
legitimacy of the cause. He
applauded the convergence
of Hindus from many parts
of the world, in Canada
and acknowledged the fact
the three main organizers
of the event had been born
in India, Uganda and Guyana.
He exhorted Hindus
in Canada to ensure that all
children learn Sanskrit between
the ages of 7 and 11,
and also to learn the Devanagari
script.
The highlight of the
morning was the presentation
of the Global Hindu
Award to Dr. Swamy. The
award was specially conceived
and created to recognize
one prominent Hindu
whose dedication to the
Hindu causes and ability
to fight for them against adversity
is a great motivator
to Hindus around the world.
Mr. Ray Gupta, President
and CEO of Sunray Group
became the first exclusive
sponsor of the Global Hindu
Award, which included a
cash component of $25,000.
The award is expected to
become an annual affair.
Prior to Dr. Swamy’s
Keynote address, a galaxy
of public figures spoke at
the event, Representatives
from federal, provincial
and municipal governments
who brought greetings
and spoke to the audience.
The Indian government
was represented by High
Commissioner Vikas Swarup,
who had flown in from
Ottawa specially to attend
and who remarked that
this was the largest gathering
of Hindus in Canada
he had seen. Other leaders
included federal minister
Kirsty Duncan, the longest
serving Hindu minister in
Ottawa, Deepak Obhrai,
Minister Michael Tibollo
from Ontario Government,
the newly elected Mayor of
Brampton, Patrick Brown
and many others. Participating
Hindu organizations
included Vishnu Mandir,
BAPS, SVBF and many
others. The event itself was
held under the banner of
the Canadian Museum of
Indian Civilization.
The key organizer of
the event was Laj Prasher,
who heads the Tortel group
of companies, supported by
Ramesh Chotai, President
of Bromed Pharmaceuticals
and Dr. Budhendranauth
Doobay, the Chairman
of Voice of Vedas, with
a number of individuals
and organizations providing
financial support for
the event. The organizers
expect to repeat the event
next year at an even bigger
venue, and hopefully every
year thereafter.
For more information,
please contact Laj Prasher
at (416) 822-5001

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India can be an economic superpower by
the next decade: Dr. Subramanian Swamy
Toronto: India has the
potential to emerge as an
economic powerhouse in the
next decade if it consistently
follows economic policies
that encourage innovation
and entrepreneurialism,
said Dr. Subramanian Swamy,
Member of India’s Upper
House (Rajya Sabha), at an
exclusive interactive luncheon
session organised at
the Sringeri Vidhya Bharati
Foundation (SVBF) on Sunday
4 November 2018 by Canada
India Foundation.
The program was greeted
with overwhelming response
both in terms of participation
and appreciation by over 400
guests.
Dr. Swamy, a Harvardtrained
economist, who was
also a professor at the same
university, stressed the importance
of implementing
market-friendly economic
policies to sustain the economic
growth that India has
experienced since its economy
was liberalised in 1991.
“The Chandra Sekhar
government liberalised the
economy in 1991, when I was
the finance minister. The PV
Narasimha Rao government
and every subsequent government
continued with the
liberalisation process,” he
said, adding, “India has routinely
registered 8% growth
rates thanks to economic liberalisation.”
He emphasized that the
growth rate under the present
government of Narendra
Modi has been substantial
more. “If India can sustain 10
% to 12 % growth rate for the
Trudeau 'sorry' for Canada turning
away Jewish refugees in 1939
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally
apologised for his country's refusal to provide
shelter to a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees
almost 80 years ago.
In May 1939, German ocean liner MS St Louis left
Hamburg with more than 900 Jews fleeing the horrors
of Nazi persecution in search of a safe haven for
themselves and their families.
When Cuba, the United States and Canada turned
the ship away, it returned to Europe where several
countries took the refugees in and, according to historians
and the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee (JDC), 255 of them were later killed in
World War II, most of them in concentration camps.
"We apologise to the 907 German Jews on board
the St Louis as well as their families," Trudeau said
in a parliamentary sitting. "We are sorry for the callousness
of Canada's response. We are sorry for not
apologising sooner.
next decade, it will emerge
as a developed economy by
2030.”
Dr. Swamy said that to
maintain such growth rates,
India will have to encourage
innovation and entrepreneurialism.
He cited the
example of the production of
thorium of which India has
nearly 40% reserves. Thorium
is emerging as a substitute
raw material to produce
nuclear energy, which Dr.
Swamy said has the potential
to provide cheap energy to an
economy with almost insatiable
energy needs.
Similarly, he pointed out
that innovation in desalination
technology would also
help India meet the evergrowing
fresh water supply
needs. He cited the examples
of Kalpakkam nuclear facility
and Reliance’s oil refinery
in Jamnagar, where the
desalination process has
been so successful that these
entities have been able to
supplement local municipalities
fresh water supply to the
local population in Kalpakkam
and Jamnagar.
Dr. Swamy said Indians
have an innate ability to
innovate and can compete
with the best in the world,
he observed, and alluded to
the spectacular economic
achievements of Indians in
North America. Among the
other factors that will benefit
India’s push to achiever
higher economic growth
include the demographic
dividend as represented by
a young population, with 26
being the average age of Indians.
The nearly hour-long
speech left the audience
thirsting for more; unfortunately,
he had a flight to
catch to return to India.
Speaking on the occasion,
Ambassador Dinesh
Bhatia, Consul General of
India in Toronto, said that
the Indian economic miracle
is all set to overtake most developed
economies soon, and
he expressed confidence that
Canada and India will continue
to maintain meaningful
economic relations that
are mutually beneficial.
He lauded the exemplary
role that Canada India Foundation
plays in maintaining
bilateral cooperation between
the two democracies
high on the agenda.
Earlier, Satish Thakkar,
while introducing the program,
said Dr. Swamy has
redefined the national discourse
in India on the issue of
governance and has earned
well-deserved fame globally
for his resolute opposition to
corruption. “At a time when
India has emerged as one of
the world’s fastest growing
economies, it is important
that there is transparency
in way public resources are
utilized for development,” he
said.
Anil Shah, Chair, CIF,
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informed the participants
that CIF comprises a
group of like-minded business
and community leaders
in Canada of Indian origin
who while highly successful
in their respective field also
carry a huge passion for Canada-India
bilateral relations
and contributing back to the
society through their philanthropic
efforts.
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against corruption, but that
is just one aspect of this multifaceted
personality.
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Cry Of The Tiger
Encounter killing of Avni exposes failures
of India’s wildlife conservation
In a move that will regrettably rally
poaching, China has reversed its 1993 ban
on trade in tiger bones. As home to 60%
of the global tiger population, India must
mount stronger defences against this new
threat. But events over the past week have
highlighted big gaps in existing shields. On
Friday, in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal, Avni, a
mother of two cubs, was shot dead, it seems
with direct permission from state forest
minister Sudhir Mungantiwar – which is
why animal rights activists and Union minister
Maneka Gandhi have accused him of a
“straight case of crime”. Then on Sunday, in
Uttar Pradesh’s Dudhwa, villagers beat another
adult tigress to death.
In the Yavatmal case the tigress is accused
of having killed 13 people. And the
Dudhwa tigress had mauled a man. Such
episodes are a direct fallout of failures to
relocate villages away from core tiger habitats.
Conservationists also point to how the
Maharashtra government has allowed a cement
plant to come up in the Yavatmal forest.
When its shrinking habitat turns the big
cat a maneater, obviously there is a need to
bring it under control. That means tranquillising
it, not shooting it dead. When authorities
claim they did the latter because they
couldn’t do the former, at best that casts
doubt on their abilities and at worst on their
intentions. If the official approach is so cavalier,
mobs are also emboldened to treat tigers
with savagery.
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra
Fadnavis has acknowledged that there are
doubts regarding whether the tranquilliser
dart was only inserted into Avni after she
had been shot, and ordered a probe into her
killing. It must answer why the forest department
lacked the expertise to tranquillise
Avni, instead bringing onto the scene Hyderabad
hunters Shafath Ali Khan and his son.
Stationing a nawab to hunt a tigress raises
the ghost of colonial times. And Khan admits
to seeing his job as that of a hangman.
Unless these doubts are allayed, Fadnavis
should fire Mungantiwar. It must be remembered
that their position in the natural
order makes the protection of tigers a good
proxy for environmental sustainability in
India. Plus there is our goal of doubling the
wild tiger headcount by 2022. More honourable
treatment of tigers and more holistic
protection of their habitats are therefore imperative.
TNN
Because Hunger Is Increasing
Focus on top 19 SDG targets instead of thinly
Bjorn Lomborg
Three years have
passed since world leaders
adopted the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development
with 169 targets
that must be reached to
transform the planet. We
are one-fifth of our way
towards 2030, but miles
behind on achieving the
lofty goals to reduce poverty,
increase prosperity,
protect the planet and advance
peace.
There are worrying
signs that the number of
extremely poor people
in the world – which has
long been dropping – may
stop falling and might
even start rising. And after
years of decline, hunger
is increasing – with
observers linking this
to regional conflicts and
climate change. Of most
concern: the world’s development
agenda, based
around the Sustainable
Development Goals
(SDGs), is not fit for purpose.
The development
agenda is flawed because
it is the inevitable result
of trying to be all things
to all people. The highly
successful Millennium
Development Goals which
preceded SDGs were
short and sharp – and
made a huge difference to
global progress – yet were
criticised for having been
non-inclusive.
In response, the UN
laudably invited a long
list of players to create
SDGs – but then failed to
prioritise the Agenda to
make it manageable and
implementable.
Thus, vitally important
targets – such as the
eradication of all forms of
malnutrition, and getting
more boys and girls into
school – are devalued by
being placed on an equal
footing with targets as
peripheral and vague as
promoting “sustainable
tourism”, ensuring that
people are informed about
how to have “lifestyles in
harmony with nature”,
and creating more green
spaces for “women and
children, older persons
and persons with disabilities”.
Faced with the impossibly
long list, in three
years only two countries
spreading funds among all 169
– India and Germany –
have made even a partial
assessment of how much
investment is required
for the goals. The Agenda
is woefully underfunded
– one estimate shows $2.5
trillion more needed each
year. Even if we spent all
of the world’s development
funding it would
only get us 5% of the way.
We really have to prioritise
what we want first.
This was clear even
when SDGs were being
created. My thinktank,
Copenhagen Consensus
Center, analysed SDG targets
in real time as they
were drafted, and enlisted
a panel of Nobel laureate
economists to identify
the most and least effective.
Their findings make
it clear what needs to be
done. If we want to get
out in front of increasing
hunger, then we need to
tackle the problem effectively.
Climate and peacekeeping
policies are expensive
and complex, and
at best do very little to
solve problems like hunger,
even in relatively
long time frames. Yet,
cheap investments can be
made in fixing micronutrient
deficiencies in children,
helping immensely
and right now.
Investing an extra $8
billion annually in agricultural
R&D would
increase yields globally,
generating more food at
lower cost. It could save
79 million people from
hunger and prevent 5 million
cases of child malnourishment,
with each
dollar producing $35 of
social benefits.
This has the added effect
of helping the world’s
poorest: the World Bank
has found that productivity
growth in agriculture
can be up to four times
more effective in reducing
poverty than growth
from other sectors.
Poverty has a simple
solution: As in China,
free trade can lift hundreds
of millions out
of poverty. Although
President Donald Trump
makes it harder, we have
been dithering for much
longer. We must revive
the WTO’s Doha Round,
which would lift 145 million
people out of poverty
by 2030. It could make the
average person in the developing
world $1,000 better
off every year – allowing
them to not only better
feed themselves and their
children, but also afford
better health care, more
education and lead more
prosperous lives.
Improved agricultural
yields and freer trade are
two of 19 concrete, specific
development targets
that the Nobels identified
to do the most, for every
dollar invested, to help
the world’s poorest, protect
the environment, and
improve billions of lives.
Others include achieving
universal access to
contraception and family
planning, ending tuberculosis
by 2030, ending
fossil fuel subsidies, and
protecting coral reefs.
Focussing on these top
19 targets would achieve
about four times more
benefits than just thinly
spreading funds among
all 169 targets.
Because the UN didn’t
prioritise when it created
the SDGs, nations
are making those choices
themselves. The biggest
risk is that their selection
will not be based on which
targets could do the most
good, but on far more capricious
measures such
as which targets have
more media-friendly images
or the most NGO attention.
There are some
worrying signs.
A preliminary analysis
by the OECD shows
that rich nations are closest
to reaching targets related
to ‘Planet and Partnership’
– in other words,
issues like climate, biodiversity
and oceans.
These are issues that
fill a lot of column inches
in newspapers, and are
focussed on by the chattering
classes. But global
polls consistently show
that people care much
more about the areas
where these countries are
lagging behind: the economy,
jobs and education,
and peace. Three years
into the implementation
of the 2030 Development
Agenda, it is clear that we
are trying to do too much
– and failing to do enough
that matters.
Source Credit: This article
was first published in The
Times of India.
(The writer is president
of the Copenhagen Consensus
Center)
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US mid-term polls: Democrats take control
of House, Republicans retain Senate
AGENCIES
Washington : The opposition
Democratic Party
is projected to regain control
of the House of Representatives
while the ruling
Republican Party is all set
to retain its majority in
the Senate in the critical
midterm elections held on
Tuesday, according to projections
made by major US
media outlets.
Congresswoman Nancy
Pelosi, 78, is expected to
be re-elected as Speaker
of 435-member House of
Representatives, which is
equivalent to Lok Sabha in
Indian parliament.
In the outgoing House,
the Republicans had 235
seats while the Democrats
193. The new House would
come into being next January.
However, the ruling
Republican Party led by
President Donald Trump
appeared to be all set to
retain majority in the
100-member Senate where
it currently has a razor
thin majority of 51-49 seats.
The GOP is expected to increase
its tally, as counting
of votes were still going on
when reports last came in.
In his first tweet after
election results started
coming in Trump claimed
success. "Tremendous success
tonight. Thank you to
all!". Trump in campaign
rallies had said he was on
the ballot and made it a referendum
on his nearly two
years rule.
The US President who
headlined an unprecedented
50 rallies -- 30 in the last
two months alone -- and
has campaigned for dozens
of candidates at all levels
of government, according
to White House Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders,
watched the results come
in with friends and family
in the White House residence.
"The President has energised
a staggering number
of Americans at packed
arenas and in overflow
crowds at rallies across the
country," Sanders said.
"Under Trump's leadership,
the Republican
National Committee has
raised more than a quarter
billion dollars, fuelling
an extraordinary ground
game geared toward defying
midterm history and
protecting the GOP's majorities,"
she said.
In her victory speech
in Washington DC, Pelosi
said: "Tomorrow will be a
new day in America".
The former House
speaker said the election
result is about "restoring
the system of checks and
balances" in Trump administration
thus indicating
that the new Democratic
party would play the role of
a strong opponent in for the
US President.
In victory, The Washington
Post said Democrats
regained some of the confidence
although less of the
power they lost in 2016,
when Trump won a surprise
victory over Hillary
Clinton.
"In this election, they
sought to energise groups
that Clinton did not: young
voters, Latinos, African
Americans and infrequent
voters," the daily said.
According to The New
York Times, amid signs
that the nation's deep political
and cultural divisions
that lifted Trump in 2016
may only be deepening,
"rural voters were breaking
sharply" with their
counterparts in the suburban
districts and metropolitan
areas, as turnout
soared in a midterm election
that came to serve as a
national referendum on the
president.
The Democrats also
won some of the high-profile
governor's race including
Kansas, Illinois, Michigan
and Minnesota. The
GOP retained its governorship
in Florida.
The elections also resulted
in Rashida Tlaib
becoming the first Muslim
woman elected to the
House of Representatives
along with Somali-American
Ilhan Omar.
All 4 Indian-American members
of Congress re-elected
AGENCIES
New York : All the
four Indian-American
Democrat members of
the House of Representatives
were re-elected
in Tuesday’s election
and a member of the
community won the Attorney
General’s position
in Wisconsin state.
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
who represents a
constituency near Chicago
in Illinois, won
about 66 percent of the
votes to defeat his Indian-American
challenger
JD Diganvker of the Republican
Party.
The other House candidates
re-elected were
Pramila Jeyapal from
Washington State, and
Ro Khanna and Ami
Bera from California.
Together with the
only Senator of Indian
descent, Kamala Harris,
they make up what they
themselves jokingly call
“The Samosa Caucus”,
Harris won from California
in 2016 did not
face a re-election as she
has a six-year term.
None of the other
Indian Americans running
for Congress made
it.
In a sign of the Indian-American
community’s
growing political
involvement, Democrat
Josh Kaul was elected
Attorney General of
Wisconsin in a tight
race with a margin of
about 1 percent of the
votes, although his victory
is likely to be challenged
by his Republican
rival.
He will be the second
Indian-American
Attorney General. The
first is Gurbir Grewal,
a turban-wearing Sikh,
in New Jersey where Attorneys
General are not
elected but appointed by
the Governor.
Kaul is the fourth
Indian-American to
win a state-wide election,
which sets the
stage for him to run for
other higher offices.
The first was Piyush
Bobby Jindal, elected
Louisiana governor in
2007 who was followed
by Nikki Haley, elected
South Carolina governor
in 2010; both are Republicans.
The third is
Harris.
Shiva Ayyadurai,
who ran as an Independent
against Massachusetts
Democratic Senator
Elizabeth Warren,
lost badly, getting only
about 3.5 percent of the
votes.
Warren has claimed
Native American or
American Indian ancestry
and Ayyadurai ran a
controversial campaign
with the headline, “Only
a real Indian can defeat
a fake Indian’.
At least seven other
Indians ran for Congress
on Democratic
Party tickets but lost
according to a database
of the Indian American
Impact Fund and Desis
for Progress, which had
endorsed them.
Harry Arora, who
ran for the House as a
Republican from Connecticut,
lost.
The database also
showed that six Indian-
American Democrats
had been elected to State
legislatures for the first
time.
Pak smuggler arrested
with carbine, 3-kg heroin
AGENCIES
Amritsar : The BSF
nabbed a Pakistan-based
smuggler from the Amritsar
sector on Monday.
Identified as Gulam
Rasool, a Lahore resident,
he was carrying a
US-made 5.56 M4 carbine,
two magazines, 28 rounds,
three mobile phones, battery
and lighter. The BSF
also seized three packets
of heroin weighing about
3 kg from a spot near the
border.
JS Oberoi, DIG, BSF,
Amritsar, said on a specific
intelligence input, two
search parties were deployed.
Around 10.30 am,
suspicious movement was
noticed around 40 metres
from the fence near the
Ramkot border outpost
(BoP) by the BSF’s EX-
88 Battalion. The troops
nabbed Rasool.
Earlier, around 9.30
am, the BSF’s another
squad of EX-88 Battalion
noticed some suspected
activity near the Ranian
BoP. The BSF squad challenged
the intruders, but
they did not pay any heed
to them. The BSF men
opened fire but the intruders
managed to escape taking
advantage of darkness
and paddy crop.
Oberoi said earlier
the activity was noticed
at around 3.30 am, but the
intruders hid themselves
in paddy crop. About Gulam
Rasool, he said he was
being questioned and it
would be too early to say
about his purpose of infiltration.
“It was obvious that
with such a sophisticated
weapon his intentions
were dangerous. Our
party at the Ranian BoP
also found two shawls in
a field during search. This
indicates that at least two
more intruders were there
who managed to flee back
taking advantage of fully
grown paddy crop on both
the sides of the fence,” he
said.
Ammo seized
• The Pak smuggler was
carrying a US-made 5.56
M4 carbine, two magazines,
28 rounds, three mobile
phones, battery and
lighter.
• The BSF also seized
three packets of heroin
weighing about 3 kg from
a spot near the border.

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Demonetisation led to formalisation of
economy, expanded tax base: Jaitley
New Delhi: Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley on
Thursday said demonetisation
resulted in formalisation
of economy
and increased tax base,
prompting the government
to earmark more
resources for the poor
and infrastructure development.
In a Facebook post
on the second anniversary
of Demonetisation,
Jaitley said in first four
years of the National
Democratic Alliance
(NDA) government, the
number of income tax
returns filers has gone
up to 6.86 crore from 3.8
crore in May 2014.
“By the time the first
five years of this government
are over, we will be
close to doubling the assessee
base,” he said in
the post titled “Impact Of
Demonetisation”.
The demonetisation
of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000
currency notes in November
2016, the minister
said, had resulted
in “more formalisation
(of economy), more revenue,
more resources
for the poor, better infrastructure,
and a better
quality of life for our
citizens.”
He further said with
the implementation of
the goods and services
tax (GST), it is now becoming
increasingly difficult
to evade the tax
system and the indirect
tax to gross domestic
product (GDP) ratio has
gone up to 5.4 per cent
post GST, from 4.4 per
cent in 2014-15.
Terming the criticism,
that almost the entire
cash money got deposited
in the banks post
demonetisation, as “illinformed”,
Jaitley said
confiscation of currency
was not an objective of
demonetisation.
“Getting it into the
formal economy and
making the holders pay
tax was the broader objective.
The system required
to be shaken in order to
make India move from
cash to digital transactions.
This would obviously
have an impact on
higher tax revenue and a
higher tax base,” Jaitley
said.
The government had
on November 8, 2016, announced
ban on old 500
and 1000 rupee notes, to
curb black money in the
system.
Of the Rs 15.41 lakh
crore worth Rs 500 and
Rs 1,000 notes in circulation
on November 8,
2016, 99.3 per cent or
notes worth Rs 15.31 lakh
crore have returned to
the banking system.
This means, just Rs
10,720 crore of the junked
currency did not return
to the banking system.
After the note ban,
old junked notes, called
specified bank notes
(SBNs), were allowed to
be deposited in banks
with unusual deposits
coming under income
tax scrutiny.
Jaitley said demonetisation
compelled holders
of cash to deposit the
same in the banks.
“The enormity of
cash deposited and identified
with the owner resulted
in suspected 17.42
lakh account holders
from whom the response
has been received online
through non-invasive
method,” he said.
The violators faced
punitive actions. Larger
deposits in banks improved
lending capacity
for the banks.
A lot of this money
was diverted to mutual
funds for further investments.
It became a part
of the formal system,
Jaitley added.
He said the share of
indigenously developed
payment system of unified
payments interface
(UPI) and RuPay card
have reached 65 per cent
of the payments done
through debit and credit
cards.
Jaitley said in 2017-
18, the tax returns filed
reached 6.86 crore, an increase
of 25 per cent over
the previous year.
This year, as on October
31, 2018, already
5.99 crore returns have
been filed — which is an
increase of 54.33 per cent
compared to the previous
year till this date.
As many as 86.35 lakh
new filers were added
this year.
Economic Affairs
Secretary Subhash
Chandra Garg said demonetisation
and GST
reflect long-term vision
of the government and
its ability to undertake
massive structural reforms.
“Tax filers under
both direct and indirect
taxes are close to getting
doubled. Digital payments
have risen sharply
and become common
place. Fake notes are
out,” Garg tweeted.
PM offers prayers at Kedarnath shrine
Kedarnath: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi offered prayers at Kedarnath
shrine on Wednesday and extended Diwali
greetings to the soldiers posted on the
India-China border.
After offering prayers, the Prime Minister
met the locals gathered at the temple
of Lord Shiva near the Mandakini river.
He later reviewed the ongoing development
works in Kedarpuri.
Before offering prayers, the PM celebrated
the festival with jawans of the Indian
Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP) personnel at Harsil village near the
India-China border.
Greeting the soldiers on the festive occasion,
he said that their devotion to duty
in the remote icy heights is enabling the
strength of the nation and securing the future
and the dreams of 125 crore Indians.
In 2016, PM Modi went to Himachal
Pradesh to celebrate the festival with
Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel at
an outpost. Last year, he celebrated Diwali
with jawans at Gurez in Jammu and
Kashmir. AGENCIES

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Depts not sticking to SC
norms: Women panel
Chandigarh : Glaring
anomalies in the constitution
of the mandatory internal
complaint committees
for handling sexual
harassment cases by various
Punjab government
departments have came to
the fore. The Punjab Women
Commission (PWC),
which is probing the sexual
harassment charge
against Amritsar district
manager of Marked, has
found that none of the committees
have a representative
of any NGO or a person
familiar with the issue
of sexual harassment.
The panel also found
that the internal committee
at Amritsar Civil Hospital
did not have members
as mandated under the
Supreme Court’s Vishaka
guidelines in dealing with
sexual harassment at
workplace.
The PWC has received
two complaints from woman
doctors of private hospitals
in Mohali wherein
seniors have forced the
victims not to pursue the
matter. Taking a serious
note of the violation, the
PWC has shot off a communication
to all departments
telling them to adhere to
the guidelines.
Manisha Gulati, PWC
What the guidelines say...
• The complaint committee should be headed by a woman and
not less than half of its member should be women.
• To prevent the possibility of any undue pressure or
influence from higher levels, such committee should
involve a third party, either an NGO or any other body
familiar with the issue of sexual harassment.
• The committee must make an annual report to the
department concerned of the complaints and action taken
by them.
chairperson, said since the
beginning of the #MeToo
movement, there had been
an increase in the number
of complaints pertaining
to sexual harassment at
workplace. “However, the
complaint committees either
do not have the requisite
number of women
members or representatives
of an NGO,” she said.
“I have written to all
departments to ensure the
guidelines are followed. In
some cases, the complaints
are not taken up seriously
as members are from the
department concerned,”
she said.
On senior women officers
terming the recent
guidelines issued by the
PWC as regressive, the
chairperson said though
she had largely reiterated
the Centre’s guidelines,
she was open to suggestions
from the aggrieved
officers.
Nirav Modi declared
'proclaimed absconder'
in customs case
Mumbai : A Gujarat court on Thursday declared
fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi a "proclaimed
absconder" in a customs duty evasion case
filed in March and ordered
him to appear in person on
November 15.
In a public notification
issued earlier in the day in
newspapers, and also sent
to government and police
departments, Nirav Modi
was declared proclaimed absconder
under Section 82 of the Criminal Procedure
Code, which could make it difficult for him to secure
an anticipatory bail.
In Surat, Chief Judicial Magistrate BH Kapadia
accepted a plea made by the Customs Department on
August 8 and asked Nirav Modi, who is the prime accused
in several other cases, including the Rs 13,500
crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, to appear before
the court next Thursday.
The case in the Surat Court was filed by Deputy
Customs Commissioner RK Tiwary against Nirav
Modi and three of his firms—Firestar Diamond International
Pvt Ltd, Firestar International Pvt Ltd, and
Radashir Jewellery Co Pvt Ltd.
After Lion crash,
Boeing issues
safety bulletin
Mumbai: Preliminary investigations into the Indonesia
Lion Air flight 610 Boeing 737 MAX crash have indicated
a problem with a sensor that alerts pilots about the
possibility of aircraft stalling, especially when the nose is
up after take-off.
Lion Air flight JT610 crashed into the sea off Indonesia’s
island of Java on October 29, minutes after taking
off from Jakarta, killing all 189 on board. Indian pilot
Bhavye Suneja was one of the two in the cockpit.
On Tuesday, Boeing issued an operational manual
bulletin to all airlines and pilots who operate the 737
MAX. Based on the bulletin, it appears that the nose of
the Lion Air aircraft might have pitched down during the
climb-out phase in response to an erroneous input from
the sensor. With its nose pitched down, the aircraft probably
dived into the sea at high speed.
For a safe climb-out, the aircraft’s nose is pitched up
at a small angle. This puts both its wings at an acute angle
with respect to the oncoming airflow. This angle between
the wing and the oncoming airflow is called the ‘Angle of
Attack’ (AOA). Setting the aircraft at an optimum AOA is
crucial during the climb-out phase. If the AOA is too low,
the aircraft won’t climb out fast enough. If the angle is too
high, its speed decreases and the aircraft could enter an
aerodynamic stall. AOA sensor inputs are then crucial
because it forewarns a pilot about a possible stall due to
a high AOA.

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Janardhan Reddy under lens in
Rs 600cr investment fraud
Agencies
Bengaluru: Over
three decades after the
Hashimpura massacre in
Uttar Pradesh in which 38
Muslims were shot dead
in cold blood, the Delhi
High Court Wednesday
sentenced 16 former policemen
to life imprisonment,
holding it was a
"targeted killing" of "unarmed,
innocent and defenceless"
persons.
BJP leader and mining
baron G Janardhan
Reddy has come under
the police scanner for his
alleged role in “bailing
out” Syed Ahmed Fareed
in an Enforcement Directorate
(ED) case involving
a Rs 600 crore chain-link
investment fraud. Police
said preliminary investigations
had revealed that
Reddy and his assistant
Ali Khan received 57kg of
gold (worth Rs 18 crore)
from Fareed to “negotiate”
with ED officials.
Fareed and his son
Syed Ahmed Afaq are
accused of running Ambidant
Marketing and
duping thousands of investors
since December
2016.
Briefing reporters
here on Wednesday, city
police commissioner T
Suneel Kumar said: “The
crime branch had been
investigating the financial
transactions of Ambidant
Marketing Private
Limited following several
complaints from people
stating that they had been
cheated. We had seized
the bank accounts and
on scrutinising them, one
transaction pertaining to
payment of Rs 18 crore
raised suspicion. So we
decided to summon Janardhan
Reddy, Ali Khan
and others for questioning.”
Police carried out a
search at Reddy’s apartment
near Basaveshwara
Circle during the day and
seized a few documents.
Ambidant, which has
been operating from RT
Nagar, had collected money
from more than 15,000
people, most of them Muslims
who had been promised
returns on investment
“the Islamic way”.
The company offered
30-40% returns on investment.
While investors
were paid some profits
initially, the company began
playing truant within
a few months. Investors
lodged police complaints
and staged protests. The
ED raided the company in
January this year. “The
crime branch, led by IPS
officers Alok Kumar and
Girish S, started probing
the complaints against
Ambidant and arrested
Fareed,” said Kumar. “We
found that Rs 18 crore
had been transferred to a
bank account by the company.
On checking, we
learned that the money
had been transferred to
city-based gold bullion
trader Ramesh Kothari.
When questioned, Kothari
said he had received
instructions to hand over
57 kilograms of gold to Ramesh
of Rajmahal Fancy
Jewellers of Ballari. We
arrested Ramesh from
Ballari and he disclosed
that the gold was handed
over to Janardhan Reddy’s
assistant Ali Khan.”
Police formed four
special teams to trace
Khan and Reddy. “Fareed
claimed that he had paid
Reddy as he promised to
bail him out in the ED
case,” Kumar said. Police
said they found some incriminating
documents,
including photographs
pertaining to a meeting
involving Reddy, Fareed
and Afaq. The meeting
reportedly took place in a
star hotel on Race Course
Road in March and was
facilitated by a city-based
builder.
CBI vs CBI: Verma meets CVC, refutes
corruption charges levelled by Asthana
Agencies
New Delhi: CBI Director
Alok Verma on Thursday
met Central Vigilance
Commissioner K V
Chowdary and denied corruption
charges levelled
against him by his deputy
and special director in the
probe agency Rakesh Asthana,
officials said.
Verma came to the
CVC office in the late afternoon
and stayed there for
about two hours, they said.
He met Chowdary and
Vigilance Commissioner
Sharad Kumar, the officials
said, without giving
any other details.
The Supreme Court
had on October 26 asked
the Central Vigilance Commission
to complete within
two weeks its inquiry into
allegations against Verma
levelled by Asthana.
Verma and Asthana
have been sent on leave by
the government.
Officials said Asthana
also met the CVC.
The Commission had
recently examined some
CBI officials probing crucial
cases which figured in
Asthana's complaint of corruption
against the probe
agency's chief Verma, they
said. The officials said CBI
personnel from the rank of
inspector up to superintendent
of police were called
and their versions recorded
before a senior CVC official.
These officials, who
had recorded their statements
included those who
had handled the Moin
Qureshi bribery case, the
IRCTC scam, involving
former railway minister
Lalu Prasad, the cattle
smuggling case in which
a senior BSF officer was
caught with wands of cash
in Kerala.
The Supreme Court
had directed that the
CVC's inquiry into the allegations
against Verma,
who has challenged the
government's decision divesting
him of his duties
and sending him on leave,
would be conducted under
the supervision of retired
apex court judge Justice A
K Patnaik and this was a
"one-time exception".
The feud between Verma
and Asthana escalated
recently leading to registration
of an FIR against
the latter and others, including
Deputy Superintendent
of Police Devender
Kumar, who is in CBI custody
in an alleged bribery
case.
The CBI had on October
15 registered the FIR
against Asthana for allegedly
receiving a bribe of Rs
2 crore from Hyderabadbased
businessman Sana
Sathish Babu which was
given through two middlemen
Manoj Prasad and
Somesh Prasad to sabotage
the probe against meat exporter
Moin Qureshi.
On August 24, Asthana,
in his complaint to
the Cabinet Secretary, had
levelled allegations against
Verma that he got a bribe
of Rs two crore from Sana
to help him get some relief
from questioning in the
matter.
Note ban a conspiracy, money laundering scheme: Rahul
New Delhi : Attacking Narendra Modi on the second anniversary of demonetisation,
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday called the note ban
a "cruel conspiracy" and a "scam".
“Note ban was a planned and cruel conspiracy. This scam was a scheme
to launder black money of the Prime Minister's cronies,” Gandhi tweeted in
Hindi.
“There was nothing innocent in this scandal. Finding any other meaning
to this is an insult to the nation's intelligence,” he added.
Financial powers of vice
chiefs of armed forces
enhanced by 5 times
New Delhi : The Defence Ministry has enhanced
the financial powers of the three vice
chiefs of the armed forces by five times, giving
a fillip to procurement of arms and ammunition
and upgrade of defence preparedness.
In March, the vice chiefs were granted additional
powers to carry out specific procurement
to ensure operational preparedness.
"The ministry has enhanced the financial
powers of the three vice chiefs from Rs 100 crore
to Rs 500 crore, thus effecting a five-time increase
for augmenting procurement of arms and ammunition
and upgrade of defence preparedness,"
Defence Ministry Spokesperson Col Aman Anand
told reporters on Thursday.
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has
taken this important decision to augment the
arms and ammunition reserves, the ministry
said in a release.
A number of initiatives have been taken by
the Defence Ministry in the recent past to simplify
and streamline the procedures and decentralise
the decision-making through delegation of
powers.

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AAP & SAD hit by infighting,
ticket-seekers grow in Cong
Bathinda: With the
2019 Lok Sabha polls
near, Congress leaders
in Malwa region of Punjab
are sensing an opportunity
in the rifts which
have developed in AAP
and SAD in recent past.
Punjab Congress chief
Sunil Jakhar has confirmed
to TOI that there
are more leaders looking
to contest on party tickets
next year.
While Jakhar did not
reveal the reason behind
the trend and called it a
“good sign” for the party,
a source in the Congress
said ticket-seekers felt
they had better chances
of winning because of
infighting in the Shiromani
Akali Dal (SAD)
and the state unit of Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP).
Sensing the eagerness
of leaders, Congress
has planned an internal
survey in seats where
there are more than two
serious contenders for
the party ticket. The
source said party leadership
felt that SAD and
AAP might not be prepared
to take on the Congress
as they would have
wanted to, because of the
infighting.
Congress insiders
said the party was expecting
more contenders
from Faridkot, Ferozepur
and Sangrur seats.
In Bathinda, however,
the party is learnt
to be relying more on
state finance minister
Manpreet Singh Badal
and wants him to contest
from the seat. If he refuses,
the party seek his
consent for its choice,
said a source.
Sources added that
four party leaders were
trying to get the ticket
from Sangrur for themselves
or their kin. Former
Barnala MLA Kewal
Singh Dhillon and former
CM Rajinder Kaur
Bhattal are said to be
the frontrunners. Dhuri
MLA Dalvir Singh Goldy
is said to have sought
the ticket for his wife,
Simrat Kaur Khangura.
On the other hand, Amargarh
MLA Surjit Singh
Dhiman is trying to
No record of AQI in Punjab villages
Agencies
Patiala : Each year,
air quality in Punjab deteriorates
after paddy is
harvested. But the Punjab
Pollution Control Board
(PPCB) has no mechanism
to record the air quality
index (AQI). The state depends
on the air monitoring
stations in six cities,
whereas stubble-burning
occurs in villages.
Even as a thick smog
engulfed hundreds of Patiala
villages, the air quality,
as per the PPCB rating,
was “moderate”, (0-50 good,
51-100 satisfactory, 101-200
moderate, 201-300 poor,
301-400 very poor and 401-
500 severe) with respirable
suspended particulate matter
(RSPM) recorded at 135.
“For measuring AQI,
the six stations in the cities
depend on the flow of air
through their machines
despite the fact that wind
velocity is as low as 2 km
per hour for most part of
the day,” say officials.
On Monday, the AQI in
Mandi Gobindgarh was recorded
at 123, in Ludhiana
91, Jalandhar 174, Amritsar
135, Khanna 112, Bathinda
43 and Rupnagar 103.
Sources say PPCB officials
have about 40 portable
machines to record air
quality in villages. “The
ratings on these machines
tell a different story with
air quality in the ‘poor
to very poor’ category in
terms of particulate matter.”
Data compiled by these
machines shows that Bara
Pind near Goraya recorded
RSPM at 135 and 228, Binjon
in SBS Nagar at 176
and 179, Ram Tirath Pura
in Amritsar at 133 and 185,
Mehna in Moga at 147 and
186 and Rakhra in Patiala
at 108 and 163 on October 9
and October 17.
“We have limited resources
to monitor air
quality in villages and the
readings taken through
portable devices only tell
particulate matter reading
and not the AQI,” explained
PPCB member secretary
Krunesh Garg. “The
AQI stations in the cities
give an accurate reading.
Compared with last year,
the pollution has been less
this paddy season.”
An AQI station requires
an investment of
Rs 1 crore — Rs 80 lakh as
installation charges and Rs
20 lakh as running expenditure.
“Till enough funds
are received, we will have
to rely on AQI stations in
the cities,” said a PPCB
official. KS Pannu, Secretary,
Agriculture, and former
PPCB chief, admitted
there was a need for more
such stations. However, he
said these would be useful
for only two months during
the paddy season.
‘Ignored’, LoP to complain against Dirba officers
Sangrur : Leader of Opposition (LOP) and AAP Dirba MLA Harpal Cheema today alleged that the Dirba
administration had been ignoring him and not inviting him for official functions. He said he would write
to the Privileges Committee of the Vidhan Sabha for action against officers concerned.
“Senior officers of the Dirba administration have not invited me for any function for the past many
months. On Monday, the administration opened a Sanjhi Rasoi in Dirba. All Congress leaders, including
those who lost the recent elections, were invited, but I did not get any invite and got to know about the
function through newspapers,” said Cheema.
Warning the officers concerned of strict departmental action, he said officers should keep in mind that
they were the employees of the Punjab Government and not the Congress.
“I will write to the Privileges Committee of the Vidhan Sabha,” said Cheema.
Dirba SDM Deepak Rohela said, “I am unaware of all this. I will look into the matter.” Cheema asked
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to take immediate effective steps to solve the problems being faced
by farmers in selling paddy with high moisture content. “The moisture in paddy has increased because
the government pressurised farmers to delay the sowing of paddy,” said Cheema.
make a pitch for his son
Jaswinder Singh Dhiman.
State public works development
minister Vijayinder
Singla is learnt
to be keen on getting the
ticket for a family member.
In Ferozepur, MP
Sher Singh Ghubaya,
who has drifted from
SAD, is the new entrant
among Congress’s ticketseekers.
His son Davinder
Singh Ghubaya had
won the last assembly
election as the Congress
candidate from Fazilka.
“The party, however,
will not rely on the internal
strife in SAD and
AAP, but is taking these
elections very seriously.
It is not the time to take
the Lok Sabha polls lightly,
even though opposition
parties are on weak
footing,” said Jakhar.
He added that the
party would take feedback
from its district
and block committees,
and only “winnable”
candidates would be recommended
for tickets to
the party high command.
Indian, Chinese troops
meet at Arunachal
border on Diwali
Itanagar : Indian and Chinese troops met and
exchanged greetings on the occasion of Diwali at
Wacha in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district and
at Bum-La in Tawang district, a defence communique
informed here. The two sides met on Wednesday
and exchanged gifts and sweets at Anjaw and the
Chinese side included women and children, the communique
said.
The two sides interacted and exchanged greetings
in a cordial atmosphere, a sign of improving
military-to-military ties at ground level, it said.
The programme at Anjaw was marked by its
friendly and cordial atmosphere and cultural programmes
were presented by the Indian Army personnel
and students of Kibithu Government Middle
School, it said. The event was aimed at enhancing
the mutual trust and friendship between the two
border guarding forces.
The Indian Army and Chinas Peoples Liberation
Army conducted a ceremonial border personnel
meeting to commemorate joint celebrations of
Diwali organised by the Indian Army at Bum-La in
Tawang district, the communique said.
At Tawang the Indian delegation was led by Colonel
Prasenjit Kar, while Colonel Yang Zi Ming headed
the PLA team. Both sides highlighted the importance
of maintaining peace along border areas. The
highlight of the border personnel meeting was the
colourful and impressive performances by cultural
troupes showcasing 'Real India', it added.

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