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kartarpur corridor foundation stone
Kartarpur: Capt warns Pak,
says India has bigger army
Pak army not an obstacle, it
wants peace with India: Imran
AGENCIES
Dera Baba Nanak
(Gurdaspur): In a
sharp warning to Pakistan
army chief Gen Qamar Javed
Bajwa to stop brutal
killings of Indian soldiers
and innocent citizens, the
Punjab chief minister Captain
Amarinder Singh said
he will protect his “state
and people till the last drop
of my blood.”
Warning the Imran
Khan government to rein
in his army or face serious
consequences if violence
against India did not stop,
Amarinder said India has a
bigger army than Pakistan.
“India is a land of peace
and has never been involved
in violence, but we are
prepared to counter
Pakistan’s aggression if
Canada give shelter to
Afghan Sikhs & Hindu
our peace and sovereignty
is continued to be threatened,”
he added.
Speaking after joining
vice-president Venkaiah
Naidu to lay foundation
for the Kartarpur corridor
at Maan village near Dera
Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur
district, he said Punjab had
suffered Pakistan-sponsored
militancy for over
two decades.
AGENCIES
Kartarpur Sahib:
PM Imran Khan on Wednesday
said the Pakistan army
was on the same page as all
the political parties on the
Indo-Pak peace outreach
even as he flagged Kashmir
as a dispute that needed to
be resolved.
Speaking at the groundbreaking
ceremony for the
Kartarpur corridor that
seeks to allow Indian pilgrims
swifter access to the
Sikh shrine
that marks the final resting
place of Guru Nanak,
Khan iterated that Pakistan
would respond with two
steps to every step that India
took for peace. The former
cricketer’s comments came
minutes after he met army
chief Qamar Bajwa at the
gurdwara.
Khan touched on the
Kashmir dispute, saying
there was no reason for the
neighbours to not resolve
it. “We can’t go to war as we
will all lose. What’s the next
best option? We have to engage,”
he said.
que replaced as SAD,
Cong spar
• Sidhu grabs attention with his
absence
• Corridor can’t change ground reality:
Puri on return from Pak
• Imran has done what we could not in
73 yrs: Sidhu
Complete stories on page 04-05
Trudeau, Trump share 'disappointment'
over GM plant closures
Ottawa: Government
of Canada announced that
it is approving the resettlement
of Sikh and Hindu
refugees to Canada, who
had fled Afghanistan due to
religious persecution. These
private sponsorship applications
were spearheaded by
the Manmeet Singh Bhullar
Foundation and World
Sikh Organization of Canada,
along with community
groups, and individuals carrying
on the tireless work of
Manmeet Singh Bhullar.
In 2015, through the
World Sikh Organization
of Canada, Manmeet Singh
Bhullar learned about the
plight of these children,
women, and men. He began
what was seen as an insurmountable
task, by sharing
with government officials
in Canada and abroad, organizations,
and individuals,
the dire need to find a viable
solution to the daily atrocities
Sikhs and Hindus face
in Afghanistan. He individually
oversaw the safe exit of
one family at a time from
the province of Helmand
into a neighbouring country.
While settling them in and
finding local organizations
that would provide food,
shelter, clothing, he knew
that a permanent solution
was needed.
Continued on page 02
Ottawa : Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau and US President
Donald Trump found common
ground during a phone call on
Tuesday in which they discussed
the announced closure of General
Motors plants.
"They expressed their disappointment
over the closures of the
GM plants in Canada and the US"
and "underscored their concern for
the workers, their families and the
communities that are affected by
this decision," Trudeau spokesman
Cameron Ahmad said.
The White House confirmed
the call and used similar language,
saying: "The two leaders discussed
their disappointment in the announced
closures of General Motors
plants in their respective countries
and their plans for the upcoming
G20 Summit."
Trudeau and Trump -- who have
been at loggerheads for months
-- are expected to meet at the G20
summit in Argentina at the end of
the week.
On Monday, General Motors announced
it was cutting 15 percent of
its workforce and closing plants in
both countries to save $6 billion.
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Conservative Candidate Arpan Khanna Discusses Increasing Crime
in Brampton with Ontario Attorney General Caroline Mulroney
Brampton, ON : On
Sunday November 25th,
Arpan Khanna, Conservative
MP Candidate for
Brampton North hosted
a community discussion
with Ontario’s Attorney
General, Hon. Caroline
Mulroney. The discussion
which included community
and industry leaders
from various sectors covered
many issues Bramptonians
are currently facing.
Arpan specifically
raised the issue of the escalating
serious crime that
is taking place in Brampton
and in the Peel region
with the Minister. Justin
Trudeau’s Liberal Government’s
soft on crime
approach along with their
inaction has the community
concerned about their
safety. In particular, many
victims groups and organizations
are worried about
the leniency in bail being
granted for serious offenders,
including murderers.
When asked about the
bail process, Minister Mulroney
stated that the Ontario
government has allocated
$7.6 million to the
creation of legal teams that
will be led by experienced
Crown attorneys, and will
focus solely on, "ensuring
violent gun criminals are
denied bail and remain behind
bars.”
She also mentioned
that additional bail compliance
officers will also
be assigned to make sure
individuals out on bail are
not violating the terms of
Canada give shelter to Afghan Sikhs & Hindu
Continued from page 01
In November 2015, after his passing,
the Manmeet Singh Bhullar
Foundation, through support from
gurdwaras across the country, Sikh
elected officials, friends and family,
the generosity of the Sikh community
at large, and the WSO, made
a commitment to see this project
through.
“We are delighted by yesterday's
announcement by Minister Hussen
that the applications of privately
sponsored Sikh and Hindu refugees
from Afghanistan have been
approved and they will be arriving
early in the new year. We are grateful
that, in light of the particular
vulnerability of these refugees, the
Government of Canada has expedited
the processing of their files.
The remaining Sikhs and Hindus
in Afghanistan, who now number
less than 1,500, face growing
persecution and hardship - we are
“The announcement by The Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of
Citizenship and Immigration, on behalf of the Government of Canada, is
a welcome step towards completing the work Manmeet started. We look
forward to hearing about immediate next steps. Manmeet’s vision has
been carried forward by the collective work of many. Our thanks to The
Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan and members of his team, who remain steadfast
in their commitment to sharing this goal with us. Minister Sajjan
has demonstrated leadership and conviction to the true principles of
our faith through this work. Our sincere appreciation to Balpreet Singh
and the WSO who continue to advocate alongside us, and the elected
officials who gave voice to this project. To the gurdwaras and individuals
across this country that have risen to the challenge and provided
support for private sponsorship applications, your commitment leaves
us humbled. The work continues for all of us and the true success will be
the lives that are to be forever changed once these individuals become
future Canadians, contributing to the fabric of our great nation.”
- Manmeet Singh Bhullar Foundation
hopeful that steps will be taken to
also bring them to safety. We are
thankful to the Manmeet Singh
Bhullar Foundation and our other
community partners for carrying
on the critical work that Manmeet
started."
- WSO President, Mukhbir Singh
their release.
“It is important for all
levels of government to
work together to tackle
this disturbing trend of
increased crime in Brampton.
Sadly, it has become
a daily occurrence where
we hear about serious
crimes being committed
in our neighbourhoods. I
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for stricter bail laws where
violent criminals are kept
behind bars and not allowed
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The decision drew sharp criticism from the
US and Canadian labor unions representing GM
workers. The union heads are scheduled to meet in
Washington on Wednesday to map out a joint strategy
to try to force GM to reverse course.
Jerry Dias, head of Unifor, which represents
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out of work at the end of 2019 when GM shutters
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Jagmeet Singh says he will
run in Burnaby byelection,
despite Brampton opening
Well-known Bhangra
promoter identified as
Surrey shooting victim
OTTAWA : NDP Leader
Jagmeet Singh says he
still intends to run in a
federal byelection in British
Columbia, even though
a friendlier riding in his
hometown of Brampton,
Ont. has suddenly opened
up. Singh says he’s chosen
to make Burnaby South
his federal political home.
On Thursday, Liberal
Raj Grewal announced he
is resigning immediately
as the MP for Brampton
East for unspecified personal
and medical reasons.
Singh would likely
coast to victory in Brampton
East, the riding he
represented for six years
in the Ontario legislature,
now held provincially
by his brother Gurratan.
Burnaby South, which
the NDP won by just over
500 votes in 2015, will be a
tougher slog for him.
When he was first elected
federal NDP leader last
fall, Singh intended to wait
until next October’s general
election to gain a seat in
the House of Commons and
he said Brampton East was
where he wanted to run.
However, under intense
pressure to get into
the Commons sooner after
a shaky start as leader,
Singh announced in August
that he would run in
an eventual byelection
in Burnaby South. That
seat was vacated in mid-
September by former NDP
MP Kennedy Stewart, who
ran successfully to become
Vancouver’s mayor.
Early in the new year,
Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau is expected to set
an early February date for
byelections in Burnaby
South and at least two other
vacant ridings. He could
also add the now-vacant
Brampton East to the roster.
Close friends have
confirmed Ranjeev "Raj"
Sangha, 41, was killed in
the 14600 block of Southview
Drive in the Panorama
Ridge neighbourhood
around 11:45 a.m.
But friends say don't
know why he was gunned
down.
"It doesn't make sense
for something like this to
happen to a guy like Raj,"
said long-time friend Gurp
Sian.
"He had a heart of gold,
he was such a generous
person. Very involved with
the community. Always
supporting the youth,
whether it was through his
events or reaching out in
other ways, he was always
pushing for community to
come together and keeping
youth out of trouble," he
said.
Homicide investigators
say Sangha had no ties to
gangs and was not known
to police.
RCMP say he was
found suffering from gunshot
wounds and died at
the scene, despite efforts to
revive him.
The Integrated Homicide
Investigation Team
believes Sangha was targeted
and are trying to establish
a motive.
The shooter is believed
to have left the area in a
black four-door sedan that
was later found burning
in 12000-block of Cambie
Road in Richmond, about
100 metres from a pedestrian
path.
In 2011, he won a human
rights complaint
against the Sheraton Wall
Centre after he said he'd
been treated unfairly "simply
because his organization
was involved with
music and dance associated
with persons whose
ancestry was Punjabi."
WINGS Spreads Joy in the Communitywith Christmas Fun Feast
The non-profit organization
organizes a Gala Christmas
Lunch for a greatercause
Joyeeta Ray
“WINGS has two arms.
On one hand our non-profit
organization has created a
platform for South Asian
women entrepreneurs and
professionals to voice their
business visions, network
and establish new connections.
The second arm is
our own vision to have a
component of social service
that is taken forward
by the women professionals
who feel enriched in
giving back to the Canadian
community,” says Sanjukta
Das, founder of the
organization.
From her vision and
the strong support of a
team of dynamic, dedicated
board members,
WINGS, a GTA-based nonprofit
organization, was
born to nurture, grow and
support both enterprising
women professionals from
all walks of life,as well as
women in difficultlife-situations.
Today, over 250 members
have connected with
each other to explore business
opportunities and
serve the community.
Apart from other unique
ventures such a tradeshowfor
home-based women
vendors with limited
clientele to reach out to a
bigger audience, WINGS
also organizes an annual
Christmas “Fun Feast”
with a unique angle.
“Joy Baskets” for the
Ernestine’s Women Shelter
In the spirit of giving
during Christmas, WINGS
held a gala lunch in December
2017 where members
of the organization
got together not just to
exchange name cardsin a
fun way but also to expand
their hearts by donating
generously to distressed
women and their children
at the Ernestine’s Women
Shelter in Etobicoke.
WINGS collaborated
with theshelter to create a
wishlist of necessities for
the women and children
to celebrate the festive
season. Custom gift packs,
called “Joy Baskets”, were
created by the members to
be distributedto each one
in the shelter.
Rubina Abid took the
initiative to volunteer
the venture from the forefront.
Her reason was
simple. “All these years
in this country, I lived a
self-involved life, looking
after my child, home and
career. At WINGS, I met ladies
who were involved in
so much more.” The event
motivated her to actively
join in, not just to standat
the back of the queue but
to lead it actively from the
frontline.
Rubina realized the
need to traverse around
the GTA to collect the gifts
and cash donations that
the members were generously
contributing. She
sent out a message to the
group seeking help to collect
the contributions from
door-to-door. In no time,
she had a team of over 10
volunteers who join her
reach out to all corners of
the GTA, from Vaughan,
Scarborough, Oakville,
Brampton, Mississauga
and Toronto, to do the
needful.
The volunteers met up
to shop for gifts, congregated
in homes to wrap
them in attractive baskets
and melted many hearts at
the shelter. In the process,
theycreated new connections
professionally and
personally.
In 2017, numerous Joy
Baskets were created carrying
assorted items from
hygiene products, scarves,
hats, gloves and socks, to
meet personal needs. Kala
Narayanan, a Board Member
who played a prominent
role in the flight of
WINGS through numerous
successful events says,
“we initially organized the
2017 Christmas Fun Fest
in a smallerrestaurant but
the response was so overwhelming
that the venue
was shifted to the spacious
Versailles Convention
Centre in Mississauga to
accommodate all participants”.
Following the stupendous
success of the previous
year, this year, members
are attempting to take
it to the next level. The
group of volunteers are
bigger; the intentions are
stronger; the enthusiasm
to make a difference to the
community is greater.
WINGS Christmas Fun
Feast 2018 will be held on
December 16th (Sunday) at
Rose Garden Banquet Hall,
6628 Finch Avenue W, Etobicoke,
ON M9WoB3. Tickets:
$40 for members and
$50 for non-members.
For tickets, please
contact Kala Narayanan:9056777000;
Sanjukta
Das: 4167227403;
Anu Thind: 6477613226;
Nillia Lal: 6478687394.

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Plaque replaced as SAD, Cong spar
Maan (Gurdaspur): Politics
scalded the religious
spirit of the foundation
stone laying ceremony of
Kartarpur Sahib corridor
on Monday as SAD and
Congress leaders targeted
rival parties and raised
slogans in the presence of
Vice-President Venkaiah
Naidu disregarding protocol.
Naidu and Punjab chief
minister Amarinder Singh
on Monday laid the digital
foundation stone of a
road project that will link
the Kartarpur corridor by
pressing a button. The actual
foundation stone was
removed by the authorities
just three hours before the
event after Punjab cabinet
minister and local legislator
Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa
objected to the names
of former chief minister
Parkash Singh Badal, Shiromani
Akali Dal president
Sukhbir Singh Badal and
Union minister Harsimrat
Badal on the foundation
stone.
Randhawa announced
that he would ‘boycott’ the
ceremony and even put
black tape on the stone
where the names of chief
minister Amarinder Singh,
PWD minister Vijay Singla
and his own were. Officials
of the National Highway
Authority of India (NHAI),
sensing that the situation
could get unpleasant in
the presence of dignitaries,
removed the foundation
stone and replaced it with
the digital one. The foundation
on the screen carried
the names of Vice-President
Naidu, Punjab governor
V P Singh Badnore,
Amarinder and Union
highways minister Nitin
Gadkari.
“The Badals have no
contribution in getting the
Kartarpur corridor project
cleared. They ruled Punjab
from 1997 to 2002 and
again for 10 years (2007-17).
Did they come here to offer
prayers while in power?
They are only trying to
take credit (for the Kartarpur
corridor) just because
they (Akali Dal) have an alliance
with BJP,” the minister
said.
Randhawa against lost
her cool when Union minister
Harsimrat heaped
praise on Prime Minster
Narendra Modi. The Dera
Baba Nanak MLA lodged
his protest with the Vice-
President Naidu and even
demanded her dismissal
from the Union cabinet.
During her address,
Harsimrat took a dig at
the Congress leaders over
the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and
said it was during the Modi
government that culprits
were given capital punishment
and Kartarpur corridor
dream was materialized.
The Congress workers
in the crowd started raising
slogans denouncing her.
Later talking to TOI,
Randhawa said, “This is
not a political function
but a religious event. She
should have maintained
the sanctity of a religious
function and refrained
from making political comment.”
He said Congress had
gathered the people for the
religious function and SAD
was trying to take political
mileage. “I even told the
Vice-President that being
a constitutional head he
should dismiss her. I even
lodged my protest with another
Union minister Nitin
Kumar Gadkari,” said
Randhawa.
He said Harsimrat
should have thanked the
people and the two countries
that made this project
a reality.
In response to Harsimrat’s
address, Punjab
Congress chief took up the
issue of drugs in Punjab
in the 10 years of SADBJP
regime. Speaking from the
dais, as soon as Jakhar said
that all those ‘big crocodiles’
involved in drug
nexus should be put behind
bars, Akali leaders started
raising slogans against him
and the Congress and left
the venue in protest.
During the whole brouhaha,
former deputy CM
Sukhbir Singh Badal, who
was also sitting on the
stage, remained silent.
SAD later condemned
Randhawa for “defacing
the Kartarpur Sahib corridor
foundation stone”
before the start of the ceremony
in Dera Baba Nanak.
SAD leader Bikram
Singh Majithia said Randhawa
was indulging in
cheap politics and his action
was unbecoming of a
Sikh and a minister.
He added, “No Sikh
would try to politicise and
spoil such a solemn occasion
associated with Sri
Guru Nanak Dev ji by performing
such an abominable
act.”
Sidhu grabs attention
with his absence
Maan (Gurdaspur): Punjab cabinet minister
Navjot Singh Sidhu, whose controversial
hug with Pak army chief Qamar Javed
Bajwa and his assurance of the opening of
Kartapur Sahib corridor had rejuvenated
the project, skipped the foundation stone
laying ceremony despite being in Dera
Baba Nanak on Monday.
Usually vocal, Sidhu refrained from citing
any reason about his absence or even
acknowledging if he was sidelined or deliberately
kept out of the function for ‘political
reasons’, where besides Vice-President
Venkaiah Naidu, Union transport minister
Nitin Gadkari, Union minister of food processing
Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Punjab
chief minister Amarinder Singh were present.
“I had gone to Dera Baba Nanak early
on Monday morning. I offered prayers and
returned by 11am,” said Sidhu while talking
to TOI . When asked as to why he was not
part of the function, Sidhu refused to elaborate,
saying he would not like to indulge in
any kind of politics on a pious and religious
issue but would always extend any possible
help or initiative for the Kartarpur corridor.
Sidhu added that he had three election
rallies to attend in Madhya Pradesh.
Asked about his response to the political
statements made during the function,
including that of Capt Amarinder Singh, he
replied, “I am a politician but I don’t play
politics on religious and sentimental issues
which are close to the hearts of people. The
opening of corridor has opened infinite possibilities.
Sidhu had stirred a controversy during
his last visit to Pakistan when he attended
the swearing-in ceremony of cricketer-turned-politician
friend Imran Khan’s
swearing-in ceremony as the Prime Minister
at Islamabad in August, when he had
hugged Pakistan army chief Bajwa. Following
an uproar over his visit and hug, Sidhu
had mentioned that Bajwa conveyed to him
about Pakistan’s intention to open Kartarpur
corridor. Later, he had taken up the
matter with the Union government.
Notably, during the foundation laying
ceremony, none of the speakers including
the state Congress leadership mentioned
Sidhu’s name whose meeting with Bajwa
and Imran had expedited the corridor project.
When pointed out, Sidhu declined to
make any comment. “I have nothing to
say about it. I have always followed Guru
Nanak Devji’s basic philosophy of unity
and brotherhood. Leave aside politics, let
peoples religious aspirations to be fulfilled,”
he told media.
Sidhu added that he has received the
permission to visit Pakistan for the ground
breaking ceremony and would be leaving
on Tuesday afternoon. He will return soon
after attending the ceremony on November
28. Significantly, Harsimrat and Hardeep
Puri would also be part of the ceremony
there.
Kartarpur: Capt warns Pak,
says India has bigger army
Dera Baba Nanak
(Gurdaspur): My family
had good ties with Gurdwara
Kartarpur Sahib, but
I will not go there since my
responsibility is towards
the safety of my people
which Pakistan was trying
to put in jeopardy,” he said,
repeating what he wrote to
Pakistan foreign minister
Shah Mehmood Qureshi in
a letter declining his invitation
for the November 28
event in that country.
Without naming Pakistan,
vice-president Naidu
said terrorism was a global
challenge that required a
global response. “We cannot
allow the darkness to
deter us any longer,” he
said and mentioned poverty,
illiteracy and gender discrimination
as other challenges
which needed to be
addressed. “The people in
the region want peace and
development and everyone
should work in that direction,”
the vice-president
said.
Union ministers Nitin
Gadkari, Hardeep Singh
Puri, Harsimrat Kaur
Badal, Vijay Sampla and
Punjab governor VP Singh
Badnore also attended the
event. Holy water from the
Golden Temple sarovar was
sprinkled at the spot and
blessings of the Sant Samaaj
and members of other
religious and social organisations
were sought for the
success of the project.
Gadkari said the construction
work for the fourlane
corridor with a service
lane till the international
border will be completed
within four months.
The corridor, Amarinder
said, will provide
visa-free access to Indian
devotees till Kartarpur Sahib
in Narowal district of
Pakistan. “It is a corridor, a
passage, so there should be
no visa or passport requirement
for travel via the corridor,”
the chief minister
said, adding that the Punjab
government would also
construct Kartarpur Dwar
at the international border
with Pakistan at the end of
the Indian part of the corridor.
Pakistan Prime Minister
Imran Khan will inaugurate
the ground-breaking
ceremony of the Kartarpur
corridor on the Pakistani
side on November 28. Sidhu
along with Harsimrat and
Hardeep Singh Puri will attend
the event.
I’m Armyman, Sidhu has his own way of thinking: Capt
Maan (Gurdaspur): While stating that he would be the first one to join the jatha (group
of pilgrims) leaving for Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan through the new corridor
between two countries, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh justified his refusal to attend
the ground-breaking ceremony in Pakistan due to incessant killing of Indian soldiers
and civilians by Pakistan.
At the same time, he commented on his cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu’s decision
to attend the ceremony by saying it was “his way of thinking”.
While talking to newspersons after the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Kartarpur
corridor here on Monday, Amarinder said as an Armyman he couldn’t tolerate the
killing of innocents Indian civilians and soldiers by the Pakistani army.

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Corridor can’t change ground
reality: Puri on return from Pak
Attari:India has to deal
with the ground reality of
terror, Union housing and urban
affairs minister Hardeep
Singh Puri said on his return
from Pakistan and added that
the ties between the two nations
could not change just
because of the Kartarpur corridor.
Puri along with Union
food processing minister Harsimrat
Kaur Badal had gone
to Pakistan to represent India
at the Kartarpur Corridor
groundbreaking ceremony by
Prime Minister Imran Khan.
“We have to deal with
ground reality of terror. Terror
and talks don't make a
happy companion. Relations
between both countries cannot
change because of the corridor,”
Puri told the waiting
reporters at the border crossing.
He said credit for the corridor
couldn’t be given to any
individual. “The issue of the
corridor was raised with the
Pakistan government during
the visit of the then Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
who had gone to Pakistan
along with SAD leader Parkash
Singh Badal and other
ministers in 1999,” Puri said
and added the demand for the
corridor had been there for
long and the BJP government
at the Centre had pushed it
forward. Harsimrat said she
told the Pakistani media that
Kashmir was an integral part
of India and would always
remain the same. “I also told
them that there is no scope of
negotiation on this issue,” she
added.
The Union minister said
she had brought back the soil
of Kartarpur Sahib where
Guru Nanak Dev had spent
almost 18 years of his life and
prashad from the Gurdwara
Darbar Sahib for her children
and husband Sukhbir Singh
Badal. While leaving for Pakistan
on Wednesday morning
Puri had reminded Pakistan
that it had allowed its soil to
Imran has done what we
could not in 73 yrs: Sidhu
Kartarpur Sahib: In his speech at the
ground-breaking ceremony for the Kartarpur
corridor, Punjab minister Navjot Singh
Sidhu praised Pakistan PM Imran Khan,
and said, “Both the governments deserve
credit as it takes two to tango. But Imran Sahib
has shown that he is not the type of man
who will let you down. He has done what we
could not achieve in 73 years.”
the possibility of open borders in South
Sidhu said that a lot of damage had Asia to improve trade and to deal with the
already been done to India-Pakistan relations
and that the Kartarpur resolution Khan said that it was business and
issue of poverty in the region.
had opened up many possibilities. “I come trade that had brought countries like Germany
and France together.
from a country where the mind is without
fear and the head is held high. Imran Khan Khan also brought up the criticism
yaari nibhata hai,” he said. Sidhu nodded Sidhu had to face in India after his visit to
vigorously when Khan later spoke about Pakistan for Khan’s swearing-in.
‘Hope good ties don’t have to
wait till Sidhu becomes PM’
Kartarpur Sahib: Pakistan PM Imran Khan
pitched for a “civilised relationship” with India at
the ground-breaking ceremony for the Kartarpur
corridor.
“If Germany and France can live together, why
can’t we? I keep hearing from Indians that Pakistan
army doesn’t want good relations with India. I want
to say the army is on the same page as the government
and all political parties in seeking better ties.
We want to move forward and have a civilised relationship.
I hope we don’t have to wait for (Navjot Singh)
Sidhu to become PM to have good relations with India,”
Khan said.
Khan reciprocated Punjab minister Sidhu’s
praise of him, complimenting the Congressman for
talking about friendship between India and Pakistan.
Khan said Sidhu’s initiative was even more
commendable as the neighbours are nuclear-armed
countries.
Khan said strong leadership and determination
was required to move ahead in ties. “We lack
the strength to say we will improve ties no matter
what,” he said, in remarks that appeared aimed at
Modi and India’s wariness in responding to the new
government’s push for renewed engagement.
be used against India and expressed
hope that the opening
of Kartarpur corridor
would be a stepping stone in
forging cordial relations between
the two countries. Stating
that there was distrust
between two nations due to
large number of factors and
that India had to be acutely
cautious, Puri said, “We have
felt for very long that we have
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been at the receiving end of
the actions of a country that
should have not allowed certain
forces on its territory.”
Stressing on the need to take
the process forward since the
decision of opening of corridor
anchored a hope, he
added, “The demand of Sikhs
has been met, but we need to
operationalize the decision,
make the corridor, operate it.
And, to take this process further,
we require action by all
the stakeholders. But let’s take
one step at a time.” Puri said
the corridor should have been
operationlized many years
ago. “Whoever drew the line,
made a fundamental mistake.
The gurdwara should have
been on this side of border,”
he said in a lighter vein. While
appreciating the Pakistan government’s
gesture of acceding
to the Sikhs’ long-standing
demand, he asserted that India’s
decision to open the corridor
was not in reaction to
announcement by Islamabad.
“We had made announcements
on November 22, but we
had been working on it for the
past several months,” he said.
Terming it as a historic day for
the community, since the daily
prayer of Sikhs to pay obeisance
at Gurdwara Kartarpur
Sahib had been answered after
70 years, Harsimrat had said:
“This is nothing but a miracle
which has happened with
the blessings of Guru.” She
said the initiative was taken
by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and reciprocated by Pakistan
Prime Minister Imran
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Pandora’s Box
Gene editing highlights dangerous
potential of 21st century science,
which must be strictly regulated
A Chinese researcher has provoked controversy
by claiming to have created the world’s
first genetically edited babies. He Jiankui of
Shenzhen said that he had altered the embryos
of seven couples during fertility treatment, with
one pregnancy resulting earlier this month. The
twin girls born apparently had their genes edited
to prevent future possible infection from HIV,
the AIDS virus. Though He’s claims are yet to
be verified and his university and Shenzhen authorities
are launching investigations into what
they describe as serious violations of academic
ethics, a Pandora’s Box of germline editing appears
to have been opened here.
All of this was made possible by the discovery
of an inexpensive gene editing technology called
CRISPR a few years ago. This democratised genetic
research and thousands of labs today are
experimenting with gene editing. However,
there are serious ethical and medical concerns
when applied to humans. First, we don’t know
the full implications of inheritable gene editing.
If such experiments lead to undesirable or debilitating
effects on the selected human embryos
that would constitute a serious violation of human
rights. Second, if such gene editing becomes
successful, there are concerns it will open an
undesirable door to eugenics, creating classes of
genetic haves and have-nots in society.
There is need for strict oversight over gene
editing research that should be bolstered by
stringent international guidelines and norms.
More generally, the scope of 21st century science
is so enormous that its destructive potential
must be closely monitored. We must abandon
the attitude that something is worth doing
just because it can be done scientifically, without
thinking through ethical implications. Else
rogue scientists or fringe researchers could next
dabble in, say, human reproductive cloning with
disastrous consequences.
In this regard, another alarming area of technical
research is the development of killer robots.
These autonomous weapons platforms need
little or zero human intervention. It’s worth remembering
that once the knowhow exists it will
be impossible to put the genie back into the bottle;
anybody can potentially deploy killer robots.
In 2014, more than 20 Nobel Peace Prize laureates
endorsed a ban on them. But it has had little
impact in impeding the development of autonomous
killing machines. Unless such dangerous
research is limited through global consensus,
the world will have to pay an unacceptably high
price for the current state of scientific knowledge.
TNN
How To Game Elections
Social media provide a costless platform for
political parties to spread disinformation
Mishi Choudhary and Eben Moglen
Electoral politics everywhere
is being decisively
affected by the social media
platforms. Governments and
political parties are adjusting
to the immense power
wielded through, not necessarily
by, the companies. The
platform companies are also
belatedly, and largely involuntarily,
catching up to the
reality of their responsibility.
In India next year another
very important test of democracy’s
power to resist the bad
effects of misinformation
distributed through targeted
political communication
will occur; current assembly
elections may be a trial run.
Early indications are very
worrisome.
Demonstration of Russian
interference in US
presidential elections in 2016,
coupled with the Cambridge
Analytica scandal, demonstrated
the consequences
of two crucial propositions
about which every citizen
of any democracy should be
deeply concerned. First, targeted
communications addressed
to a person’s phone
based on a knowledge of their
social media behaviour are
extremely effective propaganda.
Second, the platform
and telecommunications
companies’ dual efforts to collect
all the human race’s behaviour
and enable advertising
and other “connections”
based on that behavioural
data are therefore being used
to shape and deliver stimuli
intended to change the results
of elections.
In this country, political
parties have been more
candid in admitting the scale
and nature of their use of social
media than officials and
parties in other democracies.
Because the economics of
paid advertising work less
well in India than in richer
democracies with much
smaller populations, emphasis
has fallen more sharply
here on direct communications
through the internet
which are uncharged at both
ends. Hence the importance
of WhatsApp, which provides
an infinite communications
subsidy to political
actors, and has therefore become
the single most important
new medium of political
communication since the onset
of television.
BJP was unquestionably
ahead of its competition in
understanding the structure
of the new landscape. By its
own numbers, it had 8,000
WhatsApp groups delivering
targeted messaging in
Karnakata during the state
elections, for example. That
means having social media
profile information about
tens of millions of people,
slicing them up into more
than 8,000 segments based on
their profiles, adding them to
the relevant party-run WhatsApp
groups, and sending
messages to push their calculated
personal and social
“buttons”. Their behaviour
in interacting with the WhatsApp
group can then be used
to retarget their messaging.
Congress and other political
parties are fast catching up
in gaining expertise in using
similar tactics.
WhatsApp is an end-toend
encrypted service. Facebook,
which owns and operates
it, has adopted the open
source encrypted messaging
protocol Signal, to protect users’
privacy. That means no
one but the members of any
political group can see the
messages involved. There is
no method of monitoring for
inflammatory falsehoods, or
any other form of misinformation,
by Facebook, GoI, or
anyone else.
Because WhatsApp does
not charge either senders
or recipients, political parties
are far from the only organisations
that can afford
to run political messaging
operations designed to affect
elections. They have a labour
cost advantage over President
Vladimir Putin, for example,
because the people
working in their propaganda
mine are volunteers. But
any organisation wealthy
enough to employ the relatively
small number of human
workers necessary in
such an operation can play.
So what’s a government
whose ruling party is ahead
in the race or a Parliament
composed of parties that all
use these mechanisms to do?
No governmental capacity to
regulate this form of political
process exists. For those
holding the reins in both the
state and the dominant party,
this hardly looks like the
time to create any.
But it would be good to
look like doing something. In
such a scenario: GoI can endow
Facebook, Twitter and
other such platforms with the
theoretical responsibility for
monitoring its own platform,
which is a system of costless,
secret, unregulatable political
propaganda for all political
parties. Facebook’s senior
American executives assure
us that Facebook will have
a “virtual war room” for the
2019 elections. Some security
specialists will be consulted
about “threats” with the
country specialists, this is
said to mean. Everyone nods,
and is grateful. Presumably,
the government will show
its gratitude to Facebook for
ensuring the integrity of the
elections after it wins them.
We should not sit blindly
by and allow the experiment
of conducting the world’s
largest democratic electoral
event, an Indian general
election, on the foundation
of a system that offers free,
unmonitorable, targeted
political propaganda broadcasting
under the deliberately
loose control of a
single multinational company.
Facebook should be
required to prevent people
from being added to WhatsApp
groups without their
explicit consent. That would
reduce individuals’ exposure
to targeted misinformation.
Facebook should offer
real-time bounties, cash
credits to mobile phone
accounts, for submitting
examples of misinformation
distributed in political
WhatsApp groups, thus
alerting Facebook to inflammatory
false propaganda
that is invisible to it directly
because of WhatsApp’s encryption.
Facebook, Twitter and
other such platforms should
not be allowed to take their
own sweet time and offer
assurances that AI and machine
learning will solve
all our problems. We have
already seen, as Facebook
itself admits, how social media
manipulation by Myanmar’s
military has been
used to assist murder and
“ethnic cleansing”. State
sponsored use of social media
propaganda has been
associated with distortions
of democracy in the US and
UK. The Indian general election
of 2019 will be another
landmark, one way or another,
in the history of our
new socio-political order.
We should do all of what little
we can to assure that the
chapter we will be writing is
not another tragic one.
Source Credit: This article was first
published in The Times of India.
(Mishi Choudhary is legal director
of Software Freedom Law Centre,
New York. Eben Moglen is Professor
of Law and Legal History at
Columbia Law School.)
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Lion Air jet should have been grounded
before crash that killed 189: Investigators
AGENCIES
Jakarta : French Prime
Minister Edouard Philippe
on Thursday cast doubt on
the possibility to ratify a draft
Brexit deal after a series of
resignations by ministers
made hard for British Prime
Minister Theresa May to sell
the divorce accord with the
EU. A crashed Lion Air jet
should have been grounded
over a recurrent technical
problem before its fatal journey,
Indonesian authorities
said on Wednesday, as details
from the new jet's flight data
recorder suggested that pilots
struggled to control its antistalling
system.
The preliminary crash
report from Indonesia's transport
safety agency also took
aim at the budget carrier's
poor safety culture, but did
not pinpoint a cause of the
October 29 accident, which
killed all 189 people on board.
A final report is not likely
to be filed until next year.
The Boeing 737 MAX
vanished from radar about
13 minutes after taking off
from Jakarta, slamming into
the Java Sea moments after
pilots had asked to return to
the capital.
Investigators said Lion
Air kept putting the plane
back into service despite
repeatedly failing to fix a
problem with the airspeed
indicator, including on its
second-last flight from Bali to
Jakarta.
"The plane was no longer
airworthy and it should not
have kept flying," Nurcahyo
Utomo, aviation head at the
National Transport Safety
Committee (NTSC), told reporters.
Lion Air's contested
the preliminary result and
said it was going to seek a
written clarification from the
NTSC. "We think this statement
is not true," President
Director Edward Sirait said.
"The plane from Denpasar
(Bali) was released and
it was said (to be) airworthy
according to documents and
what the technicians have
done." "The plane was airworthy,"
he added.
The safety committee's
findings will heighten concerns
there were problems
with key systems in one of
the world's newest and most
advanced commercial passenger
planes.
"But we don't know yet
whether it's a Boeing or airline
issue," said aviation analyst
Gerry Soejatman.
Investigators have previously
said the doomed
aircraft had problems with
its airspeed indicator and
angle of attack (AoA) sensors,
prompting Boeing to issue
a special bulletin telling operators
what to do when they
face the same situation.
The report confirmed
that initial finding, saying the
plane's data recorder detected
an issue with the AoA.
It also said the plane's
"stick shaker"-which vibrates
the aircraft's steering wheellike
control yoke to warn of
a system malfunction-was
"activated and continued for
most of the fight".
An AoA sensor provides
data about the angle at which
air is passing over the wings
and tells pilots how much lift
a plane is getting. The information
can be critical in preventing
an aircraft from stalling.
The doomed plane's flight
data recorder showed that
pilots had repeatedly tried to
correct its nose from pointing
down, possibly after erroneous
data from AoA sensors
was fed into a system that automatically
adjusts some of its
movements.
Black box data showed
the plane also had an airspeed
indicator issue on multiple
earlier flights, said investigators,
who have yet to locate
the cockpit voice recorder on
the sea floor. Lion must take
steps "to improve the safety
culture" and bolster the quality
of its flight logs, the transport
agency said. "Airlines
need to take paperwork seriously,"
Soejatman said.
"That didn't cause the
crash, but it can cause other
problems in the environment
they're working in." Despite
a dubious safety record and
an avalanche of complaints
over shoddy service, the budget
carrier's parent Lion Air
Group has captured half the
domestic market in less than
20 years of operation to become
Southeast Asia's biggest
airline.
Indonesia's aviation safety
record has improved since
its airlines, including national
carrier Garuda, were subject
to years-long bans from
US and European airspace
for safety violations, although
it has still recorded 40 fatal accidents
over the past 15 years.
The report stopped short
of making any recommendations
to Boeing but the US
planemaker has come under
fire for possible glitches on
the 737 MAX-which entered
service just last year.
The APA, a US airline pilots'
union, said carriers and
pilots had not been informed
by Boeing of certain changes
in the aircraft control system
installed on the new MAX
variants of the 737.
"I am really surprised
if Boeing has not shared all
the flight performance parameters
with pilots, unions,
and training organisations,"
University of Leeds aviation
expert Stephen Wright told
AFP, adding that "a deliberate
omission would have serious
legal ramifications".
In response to Wednesday's
report, Boeing said:
"(The company) is taking
every measure to fully understand
all aspects of this
accident, working closely
with the US National Transportation
Safety Board as
technical advisors to support
the NTSC as the investigation
continues." Several relatives
of the crash victims have already
filed lawsuits against
Boeing, including the family
of a young doctor who was to
have married his high school
sweetheart this month.
Authorities have called
off the grim task of identifying
victims of the crash, with
125 passengers officially recognised
after testing on human
remains that filled some
200 body bags.
China hopes for positive results from US talks at the G-20 summit
China is hoping for "positive results"
in resolving a trade dispute
with the United States at a G-20 summit
in Argentina, the commerce ministry
said on Thursday, ahead of a
closely watched meeting between the
Chinese and U.S. leaders.
U.S. President Donald Trump and
Chinese President Xi Jinping are due
to hold trade talks on the sidelines of
the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires on
Saturday.
Asked if China was seeking
to prevent more U.S. tariffs at the
high-stakes meeting, the ministry's
spokesman, Gao Feng, said economic
teams from both sides were in
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s
Parliament on Thursday
agreed to cut the budget
of the Prime Minister’s office,
a move designed to
hinder disputed premier
Mahinda Rajapaksa whose
supporters boycotted the
vote amid a weeks-long political
crisis that shows no
sign of ending.
Lawmakers opposed to
Rajapaksa, who has lost
two no confidence votes
in Parliament, regard his
administration as illegitimate
and say he should not
be able to use government
money for his day-to-day
expenses.
“This means the prime
minister will be dysfunctional.
We will bring a similar
motion tomorrow to
cut down the expenditure
of all other ministers,”
said Ravi Karunanayake,
the former finance minister
who proposed Thursday’s
motion which passed
123 to none in the 225-member
parliament.
Thursday’s vote comes
more than a month after
President Maithripala
Sirisena triggered the
crisis by ousting former
Prime Minister Ranil
Wickremesinghe and replacing
him with Rajapaksa,
who was then in turn
sacked by parliament.
contact to implement a "consensus"
reached by Trump and Xi in a phone
call this month.
"I hope that the United States and
China could move towards each other
and work hard to achieve positive
results in the meeting," Gao said,
without giving any details.
The United States has levied additional
duties of between 10 percent
and 25 percent on $250 billion of Chinese
goods this year as punishment
for what it calls China's unfair trade
practices, with the 10 percent tariffs
set to rise to 25 percent next year.
A Reuters poll on Wednesday
showed China's factories likely
struggled to grow for a second
straight month in November as cooling
demand at home and the threat of
higher U.S. tariffs stifled new orders.
"The Chinese side has repeatedly
stressed that the essence of Sino-U.S.
economic and trade cooperation is
about mutual benefit and win-win,"
Gao said.
Sri Lankan Parliament to cut PM’s budget amid weeks-long political crisis
Rajapaksa loyalists
said Thursday’s vote is illegal
because there is a
pending court case over
whether an attempt by
Sirisena to dissolve parliament
on Nov. 9 is constitutional.
The court is set
to rule on that issue next
week.
“This is illegal. We
don’t accept this as a legitimate
motion,” W.D.J.
Seneviratne, a lawmaker
in Rajapaksa’s party, told
Reuters before the vote.
Trump appears to endorse
treason charges against
Obama and Hillary
Washington: Politics in America headed into
dangerous, uncharted waters on Wednesday with
US President Trump appearing to endorse charging
his political adversaries — including Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton — with treason.
Amid an almost daily outburst against the FBI
special counsel Robert Mueller, who has been probing
charges of Russian interference and collusion
that purportedly sullied his election (which Trump
denies), the US president retweeted a meme from
one of his supporters showing Obama, Hillary Clinton,
former FBI directors James Comey and Robert
Mueller, former spy chief James Clapper, former
Attorney General Eric Holder among others behind
bars, with the caption reading, “Now that Russia
Collusion is a proven lie, when do the trials for treason
begin?”
The implied threat came on the heels of Trump’s
serial Twitter attack on Mueller, including calling
him a “conflicted prosecutor who has gone rogue,”
amid reports that the special counsel is closing in on
some of President Trump’s associates, one of whom,
former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort,
is accused of lying after a plea deal.
President Trump is suggesting that Manafort is
being forced to implicate him.
“While the disgusting Fake News is doing everything
within their power not to report it that way, at
least 3 major players are intimating that the Angry
Mueller Gang of Dems is viciously telling witnesses
to lie about facts & they will get relief. This is our
Joseph McCarthy Era!” Trump posted on Twitter
shortly before retweeting the meme on treason.

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Post-2019 polls Opposition will
throw up a leader: Yechury
New Delhi : Remaining
non-committal on the
opposition face for the
prime minister's post in
the 2019 elections, the
CPI(M) said state-specific
alliances will be formed
to take on the BJP and
that post-poll developments
would throw up a
leader.
Interacting with
journalists at the Indian
Women's Press Corps
(IWPC), party General
Secretary Sitaram Yechury
said politics was "not
arithmetic" and that
secular forces will rally
around the leading players
in various states.
He was asked who
would lead the mahagathbandhan
or a grand
alliance of the opposition
parties, if such an alliance
is formed, against
the ruling BJP.
"In Uttar Pradesh, the
secular forces will rally
around SP-BSP; in Bihar
the Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya
Janata Dal (RJD)
would be the driving
force. Similarly, in Tamil
Nadu it would be DMK,"
Yechury said, insisting
that the lack of an unanimous
leader to represent
the opposition was not a
handicap.
"India's recent history
is replete with examples
when governments were
formed on post-poll alliances.
From Morarji
Desai's Janata Party government
in 1977 to V.P.
Singh and Atal Behari
Vajpayee and even the
Congress-led UPA-I were
all formed after elections,"
he said.
"Please do not underestimate
the wisdom of
the common man. I don't
do that. Neither should
you," he said.
The CPI(M) General
Secretary also remained
non-committal on the
possibility of the CPI-M
tying up with the Congress
in West Bengal. He
said the party was seeking
to consolidate all
anti-Trinamool and anti-
BJP votes in the state.
Criticising the Congress
for its "soft Hindutva"
stance, Yechury
said that although the
Congress was a secular
party, it had the "proclivity
for soft Hindutva and
compromising with communal
politics".
Yechury said that the
foremost priority for the
people of India was to get
rid of the Narendra Modi
government which was
not only "wreaking havoc"
on the economy and
Constitutional institutions
of India, it was also
indulging in the "worst
form of communal polarisation".
"Ousting this government
is in the interest
of people and the nation.
Farmers' distress, widespread
unemployment,
corruption are the issues
this government is evading.
The 2016-17 Employment
Survey is waiting to
be released for 18 months
now because the figures
are showing a picture
totally opposite of the
government's claims," he
said.
"It's a classic posttruth
government."
Speaking on Jammu
and Kashmir developments,
Yechury said the
Centre did not want a
solution to the Kashmir
problem and wanted to
keep the pot "simmering"
for "communal polarisation".
"This communal polarisation
actually disrupts
the alternative
narrative," he said, adding
that the Ram mandir
issue would be kept
alive by the BJP till the
Lok Sabha elections next
year.
Yechury said that the
"greatest disservice" was
done to the country's foreign
policy by the Modi
government in the last
five years as it reduced
India to a "junior subordinate
ally" of the US.
"Our foreign policy
today is not being driven
by India's interests but
by the interests of the
US. Today we have
unprecedented cold
relations with our neighbouring
countries including
Nepal, Bhutan,
Sri Lanka etc. China is
world's second largest
economy and good relations
with it would be
of mutual benefit. But
what we are doing is conduct
Malabar military
Exercise with US and Japan
in South China sea,"
he said.
Praising the Kartarpur
Sahib initiative by
the Indian and Pakistani
governments, Yechury
said it would boost people-to-people
contacts.
"You say terror and
talks can't go together.
We say counter the terror
vehemently but keep the
channel of dialogue open
with all," he said.
Patiala royal got historic gurdwara
rebuilt in 1920s
Jalandhar: Gurdwara Darbar Sahib
in Kartarpur Sahib (Pakistan) was reconstructed
during the reign of the then Maharaja
of Patiala Bhupinder Singh at a cost of
Rs 1.35 lakh in the 1920s.
As the gurdwara building was in a
poor condition, the Maharaja had taken
the initiative to rebuild the shrine in the
town where Guru Nanak Dev spent the last
years of his life. The Pakistani authorities
have been displaying a glass case containing
a shrapnel of a bomb in the shrine’s
courtyard. A plaque next to it reads that the
bomb was dropped by the Indian Air Force
during the 1971 war. The shrine, the plaque
says, was saved as the bomb had landed
in the well on its premises. The Kartarpur
corridor was earlier envisaged when Gen
Pervez Musharraf was the President of
Pakistan. A tender was floated, following
which 50 per cent of the road for the corridor
was constructed on the Pakistan side.
The then Chief Minister Capt Amarinder
Singh had offered a golden palanquin in
2005 after paying obeisance at the gurdwara.
In 2017, a Parliamentary Committee
led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had
ruled out the construction of the corridor,
citing security issues and India-Pakistan
hostilities.Kartarpur Sahib is considered
to be the oldest Sikh shrine in the world.
Its foundation stone was laid in 1572. Maharaja
Ranjit Singh had got its dome goldplated,
besides offering a palanquin.

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Centre's sanction to prosecute AAP
Minister, Kejriwal denounces Modi
New Delhi: The Union
Home Ministry on Thursday
granted sanction to
prosecute Delhi Health
Minister Satyendar Jain in
a disproportionate assets
case registered by the CBI
in 2017, triggering an angry
response from Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal.
Jain is accused of floating
several shell companies
in Delhi including Akinchan
Developers Pvt Ltd,
Indo Metal Impex Pvt Ltd,
Paryas Infosolutions Pvt
Ltd and Manglayatan Projects
Pvt Ltd during 2009-10
and 2010-11 for alleged money
laundering.
"These shell companies
do not have any real business.
Satyendar Jain had
laundered black money of
Rs 16.39 crore during 2010-
11 to 2015-16 through 54 shell
companies of three hawala
entry operators of Kolkata
namely Jeevendra Mishra,
Abhishek Chokhani and
Rajendra Bansal," said an
official in the Home Ministry.
Jain, who holds seven
portfolios including Health,
Home and Public Works
Department, has denied
the allegations, saying the
Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) action is politically
motivated.
Kejriwal criticised the
Centre's move, saying the
BJP's decision to registered
the case amounted to an attack
on people residing in
unauthorised colonies.
"Satyendra Jain made
the scheme to regularise
unauthorised colonies.
The Center did not pass it,
instead registered a case
against him. The BJP is
strictly against the move
to regularise unauthorised
colonies. The BJP is the enemy
of Delhiites," he tweeted,
calling Prime Minister
Narendra Modi "harmful
for Delhi".
The CBI initiated a
probe against him in April
2017 and registered a FIR
on August 24 this year.
Besides Satyendar Jain,
the CBI has named his wife
Poonam, his alleged associates
Ajit Prasad Jain, Vaibhav
Jain, Sunil Kumar
Jain and Ankush Jain as
accused in the case.
"After laundering of unaccounted
cash and receipt
of equivalent in amounts in
cheques through hawala
entry operator and by using
black money in the form of
unaccounted cash, more
than 200 bigha of agricultural
land were purchased
in names of companies controlled
by Satyendar Jain in
the vicinity of unorganized
colonies located at Karala,
Auchandi, Nizampur and
Budhan areas in Delhi's
North and North-West areas
during last five years,"
said the official.
The official claimed
that the Delhi Minister, after
being prosecuted by the
Income Tax Department,
surrendered Rs 16.39 crore
of "black money", which
was laundered using Kolkata-based
shell companies
for purchasing 200 bigha
land under Income Disclosure
Scheme 2016 on benami
names of Vaibhav Jain
and Ankush Jain.
On enquiry, it was
found that Vaibhav Jain
and Ankush Jain were in
no way connected with the
four shell companies floated
by Satyendar Jain, said
the official, claiming that
Kolkata-based hawala entry
operators also told the
Income Tax department
that the money laundering
was done on the instruction
of the Delhi Minister.
"Since Satyendar Jain
has declared unaccounted
income of Rs 16.39 crore in
benami names and tax was
paid on this amount, separate
proceedings under
Benami Property Transaction
Act have been initiated.
These proceedings are
presently pending before
the Income Tax Department."
The re-assessment proceedings
referred to cases
have detected hawala
transactions and instances
of unaccounted cash payments
in purchase of land,
said the official.
Another carjacking
at gunpoint in Mohali
Mohali: Another carjacking rocked Mohali on
Wednesday night when three men robbed a 24-yearold
businessman of his car at gunpoint near Sector 79 lightpoint.
This is the fourth such incident in Tricity in the past
one month.
MohitVarma,aresident of Sector 110, Mohali, was on
way home from Chandigarh. “When I reached Sector 79,
I pulled over near a roadside egg stall around 9.30pm.
When I went back to my car after eating eggs, three men
approached me. Pointing a gun at me, one of them asked
me to hand over the car keys to him,” Mohit has stated
in his police complaint.
As Mohit resisted, the armed man pulled him out,
snatched the car keys and threw him on the road after
thrashing him. “Within seconds, the trio sped away in
my car towards Sector 80. Besides the egg stall owner,
there was another man present on the spot. None of
them came to my rescue. I then called up the Mohali
deputy superintendent of police (City I) ,” he added.
The DSP alerted the police control room. Mohali SSP,
DSP, the area SHO and other senior officers reached the
spot.. Mohali SSP Kuldeep Singh Chahal said, “We are
on the trail of the accused. Mohit’s car was also a white
Maruti Suzuki Swift. It had a Chandigarh registration
number.”
On November 27, five goons had robbed a 26-yearold
man of his car, also a white Maruti Suzuki Swift, at gunpoint
on the Chandigarh-Baddi road, near Mullanpur
barrier.
A cop investigating the case said the Wednesday
night incident might be the handiwork of the same gang
that struck on Chandigarh-Baddi road.

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Indian men have won four bronze
medals in the 21 amateur men’s
boxing world championships
held since 1974. In comparison,
in the 11 women’s world championships
held so far, India has bagged
32 medals, including nine golds. Clearly,
boxing is one sport where Indian
women are far outshining the men, and
leading the wave is MC Mary Kom. In
the 2018 AIBA World Boxing Championships
held in Delhi, the Manipuri
pugilist became world champion for
an unprecedented sixth time, not only
breaking Irish boxer Katie Taylor’s
record of five golds, but also matching
shoulders with Cuba’s Felix Savon as
the most successful boxer – in both male
and female categories – in the world
meet’s history. We met Mary Kom at
her residence in Delhi two days after
look at the men. How many medals do
we have from world championships for
India? Some will say only four or five,
but I say that is a big achievement too.
When you compare my six golds to that,
‘There won’t be another
Mary Kom
I am unique’
you will realize how much hard
work goes into winning each of
them.”
Before this win, Mary’s
last World Championship
gold was in 2010 when women’s
boxing wasn’t even an
Olympic event. She missed
out on three championships
in between, but the boxer says
there was no self-doubt despite
her advancing age. “I never
doubted myself,” says Mary, “I always
dreamed I will win this sixth title. After
Katie (Taylor of Ireland) won her fifth
gold (in 2014), I wanted to win another
so that I could break her record, and
that was my motivation. This is nothing
negative. It was just a challenge,
something I was aiming for.”
Her rival Katie Taylor became a professional
boxer in 2016, which meant
she couldn’t compete in the Olympics.
Mary says she too has received several
offers to go professional over the years,
but she will always choose the chance
to represent her country over personal
glory. She says, “I have received many
offers over the last two-three years to
turn professional, but professional boxing
is different, and I don’t have much
knowledge or experience in it. And
from what I know, those who are going
for professional boxing are doing it just
for the money. I don’t want any money.
I just want to continue to fight for my
country, and to keep winning medals
for India. Going professional is largely
for personal glory.”
Mary has been boxing for almost
two decades now, and it has been 17
years since she won her first world
championship medal – a silver at the
2001 Championships in Scranton, USA
– and a lot has changed in the boxing
world since then. She has gone from
competing in near-empty stadia to being
cheered by thousands in gigantic
arenas. She says, “It is very different.
We had hosted the world championships
here in Delhi back
in 2006, and there
was hardly any audience. The stadium
was almost empty, with only friends
and relatives of the boxers sitting and
cheering from the stands. And now, it’s
always a full house, with people coming
especially for me and the other boxers.
I feel so happy when the fans cheer for
me, it gives me more energy.”
Mary started in the 48kg weight
division, but in the last few years has
had to compete in the 51kg division,
after her category was discontinued
in the Olympics and the Asian Games.
Mary has made no bones about being
uncomfortable in competing in a new
category, saying it affected her performance,
including failing to qualify in
the 2016 Rio Olympics. Through this latest
win, though, she feels rejuvenated,
and is now eyeing the elusive Olympic
gold. “Now I’m comfortable with all divisions,
be it 48kg or 51kg,” Mary says
with a laugh. So can we expect a medal
in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Mary answers,
“I cannot say for sure, I never
assure anybody, but I will try my
best, of course. My first target is
to qualify, and then I will
start thinking about
the medal.”
her win, where she sat in her garden,
bruised all over and sporting a swollen
eye. However, she wears her bruises
with pride, saying, “It’s a reminder of
how hard I had to work for this medal.”
She may have won the final against
Ukraine’s Hanna Okhota with a unanimous
5-0 decision, but it wasn’t that
easy. Not many know that Mary had
been suffering from severe headaches
and diarrhoea for two days prior to the
bout. “I had an upset stomach because
of the changing weather. I also had
a constant headache, so I was taking
medication for it before the fight. I had
to, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able
to participate in the final properly,” the
mother of three tells us. Despite these
hiccups, Mary went on to script history,
and it is this never-say-die attitude and
resilience that has set her apart from
her peers. And Mary is well aware of
this fact, as she laughingly says, “There
won’t be another Mary Kom,” before
cautiously adding, “Maybe, but it will
take many years. Abhi chance nahi
hai.”
The 35-year-old champion knows exactly
what sets her apart, and she says,
“I’m totally unique, completely different
from other girls. I always have a
good time during my training and during
the competition too. There are only
two outcomes – you win or you lose. I
don’t take undue pressure when I lose.
It happens sometimes, it’s all part of
the game. Many girls don’t have that
mindset. I have observed this since the
beginning – when it comes to competing
with girls from stronger countries,
many Indian girls get scared. But with
me, I don’t get nervous inside the ring.
That is something only I do, other girls
don’t.” Mary underlines the fact that
winning a world title is no mean feat,
saying, “It is very difficult to even compete
in a world championship. Take a

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Narendra Modi arrives in Buenos
Aires for G-20 summit
Buenos : Prime Minister
Narendra Modi arrived
in Argentina’s capital of
Buenos Aires to attend the
13th G-20 summit where he
will discuss ways to meet
the new and upcoming
challenges of the coming
decade with other world
leaders, including United
States President Donald
Trump. On the sidelines of
the two-day summit, Modi,
Trump and Japanese Premier
Shinzo Abe will hold
a trilateral meeting amid
China flexing its muscles
in the strategic Indo-Pacific
region. The trilateral,
which would be an expansion
of the bilateral meeting
between Trump and
Abe, is part of the series of
meetings the US president
would have on the sidelines
of the G-20 summit on
November 30 and December
1.
Modi will also meet
Chinese President Xi Jinping
and German Chancellor
Angela Merkel on the
sidelines of the event, the
Ministry of External Affairs
had said on the eve of
his departure.
He will be in Buenos
Aires from November 29
to December 1. Modi will
also meet UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres,
Argentinian President
Mauricio Macri, Chilean
President Sebastian
Pinera, along with the
prime ministers of Spain,
Jamaica, the Netherlands
and the president of the
European Union and the
European Council.
A bilateral meeting
between Modi and French
President Emmanuel Macron
is also being worked
out. “As in the past, I look
forward to the opportunity
to meet leaders on the sidelines
of the summit to exchange
views on bilateral
matters of mutual interest,”
Modi had said in his
departure statement.
The prime minister
will also speak on his flagship
programmes like the
Jan Dhan Yojana, the Mudra
scheme, Ayushman
Ludhiana City Centre
case: Ex-DGP moves court
against closure report
Agencies
Ludhiana: Former Punjab DGP
Sumedh Singh Saini on Wednesday
filed a petition before the court of district
and sessions judge Gurbir Singh
against the closure report filed by the
vigilance bureau in 2007’s City Centre
case involving the then Punjab Congress
chief Amarinder Singh. The
next hearing of the case will be held
on December 7.
In his petition filed, through his
counsel Ramanpreet Singh Sandhu,
Saini said he headed the Punjab
vigilance bureau from March 2007
to March 2012 [as director (IGP) and
chief director (ADGP)] and when the
City Centre case was filed. He added
that in 2017, after about a decade, an
application from one of the accused
was entertained by the vigilance bureau
and the case was re-investigated
whereupon a report was filed under
Section 173 (8) CrPc before the court
that was contrary to the report filed
earlier under Section 173 (2) of CrPc.
He also claimed that the state had
committed forgery and misled the
court in the case and wanted to reveal
these lies.
Saini’s petition comes after former
SSP vigilance, Ludhiana, Kanwarjit
Singh Sandhu had in July alleged
there was a political conspiracy behind
the move to close the case that he
had investigated during service and
had urged the judge to hear his plea
before deciding on the cancellation
report filed by the vigilance bureau
last year. However, Sandhu’s plea was
turned down.
“As per court order on former SSP
Kanwarjit Sandhu’s plea, it dismissed
his petition on the ground that he was
de jure complainant (not the actual
complaint), but it is director vigilance
(Sumedh Singh Saini at that time
of filing of FIR) who is de-facto complainant.
On the basis of that order,
we filed petition in the court that as
de-facto complainant the petitioner
Sumedh Singh Saini should be heard
before the court decides on the closure
report filed by vigilance. We also
argued that director vigilance was
the complainant of the case,” Ramanpreet
Singh Sandhu told The Times of
India.
In his petition, Saini contended
that after about a decade a contradictory
view was taken to the previous
report filed while he was the head of
the Punjab vigilance and a cancellation
report was filed in 2017. The petition
said in the interest of justice,
he should be given an opportunity to
make his submission before adjudication
on the closure.
Saini also said in his petition that
he was in possession of some sensitive
material that he would like to submit
before the court in a sealed envelope.
The petition said that it was unclear
whether the circumstances under
which a “re-investigation” was
done after a decade, was in “accordance
with law or not.”
Saini’s petition asked the court to
permit him to file a supplementary detailed
application.
Bharat, and soil health
card at the G-20 Summit.
Modi will make a pitch
to countries who are not
within the Tropic of Cancer
and Capricorn to join
the International Solar Alliance.
He will also highlight
the risks posed by oil
price volatility and raise
the issue of combating terror
financing and money
laundering. Among the
issues to be discussed will
be the strengthening of the
WTO. The meeting is being
held amid the ongoing
trade war between the US
and China. Modi said that
through the 10 years of
its existence, the G-20 has
strived to promote stable
and sustainable global
growth. “This objective is
of particular significance
for developing countries
and emerging economies
such as India, which is
today the fastest growing
large economy in the
world,” he said.
Modi said India’s
contribution to global
economic growth and
prosperity underlined its
commitment to ‘Building
Consensus for Fair and
Sustainable Development’,
which is the theme of the
summit.“I look forward
to meeting leaders from
other G-20 countries to review
the work of G-20 in
the last 10 years of its existence
and chart the ways
and means to meet the new
and upcoming challenges
of the coming decade,” he
said.
The prime minister
said the participants would
deliberate on the situation
of the global economy
and trade, international
financial and tax systems,
the future of work, women
empowerment, infrastructure
and sustainable
development. Emerging
economies, which played
a major role in revitalising
the growth in the global
economy pursuant to the
financial crisis are today
facing unprecedented economic
and technological
challenges, Modi said.
Amid US-China row, Trump,
Modi and Abe set up meet
New Delhi: Prime
Minister Narendra Modi,
US President Donald
Trump and Japanese
premier Shinzo Abe will
hold their first trilateral
meeting this week on the
sidelines of the G20 summit
in Argentina. Held
in the backdrop of rising
US-China tensions, the
meeting will provide an
opportunity for all three
nations to cement their
Indo-Pacific policies.
The trilateral, which
would be an expansion of
the bilateral meeting between
Trump and Abe, is
part of the series of meetings
the US President
would have on the sidelines
of the G-20 summit
in Buenos Aires on November
30 and December
1, the White House said.
At the recently concluded
Est Asia summit,
Modi met separately, all
the members of the Quadrilateral
— Japan, US and
Australia — even though
India remains the most
cautious in that group.
Modi, in his keynote
address at the Shangri La
Dialogue in Singapore in
June expounded India’s
stand on the strategic
Indo-Pacific region. “India
does not see the Indo-
Pacific Region as a strategy
or as a club of limited
members. Nor as a grouping
that seeks to dominate.
And by no means do
we consider it as directed
against any country.
A geographical definition,
as such, cannot be,”
Modi had said. “India
stands for an open and
stable international trade
regime. We will also support
rule-based, open,
balanced and stable trade
environment in the Indo-
Pacific region, which lifts
up all nations on the tide
of trade and investment,”
he said.
Briefing journalists
before the visit, foreign
secretary Vijay Gokhale
said Modi would meet
Chinese president Xi Jinping
as well.
“There is always
scope on the margins
of G20 for a meeting between
the BRICS head of
states and that meeting is
confirmed. The PM will
meet the Xi as decided at
the BRICS summit of Johannesburg.”
Gokhale also expressed
hope that the
10th anniversary of the
G20 would chart a course
for the future.
“At the tenth anniversary
of the G20, it is our
expectation that leaders
will reflect on what has
been achieved in the past
10 years and what could
be done in the next 10
years,” he said.
Oil price stability and
reform of the WTO would
also be on the agenda, he
said.

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