Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Beed cop, sex change saga: Director General of Police tells JJ hospital to examine Lalita Salve


Karnataka police officer D Roopa is facing a Rs 20-crore defamation suit from her senior HN Sathyanarayana Rao after claiming that he had been bribed to allow All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader VK Sasikala to get special facilities in Bengaluru s Parappana Agrahara jail NDTV reported on Tuesday.In July D Roopa who was then the deputy inspector general of police posted in the prisons department had said in a report that Sasikala serving a four-year jail term for corruption had paid for perks including an exclusive kitchen and relaxed visiting hours.Roopa had also referred to rumours that one of the people bribed was her senior Rao. There were rumours that Rs 2 crore was paid for this Sasikala s privileges and unfortunately the allegation is against you Roopa had said in the report that she handed to Rao.Rao who retired as director general of police in August filed the defamation case this week months after demanding that Roopa should apologise for making baseless allegations . Rao said Roopa s allegations were false and caused severe damage to his name fame and integrity . He had asked Roopa to get the apology published in all leading newspapers within three days. After the report both Rao and Roopa were transferred out of the prisons department. Rao was asked to go on leave while the Karnataka government moved Roopa to the traffic department NDTV reported. Roopa has refused to retract her allegations. Bengaluru: Karnataka Police officer D Roopa who was transferred after she alleged in a report that VK Sasikala was enjoying VIP facilities in a Bengaluru jail faces a 20-crore defamation suit by her former boss.HN Sathyanarayana Rao who retired as a Director General of Police in August filed the defamation case months after demanding an unconditional apology from Roopa for making what he called baseless allegations . In July Roopa as the Deputy Inspector General of Police posted in the prisons department had alleged in a report that sidelined AIADMK leader Sasikala - serving a four-year jail term for corruption - had paid for special perks in prison which included an exclusive kitchen and relaxed visiting hours. She also referred in her report to rumours that a beneficiary of a fat bribe to buy Sasikala s comfort was her senior HNS Rao. There were rumours that 2 crore was paid for this (Sasikala s privileges) and unfortunately the allegation is against you Roopa had said in the report she handed to her boss.The sensational claim resulted in both HNS Rao and Roopa being transferred from the Bengaluru prison and an inquiry.Mr Rao who was asked to go on leave claimed the wild and baseless allegations caused severe damage to his name fame and integrity apart from causing mental agony to him.The Karnataka government moved Roopa to the traffic department but she refused to take back her allegations. GURGAON: At a time when the Gurgaon police are reeling under manpower crunch the department has planned to start a special recruitment drive from December 1. Officials confirmed that retired jawans of CISF will be hired on contractual basis for 25 posts to help cops manage traffic and maintain law and order in the city. The recruitment drive will be held in the police commissioner s office in Gurgaon and will be carried out by the police commissioner the deputy commissioner of the respective police district and an inspector. The rules of reservation for backward castes will also be applicable. A police spokesperson said that those hired will not get posted in their home jurisdiction but in a nearby police station on a monthly salary of Rs 14 000. They could also be transferred to any other district in the state in case of an emergency. The rules for leave and compensation of the new recruits will be the same as that of the state police. The recruits will also be given a 15-day capsule course to orient them into guard duty patrolling travelling and law and order related duties which they will be utilised for. Gurgaon police has a total of 4 992 sanctioned posts of which 900 posts have been lying vacant an RTI revealed. According to police figures 551 posts of constables 464 posts of head constables 44 posts of sub-inspectors and 25 posts of assistant sub-inspectors have been lying vacant. While the city recently opened up as many as 11 new police stations and several police posts the existing manpower was split between the nearest police station to suit the manpower requirement. The split has further burdened our functioning. We have to investigate a large number of cases and also deploy patrolling duties for PCRs and riders which eats up a lot of force said a senior officer who did not wish to be named. The director general of police BS Sandhu during his recent visit to the city had said that 1 000 cops will be posted in the city to add to the existing manpower. However a senior police officer claimed that these 1 000 cops are currently undergoing training in the police training academy in Madhuban. Hyderabad: US President Donald Trump s daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump who is on a two-day visit to India for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit or GES 2017 on Tuesday attended a gala dinner at the Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening. The dinner was held at palace s famous 101 dining table - the largest in the world. A five-course menu inspired by Hyderabad s famed cuisine by a host of culinary experts led by executive chef Sajesh Nair was reportedly part of the lavish menu.It also contained a mix of exotic Indian ingredients and delicacies like dahi ke kebab gosht shikampuri kebab kubani ke malai kofta murg pista ka salan and sitaphal kulfi will be presented over several courses--Aghaz (soup) Waqfa (sorbet) Mezban (appetisers) Mashgool Dastarkhwan (main course) and Zauq e shahi (dessert). The dinner was hosted at the famous 101 dinning hall at Hyderabad s Faluknama Palace.The dinner was hosted by the Union government as part of the ongoing Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2017. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was among those present for the dinner. A separate dinner was arranged for around 1 500 delegates of the GES on the lawns of the palace. A senior police official said a five-tier security has been provided to Ms Trump who arrived in Hyderabad in the early hours today and addressed the eighth edition of the GES. She is scheduled to leave the city tomorrow evening.Telangana Director General of Police M Mahendar Reddy had earlier said that a total of 10 400 security personnel drawn from various wings have been deployed as part of security arrangements for the summit.It includes personnel from Traffic Police Central Armed Reserve Telangana State Special Police Intelligence Security Wing commandos of Greyhounds anti-Naxal force and the elite OCTOPUS anti-terror force.More than 2 000 police personnel have been deployed around the Falaknuma Palace the official said adding the police conducted a door-to-door search at 3 500 houses in surrounding areas and sanitised the areas in the run-up to the summit. DEHRADUN: A day after a 27-year-old software engineer was found shot dead at Clock Tower Dehradun police was scrambling for clues on Tuesday. New details however have emerged in the case which police believe may be crucial in cracking the murder of Yatin Verma who was employed with a private company in Noida. Verma s body was discovered on Monday morning with gunshot wounds at Clock Tower and stone s throw away from a police post. Police said that initial investigation suggests that the man was struggling with drug addiction which likely plunged him into financial stress so much so that he couldn t even afford a cellphone. Ashok Kumar additional director general of police (ADG) Law and Order said We can t confirm anything at this moment as investigation is still going on. But the initial probe shows that Verma was struggling with drug addiction and was under financial strain. The ADG said He did not have a mobile phone and would frequently use other people s cellphones to call his family. His parents kept asking him to buy a phone but he did not do so. Verma is a native of Bageshwar district in Kumaon and was staying in Dehradun since November 14 without the knowledge of his family. A senior police officer said We are trying to find out why he was staying in Dehradun and the people he had met. The ADG said that another reason to believe Verma was facing financial crunch is that he had rented a shabby room in a lodge near ISBT. Verma completed his schooling from Dehradun and pursued BTech from a private university in Jalandhar in Punjab. According to police he was killed by a gunshot at some other place and then the body was dumped near New Empire theatre. While performing the punchnama police also recovered a live cartridge from the pocket of Verma s trousers. CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Monday that the state government has decided to launch 100 Dial Scheme to reduce criminal cases and to provide fair justice to victims. Initially 600 vehicles would be provided by the state government to police and each district would get 30 to 35 vehicles. The chief minister who was speaking after inaugurating eight Mitra Kaksh in Civil Lines Police Station Karnal on Monday said that the state government has been providing fearless environment in the state. He said that these eight Mitra Kaksh have been established at a cost of about Rs two crore to develop coordination among people and police. He said that residents of Community Liaison Group and police personnel without uniform would sit in these Mitra Kaksh to listen to the grievances of people. If a grievance could not be solved through mediation then FIR would be registered. He said that in the first phase eight Mitra Kaksh each were being established in district Karnal and district Rohtak. If the system runs successfully it would be implemented throughout the state he added. Referring to his visit to Singapore the chief minister said that there was no police station on road in Singapore and no police personnel could be seen on roads. Though there was one police officer on a population of 300 persons whereas in Haryana one police officer is deputed for safety and security of 500 persons. He said that during his visit to Singapore he learned that police personnel in Singapore perform their duty in civil dress also. Speaking on the occasion home secretary S.S. Prasad said that during pre-independence period police were engaged to run a government but post-independence police was being used to serve the people. Director General of Police B.S. Sandhu said that general public fear to go to police station but these Mitra Kaksh would enable them to present their views and share their problems without any hesitation. CHENNAI: The BJP youth wing and party members on Monday asked Tamil Nadu director general of police T K Rajendran to take action against a social activist in the city who they said was slandering BJP president Amit Shah on social media by implicating him in the 2014 death of Brijgopal Harkishan Loya the judge presiding over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh trial in the CBI special court in Mumbai. Speaking to reporters after submitting a petition to the DGP Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha president (Tamil Nadu) Vinoj P Selvam said Piyush Manish had in posts on his Facebook page cited a magazine report to hold Shah responsible for the death of the 48-year-old judge in Nagpur on December 1 2014. The Caravan had in its November 20 edition featured a report A Family Breaks Its Silence: Shocking Details Emerge in Death of Judge Presiding Over Sohrabuddin Trial in which the author said Loya s niece Nupur Balaprasad Biyani had concerns about the circumstances surrounding her uncle s death . Selvam said not only did Manish use the report to connect Shah the prime accused in the Sohrabuddin encounter to the death of the judge but also created a controversy by commenting judges in general. I have asked police to delete Manish s posts from Facebook and to initiate legal action against him for derogatory remarks without substantial evidence said Selvam flanked by BJYM secretary (Tamil Nadu) A P Muruganandam and BJP supporters.

Nestle India, distributors fined in Uttar Pradesh


Voting for the third and final phase of civic bodies polls in Uttar Pradesh will take place on Wednesday in 26 districts amid tight security arrangements. The State Election Commissioner SK Agarwal said that 5 Nagar Nigams 76 Nagar Palikas and 152 Nagar Panchayats will go to polls to elect their mayors and representatives. Tight security arrangements have been made for the final phase of polling. Additional security forces have been deployed in sensitive districts and drone cameras would keep an eye on the sensitive polling booths said the SEC. Districts where polling will be held include Saharnpur Moradabad Bulandshahr Baghpat Sambhal Etah Bareilly Ferozabad Oraiyya Kannauj Jhansi Kanpur Dehat Mahoba Sitapur Rae Bareilly Lakhimpur Kheri Balrampur Bara Banki Maharajganj Siddharthnagar Kushinagar Mau Mirzapur and Chandauli. For the first time all major political parties including the ruling BJP Samajwadi Party BSP and the Congress are contesting polls on their party symbols. The BSP is contesting local bodies polls on party symbols after 17 years. ALSO READ Low turnout marks phase 2 of UP civic polls Generally the Chief Ministers avoid campaigning for the ruling party candidates in local bodies polls but Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made a whirlwind tour of the state holding more than 40 rallies in support of BJP candidates. For Yogi Adityanath results of local bodies polls will be a referendum on his eight-month rule in the state and it may also impact crucial Gujarat Assembly polls. ALSO READ UP Civic Polls Phase 2: Rajnath s lotus pic at poll booth causes outrage low voter turn-out recorded The counting of votes will take place on December 1 and results would be declared the same day. A day after reports said that the police in Uttar Pradesh had detained four donkeys for four days and then released them the state police department has denied it. Uttar Pradesh Police has nothing to do with their arrest or custody the department said in a tweet on Tuesday.Dear @ndtv #uppolice has nothing to do with their arrest or custody.We request you to check your facts with us next time. https://t.co/6i9wN0nGZN UP POLICE (@Uppolice) November 28 2017 On Monday reports had said that the animals were detained at the Urai district jail complex for four days for eating expensive plants in the facility.The animals were held after their owner Kamlesh let them loose despite being warned that a senior officer was planning to plant some expensive plants RK Mishra the head constable at Urai jail had told ANI. The plants were reportedly worth Rs 5 lakh.After the police denied Kamlesh s request to free the animals he had sought local Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shakti Gahoi s help reported India Today. Gahoi had then gone to the police along with Kamlesh and persuaded them to let the animals go. The animals not only ate plants they ruined the entire garden and injured the children of the colony Jail Superintendent Sitaram Sharma told PTI. We called the owners several times and each time they said the animals didn t belong to them. Another jail official said that they had made all arrangements for the donkeys and had even fed them two times a day.#WATCH Police release a herd of donkeys from district jail in UP s Jalaun. They had been detained for destroying plants outside jail pic.twitter.com/RkV8Hng0k2 ANI (@ANI) November 27 2017 New Delhi: Security agencies have arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh for planning a terrorist strike in the city and carrying out reconnaissance of vital installations like Army camps and power projects in Jammu and Kashmir an official said on Tuesday.The alleged terrorist identified as Abdul Naeem Sheikh was arrested two weeks ago in a joint operation conducted by the security agencies along with state police an official said adding that he was being tailed by the security agencies for a few months.Representational image. AFPA number of videos and photographs of vital installations of Army camps and power projects in Jammu and Kashmir have been recovered from Sheikh s possession which proved that he did recce of these places the official said.Other officials close to the case claimed that Sheikh had also done recce of Kasol in Himachal Pradesh as well as some nearby areas which are frequently visited by Israeli nationals and other foreign tourists.The security agencies have dubbed Sheikh as David Coleman Headley as he had been working on his footprints and did recce of the same areas. Headley a Pakistan-American is serving a prison sentence of 35 years in a US jail for his involvement in terror activities and the 26/11 Mumbai attacks of 2008.Officials close to the case said that Sheikh was wanted by security agencies in various cases including the Mumbai train attacks of 2006-2007. Sheikh was nabbed by the security agencies at that time and was under trial. In August 2014 he managed to give the slip to security agencies and escaped when he was being taken from Dum Dum Central jail (Kolkata) to Mumbai to appear in court. He fled while the train was passing through the deep forests in Chhattisgarh the official said.After fleeing from custody Sheikh established a new sleeper cell under instruction from his LeT handler Amjad the official said. Sheikh then had done a number of reconnaissance operations in Jammu and Kashmir Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh following the instructions of Amjad. He had targeted high profile tourist sites including Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh. The case has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for further probe added the official. On Wednesday a Muslim cleric and his two relative were assaulted and stabbed on a train in western Uttar Pradesh. This was a hate crime the victims were picked out for their religion. Mohammad Israr one of the victims who had received stab wounds from an ice pick on his back head and hands said that their Muslim appearance with namaaz caps and scarves had irked the attackers. While the men were being assaulted the attackers said repeatedly You wear caps? We will teach you to wear caps. This is not the only incident of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh becoming the focus because of their clothing. On November 21 a Muslim woman was instructed to remove her burqa by the police in a rally by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath. A couple of days after this the Bharatiya Janata Party made a formal demand to the Election Commission of India asking for special verification of voters in burqas. Women sporting the veil should be verified if needed the BJP said. For this women security personnel or women election officers should be deployed at booths. From these incidents it would almost seem that there is an attempt to erase from public view the typical dress of North Indian Muslims kurta-pyjama and caps for men burquas for women. It s as if Hindutva forces want to create a public sphere that if not literally devoid of Muslims is certainly devoid of Muslimness.Hindutva risingThe issue of looking Muslim is not a new one or for that matter only confined to Uttar Pradesh. In 2015 for example a Muslim man s beard was pulled even as he was assaulted and robbed on a train in western Uttar Pradesh. Like the namaaz cap and kurta the beard is also a prominent symbol of Muslimness.In 2014 a Muslim man Mohsin Shaikh was lynched in Pune by around 25 members of a group called the Hindu Rashtra Sena. The members of the Hindu Rashtra Sena were angry about morphed images they had seen circulating on social media. When they stepped out they spotted Shaikh who had a beard and was wearing a green Pathan suit slotting him as Muslim. In June this year a 15-year old boy named Junaid was singled out as Muslim for the cap he was wearing and stabbed to death in a train in Haryana. In Junaid s village in Faridabad a district in Haryana that borders Uttar Pradesh men are trying to look less Muslim dropping obvious articles of clothing such as namaaz caps or shaving off their beard. The Telegraph found that symbols of Muslimness are now found less visible on the train route on which Junaid was murdered. Muslims think it too risky to wear their namaaz caps while commuting.Airbrushing realityIn his 2004 essay On representing the Musalman historian Shahid Amin deftly critiques the Nehruvian Unity in diversity dictum that represented Muslims and other minorities using blunt stereotypes. In government unity in diversity posters Muslims are represented by a man wearing a fez cap.Thirteen years after this essay things have moved from bad to worse. Earlier Muslims were stereotyped yet small mercies they were still part of government propaganda. Yet now with Hindutva rising there is pressure for Muslims to remove markers that are visually distinct. This trend is particularly acute in Uttar Pradesh. Looking Muslim has resulted in a range of penalties ranging from chastisement by the police to outright assault. This behaviour is backed up by the administration led by a chief minister who is not only accused of communal rioting but has gone on record claiming that secularism a constitutional principle is a lie.Two Nation theoryThis airbrushing of Muslims from the public sphere is not unexpected. Vinayak Savarkar the man who coined the word Hindutva was a firm believer in the Two-Nation Theory and postulated that in India Muslims must subordinate themselves to Hindus.The expectation that Muslims should be made politically irrelevant in India finds deep resonance with the BJP charge of vote banks the notion that minority communities are pandered to by politians for electoral gain. But the fact of Indians voting as groups is a banal reality: voting along caste geographical or gender lines is a common way for groups to pressure leaders to act. Patels in Gujarat might vote for reservations or a village for a new tubewell. None of this attracts censure till the group in question happens to be members of minority communities.Vote banksAs a result the BJP rarely courts Muslims preferring to rely solely on Hindu votes. In the March landslide in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for example the BJP stitched together a remarkable multi-caste Hindu alliance winning 40% of the vote.Even when the BJP desires Muslim votes its methods don t rely on the quid pro quo that characterises India s transactional democracy. For example in one recent case civic polls in Uttar Pradesh saw a BJP leader threaten Muslims to vote for the BJP. Even while asking for their votes the BJP does not see Muslims as legitimate players in the political space. While other voters could ask for say roads or water works in return for their ballots Muslims in Uttar Pradesh are not worthy of even such a transaction.So successful has the BJP s pitch been on this score than even some Muslim leaders now agree that it would be better if Muslims strategically excused themselves from the political space given that it would polarise society . By: Express News Service | Noida | Updated: November 29 2017 8:48 am A 32-year-old man from Greater Noida was arrested for allegedly providing bank accounts for transfer of money (Representational Image) Top News Uber hacking scandal could force loyalists to other ride-hailing servicesUC Browser app with updated settings now back on Google Play StoreAmazon Echo Plus and Amazon Alexa review: The smartest speaker aroundIn an effort to crack the nexus through which online financial fraud takes place the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested a 32-year-old man from Greater Noida for allegedly providing bank accounts for transfer of money collected by duping banks and insurance policy customers police said. The accused has been identified as Rahul Singh. We have seized mobile phones and documents including letter pads under BIOLO Services and other documents relating to this company. Singh used to live in Ecotech area of Gautam Buddh Nagar district. During questioning he revealed that he has been providing bank accounts to various call centres in Noida Ghaziabad and Delhi for a few years. Investigation till now has revealed that Rs 1.5 crore is deposited across five bank accounts. The accounts were used for money transfers said Triveni Singh SP UP STF. The incident came to light in March this year when a retired Lt. Colonel based in Fatehpur district approached the police with a complaint. The complainant had been duped of Rs 86 77 010. On the promise of a bonus in a life insurance policy that had reached the maturity date as well as the maturity amount they duped him of this money. BIOLO Services was among the companies which were behind the fraud. The accused would charge 10-20 per cent for every transaction from those running the fake call centres Singh said. Explaining the modus operandi of the alleged nexus Singh said The entire process of online fraud is such that criminals largely remain anonymous. The nexus starts with people who hack database which has customers details such as insurance policies bank account details etc. This information is then sold to people who run fake call centres and who use this information to dupe people through phone calls. For all the latest City Others News download Indian Express App More Top News Samsung working to integrate devices appliances through IoT Cloud platform Cop who alleged preferential treatment to Sasikala in jail faces Rs 20 cr defamation suit LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh minister Mohsin Raza had a narrow escape when his SUV was hit by a bull on Lucknow-Sitapur highway on Monday evening. Raza minister of state for science and technology electronics IT Muslim Waqf and Haj was returning after addressing a rally in Dhaurahra said police. When the minister s SUV (UP 32 HN 2753) reached Kamlapur police station a bull suddenly came in front of the vehicle said Hasan Waseem an aide of Raza. Following this the vehicle skidded off the road and come to a halt at a side. Three other persons were also in the vehicle.Raza suffered a sprain in his shoulder. He was taken to Civil Hospital in Lucknow and discharged after treatment. I was not supposed to address the rally. Minister Anupama Jaiswal was to attend it. But due to some last moment changes I had to go there RAza told reporters in Lucknow. SP Sitapur Anand Kulkarni said a police team reached the spot around 8pm after getting information but the minister and his aides had left for Lucknow by then.

UP Civic Polls Phase III: Voting Halted Due to Faulty EVMs in Jhansi, Muradabad, Saharanpur


Written by Manoj C G | New Delhi | Updated: November 22 2017 2:17 pm The meme posted on the official Twitter handle of the Youth Congress online magazine Yuva Desh was a photograph of Modi US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May in conversation Related News Gujarat elections Live Updates: Hardik Patel PM Modi on their way to MorbiGujarat elections: PM Narendra Modi Rahul Gandhi Hardik Patel in Saurashtra todayPM Narendra Modi flags off Hyderabad MetroDays after Rahul Gandhi asked the Congress in Gujarat to respect the dignity of the office of the Prime Minister and stop its vikas gando thayo chhe (development has gone crazy) social media campaign a Twitter handle linked to the Indian Youth Congress posted a crude meme on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday. Under fire the Youth Congress apologised and the meme was removed after Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and the BJP hit out at the Congress leaving red faces in the party. The meme posted on the official Twitter handle of the Youth Congress online magazine Yuva Desh was a photograph of Modi US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May in conversation. It showed Modi telling the two leaders about the Opposition s memes targeting him Aap logon ne dekha vipaksh mere kaise kaise maimai banvata hai? Trump corrects him saying the word is pronounced as meem usse maimai nahin meem kehte hain . May tells Modi to sell tea Tu chai bech . In a tweet Rupani questioned Rahul Gandhi: This blatantly classist and anti-poor Tweet by the Youth Congress shows their mindset towards India s poor. Does Crown Prince @OfficeOfRG support this? The tweet was deleted after the Congress went into damage control. Its communication department head Randeep Surjewala said: INC (Indian National Congress) strongly disapproves and rejects such humour through memes. Differences on policy and opinion aside Congress culture imbibes respect for PM and all political opponents. The IYC said the Twitter handle was not official one and was run by volunteers. Although the handle @Yuvadesh is being run by youth volunteers and not by @iyc we do not approve of such humour and apologise. Despite political differences with the BJP and having suffered everyday abuse from their leaders we respect the Prime Minister and all political opponents Youth Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Brar tweeted. The BJP slammed the tweet saying it reflected the arrogance of the Congress. Union Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in a tweet said: The arrogance of the Congress Party and shameful anti-poor stand gets exposed from the official twitter of the Youth Congress that a person born in poverty in the family of a tea vendor cannot become the Prime Minister. No lessons learnt. Insulting popular mandate. Madam Sonia Gandhi and Mr Rahul Gandhi do u still believe that only u have a divine right to rule India? Country expects ur response on the tweet of the youth Congress which is shameful & insulting to poor. U can delete the Tweet but ur thinking towards the poor stands exposed. Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said: Upcoming elections will be another reality check for them. Coming as it does in the run-up to the Gujarat assembly elections the tweet echoes what Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar had said during the 2014 Lok Sabha election: Narendra Modi will never become the Prime Minister of the country. But if he wants to distribute tea here we will find a place for him. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Ivanka Trump: From selling tea to becoming PM Modi showed transformational change is possible Delhi Confidential: Bouquet Ban Tags: Bharatiya Janata Party Congress Narendra Modi Written by Apurva | Beijing | Published: November 29 2017 12:01 am Zhang Yang (File Photo) Related News Donald Trump wants China to put maximum pressure on North Korea: White HouseChinese President Xi Jinping offers support for Saudi amid regional uncertaintyChinese President Xi Jinping makes state visit to VietnamA senior Chinese general and Central Military Commission (CMC) member committed suicide in Beijing last week two months after a probe was launched against him for suspected corruption state-run media reported Tuesday. Xinhua reported Zhang Yang was found dead at his Beijing home on November 23. Zhang Yang committed suicide after authorities launched an investigation into his links to two corrupt former senior military figures Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou Xinhua reported quoting the CMC. The CMC is in charge of China s armed forces army navy air force and rocket force. It was reshuffled at the recently-concluded Communist Party of China s 19th National Congress in October. Zhang and another general were left out as military delegates to the National Congress. Guo and Xu were former CMC vice-chairmen. Zhang headed CMC Political Work Department which is responsible for the military s Party construction organisation and political education. It is considered the military s lifeline. Xinhua reported the CMC held talks with Zhang to probe his links to Guo and Xu in August. Investigators said that Zhang had seriously violated discipline and law. He was also suspected of offering and accepting bribes and holding a huge amount of property from unidentified sources Xinhua reported. A commentary in the military s PLA Daily called Zhang s suicide disgusting . Evading the punishment of Party discipline and law by committing suicide was disgusting conduct the case of Zhang Yang shows that a lot still needs to be done in eliminating the pernicious influence of Guo and Xu and in the construction of Party conduct and honest clean government as well as in the fight corruption. President Xi Jinping has led a sweeping campaign against corruption over the last few years. Last week top anti-graft watchdog announced Lu Wei former deputy chief of the Party s Publicity Department was under investigation. For all the latest World News download Indian Express App More Related News China President Xi Jinping vows to open wider while defending jobs China will work to safeguard South China Sea peace: Xi Jinping tells Rodrigo Duterte Tags: Xi Jinping

BJP Releases Sixth List of Candidates For Gujarat Polls, Bhupendrabhai Patel Among Key Names


LUCKNOW: This municipal election BJP has branded Azam Khan a ulti khopdi ka mantri. (Irrational minister). Bhartiya Janata Party has determined a punching bag in former urban improvement minister and SP chief Azam Khan this time. Chief minister Aditya Nath Yogi while has stayed away from for my part attacking his opponents nation BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey has opened a the front against Azam Khan former city improvement minister in Akhilesh Yadav authorities. In nearly every public assembly which state BJP president has held in special districts until date he has not named blamed and shamed former CM Akhilesh Yadav a lot from the dias as Khan. Sample this at some point of the launch of BJP sankalp-patra on November 12 birthday party president stated The city development minister of previous nation authorities made it so tough for our mayors to paintings. He added It isn't in shape for the occasion that I name him (the minister) but he has spoken in opposition to the u . S . Also. I fail to recognize him. On November 14 whilst BJP launched its municipal election campaign from Ayodhya Pandey attacked Khan again. This time calling him ulti khopdi ka mantri . On November sixteen addressing a public assembly in Sonbhadra BJP country president stated pehle ki sarkar ke nagar vikas mantri ne sabhi vikas ki yojnaon ko latkaye rakha (the urban improvement minister of the previous government saved all of the improvement initiatives on preserve). The minister disturbed all the wards and did no longer allow absolutely everyone to work freely which affected all schemes he said. A celebration insider stated What the leaders say from the dias is not scripted. It is impromptu. Moreover it's miles based totally on party s and leader s personal analyzing of the ground realities. Who else is to be blamed for lack of improvement in urban our bodies? On November 18 in Muzaffarnagar Pandey accused Khan of troubling mayors. Azam Khan jaisa ulti khopdi ka aadmi nagar vikas mantralaya ko chalata tha. Woh na Akhilesh ke chacha ki sunta tha na chachi ki. (Azam Khan ruled the city improvement ministry. He listened to none). He stated. While addressing a meeting in Lucknow on November 23 Pandey said Mulayam aur Akhilesh ne nagar nikaay apne nagar vikas mantri ke naam daakhil-kharij kar diya tha (Mulayam and Akhilesh had it appeared surpassed over the ownership of nearby our bodies to their city development minister. While BJP s assault on Khan might not be without reason as local frame elections focus on urban troubles and concrete citizens and Khan became the urban improvement minister inside the previous Samajwadi Party authorities however criticising him in each marketing campaign speech from the public dias may be the celebration s past-the-apparent move. AHMEDABAD: BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday dared Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi to make public the quota formula that the opposition party has sealed with the Patidar Andolan Anamat Samiti (PAAS) to provide reservations to the Patidar network. If feasible they (Congress) should public it. He (Rahul) is coming here tomorrow. Let him make the formula public Shah said at the India TV conclave here. They have to include a draft and let there be a debate among constitutional experts like Harish Salve and Soli Sorabjee and not among (Congress ) Kapil Sibal or (BJP s) Ravi Shankar Prasad. If they don t make it public the human beings of Gujarat will sense cheated he delivered. Shah said that his Bharatiya Janata Party will never motel to fake promises. We do now not make fake guarantees to win elections he said. The BJP chief stated that the firing on Patidar protesters resulting in deaths changed into sad and unfortunate and a judicial probe headed through a retired High Court judge has been ordered. Those responsible could be punished. No one may be spared he said. Hitting out at Congress Shah said that the birthday celebration surrendered before three younger leaders suggests it financial disaster and also loss of its management. They have been sure to outsource leaders. In business you could advantage by means of outsourcing but you can not get gain in politics by means of outsourcing leaders. This is the reputation of their bankruptcy. They don t have even a prime ministerial face. The human beings of Gujarat desires to recognize about the Chief Minister who can take the kingdom forward. He said. Claiming that BJP gets 150-plus seats in Gujarat meeting polls Shah came down closely on Rahul Gandhi for his rate that due to the Nano automobile task there was a lack of Rs 33 000 crore to the state exchequer. He need to know that Nano is most effective a emblem and the enterprise belongs to Tatas. They can manufacture different automobiles inside the manufacturing facility. I don t realize who recommended Rahul to raise this difficulty he stated. Shah ridiculed Gandhi s rate that BJP authorities within the country turned into favouring 5 or six industrialists. In 2007 elections too they alleged we were assisting 5 industrialists and five crore people of Gujarat responded. In 2012 election they once more alleged 5 industrialists have been being favoured and five.Five crore human beings replied thru ballot . This time they've again stated 5 industrialists are being favoured and 6.Five crore human beings of Gujarat will reply. He additionally rejected allegations that awful loans of industrialists were written off. Narendra Modi authorities has now not written off a unmarried rupee of horrific mortgage for any industrialist he said. The BJP president said that Prime Minister Modi was in my opinion searching into all issues being faced via traders on the GST issue. In 3 to 4 months GST will come to be a model consumer regulation changing 18 distinctive laws and inspector raj will quit he brought. ALSO READ Ravi Shankar Prasad hits again at Congress over deliberate delay in winter Parl session Ravi Shankar Prasad laughs off Congress horse-trading accusation Ravi Shankar Prasad leads Tiranga Yatra in Patna Congress slams Prasad for making personal feedback approximately Rahul Congress levelling false allegations on BJP over NOTA: RS Prasad span.P-content material div identification =div-gpt line-peak: 0px; font-length: 0px; The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday all over again prodded the Congress on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel being sidelined inside the birthday celebration cadres and requested the grand vintage party why it did now not hassle to honour him with the Bharat Ratna for 41 years. The Congress now at this vital juncture recollects that Sardar Patel changed into additionally a Congress chief which feels suitable to pay attention after see you later. We in no way claimed Sardar Patel as ours; he has always been related to the Congress. The query is the way this birthday party behaved with him and the way he turned into handled. Sardar Patel died in 1950 and he acquired the Bharat Ratna in 1991 that's a big insult. Nehru ji Radhakrishnan Rajendra Prasad Rajiv Gandhi and Zakir Hussain received the award which is absolutely applicable as they deserved it. But why wasn t Sardar Patel given the award for 41 years? Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stated in a press briefing. He added There were 555 provinces in India of which 554 had been treated by means of Patel and one changed into underneath Jawaharlal Nehru which became Kashmir and we will nevertheless witness its situation. Did he no longer deserve the award? This query is relevant as in recent times the Congress is so involved approximately the Patidar community he further stated.In the run-as much as the Gujarat Assemby polls the BJP has repeatedly slammed the Congress for now not according due appreciate to Sardar Patel.The combat over Sardar Patel s legacy escalated on October 31 while Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress for having attempted to run down and erase the former s contributions to the unification of the united states of america after Independence.(This story has no longer been edited by Business Standard group of workers and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) NEW DELHI. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arjun Gupta wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting an investigation into allegations that Padmavati is financed from Dubai mentioned ANI. Arjun who is additionally Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) member wants a probe by using Enforcement Directorate into allegations levelled by way of colleague and veteran BJP leader Subramanian Swamy earlier this month. Swamy had claimed that Sanjay Leela Bhansali s magnum opus had obtained funding from Dubai. Arjun further questioned how the film turned into shown to British Board of Film Classification with out getting a CBFC certificate in India. BJP Leader and Censor Board member Arjun Gupta writes to PM Modi requests ED research into allegations of Sub... Https://t.Co/RosbUOBC5W ANI (@ANI) 1511802581000 Arjun has been at the leading edge of leaders in search of a ban on Padmavati . He even desired a sedition case registered towards Bhansali and he be attempted for treason for distorting history . In a letter addressed to Home Minister Rajnath Singh the BJP leader had stated The entire usa now not just the Rajput community is status in opposition to it. He needs to be significantly punished with the aid of being attempted for treason for his try to distort records so that in future any filmmaker is wary of these type(s) of projects. Now Arjun needs Swamy s accusations to be taken seriously by PM. Earlier a right- wing organization Virat Hindustan Sangam floated via Rajya Sabha MP Swamy had held protests in opposition to Padmavati in Patna and burnt the effigy of Bhansali. Swamy additionally questioned in a tweet if Dubai became going to fund every other Bollywood movie with the intention to distort Ramayana. Was any other Bollywood Producer getting finance from Dubai to provide a new version of Ramayana displaying Sita being born from Ravana s sneeze? Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) 1510898169000 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday stated Sanjay Leela Bhansali s film Padmavati will no longer be released within the kingdom until the director has clarified his stand at the controversy The Indian Express suggested. The film starring Deepika Padukone Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor has been within the midst of a problem due to the fact January with Rajput organizations and others accusing Bhansali of distorting history. As humans from numerous quarters were raising questions on Padmavati the director of the film have to make clear his stand Kumar said in step with The Indian Express. Till then the movie will not be shown in Bihar. He further stated that the filmmakers have to not have proven Rani Padmini dancing.However an IANS file claimed that Kumar has already banned the film in Bihar at the request of Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Neeraj Kumar Bablu. Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij too jumped into the controversy on Tuesday. He instructed ANI I am astonished that during a democracy we want court docket s permission to express ourselves. Kumar and Vij s remarks got here on an afternoon when the Supreme Court criticised the ones conserving power or public workplaces who've commented approximately Padmavati even as it is still pending earlier than the Central Board of Film Certification. The Supreme Court made the observations after ministers of Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have demanded that Padmavati be banned or no longer launched till modifications are made. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had said that the kingdom authorities will no longer take a selection till the censor board has given its decision. However West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah have overtly supported the film.The controversyIn the beyond few weeks Padukone and Bhansali have received some of threats. Mahipal Singh Makrana Rajput Karni Sena s country president openly threatened to chop off Padukone s nostril for her function inside the film. The Bharatiya Janata Party s leader media coordinator for Haryana Suraj Pal Amu announced a Rs 10-crore praise for everybody who beheads Padukone and Bhansali.After those threats Viacom18 Motion Pictures the co-producers of Padmavati said they'd determined to voluntarily defer the movie s release. The movie become scheduled to be out on December 1.

Why So Many Economists Are Disillusioned With the 'Gujarat Model'


Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017: PM Modi begins his campaign today from Morbi (File)Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four rallies in poll-bound Gujarat today where assembly elections will be held on December 9 and 14.The Prime Minister begins his campaign today from Morbi. He will then address a rally in Prachi which is near Somnath. PM Modi will then head to Palitana in Bhavnagar and also address a rally at Navsari in south Gujarat.The polling for the two-phase elections in the state having total 182 assembly seats will take place on December 9 and 14 and votes will be counted on December 18.While 89 seats of Saurashtra and South Gujarat region will go to polls in the first phase the election in the remaining 93 constituencies in central and northern regions will be held in the second phase.Here are the live updates of PM Narendra Modi s visit to Gujarat:Nov 29 201710:22 (IST) While PM Modi is back to campaigning in the state where he was in power for about 12 years after a day s break due to Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 in Hyderabad Rahul Gandhi also visited Gujarat last week to meet locals. Congress is trying hard to strike a chord with voters in the state where BJP has ruled for nearly two decades. Nov 29 201710:18 (IST) PM Modi s public meetings today coincide with Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi s rallies in the poll-bound state. Mr Gandhi will kick off his two-day tour to PM Modi s home state with a visit to Somnath temple. He will visit Gir Somnath Amreli and Bhavnagar districts. Nov 29 201708:16 (IST) PM Narendra Modi s first rally in Morbi was expected to begin at 9 am.No more content Muslims of Gujarat are completely missing from the ongoing electoral discourse despite being almost the every tenth person in the state and featuring prominently albeit as the villanised other in most recent polls. This absence or exclusion is not just in terms of a minuscule number of candidates from the community. No issue specifically concerning Muslims is being raised in any election speech or publicity material. Social segregation has become more evident for instance no one is even apologetic about their discomfort at having to take a seat adjacent to a Muslim in a cinema hall. Muslim localities in cities and towns are not on the must-visit list of any party. They account for 5.9% of the rural population compared to 14.75% in urban Gujarat. As against urban Gujarat social and economic alienation of Muslims is comparatively less evident in rural areas. While the declining number of Muslim candidates has been a trend of recent years issues affecting them are not being raised even by Congress. Congress has put up just six Muslim candidates BJP none again while back in 1980 it nominated 17. Since then the number declined but from 1998 it never entered double-digits. Ahmed Patel was the last Muslim member of Lok Sabha from the state in 1984 and since his election to Rajya Sabha no Muslim candidate has been put up in elections for the Lower House. With Rahul Gandhi now staying away from mosques and dargahs the party has firmly buried its politics of tokenism. This points to the success of the Sangh Parivar s strategy. If Congress considers wooing Muslims constituting 9.67% of the population it runs the risk of losing the support of Hindus. Despite Congress no longer chanting the M word interactions with Muslims reveal that an overwhelming majority of them are likely to vote for Congress candidates. Mention of Muslims invariably evokes images of 2002. Instead of being a monolith they are a diverse lot with 87 sub-communities and spread across the state. Although Bharuch and Kutch are the only districts with Muslim population of more than 20% Jamnagar Ahmedabad Junagadh Anand Surat Kheda and Patan have more than 10% Muslims. Their say in elections has however gone down post-delimitation because older constituencies with proportionally higher Muslims were divided into different seats. Analysis of electoral data demonstrates they don t only vote for Muslim candidates. A CSDS survey in 2012 estimated BJP receiving 20% Muslim votes mainly from the middle class. Along with other social groups whose continued support for BJP is being deliberated backing of this group is not certain. Of the agitations since 2015 by Patidars OBCs and Dalits Muslims empathise more with the last group. Jignesh Mevani s choice of constituency is motivated by the 25% Muslim presence in Vadgam taluka. Muslim activists prefer to maintain low profile for fear as one of them stated of coming into the notice of intelligence agencies. Most fear talking to anyone outside their community or peer groups. The fear of a stranger is all-pervading among Muslims. This is the reason why non-sectarian and issue-based protests cannot be organised in Muslim localities as any form of activism can easily be portrayed as an anti-national activity. Compared to previous polls post-2002 Muslims are relatively more circumspect. Probably they consider it prudent to quietly join those critical of BJP and let their fingers do the talking. Battling disgruntled ticket aspirants notes of discords from within and some last minute defectors the ruling BJP and the Congress finally released their final list of candidates on Monday the last day of filing nominations for the second phase of Gujarat polls.Congress BJP drop out nine sitting MLAsWhile the Congress has dropped four of its sitting MLAs the BJP left out five of its sitting MLAs with former chief minister Anandiben Patel among them. Anandiben the legislator from Ghatlodia seat of Ahmedabad city and also a minister in the outgoing Cabinet had earlier announced that she would not contest the polls this year.Apart from Anandiben the BJP has dropped minister Rohit Patel from Anand seat. The other MLAs who have not been given tickets are Nagarji Thakor RM Patel and Vinchhia Bhuria PTI reported.In Congress the sitting MLAs who have not been given tickets are Dharshi Khanpura Hira Patel Joitabhai Patel and Natvarsinh Thakor. For Mahudha seat held by Natvarsinh Thakor since long the party has chosen his son Indrajitsinh Thakor.Congress and BJP have both dropped few sitting MLAs and mostly played it safe. However this election has seen a marked change in Congress strategy which has refrained from reaching out to Muslims explicitly. ReutersCongress backs Dalit leader Jignesh MevaniThe main Opposition Congress while releasing its final list of 14 candidates left two seats for allies and backed Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani who is contesting as an Independent. The party did not field its nominee in Vadgam seat of Banaskantha a seat reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates in support of Mevani who led the Dalit stir against the BJP government in Gujarat.This election community over religionIt is no coincidence that nobody is talking about the Muslim vote bank this election season. The BJP is never known to explicitly woo the minority community; the Muslim voter has looked at the Congress as its only support. However the Congress this season adapted a different strategy prioritising winnability over anything else.And caste-based movements across Gujarat in the recent past the Dalit protests after the Una flogging incident and the Patidar agitation have sent the Muslims to the sidelines. And poll math only warrants a change in strategy.Muslim leaders in the Congress too are aware of the change in strategy as they cautiously defend the choice. According to The Indian Express Congress Muslim leaders said that it is part of its electoral strategy to avoid being projected as overtly pro-Muslim. This is being seen as a preventive move lest BJP tries to exploit such an image to mobilise the Hindu vote.A Firstpost report also suggested that the insecurity amid Muslims is on the rise. According to India Today Gujarat has at least 20 constituencies which have a sizeable Muslim population which can influence the electoral outcomes.The BJP has not given a ticket to any Muslim while the Congress has fielded six candidates from the community.Muslims account for 9.6 percent of the state s population as per 2011 Census data however they have a sizeable population in at least 66 assembly constituencies with the Muslim population varying from 10 percent to over 60 percent as per The Times of India report which extrapolated the Census data.Congress has fielded OBC leader Alpesh Zala (Thakor) popularly known as Alpesh Thakor in Radhanpur constituency. Radhanpur is a bastion of the Thakor community and is currently held by the BJP. Thakor recently joined the Congress in the presence of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.The Congress has been wooing community leaders like Hardik Patel of the Patidar quota agitation Mevani and Thakor to dislodge the BJP which has been in power in the state for over two decades.Payoff time for Chotubhai VasavaThe Congress has not fielded any of its candidates for five seats including four reserved for Scheduled Tribes (STs) under the seat-sharing agreement with its ally Bharatiya Tribal Party headed by former JD(U) MLA Chhotubhai Vasava. Vasava was the man who had pulled out Congress Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel from the jaws of defeat as the ruling BJP threw all its might ensure Ahmed s loss.Sources close to him had suggested that Vasava was flexing muscles to have a larger share of the cake as a payoff for ensuring Ahmed s win. He had actually asked for 19 seats and was adamant on getting at least 15 seats. Vasava s party is contesting five seats in the two-phase polls.For the first phase the Congress has fielded its candidates for 86 out of the 89 seats leaving out Jhaghadia Dediapada and Mangrol seats all reserved for Scheduled Tribe for Vasava s party.For the second phase the Congress gave two constituenices Morvahadaf (ST) of Panchmahal and Waghodia seat of Vadodara to Vasava s party. Both are currently held by the BJP.The 89 seats of Saurashtra and South Gujarat region are going to polls in the first phase while the remaining 93 seats in central and northern region will figure in the second phase. The polling for the 182-member Assembly will take place on 9 and 14 December and the votes will be counted on 18 December.Former Gujarat Congress president Siddharth Patel has been nominated for Dabhoi seat of Vadodara district while senior high court lawyer and party leader Babu Mangukia who had fought Hardik s sedition case initially has been chosen for the Thakkar Nagar seat in Ahmedabad city.BJP rewards defectors with ticketsThe ruling BJP has given tickets to Tejashariben Patel the former Congress MLA who joined the saffron party earlier this year and Kanu Makvana the son of former Congress MLA Karamshi Makvana who had crossed over to the BJP during the Rajya Sabha elections. The BJP has also made space for another Congress defector Amitbhai Chaudhary who had defeated a BJP candidate from Mansa constituency in the previous Assembly election according to Hindustan Times.Other Congress defectors who have found place on BJP candidate list include Raghavji Patel Dharmendrasinh Jadeja CK Raolji Mansinh Chauhan and Ramsinh Parmar.In its sixth and final list the party has given tickets to 12 sitting MLAs.The party has set to rest speculations and renominated Chief Minister Vijay Rupani from Rajkot (West) his deputy Nitin Patel from Mehsana and state party chief Jitu Vaghani from Bhavnagar (West).The BJP has fielded Bhupendra Patel from Ghatlodia represented by Anandiben while senior leader Kaushik Patel has been given the ticket from Naranpura which was earlier represented by party president Amit Shah. Shah had resigned as MLA after his election to the Rajya Sabha. Former minister and BJP spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas will be contesting from Siddhpur from where he had lost in the 2012 polls and the party has fielded Gujarati film actor Hiteshbhai Kanodiya son of former BJP MLA Naresh Kanodiya from Ider constituency in Sabarkantha district. Kanodiya too had lost the previous elections from Kadi constituency.With inputs from agenciesClick here for detailed coverage of Gujarat Assembly Election 2017 GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat s youth trio Hardik Patel Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mevani who shot to fame by burnishing their apolitical credentials have jumped on the political bandwagon at the first possible opportunity upsetting the apple cart. The reasons why they discarded their apolitical moorings may be varied but it may not be advantageous to Congress which had gained political capital by bagging the support of the Young Turks. Alpesh has been fielded by Congress from Radhanpur while Jignesh has filed his nomination as an independent from Vadgam with tacit Congress backing. Before announcing his support for Congress Hardik who can t contest because he is underage ensured that his supporters are fielded by the party. But the buck stops there. The transferable votes that either Hardik or Alpesh commanded are now being chipped away by BJP as both had initially projected themselves as leaders who stood for their community sans personal agenda. However with both joining the fray it has become easier for the ruling party to discredit them. Moreover aggressive members of PAAS have arm-twisted Congress to accede to their demands of changing candidates in several seats a fact which has not gone down well with Congress workers. Congress over-indulgence of PAAS has led to strong disaffection among some Congress workers who are in no mood to work for the Patidar candidates. Reliable sources from Surat told ET that while Patidar youths have put up a great show for PAAS favoured candidates much to the chagrin of Congress workers the ripple effect of this exercise has demoralised the Congress grassroots workers who are turning complacent leaving the electioneering exercise to PAAS. Jignesh Mevani on his part has seldom enjoyed mass support like Hardik and Alpesh. But he has hogged the limelight because of his communication skills. With less than 7% of Dalits scattered across the state he had a long way to cover before emerging as a Dalit leader from Gujarat. However with little or no transferable votes to his advantage his filing of nomination from Vadgam has only angered Congress workers who view him as an outsider to the constituency. This works in favour of BJP as Congress has not fielded any candidate against Mewani. Also Congress grand induction of Alpesh Thakor has revived the memories of KHAM (Kshatriya Harijan Adivasi Muslim) formulation of 1980s by Madhavsinh Solanki the father of incumbent Gujarat Congress president Bharatsinh Solanki. The KHAM formulation had won Congress its biggest ever electoral win with 149 seats in 1985. But it also led to severe alienation of Patidars and other general category voters keeping the party out of power in the state since then. NEW DELHI: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia alleged on Tuesday that the Rs 30.67-crore income-tax notice sent to Aam Aadmi Party was in reaction to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal s call to the people of Gujarat to defeat BJP in the assembly polls. With bundles of documents containing details of the donations on the table Sisodia claimed at a press conference that even a ten rupee donation has been accounted for. AAP is funded by honest and hardworking people s contributions said Sisodia. Kejriwal who had refrained from making direct attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after AAP fared far below expectations in Punjab and Goa has indirectly attacked the PM with his comments on the long-term impact of demonetisation and the after-effects of GST. Recently he observed that due to the growing discontent in the country the 2019 general elections will be a fight between Modi and the people of India and the people will defeat Modi. The I-T department has assessed AAP s income for financial year 2014-15 (assessment year 2015-16) at Rs 68.44 crore which includes receipts from donations and other income. The I-T department has said that AAP had not recorded donations of Rs 13 crore in its audited books. A party official however claimed that the total donations in 2014-15 was only Rs 54.14 crore and all the donations have been recorded. About Rs 37 crore of the Rs 54.14 crore donations were made by people who contributed more than Rs 20 000. The total funds received by the party since 2012 is Rs 130 crore said a party official. The motive behind the I-T notice is to crush AAP and it is part of a conspiracy said Sisodia. The donations we have received are from the common man and are not cuts for giving contracts or (for) middlemen. BJP thinks that a strong AAP will be a threat to it he said. Sisodia alleged that 70 to 80 per cent of the donations of Congress and BJP come from unknown sources. The donations of no other party are as transparent as AAP s...There is a nexus between Congress and BJP. The laws were changed when they were found wrongfully receiving foreign donations he alleged. About the alleged discrepancies in the details of donations submitted to the Election Commission and I-T department and what has been put on its website Sisodia said: There can be errors in calculations. There are legal provisions to correct such errors but that does not mean that all the donations will be declared illegal. In the I-T notice AAP was blamed for not filing replies and clarifications in an attempt to derail the investigation despite being given 34 opportunities to do so but the party has claimed it has filed replies and made representations to the I-T department at every opportunity. Our representatives made representations. The records can be checked said Sisodia. NEW DELHI: About 32 000 personnel of the central armed forces such as the CRPF and the BSF along with nearly 60 000 from the state police are likely to be deployed for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections officials said today. Around 320 companies of central armed police forces are being made available to the Election Commission for deployment in election duties in Gujarat. The security personnel will reach Gujarat in batches and all will be deployed as per the recommendations of the poll panel a home ministry official said on condition of anonymity. A company of central armed police comprises 100 personnel. In addition to the central police personnel nearly 60 000 state police personnel are also expected to be deployed in Gujarat. Elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly will be held on December 9 and 14. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be back in battlefield Gujarat today to power the electoral campaign of their respective parties in the bitterly-fought Assembly polls.PM Modi who launched a campaign blitzkrieg on Monday addressing four election rallies in different parts of Saurashtra and south Gujarat will hold four more today after a day s break during which he inaugurated the Global Entrepreneurship Summit and the Hyderabad Metro in the Telangana capital.PM Modi will address rallies in Morbi and Prachi villages near Somnath Palitana in Bhavnagar and at Navsari in south Gujarat today.Rahul Gandhi will also be in Gujarat on a two-day campaign tour. He will kick off the current trip with a visit to the famous Somnath temple. He has been repeatedly ridiculed by the BJP for visiting a string of temples in the state during the election campaign.The Congress vice president will visit Gir Somnath Amreli and Bhavnagar districts where he will interact with people and hold public meetings party sources said.Gujarat goes to polls in two phases on December 9 and 14 while votes will be counted on December 18.The Congress is seeking to dislodge the BJP from power in the state which the BJP has ruled for close to two decades now. JASDAN: PM Modi used his oratorical skills to connect with voters of his home state at an election rally in Rajkot s Jasdan on Monday. He reached out to Koli voters by underlining that the President belonged to their caste painted the Congress as opposed to Patidars and claimed the main opposition party never had the welfare of Gujarat at heart. Jasdan has sizeable Koli and Patidar voters. Speaking in Gujarati to a gathering of around 17 000 from six assembly seats of the region Modi had the crowd chanting his name often during his speech that lasted over an hour. Jasdan has voted for Congress except in three elections. Modi told the crowd that this was the reason why the rest of Gujarat progressed while the area lagged behind although the BJP government did not discriminate. Without naming Ram Nath Kovind Modi said while people from Gujarat could claim they could call up the PM now people from the Koli Samaj can directly dial the President. I feel such a sense of pride that the President of India is from the Koli Samaj. People in this democracy gave us the mandate that we could make their man the Rashtrapati. The Congress candidate is from the Koli community. Modi claimed the main opposition tried to dislodge a Patel who occupied the chief minister s seat in Gujarat always. He said Gujarat had four Patel chief ministers and each time the Congress worked to get them removed. Modi alleged that even in the case of Anandiben Patel Congress created problems that led to her removal. Modi alleged Congress treated Sardar Patel and Morarji Desai unfairly. The people of Gujarat have not accepted you and will never accept you Modi said adding that Congress was hurt that a chaiwala had become the PM. This was beyond their imagination Why such hatred for a tea-seller? Modi can sell tea but will never sell the country like you have done. I am a son of the soil. PM Modi took digs at Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi and said one who did not know what a sapling of gram looked like was talking about agriculture. Farmers of Gujarat are wise and not growing potato. Else they would have believed him about potato turning into gold.

GES-2017: Narendra Modi invites global entrepreneurs to invest in India


Hyderabad: A three-day international summit of entrepreneurs started here on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi hard selling India and inviting investors from across the globe to invest in India taking advantage of a friendly climate while President Donald Trump s daughter Ivanka said much remains to be done with regard to equitable laws for women in many developing as well as developed countries. To my entrepreneur friends from across the globe I would like to say: Come Make in India Invest in India - for India and for the world. I invite each one of you to become a partner in India s growth story. And once again assure you of our whole-hearted support Modi said while inaugurating the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit here.The event being co-hosted here by the US and India is being attended by 1 500 entrepreneurs investors and eco-system supporters from 159 countries.Modi told young entrepreneurs from India that each of them has something valuable to contribute towards creating a New India by 2022. You are vehicles of change and instruments of India s transformation. My government understands that an environment of transparent policies and a rule of law providing a level-playing field are necessary for entrepreneurship to flourish.Listing various steps taken by his government in the last over three years in improving the business climate Modi said the jump in India s ranking in the World Bank s Ease of Doing business Report from 142 to 100 in three years was a result of this.Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting the Advisor to the President of United States Ms. Ivanka Trump on the sidelines of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2017 in Hyderabad on November 28 2017. My government understands that an environment of transparent policies and a rule of law providing a level-playing field are necessary for entrepreneurship to flourish. A historic overhaul of the taxation system has been recently undertaken bringing in the Goods and Services Tax across the country. Our Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code introduced in 2016 is a step towards ensuring timely resolution for stressed ventures. We have recently improved this further preventing wilful defaulters from bidding for stressed assets he said.Touching on demonetisation the Prime Minister said tough measures have been adopted to tackle the parallel economy check tax evasion and control black money. Our efforts have been recognised by Moody s recent upgrade of India s government bond ratings. This upgrade comes after a gap of almost 14 years. India he said has improved its rank from 54 in 2014 to 35 on the World Bank s Logistics Performance Index. This signifies the relative ease and efficiency with which products can be moved into and from a country. An investment-friendly environment needs to be stable from the macro-economic perspective. We have succeeded in containing the fiscal and current account deficits and curbing inflation. Our foreign exchange reserves have crossed USD 400 billion and we continue to attract large foreign capital flows he said.Speaking before the prime minister Ivanka who is also the US President s Advisor said: When it comes to equitable laws while many developed and developing countries have made tremendous strides there is still much work to be done. She said in some countries women are not allowed to own property travel freely or work without the consent of their husbands. In some other countries the cultural and family pressure is so great that women do not feel the freedom to work outside the home. Our administration is striving to promote greater opportunity for women around the world both through our domestic reforms and our international initiatives she said.She also said that when women work it creates a multiplier effect and leads to more reinvestment in families and society. When women work it creates a unique multiplier effect. Women are more likely than men to hire other women and to give them access to capital mentorship and networks. Women are also more likely to reinvest their income back in their families and communities she said.She also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his belief that progress of humanity is incomplete without the empowerment of women. Just consider if India closes the labour force gender gap by half your economy could grow by over 150 billion in the next three years she said.Noting that this is the first time India has hosted the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Ivanka said it is a symbol of the strengthened friendship between our two peoples and the growing economic and security partnership between our two nations.Complimenting India for being one of the fastest growing economies globally lifting millions out of poverty and for the progress achieved in science and technology Trump said: The people of India inspire us all. The people of India have lifted more than 130 million citizens out of poverty. All of you are helping India s middle class reach its goal of becoming 500 million people by 2030. This year s summit is focused on a theme: Women First Prosperity for All.Stressing on women s achievements in India Modi said: In Indian mythology woman is an incarnation of Shakti - the Goddess of power. We believe women empowerment is vital to our development. Indian women continue to lead in different walks of life. Our space programmes including the Mars Orbiter Mission have had immense contribution from our women scientists. Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams both of Indian origin have been part of US space missions he added.Talking about Indian women empowerment Modi added: We have launched the MUDRA scheme to provide easy finance of upto one million rupees to entrepreneurs. Since its launch in 2015 over 90 million loans worth 4.28 trillion rupees have been sanctioned. Of these more than 70 million loans have been sanctioned to women entrepreneurs. The US State Department and other American agencies in partnership with NITI Aayog India s think tank are organising GES which seeks to create an environment that empowers innovators particularly women to take their ideas to the next level.The delegates include about 400 each from India and the US and the remaining from the rest of the world.This is the 8th GES which brings together entrepreneurs investors and eco-system supporters for mentoring networking and investment matchmaking. This is the first time that the event is being held in South Asia. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be back in battlefield Gujarat today to power the electoral campaign of their respective parties in the bitterly-fought Assembly polls.PM Modi who launched a campaign blitzkrieg on Monday addressing four election rallies in different parts of Saurashtra and south Gujarat will hold four more today after a day s break during which he inaugurated the Global Entrepreneurship Summit and the Hyderabad Metro in the Telangana capital.PM Modi will address rallies in Morbi and Prachi villages near Somnath Palitana in Bhavnagar and at Navsari in south Gujarat today.Rahul Gandhi will also be in Gujarat on a two-day campaign tour. He will kick off the current trip with a visit to the famous Somnath temple. He has been repeatedly ridiculed by the BJP for visiting a string of temples in the state during the election campaign.The Congress vice president will visit Gir Somnath Amreli and Bhavnagar districts where he will interact with people and hold public meetings party sources said.Gujarat goes to polls in two phases on December 9 and 14 while votes will be counted on December 18.The Congress is seeking to dislodge the BJP from power in the state which the BJP has ruled for close to two decades now. AHMEDABAD: Denouncing Prime Minister Narendra Modi s remarks that the Congress was levelling baseless allegations against the son of Gujarat the opposition party today said he was making emotional statements to run away from discussions on failed promises. If he was strong he should have called the winter session of Parliament and faced questions senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said. Why cannot we challenge the prime minister in Gujarat just because he is from Gujarat? Sharma sought to know. He (Modi) visits Uttar Pradesh and abuses (Samajwadi Party leader) Akhilesh Yadav goes to Bihar and abuses (RJD chief) Lalu Yadav insults Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh he alleged while talking to reporters. We are not insulting you but should we also not ask any questions? Sharma said. Modi during a rally in Gujarat yesterday attacked the Congress saying the opposition party leaders were hurling baseless allegations at the son of Gujarat . Sharma claimed that Modi had no tolerance and democratic mindset which is why he said so. Your (Modi s) big promises have turned out to be a lie and you are running away from discussions and only making false emotional statements the Congress leader charged. He claimed that Modi hates truth he often lies. He is loud but not strong. If he was strong he should have called the winter session of Parliament and faced questions . Sharma also said that today he sent a book to the prime minister titled Journey of the Nation which details the 125 years of history of the Congress so that Modi could put history in perspective. In response to Modi s allegations that the Congress insulted Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel he said the Iron Man was among the country s great leaders and freedom fighters. He was a Congress leader and the deputy prime minister. Both Pandit (Jawaharlal) Nehru and Sardar admired each other he said. When Modiji sets up the Statue of Unity I would request him to put a copper plate with a letter from Sardar Patel dated February 4 1939 which he wrote to RSS chief M S Golwalkar on Mahatma Gandhi s murder he said. Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017: PM Modi begins his campaign today from Morbi (File)Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four rallies in poll-bound Gujarat today where assembly elections will be held on December 9 and 14.The Prime Minister begins his campaign today from Morbi. He will then address a rally in Prachi which is near Somnath. PM Modi will then head to Palitana in Bhavnagar and also address a rally at Navsari in south Gujarat.The polling for the two-phase elections in the state having total 182 assembly seats will take place on December 9 and 14 and votes will be counted on December 18.While 89 seats of Saurashtra and South Gujarat region will go to polls in the first phase the election in the remaining 93 constituencies in central and northern regions will be held in the second phase.Here are the live updates of PM Narendra Modi s visit to Gujarat:Nov 29 201710:22 (IST) While PM Modi is back to campaigning in the state where he was in power for about 12 years after a day s break due to Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 in Hyderabad Rahul Gandhi also visited Gujarat last week to meet locals. Congress is trying hard to strike a chord with voters in the state where BJP has ruled for nearly two decades. Nov 29 201710:18 (IST) PM Modi s public meetings today coincide with Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi s rallies in the poll-bound state. Mr Gandhi will kick off his two-day tour to PM Modi s home state with a visit to Somnath temple. He will visit Gir Somnath Amreli and Bhavnagar districts. Nov 29 201708:16 (IST) PM Narendra Modi s first rally in Morbi was expected to begin at 9 am.No more content By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad/vadodara | Published: November 29 2017 3:37 am Anand Sharma (File) Related News Gujarat elections Live Updates: Action packed day in Saurashtra as PM Modi Rahul Hardik to address ralliesPolice form human chain to avoid PAAS protests at Rupala s Surat meetingsGujarat elections: PM Narendra Modi Rahul Gandhi Hardik Patel in Saurashtra todayA day after Narendra Modi launched an all-out attack on the Congress in poll-bound Gujarat the party on Tuesday accused the Prime Minister of using vulgar intemperate and indecent language in his public speeches. His language is questionable. It is so vulgar that it is difficult for the Congress to reply to him in the same language He has no politeness and courtesy senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said in Ahmedabad. He also rebutted charges made against the Congress by Modi ranging from issues such as corruption to unfair treatment of Gujaratis and terrorism. Targeting the Prime Minister over his statement How dare you (Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi) come to Gujarat and abuse her son Sharma told reporters this reflected his arrogance . You (Modi) go to Uttar Pradesh and insult Akhilesh Yadav Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. You go to Bihar and insult Lalu (Prasad). And now you are questioning the opposition when they challenge you in Gujarat the former Union minister said. He alleged that the Prime Minister had brought down the level of political discourse to the lowest . Replying to Modi s charge that the Congress had sold out the nation he asked Why is he sitting silent and not initiating any action? On the issue of terror Sharma said his party does not want a sermon from Modi on fighting terrorism. Rahul Gandhi is the son of Rajiv Gandhi and grandson of Indira Gandhi who sacrificed their lives for the nation. He said it was during Jawaharlal Nehru s rule that Gujarat became a separate state in 1960 and it was the Congress that conferred Bharat Ratna on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. For all the latest Elections News download Indian Express App More Related News Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi makeover: Citizens take note of restraint with outreach to all For causing Sholay scare in Surat dacoits arrested Gabbar rides away Tags: Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four rallies on November 29 in different parts of south Gujarat where polling for the first phase of Assembly polls will be held on 9 December.On the morning of 29 November Modi will address people in Morbi district which was one of the worst affected districts in the floods that ravaged the state of Gujarat earlier this year. The seat has been held by BJP since 1995 and the party has chosen to field its sitting MLA Kantibhai Amrutiya against Congress Brijesh A Merja.File image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. APLater the prime minister will address rallies in Prachi town in Junagadh district Palitana in Bhavnagar district and Navsari town in Surat district.Navsari is considered a BJP bastion as the party has retained the seat since 1990. However this time around Rahul Gandhi pulled a considerable crowd at his rally in the town.The BJP also faced some friction as BJP workers took out a huge rally in Navsari demanding that party leadership announce a new face the constituency The Times of India reported. The party has however chosen to field the sitting MLA Piyush Desai. Each rally has been organised in such a way that people from five to six surrounding constituencies can also attend it Gujarat BJP in-charge Bhupender Yadav Yadav told PTI.The polling for the two-phase elections in the state having total 182 Assembly seats will take place on 9 and 14 December and votes will be counted on 18 December.While 89 seats of Saurashtra and South Gujarat region will go to polls in the first phase the election in the remaining 93 constituencies in central and northern regions will be held in the second phase.Modi who started his high voltage campaign with rallies in Bhuj in Kutch district Jasdan in Rajkot Chalala in Amreli and Kadodara near Surat on 27 November took on the Opposition Congress on issues related to China Lashkar-e-Taiba s Hafiz Saeed the surgical strike as well as corruption.With inputs from PTIClick here for detailed coverage of Gujarat Assembly Election 2017 Written by Sreenivas Janyala | Hyderabad | Published: November 29 2017 3:17 am Prime Minister Narendra Modi accompanied by Telangana Governor ESL Narsimhan and Chief Minister K Chandrasekar Rao taking a ride in a metro train after launching the Hyderabad Metro Rail in Hyderabad on Tuesday. (PTI Photo) Related News Gujarat elections Live Updates: Action packed day in Saurashtra as PM Modi Rahul Hardik to address ralliesGujarat elections: PM Narendra Modi Rahul Gandhi Hardik Patel in Saurashtra todayIvanka Trump: From selling tea to becoming PM Modi showed transformational change is possiblePrime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Hyderabad Metro Rail at 2.15 pm on Tuesday. A woman loco-pilot S Supriya was in the driver s seat as the PM and other dignitaries took a ride on the inaugural run from Miyapur station. Modi was accompanied by Telangana Governor E S L Narasimhan Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and state BJP chief K Laxman among others. A mobile app named T Savari for Metro passengers was also launched by Modi. The Metro will open for the public on Wednesday. CM Rao looked glum through the inauguration. He did not sit beside Modi on the train leaving Narasimhan and son K T Rama Rao a minister in his Cabinet to sit on either side of the PM. In fact Rao who had been refused a one-on-one audience with Modi to discuss the 12 per cent minority quota hardly spoke throughout the half-hour that he was with the PM at the inauguration. Read | Hyderabad Metro: Fares timings routes and other features While Rao may have felt ignored Modi insisted that the CM and his son be beside him when he cut the ribbon for the Metro. A metro train runs on its tracks after the inauguration of Hyderabad Metro Rail project in Hyderabad on Tuesday. (PTI Photo) At the GES inaugural ceremony though KCR was told to keep his speech under five minutes while Ivanka and Modi spoke for more than 15 minutes each. Earlier in the day the PM arrived at Begumpet airport to a rousing welcome by BJP leaders and workers. Addressing the gathering Modi said the world was looking towards Hyderabad as the city got ready to host entrepreneurs from across the world for the GES. Thanking the BJP state unit in Telugu for welcoming him Modi said Whatever the BJP is today it is due to the hard work and sweat of countless BJP workers and their families. He added We believe in cooperative federalism that will attract investment for business in India. There is no question of discriminating against states where we are not in power. We are committed for the overall development of our country The central government will provide all possible support to new projects and developmental activities taken up by all states in the country. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Delhi Confidential: Bouquet Ban Narendra Modi repackaged 23 welfare schemes of UPA government says Rajeev Shukla Tags: Narendra Modi Former president Barack Obama has embarked on a three-nation tour with stops in China India and France during which he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi his office announced Tuesday.The tour comes just two weeks after President Donald Trump held a summit with Xi in Beijing.Obama was scheduled to open his trip Tuesday in Shanghai where he will hold private meetings and speak at a trade summit. On Wednesday he will participate in an education summit in Beijing and meet with Xi.In a news release Obama s office said the former president had forged a close and cooperative partnership with President Xi on issues ranging from growing the global economy to combating climate change and he looks forward to catching up with his former counterpart. In November 2014 Obama and Xi announced a climate agreement which was a precursor to the Paris climate accord signed by nearly all the nations in the world. Trump has announced his administration s intent to withdrawn the United States from that agreement at the earliest opportunity in 2020 a move Obama has publicly criticized.In New Dehli on Thursday Obama is scheduled to speak at the HT Media Leadership Summit and meet with Modi. On Friday Obama will hold a town-hall-style event for the Obama Foundation with an estimated 280 young leaders from across India his office said. The Town Hall will expand the conversation about what it means to be an active citizen and to promote positive change Obama s office said.In Paris on Friday and Saturday Obama will speak at the introductory session of the Les Napoleons Summit and hold private meetings.(Except for the headline this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

GES 2017: Modi woos global investors, pitches Make in India


Hyderabad: A three-day international summit of entrepreneurs began here on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tough promoting India and welcoming buyers from throughout the globe to invest in India taking benefit of a friendly weather whilst President Donald Trump s daughter Ivanka stated tons stays to be carried out with reference to equitable laws for girls in many growing as well as evolved nations. To my entrepreneur buddies from across the globe I would really like to mention: Come Make in India Invest in India - for India and for the arena. I invite each one of you to come to be a associate in India s increase tale. And once more assure you of our entire-hearted support Modi said whilst inaugurating the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit right here.The event being co-hosted here with the aid of america and India is being attended by way of 1 500 marketers buyers and eco-gadget supporters from 159 international locations.Modi instructed young entrepreneurs from India that each of them has some thing precious to contribute towards creating a New India with the aid of 2022. You are cars of alternate and gadgets of India s transformation. My authorities is aware that an environment of transparent guidelines and a rule of regulation supplying a stage-gambling field are necessary for entrepreneurship to flourish.Listing diverse steps taken by means of his government within the final over three years in improving the commercial enterprise climate Modi said the jump in India s ranking within the World Bank s Ease of Doing commercial enterprise Report from 142 to a hundred in three years become a end result of this.Prime Minister Narendra Modi assembly the Advisor to the President of United States Ms. Ivanka Trump at the sidelines of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2017 in Hyderabad on November 28 2017. My authorities knows that an environment of obvious regulations and a rule of law offering a level-playing subject are important for entrepreneurship to flourish. A ancient overhaul of the taxation device has been recently undertaken bringing within the Goods and Services Tax across the usa. Our Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code delivered in 2016 is a step towards ensuring well timed resolution for pressured ventures. We have recently stepped forward this similarly preventing wilful defaulters from bidding for burdened belongings he said.Touching on demonetisation the Prime Minister stated hard measures were adopted to address the parallel economic system test tax evasion and control black money. Our efforts were acknowledged by means of Moody s recent improve of India s authorities bond scores. This upgrade comes after an opening of just about 14 years. India he said has stepped forward its rank from 54 in 2014 to 35 at the World Bank s Logistics Performance Index. This indicates the relative ease and efficiency with which products can be moved into and from a country. An investment-friendly surroundings needs to be strong from the macro-economic angle. We have succeeded in containing the economic and current account deficits and curbing inflation. Our foreign exchange reserves have crossed USD four hundred billion and we preserve to draw big overseas capital flows he stated.Speaking before the top minister Ivanka who's also the USA President s Advisor stated: When it comes to equitable laws whilst many advanced and developing international locations have made terrific strides there is nonetheless a whole lot paintings to be finished. She said in a few countries ladies aren't allowed to very own property journey freely or work with out the consent of their husbands. In a few other international locations the cultural and circle of relatives pressure is so super that girls do no longer sense the freedom to paintings outside the home. Our administration is striving to sell more opportunity for ladies round the world both via our domestic reforms and our global initiatives she said.She additionally said that after girls work it creates a multiplier effect and leads to greater reinvestment in households and society. When women work it creates a unique multiplier effect. Women are much more likely than men to lease other women and to offer them access to capital mentorship and networks. Women are also much more likely to reinvest their profits returned in their families and groups she stated.She also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his perception that development of humanity is incomplete with out the empowerment of women. Just bear in mind if India closes the labour pressure gender gap by means of 1/2 your economic system should develop by over 150 billion inside the subsequent 3 years she said.Noting that that is the primary time India has hosted the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Ivanka stated it's far a symbol of the bolstered friendship among our peoples and the growing monetary and security partnership among our two nations.Complimenting India for being one of the quickest developing economies globally lifting millions out of poverty and for the progress executed in technology and era Trump stated: The humans of India encourage us all. The people of India have lifted greater than one hundred thirty million citizens out of poverty. All of you are supporting India s center elegance attain its intention of becoming 500 million humans with the aid of 2030. This yr s summit is focused on a subject: Women First Prosperity for All.Stressing on girls s achievements in India Modi stated: In Indian mythology female is an incarnation of Shakti - the Goddess of power. We agree with girls empowerment is essential to our development. Indian girls maintain to steer in one of a kind walks of lifestyles. Our space programmes including the Mars Orbiter Mission have had giant contribution from our women scientists. Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams each of Indian starting place were part of US area missions he introduced.Talking approximately Indian ladies empowerment Modi delivered: We have released the MUDRA scheme to provide clean finance of upto one million rupees to entrepreneurs. Since its launch in 2015 over 90 million loans worth four.28 trillion rupees have been sanctioned. Of those extra than 70 million loans had been sanctioned to women entrepreneurs. The US State Department and other American corporations in partnership with NITI Aayog India s assume tank are setting up GES which seeks to create an surroundings that empowers innovators especially ladies to take their thoughts to the subsequent stage.The delegates include approximately 400 every from India and the United States and the final from the rest of the sector.This is the eighth GES which brings collectively entrepreneurs buyers and eco-machine supporters for mentoring networking and funding matchmaking. This is the first time that the occasion is being held in South Asia. By Mihir Sharma According to certainly one of India s maximum respected bankers it s a as soon as-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- a massive sale of distressed belongings some 40 billion within the first spherical. Much should move incorrect of route in particular for the reason that such a lot of powerful pursuits have so much cash at stake in the method. Fortunately Prime Minister Narendra Modi s government which has stumbled in a number of its biggest policy actions these days seems to be coping with this specific task with both agility and a feel of urgency. That mindset should now be carried over into different parts of the reform schedule. The fireplace sale of property has been made viable through one in every of Modi s authentic achievements: the passage of a contemporary regulation to update the creaking ineffectual bankruptcy mechanism India had used in advance. The regulation offers courts the energy to appoint resolution professionals to sell off and revive investments and organizations financed by loans that have turned awful. The desire is that India s state-managed banks will recover some of their money and that the economy-extensive problem of stalled funding and stranded property might in the end begin to shrink. As has been made clear by using the botched rollout of a national goods-and-offerings tax however even a landmark reform can do amazing damage if now not handled nicely. One trouble with the new regulation has been obvious in view that the start: It didn t say whatever approximately who could or couldn t bid for those distressed belongings leaving open the opportunity that the same business enterprise proprietors who had bankrupted their companies -- lots of them powerful and politically linked families http://www.ourchurchvideos.com/37701/holston/uprofile.php?UID=534 -- may want to purchase them again at pennies at the greenback. This would possibly appear counterintuitive. Someone who s deep in debt wouldn t appear likely to be the winning bidder at a blind public sale. In India however corporation proprietors (or promoters in the local terminology) are adept at squirrelling away money -- whether or not employer revenues or funds borrowed with the company s belongings as collateral -- the use of complex organization holdings and privately held companies. At least some owners surely noticed the new financial disaster act as a way to hold manage of the companies they had mismanaged even as avoiding the need to pay off the loans that country-managed banks had unthinkingly exceeded them. At first nation banks appeared happy to oblige. Some senior bankers argued that the existing owners at least understood the sectors they were in and if they offered high bids banks ought to receive them as a way to preserve the value of the assets as far as viable. In one a great deal-publicized instance one of the banking system s largest debtors reportedly tied up with a Russian bank to bid for a metal business enterprise it had previously controlled. This loophole threatened to discredit the entire technique. Most observers have an understandably tough time know-how why proprietors who've tested their inability to judge marketplace situations or to abide via their guarantees must https://freesound.org/people/ladiesdress/ be handled like another bidder. Even if a number of them had defaulted due to a shift within the monetary climate as opposed to malfeasance or mismanagement the damage carried out to the credibility of the technique by which include them in auctions outweighed any possible advantage. So it s welcome that the government remaining week issued an ordinance enhancing the financial disaster regulation so that everybody who runs a corporation into the floor is forbidden to bid for a distressed asset. (Parliament still desires to ratify the exchange inside six months.) The authorities says that its amendments goal to maintain out such individuals who have willfully defaulted are associated with non-acting belongings or are habitually non-compliant and therefore are possibly to be a hazard to a hit resolution of insolvency of a organization. If nothing else because of this within the destiny proprietors can be faster to attempt to push their organizations into resolution; the law lets in them twelve months to elevate finances that might allow them to preserve manage. That need to assist clear the credit pipes a chunk faster. But there was continually intended to be a larger motive to financial disaster reform as properly: to revive a certain degree of religion in India s company zone which had sullied its popularity over the last decade as excessive-profile promoters took out loans they knew they couldn t repay defrauded traders and outright mismanaged their groups. A financial ruin process that ended with the identical bunch of capitalists on top of things of the same sectors would possibly have stored a few banks -- and taxpayers -- cash in the quick run. But it wouldn t have done the intention of restoring credibility whether or not in country-controlled banks or in bothered infrastructure companies. The new ordinance gives the investment-starved Indian economy a chance to regain some dynamism and for investors to begin to trust the non-public sector again. India Inc. Desires new blood and new faces. The government s looking to make sure it finds them. This column does now not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. The six British men acquitted of weapons costs after 4 years in an Indian prison could be home within 48 hours a relative has stated as they walked free from prison in Chennai. The so-called Chennai Six had been taken from a jail inside the city on the south-japanese coast of India with the aid of British consulate officers on Tuesday before telephoning their overjoyed households. Giving the thumbs up to photographers earlier than they had been driven to a close-by lodge the men were stated to be over the moon at their launch despite the fact that spouse and children said their ordeal could now not be over till the guys had lower back domestic. Lisa Dunn the sister of one of the guys Nick Dunn stated he had known as her inside an hour of being launched and that whilst she screamed down the telephone with pleasure he turned into very quiet he became quite subdued he regarded in shock a bit aggravating and on area . She informed the Guardian: They re determined to get movement on it however the Foreign Office have stated that they re hoping to get them out and home inside forty eight hours. They re certainly pulling out the stops this time. The former British servicemen have been working as protection guards at the American-owned anti-piracy vessel the MV Seaman Guard Ohio within the Indian Ocean after they had been detained in 2013. They have been accused of sporting unlicensed guns although they insisted they had been granted permits with the aid of the UK s Department for Business Innovation and Skills. The British government s head of export controls subsequently confirmed to the Indian court docket that Vince Cable the then enterprise secretary had granted licences for firearms in 2012 and 2013. Initially the fees had been quashed and the guys have been freed for a short time on bail but a lower court reinstated the prosecution and in January 2016 they were sentenced to 5 years in jail. It is thought the men met Sir Dominic Asquith the British high commissioner in India inside hours of being launched on Tuesday in a British embassy wherein the various men made calls domestic. Lisa Dunn from Ashington in Northumberland said: Our Nick whilst he phoned stated they re going to attempt to get us again inside 48 hours or as fast as possible however we nevertheless gained t relax and in reality the way Nick is sounding he gained t loosen up till he touches down on Newcastle tarmac. I m so excited proper realize but I understand that after I see Nick he s no longer going to be the Nick that we know and love. He s going to be extraordinarily on edge and very worrying understandably so. That s one of the predominant motives I ve flown out due to the fact I knew he was going to be feeling that way. He s my toddler brother and I can t let him go through the following couple of days on his very own. Dunn who flew from Heathrow to Chennai on Tuesday stated the British authorities had formerly failed the men via no longer pushing more difficult to get their enchantment heard quicker by using the Indian judiciary however that it now regarded to be a top precedence for senior diplomats. She added: They realize the men are innocent and now they re pulling out the stops and rightly so. It s no longer before time in any respect. It s a very worried time due to the fact they were on this position closing time however the Foreign Office failed them and said Let s wait and see for the enchantment. I think the Foreign Office realize they cannot permit that to appear this time round. The entire nation is in the back of them. Yvonne MacHugh the accomplice of one of the men Billy Irving from Connel in Argyll said she screamed with pleasure to hear his voice. She introduced: He s just over the moon and didn t think they might be released. He took the entirety that changed into said with a pinch of salt and didn t trust it. Joanne Thomlinson the sister of John Armstrong echoed Dunn s fears approximately the possibility of the men having to stay in India even as their paperwork become taken care of. She delivered: As ecstatic as all of us are at them being released there are going to be emotional issues round that and it is going to be difficult for them to conform. The six Britons which includes Dunn; Irving; Ray Tindall from Chester; Paul Towers from Pocklington east Yorkshire; John Armstrong from Wigton Cumbria; and Nicholas Simpson from Catterick North Yorkshire were arrested and detained in conjunction with 3 Ukrainians 14 Estonians and 12 Indians while customs officers and police searched their anti-piracy ship owned through US-primarily based organisation AdvanFort in 2013. A British consulate spokesman said: The government shares their happiness. We are running with the Indian authorities to talk about the following step and we can continue to offer the men and their households consular help for so long as wanted. Do you have a dream for the destiny? Justice DY Chandrachud requested 25-yr-old Hadiya inside the Supreme Court on Monday. Freedom launch! She answered.But freedom isn't always hers yet. The court has ordered that Hadiya who converted to Islam in 2015 in opposition to the wishes of her parents after which went directly to marry a Muslim guy will move again to homeopathy college in Tamil Nadu. She will not be restricted to her mother and father home in Kerala as she has been given that August. But in its order on Monday the Supreme Court also stated The dean of the university shall method this court if there may be any trouble with reference to any element. The dean has already declared that he will no longer allow Hadiya to satisfy every body apart from her mother and father.Besides the marriage of her deciding on annulled by the Kerala High Court in May continues to be being handled as a terrorist conspiracy requiring an inquiry by using the National Investigation Agency. The Supreme Court overlooked Hadiya s repeated statements that she wanted to see her husband Shafin Jahan whom she married last December. In reaction to her announcing that her husband may want to cope with her Justice Chandrachud condescendingly informed her a husband can't be his wife s guardian. A spouse isn't chattel. She is an man or woman together with her personal thoughts and talents...You have to have the potential to get up for your very own ft and stay a existence of dignity. But this is precisely what Hadiya became pronouncing most effective the Supreme Court justices have been not listening. In truth that is what the young woman has been saying and trying to do all along. She has proven that she has a thoughts of her own and the ability to rise up for herself. But the courts have handled Hadiya as if she has no mind at all or really now not a mind she has any control over. It is a court that dissolved her marriage and a court docket that placed her in her father s custody. It is a court docket that has allowed her to go back to university and made the college dean who will determine whom she will be able to and cannot meet her de facto parent. It is the same courtroom that rather than overturning the High Court s bizarre annulment of her marriage ordered an research into her conversion and marriage by using India s anti-terror organisation.The courts have treated Hadiya like she is chattel. The Kerala High Court handled her as if she was her father s property as a person who does not have the right to pick her religion or whom to marry. The Supreme Court too has handled her as a person without the right to choose the way to live whom to marry or maybe to claim that she has a husband who can aid her.Hadiya instructed the apex court on Monday that she had suffered 11 months of intellectual harassment . The courts colluded in this. That the picks she has made as an adult are situation to the authority of court docket selections is what denies her a life of dignity . A gender problem indeedWhile the apex court docket dithered over whether or not to pay attention Hadiya on Monday legal professional Indira Jaising stated that if it changed into a person in Hadiya s place the court could have responded in another way. The court docket s sharp response it criticised Jaising for bringing in gender and asserted that it treats ladies and men alike advised that the judges of the Supreme Court are unable to become aware of what's patently an difficulty of gender justice.That Hadiya became in court in any respect is due to the fact she is a lady. That her marriage become annulled without the court docket even asking her if she had consented to it's miles due to the fact she is a lady. That the courtroom positioned her an person in the custody of her father is because she is a female. That she became declared to be indoctrinated or of unsound mind is due to the fact she is a girl. That a Supreme Court choose after hearing her speak her mind felt the need to inform her that a female is an man or woman together with her own thoughts is due to the fact she is a lady. This is how women have been handled for millennia and in India it seems even contemporary legal guidelines are not any protection. Women who get up for themselves take decisions about their lives that move towards the needs of their mother and father specially the ones girls whose marriages transgress socially enforced boundaries of caste religion and place are a danger to the primordial social structures that still cohere our present day nation. In a few elements of India dad and mom simply kill such errant daughters. In Kerala they use the courts and terrorism legal guidelines against them. Hadiya selected a specific faith from that of her own family s and a husband now not of their choosing. This turned into enough to have her declared indoctrinated unstable and a sufferer of what became described as mental kidnapping . In response Hadiya has reaffirmed that a woman has the right to pick out how to stay her own lifestyles whom to love what creed to observe how to keep frame and soul together and specifically as she said in courtroom to be considered a person . Hadiya said in court before she left for her university and after she arrived there that she hoped for extra freedom and to fulfill Shafin Jahan in Salem. It is a desire that Hadiya will should hold directly to because the Supreme Court is in no hurry to permit her have the freedoms which are hers via right as a human being and as a citizen of India. NEW DELHI: India is getting set to offer to Singapore naval exercise and logistics facilities for you to include stay firing drills in the Andamans to feature to those already being provided to the military and air force of the city-nation for the ultimate 10 years. Visiting Singapore defence minister Ng Eng Hen who reached New Delhi from Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal on Tuesday will keep delegation-degree talks together with his Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman in South Block on Wednesday. The bilateral naval settlement is also slated to be inked for the duration of the talks. With land and airspace being a scarce commodity in Singapore the city country has been utilizing Indian army centers to educate its very own small but high-tech defense force beneath special agreements first signed in 2007 and 2008. India for example provides centers to Singapore for sporting events of mechanised forces at Babina and artillery at Deolali ranges in addition to for combatants at the Kalaikunda airbase. The countries additionally often hold the Simbex naval wargames which have graduated from being merely anti-submarine battle sporting events to complex ones related to a couple of facets of operations at sea. With a watch firmly on China India has during the last numerous years labored toward deepening army ties with Asean nations like Singapore Vietnam Myanmar Malaysia and Indonesia according with its Act East coverage. India for instance affords military elements and submarine schooling to sailors from Vietnam and will quickly start to also educate its fighter pilots on Sukhoi jets. Moreover it has also supplied BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles and Akash place defence missile structures to Vietnam. Similarly India has also presented to train Indonesian Navy in submarine battle in addition to maintaining joint fight physical activities with the united states. NEW DELHI: Former navy dictator of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stated this week that he is banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba s (LeT) biggest supporter and that he s aware they like him too. When asked with the aid of Pakistan s AryTV if he s similarly appreciative of LeT s founder and mastermind of the 26/eleven Mumbai terror attacks Hafiz Saeed Musharraf nodded pronouncing Saeed is concerned in Kashmir and he supports that involvement. Saeed a United Nations-certain terrorist became freed from house arrest closing week on an order from the Lahore excessive court docket. Musharraf in the meantime was declared a fugitive from justice by means of Pakistan in August this year. I am the most important supporter of LeT and I recognise they prefer me and JuD (Jamaat-ud-Dawa) additionally likes me stated Musharraf relating to each corporations founded through Saeed. JuD is the LeT s charitable wing. The US has also branded Saeed a terrorist and put a 10 million bounty on Saeed s head after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Musharraf claimed Saeed was now not involved inside the Mumbai terror attack in 2008 because Saeed himself denied the prices of being the assaults mastermind. Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf stirred fresh controversy via saying that he loves LeT and that the LeT l... Https://t.Co/1UkJyLlgjq TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) 1511925163000 The LeT is banned in Pakistan because 2002 and it turned into in reality the Musharraf government that banned the institution. When reminded of that fact Musharraf said he didn t recognize a great deal approximately Saeed at the time. He implied that he wouldn t have banned LeT if he had recognized greater about Saeed. We had banned LeT because the scenario turned into extraordinary at that point. We were shifting towards peace and as such I thought we have to lessen mujahids (religious warrior) and boom political communicate and admittedly I had very less know-how approximately him said Musharraf. LeT although banned it's miles widely believed to orchestrate attacks in India especially in Kashmir. For Musharraf that makes Saeed a-good enough. I was always in choose of action in Kashmir and of suppressing the Indian Army in Kashmir and that they (LeT) are the largest pressure. India were given them declared as terrorists via partnering with US stated Musharraf. The former army dictator was also reminded that he calls himself a liberal and a moderate. The interviewer wondered if that became at odds with Musharraf s admiration for LeT. He said it isn t. Yes I am liberal and mild... Those are my mind but that doesn t suggest I am towards all non secular leaders said Musharraf. This form of hypocrisy is common of Pakistan s status quo. On the only hand you may have Pakistan s foreign minister announcing on a public discussion board that Saeed is a legal responsibility for Pakistan - like minister Khawaja Asif did in New York in September - and on the other you have got the u . S . A . S army and its intelligence organization providing secure havens for terror organizations and terrorists. Which is why the president of an infuential US assume tank said this week it s a thriller why Pakistan remains considered a primary non-Nato ally . Richard Haass president of the prestigious suppose tank Council on Foreign Relations tweeted this week pronouncing Pakistan has harbored terrorists for years and offers sanctuary to the Taliban and others together with Saeed The Council on Foreign Relations president joins what s turning into a refrain of influential home voices asking that Pakistan s repute as a main non-Nato best friend be taken away. After Saeed changed into freed closing week a pinnacle American counter-terrorism expert advised PTI news employer that it s time to take away Pakistan non-Nato ally fame. Nine years after 26/11 its mastermind nonetheless eludes justice. It is time to rescind Pakistan s status as a primary non-NATO best friend said Bruce Riedel a top U.S. Professional on protection South Asia and counter-terrorism. Saeed s launch by way of the Lahore High Court came notwithstanding entreaties by way of a senior Pakistan finance ministry legitimate who stated that liberating Saeed might deliver diplomatic and economic problems to the u . S . Reported Pakistan s Dawn newspaper. Those entreaties manifestly fell on willingly deaf ears as the emboldened Lahore High Court even ignored the US administration s August chance to reduce off all useful resource to Pakistan if it doesn t stop presenting secure havens to retailers of chaos and terror . The US hasn t really observed up with stringent punishment when you consider that the ones fighting phrases in August from US President Donald Trump. In truth a large alteration to a invoice that could have pinned Pakistan down at the Saeed-based and banned agency Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) became watered down closing week in its final new release. The US Congress decided towards such as movement in opposition to terror organization LeT as a situation to reimburse Pakistan for its cooperation in the battle on terror . In September the version of the invoice handed by means of the US Senate said Pakistan should show it has taken steps to illustrate its commitment to save you the Haqqani Network and Lashkar-e- Taiba from the use of any Pakistan territory as a haven and for fundraising and recruiting efforts . Now Pakistan need to simplest display it has acted towards the Afghanistan-orientated Haqqani Network (no relation the Haqqani referred to in this article) and no longer the India-focussed LeT. HYDERABAD: Prime Minister Modi evoked inspirational testimonies of women from history and the agricultural heartland. Indian ladies preserve to steer in special walks of life. Our space programmes including the Mars Orbiter Mission have had great contribution from our ladies scientists he said. The PM also traced the important thing function ladies needed to play in cooperative and entrepreneurial actions like the milk revolution and Lijjat Papad. More than 60% workers in our agriculture and allied sectors are ladies. Our milk co-operatives in Gujarat and Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad are examples of a success and globally acclaimed ladies-led co-operative movements he stated. Reeling out a few key information at the fast strides India has made in ladies s empowerment he said 3 out of four oldest High Courts in India are now headed by using girls judges and girls have one 0.33 representation in rural and urban neighborhood bodies to make certain their participation in grassroot stage decisionmaking. He additionally known as upon younger marketers from India to make contributions toward creating a New India via 2022. Each of you has something precious to contribute... You are motors of trade and gadgets of India s transformation. And to marketers from across the globe gift at the summit he entreated them to Make in India Invest in India - for India and for the sector. I invite each certainly one of you to become a associate in India s growth tale. Lauding GES 2017 for connecting Silicon Valley with Hyderabad and show-casing the near ties among the USA and India he said it underlines the shared dedication towards encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation. And it become now not simply women empowerment and GES that the PM dwelt on. He additionally seized the event to introduce the worldwide target audience to key projects taken by means of his government like Make in India Mudra Scheme Aadhaar Bhim and simply presented them with a report card of his authorities s performance over the last three years. NEW DELHI: Nearly 15 worldwide players along with Samsung Construction and China Construction are competing with domestic-grown groups inclusive of L