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Short News Buddhist monk arrested for sexually abusing 15 children at school in Bodh Gaya
Patna: Nitish Kumar led government in Bihar suffered a setback after a Buddhist monk Bante Sanghpriya Sujoy was arrested for sexually abusing 15 children at a meditation school in Bodh Gaya. Sources familiar with the case told Deccan Chronicle that all the children were aged between seven and thirteen years. The case had surfaced when one of the victims informed his parents about the torture he and other children were facing in the Buddhist Novice School and Meditation Centre at Bodh Gaya. The police said that a parallel probe has also been launched against the Prajanna Social Welfare Trust which was managing the school.
Fodder scam case: Lalu Prasad Yadav surrenders before CBI court in Ranchi
New Delhi : Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav surrendered at a special CBI court in Ranchi on Thursday after the Jharkhand High Court cancelled his provisional bail earlier this week. “I am following the court’s order. I am unwell but I am still surrendering,” he told reporters outside court. The former Bihar chief minister, who has been convicted in four cases of the multi-crore rupees fodder scam, was granted bail on medical grounds in May this year. The high court had ordered him to surrender by August 30. Lalu’s doctors from Mumbai will do his medical checkup and inform the court about his condition, his lawyer told ANI Lalu who had been undergoing treatment in a Mumbai hospital.
Hizbul chief’s son arrested by NIA in Jammu and Kashmir SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) which is probing illegal funding, including through hawala channels, for militants in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday arrested Syed Shakeel Ahmed Shah, son of Hizbul-Muja-hideen ‘supreme commander’ Syed Salahuddin. The NIA said that Syed Shakeel was arrested during a raid at his residence in Srinagar’s Rambagh area at 3.30 am in connection with a 2011 terror funding case. It alleged that he used to receive funds through a United States-based international wire transfer company from Aijaz Ahmed Bhat, another accused in the case who is absconding and is presently based in Saudi Arabia. Syed Shakeel works a senior laboratory technician at Srinagar’s Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences.
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PM’s decision to demonetise cash in circulation was a move to help crony capitalists convert their black money into white.
Note ban wasn’t mistake, but done to destroy poor: Rahul slams PM Modi Jaitley hits back at Rahul: Rafale deal under BJP 20 pc cheaper than UPA’s
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that demonetisation announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016 was not a mistake but an attack on citizens to help big businesses. “Notebandi is nothing less than a huge scam,” the Congress president ripped into PM Modi and his government at the Centre at a press conference a day after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its annual report that over 99 per cent of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes banned by the Prime Minister in 2016 demonetisation have returned to the banking system. “The intention of demonetisation was to help the crony capitalists change their black money to white. This was done by destroying SMEs in a bid to help the big corporates. Demonetisation wasn’t a mistake. It was done intentionally to destroy the poor,” Rahul Gandhi said. “The RBI annual report proves that all his objectives failed. I want to state the real reason of demonetisation to everyone. PM Modi’s 10-15 capitalist friends were defaulters. He helped them to turn their black money into white,” the Congress president added. Intensifying his attack on PM Modi and his government, Rahul Gandhi said: “This (demonetisation) can’t be called a jumla, but it’s a scam.
New Delhi: As the war of words over the Rafale deal escalated, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that the fully weaponised fighter jets which his government is buying are 20 per cent cheaper than the ones offered under the previous UPA regime. Minutes after Congress President Rahul Gandhi launched a noholds-barred attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly helping only “1520 crony capitalist friends”, Jaitley took to the Twitter to say any diversionary tactic will not wipe out the falsehood of the opposition leader. “@ RahulGandhi has not read my question - The fully weaponised Rafale aircraft’s 2016 price is 20 per cent cheaper than the 2007 offer. This is what the 2015 statement of the PM and the French President refers to as ‘on terms better than the 2007 offers’,” he wrote.
The statement comes a day after the Supreme Court directed that the five activists be kept under house arrest.
Arundhati Roy, others seek action against cops for ‘vicious attack’ on activists New Delhi: Leading intellectuals and civil society members on Thursday demanded action against Maharashtra police for launching a “vicious and malafide attack” against human rights activists and called for an immediate end to “such political acts of vendetta”. The arrests of the five activists, in a nationwide crackdown on Tuesday, highlights the violation of all due procedures and is a mockery of the legal system, said a joint statement signed by author Arundhati Roy, lawyer Prashant Bhushan, as well as activists Aruna Roy and Jignesh Mevani, among others. The statement comes a day after the Supreme Court directed that the five activists
be kept under house arrest. They have also demanded that police return the laptops and mobiles seized during the “illegal arrest” of the activists. “They want to divert attention from real issue and discredit the dalit movement. The socalled Maoist plot to kill the Prime Minister is an effort to garner sympathy. Dalits will hold protest rallies at various places on September 5 against the government,” Mevani said at a press conference.
Stigma of caste never disappears from forehead of SC/STs: Centre tells top court New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved verdict on a batch of petitions relating to the issue whether quota should be provided for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in government jobs, even as the Centre asserted that the stigma of caste printed on the forehead of an SC/ST never disappears. A constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Kurian Joseph, Rohinton Nariman, S K Kaul and Indu Malhotra reserved the order with Attorney General K K Venugopal maintaining that there was no need for testing the backwardness of SC/ST employees
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while granting promotion. He said the discrimination still exists though the position of SC/ST has improved to some extent in the last 70 years. The bench was hearing a batch of petitions seeking reconsideration of the ‘2006 Nagaraj judgment’ against such quota. In October 2006, a fivejudge constitution bench in the case of Nagaraj vs Union of India has
concluded the issue by holding that the State is not bound to make a reservation for SC/ST in the matter of promotions. However, if they wish to exercise their discretion and make such provision, the State has to collect quantifiable data showing backwardness of the class and inadequacy of representation of that class in public employment. There must be compelling reasons, namely, backwardness and inadequacy of representation, which enables the States to provide for reservation keeping in mind the overall efficiency of the State administration.
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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India is committed to working with the BIMSTEC member states to enhance regional connectivity and combat the menace of terrorism and drug trafficking. Addressing the inaugural session of the 4th BIMSTEC summit here, PM Modi emphasised on India’s “cooperation and coordination” among member states in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts. Highlighting the scourge of terrorism, PM Modi said there’s no country in the region which has not suffered from terrorism and other transnational crimes such as drug trafficking linked to networks of terrorism. He also added that India is
ready to host a conference under BIMSTEC framework on narcotics-related topics. The BIMSTEC is a regional grouping comprising India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal. The grouping accounts for 22 per cent of the global population, and has a combined gross domestic product of USD 2.8 trillion. The Prime Minister also said that aside from diplomatic relations with all BIMSTEC countries, India is also strongly connected by civilisation, history, art, language, cuisine and shared culture. Addressing the summit, Nepal Prime Minister Oli said BIMSTEC is not a substitute to the SAARC and the two organisations can complement each other.
Jakarta : India’s 4x400m women’s relay team clinched its fifth consecutive gold medal in the Asian Games to maintain a remarkable domination in this event in the continental showpiece. The Indian women’s quartet of Hima Das, M R Poovamma, Saritaben Gayakwad and Vismaya Velluva Koroth ran 3 minute and 28.72 seconds to claim the gold.Bahrain (3:30.61) and Vietnam (3:33.23) took the silver and bronze respectively. India has been winning the gold in this event since 2002 Asian Games. India clinched the silver medal in the men’s 4X400 metre event at the 18th Asian Games here on Thursday. The Indian quartet of Muhammed Kunhu, Dharun Ayyasamy, Muhammed Anas and Rajiv Arokia clocked a time of 3 minutes and 1.85 seconds. Qatar created a newAsian record of 3:00.56 to win the gold while Japan finished the race in 3:01.94 to bag the bronze medal.
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The big messages from the new national accounts series
The Sudipto Mundle Committee’s estimates of the national accounts (base 2011-12) going back to 1993-94 are welcome because they enable us to make comparisons of growth during the life of different governments using a consistent time series. The Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation has stated that the report has been released for comments and could undergo some changes. On the assumption that changes, if any, are going to be minor, I thought I would use this article to extract the big messages that emerge from the new series. The average growth rate achieved during different governments is summarized in the table. Since I want to focus on production and income generation, I will discuss the growth rates from the series on gross value added (GVA which is the old factor cost). The growth rates from the gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices series are also reported for those interested. The Atal Bihari Vajpayee government gave us an average annual growth rate of about 5.83%. Manmohan Singh’s United Progressive Alliance (UPA) I delivered a stupendous average of 8.86%, which fell to 7.39% in UPA II. The 10-year average for UPA I and 2 is 8.2%. The average for the first four years of the Narendra Modi government is 7.22%, which is lower than UPA II. Growth projections for the current year vary from 7.3% to 7.5%. However, even if we get 7.5% growth, the five-year average of the Modi government will still be only 7.3%. To equal the UPA II performance, growth in the current year would have to rise to 8.1%. This does not seem likely. The government can claim that 7.3% is not bad, given how the rest of the world is faring. However, it is well below the acche din that were promised. The Economic Survey of 2014-15 had said that the economy was now well-placed to go back to 8-10% growth. Subsequently, government spokespersons lowered the bar to “8 plus percent”, but we are not there yet. Since employment expectations are linked to GDP growth performance, the reduced growth prospects raise legitimate questions about employment prospects. The growth rate of almost 8.9% achieved in UPA I (8.4% under the old series) was truly spectacular. It included a three-year run of 9.8% in 2005-06, 10.1% in 2006-07, and 9.8% in 2007-08. The UPA’s national common minimum programme published in 2004 had called for a range of 7-8% growth. Since the economy exceeded this target in the early years of UPA I, the 11th Plan GDP growth target was fixed at 9%. The new series shows that the growth achieved in the Plan period (2007-08 to 2011-12) was 8.5%.
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Shraddha Kapoor: Stree is an extremely hilarious and well-written film
New Delhi : Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor are extremely kicked about their upcoming release Stree, which will hit screens on August 31. The actors, along with Aparshakti Khurrana and Abhishek Banerjee, went live on Facebook to promote their film one last time. During the live, one of the fans asked Rajkummar Rao if the film has a message to which the actor replied, “There is no motto of the film but we are trying to question why only women are given guidelines to live by, like don’t go out in the night and other things. We have reversed the role in the film.”
Aparshakti remarked that it was fun to share screen space with such a cast. “I was already extremely excited about the fact that the film had such a good combination of actors,” the RJ-turnedactor said. Shraddha Kapoor expressed how fortunate she felt to be part of such an intelligent film with actors like Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi and others. “I feel it was a big thing for me to be offered such a role. I am blessed that Raj and DK (the producers) thought of me for this role. It is an extremely hilarious and well-written film.
Hollywood - Bollywood Sanjay Leela Bhansali miffed with reports of Aishwarya opting out of his film
Mumbai : Sanjay Leela Bhansali is miffed with reports suggesting that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan walked out of his next directorial because she wanted to work with Abhishek Bachchan in Anurag Kashyap’s Gulab Jamun. The actor-director duo has previously worked together in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas and Guzaarish. “Sanjay Leela Bhansali is very upset with the reports floating around the casting of his films as it is completely untrue. There were recent rumors of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan opting out of his film for Anurag Kashyap’s Gulab Jamun, when on the contrary, no such film has been offered to her. It was also reported that Aishwarya was offered Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat, but it is not true,” a source close to the ace filmmaker said. Aishwarya’s team also issued an official statement on the reports. It read, “These stories are totally baseless and untrue. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has immense love for Sanjay Leela Bhansali and will always be very keen to work with him and he knows that.” The source also shared that Bajirao Mastani was first offered to Kareena Kapoor Khan. He said, “When Bajirao Mastani was first announced over a decade ago, it was with Kareena Kapoor Khan. Padmaavat was offered to Deepika Padukone who was his only choice.
A source close to Sanjay Leela Bhansali says Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was never offered the ace filmmaker’s next project.
Vicky Kaushal: With Takht, I am going to enter scariest territory as an actor Mumbai : Actor Vicky Kaushal says it is “surreal” to be a part of Karan Johar’s Takht, a film which will require him to tread one of the “scariest territories” as a performer. Directed by Johar, Takht is based in the Mughal era and chronicles the story of two warring brothers.“Takht is one of the scariest territories I am going to enter as an actor. I can’t give out the details but for sure, it’s going to be something. I am filled with excitement and anxiety. It’s a good space as an actor. I am really anxious about what I’m getting into,” Vicky said. The actor recalls the time he got a confirmation call for the magnum opus while he was shooting for Uri in Serbia and “flipped” when he heard
Shashank recreates the ‘Raj- Simran’ moment with Kajol on COLORS’ Dance Deewane
Mumbai : The fun and entertainment will reach new heights on COLORS’ Dance Deewane, as the contestants and judges celebrate ‘parents special’ for the upcoming episode. Viewers are in for another treat, as Kajol will be seen making a guest appearance in the show to promote her soon to release film, Helicopter Eela. Sources from the set revealed that, “While the contestants gave a heart-touching performances to pay a special tribute to their parents, each of them also
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spoke about the sacrifices their parents had made to support their dream. These stories moved Madhuri Dixit and Kajol and left them with a teary eyed.” To cheer up everyone’s mood, Firoz from 3rd generation gave a very energetic and power-packed performance. After the performance, Firoz recalled the old days when he had danced with Kajol on the song ‘Mehndi LagakeRakhna’ from the iconic movie ‘DilwaleDulhania Le jayenge’.
the good news. “To see your name on a Karan Johar poster is as dreamy as his films. It took me some time to let it sink in that I’m one of the leads in a Karan Johar film. It is one of his biggest films ever so it feels surreal, overwhelming.” Vicky
recently worked with Johar in the director’s short in Lust Stories. “I’ve grown up watching his films, I’ve seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham so many times. He is an extremely special filmmaker.
Lady Gaga posts nude photos
los angles: Lady Gaga never ceases to surprise us with her quirky ways, but the pop star has truly outdone herself this time. Mother Monster shared a wild new set of photos with her 30 million Instagram followers, and they will send your jaw straight to the floor. Gaga is nearly completely nude in the images! In the first photo, the pop star is seen bent over as she puts a pair of nylons on, with nothing else covering her body. The Million Reasons singer has tattoos on full display, and
her entire slender frame is visible, aside from her breasts being blurred out! The images, taken by Eli Russell Linnetz, are a new level of risqué. Despite Gaga being covered by pasties and sheer white nylons in the second photo, the image still doesn’t leave much to the imagination! The artistic photos are more edgy than glamorous. She rocks heavy black make-up around her eyes, looking every bit the rockstar she is. Eli is the same photographer who shot an earlier set of photos of Gaga’s Instagram!.
It requires courage to return with a film like Manmarziyaan: Taapsee on Abhishek Bachchan
Mumbai : After a brief sabbatical from films, Abhishek Bachchan is returning with Manmarziyaan and his co-star Taapsee Pannu calls the actor’s decision to take a break extremely “brave and courageous.” Post his 2016 release Housefull 3, Abhishek took time off from cinema as he went on analysing his career and where it was headed. His decision to hold off for a while may show that the instability in the industry puts everyone on the
same level — be it a star kid or an outsider — but Taapsee says for her it only reflects one thing: strength. “Abhishek will sometimes be sure, sometimes unsure of things but you need strength to survive all the ups and downs. Then to take a break to sort things out and return with a film like Manmarziyaan. It is not a conventional heroic film for him to do. It is very brave and he is strong as a person to do that. It requires courage,” Taapsee said.
Priyanka Chopra expresses love for fiance Nick Jonas as he dons a Namaste t-shirt
New Delhi : Priyanka Chopra recently shared an Instagram story featuring fiancé Nick Jonas’ photo and a kiss emoji. We can also see Nick sporting a t-shirt with Namaste on it. One can only assume that is Priyanka’s effect on him as she must be teaching him a bit of Hindi. Priyanka got
engaged to Nick earlier this month and finally put the speculations to rest. For months, fans of the Desi Girl were waiting for an official confirmation as the rumours of the duo getting married were gaining steam. The couple did not make a statement about their relationship until
they got engaged at Priyanka’s Mumbai residence on August 18. Soon after their engagement, the two got immersed in their work. Priyanka resumed the shooting for the Shonali Bose directorial The Sky is Pink where she costars alongside Farhan Akhtar.
Kajal Maheriya is a queen of Gujarati folklore and known for her Raas-Garba singing in Gujarati music fraternity ahmedabad : Kajal Maheriya (also known as Kinjal Maheriya) is a queen of Gujarati folklore and known for her Raas-Garba singing in Gujarati music fraternity. Kajal first introduced in Jignesh Kaviraj Na Tale Album & Song Palodarma Besna Tara (2004). Kajal Maheriya has huge fan following on social media and her songs in YouTube capturing millions of views. She has given beautiful songs in all categories like devotional, folk, wedding and raas-garba songs. Early
in life: Kajal was born on November 21, 1992 in Gothava village of Mehesana District,Gujarat, India. Her father Naginbhai Maheriya is a farmer in Nugur town which is near to Mahesana. She developed singing style at very early in the life. During school time she started taking part in singing competitions at School’s Annual Function and later on in different singing competitions, that developed her passion for singing. She is married to Umang Gosai. She is
inspired by Bollywood Actress nushka Sharma and Actor Salman Khan. Awards & Recognition: Her first popular song ‘DJ Lagaan’ is DJ Wedding became popular in 2015-2016 at Modhera live in concert organised by Baba Khan. So far the folk singer has completed more than 700 Albums. Over 200+ Gujarati folk songs are already in her list enthralling to the music lovers all over the Gujarati presence in different parts of India and World.
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Wouldn’t have paid such a high fee for Cristiano Ronaldo, says former Juventus boss
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Cairo : Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi on Wednesday told reporters that he would not have signed former Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo if he was still in charge of the Italian Club. The Serie A Champions signed Ronaldo in a €100 million deal in the summer transfer window this year, breaking the club’s transfer record. Speaking to Italian newspaper Il Corriere dello, Moggi insisted the price paid for the Portuguese forward was way too much. “In terms of marketing, it’s a sensational deal. But I would never have spent such a high fee on a 33-year-old — and I would certainly not have announced it before selling Higuain, someone who scores 20 goals a season,” he said. Moggi, who served as the Juventus manager
between 1994 and 2006 further talked about how he managed to almost sign Ronaldo in 2003 before the deal fell through because striker Marcelo Salas denied a move to Sporting Lisbon and Juventus failed to pay a higher sum. “I actually signed Cristiano Ronaldo. He was 18 and he played for Sporting Lisbon. I saw him and the next morning I signed the contract for 5 billion lire (£2.3m) plus our Salas, who would have received a 1b lire (£470,000) loyalty bonus. But then Salas preferred River Plate and Manchester United came in for Ronaldo,” he said. “At the time, Juve were in a real crisis. We didn’t have a penny,” he added. Ronaldo had a tough start to his time in Italy as he has failed to find the back of the net even once in the first two league matches.
Kuwait : Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Director General Husain AlMusallam has told Reuters he hopes his native Kuwait will implement a roadmap proposed by the International Olympic Committee that will see it return to the Olympic fold ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games. Kuwait’s national Olympic committee has been banned since 2015 after the government was accused of interference with a new sports law. As a result, Kuwaiti athletes had to compete under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and they have
had no access to IOC funds. Earlier this month, the IOC provisionally lifted the ban shortly before the start of the Asian Games “as a gesture of goodwill to recognise the progress accomplished”, allowing the country to compete under its own flag in Jakarta. Al-Musallam said in an interview on Wednesday that several other countries had faced the same problem, the difference was Kuwait has been grappling with the issue for the last three decades. “This issue is not only in Kuwait but has happened in many other countries in the world.
Cairo : When Mohamed Salah is on the offensive, you better watch out. That’s the lesson countless soccer opponents have learned from Salah, Egypt’s goal-scoring maestro and sports superstar. But this week Salah trained his devastating focus on a new target: the bungling bosses of Egypt’s national soccer association. In a blistering series of Twitter messages, video posts and leaked letters, Salah, 26, vented a summer’s worth of frustrations against the leadership of the Egyptian Football Association for what he called its grossly incompetent handling of Egypt’s short-lived World Cup campaign in Russia in June. Autograph hunters were permitted to knock on Salah’s hotel door in the middle of the night, he said,
while preening Egyptian celebrities barged in on him, invading his personal space. On long plane journeys, players traveled in economy class while their managers stretched out in businessclass seats. Salah, who also plays for the English club Liverpool, couldn’t even make it to the breakfast buffet without being swamped by fans. A good soccer association ensures that its players are relaxed, Salah noted on Twitter. “But in reality, I don’t see anything but the opposite,” he added. In Egypt, Salah’s outburst came across as more than just a global star railing at domestic failings: It represented a rare, frontal challenge to the authority of a national institution in a country where dissent of any kind can be highly dangerous.
India confident of ending 36-year wait for gold in women’s hockey
Jakarta : Having broken a 20-year-old jinx, a confident Indian women’s hockey team will be desperate to end a long 36-year wait when it takes on Japan in the gold medal clash of the Asian Games in Jakarta on Friday. Last edition’s bronze medallist India on Wednesday registered a hard-fought 1-0 win over China to enter the final of the Asian Games after 20 years. The Indian women last made it to the summit clash of the
Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998 and ended runners-up after losing to Korea. Having already achieved that goal, India’s next target will be to reclaim the gold medal after 36 long years. The Indians won their only Asiad gold in the women’s hockey way back in 1982 in New Delhi. Come tomorrow, they would be desperate to break that jinx and add to their one gold, one silver and three bronze medals tally from nine previous appearances.
Going by world ranking and performance in the tournament so far, world No 9 India will start as favourites against 14th ranked Japan.Like their male counterparts, the Indian women too have been impressive in the Games so far with an unbeaten record, having registered huge victories against Indonesia (80), Kazakhstan (21-0), Korea (4-1) and Thailand (5-0) in the pool stages before the close win over resilient Chinese.
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Asian Games 2018: Indian women’s hockey team will be desperate to end a long 36-year wait when it takes on Japan in the gold medal clash of the Asian Games.
Demonetisation led to more tax Rupee slides further to end at fresh collection, higher growth: Jaitley lifetime low of 70.74 to dollar
The launch of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) was recently rescheduled in the wake of seven-day national mourning declared after the demise of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
CM Vijay Rupani to launch India Post Payments Bank on September 1 in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 1 will launch long-awaited India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) that will have at least one branch in every district and focus on financial services in rural areas, a senior official said. “The launch of India Post Payments Bank has been rescheduled for September 1. The Prime Minister will launch,” a senior government official told. The launch of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) was recently rescheduled in the wake of seven-day national mourning declared after the demise of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to launch IPPB on August 21. In Gujarat,
the mega launch of IPPB will commence with the state level event at ahmedabad where CM Vijay rupani will dedicate IPPB services to citizens. This event will be organized at Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Auditorium, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad at 10.30 hrs on 1st September, 2018. The state level event will be followed by simultaneous launches at 32 bank branches and 128 access points in various parts of the state. IPPB will leverage the reach of 1.55 lakh post office branches to provide banking and financial service to people in rural areas. “Government is trying to link all the 1.55 lakh post office branches with IPPB services by the end of this year,”
the official said. This will create the country’s largest banking network with a direct presence at the village level. IPPB CEO Suresh Sethi had earlier said that IPPB will go live with 650 branches in addition to 3,250 access points co-located at post offices and around 11,000 postmen both in rural and urban areas will provide doorstep banking services. IPPB has permission to link around 17-crore postal savings bank (PSB) accounts with its account. With IPPB in place, people in the rural area will be able to avail digital banking and financial services, including money transfer, to any bank account either with help of the mobile app or by visiting a post office.
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the demonetisation of Rs 500/1,000 notes led to formalisation of economy, more tax collection and higher growth. His statement comes a day after RBI data revealed that almost all the scrapped notes were returned to banks. He said the Reserve Bank has twice released its reports stating that the demonetised notes Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 have been substantially deposited in the banks. “A widely stated comment has been that just because most of the currency came back into the banks, the object of demonetisation has not succeeded. “Was the invalidation of
the non-deposited currency the only object of demonetisation? Certainly not,” Jaitley said in a blog. The larger purpose of demonetisation was to move India from a tax non-compliant society to a tax-compliant society, he said adding this necessarily involved formalisation of the economy and a blow to the black money. “This is the positive impact of demonetisation. More formalisation of economy, more money in the system, higher tax revenue, higher expenditure, higher growth after the first two quarters,” the Finance Minister said. Jaitley said the growth of Income Tax collections in the pre-demonetisation two years was 6.6 per cent and 9 per cent.
Mumbai: The rupee on Thursday slid further by 15 paise to close at a fresh lifetime low of 70.74 to the dollar due to month-end demand for the US currency from importers and rising crude oil prices. In the day trade, the rupee plunged to a record low of 70.90 to the dollar as firming oil prices fanned fears of widening current account deficit. A stronger dollar in overseas markets and losses in local stocks markets also impacted the rupee sentiment. The dollar index, which shows the dollar strength against a basket of currencies,
was trading up 0.11 per cent at 94.56. Earlier the rupee resumed lower at 70.64 against the previous closing level of 70.59 a dollar at the interbank foreign exchange market here. Later it fell to a record low of 70.90 in volatile trade in morning deals. The rupee pared some of the losses to trade near 70.69 in afternoon deals but slid in the last hour of trade to close at 70.74, a fall of 15 paise or 0.21 per cent against the US currency. The domestic unit came under pressure on surging crude oil which held on its highest level in over a month, a dealer said.
Centre, states apportion Rs 12,000 cr Integrated GST in August New Delhi: As much as Rs 12,000 crore lying in Integrated GST or IGST pool has been apportioned between the Centre and states. The central government will get about Rs 6,000 crore and the remaining would be distributed among the states in proportion to their revenue collection in August, an official told PTI. The apportionment would help improve the indirect tax position of both the Centre and states. This is the third time that the IGST funds have been divided between the Centre and states. As much as Rs 50,000
crore was settled between the Centre and states in June, and Rs 35,000 crore in February this year. “Funds accumulated in the IGST pool are gradually coming down. This shows that businesses are utilising the accumulated IGST to pay taxes. Also timely payment of taxes and filing of returns have helped in lowering the balance in IGST pool,” the official said. A policy decision has been taken that when some substantial amount accrues to IGST pool it should be apportioned, so that funds do not lie idle with the Centre, the
official said. Under GST, the tax levied on consumption of goods or rendering of service is split 50:50 between the Centre and the state. Such tax is known as Central-GST or CGST and State-GST or SGST. On interstate movement of goods as well as imports, an Integrated-GST or IGST is levied, which accrues to the Centre. A cess is levied on top of these taxes on sin and luxury goods which make up for the compensation kitty used to make good of any revenue shortfall faced by states on implementation of GST. Ideally
there should be ‘nil’ balance in the IGST pool since the amount should be used for payment of Central GST and State GST. As some businesses are ineligible to claim the benefits of input tax credit or ITC, the balance gets accumulated in the IGST pool. Post the amendments brought about in the GST law earlier this month, credit of IGST which includes IGST paid on the port (import of goods) would be first adjusted towards any kind of tax payable under the regime of IGST/CGST/ SGST.
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Gujarat CM lays stone of Rs.7.70-cr AII Project at Aji GIDC Estate at Rajkot
“Nearly 20-lakh MSME units make Gujarat’s Industrial Strength” : Vijaybhai Rupani
“Gujarat Government to bear 80% cost of Assist to Industrial Infrastructure (AII) and Association 20%” Ahmedabad : Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani today said that Gujarat Government will set up 16 new GIDC Estates over 26,000 hectares in the State, including one at Khirasara in Rajkot district, over and above 20-lakh small and medium industries working in the state, to boost further industrial and job opportunities. Speaking at a function to mark the ground breaking ceremony
of the Rs.7.70-crore Assist to Industrial Infrastructure (AII) project at Aji GIDC Estate in Rajkot, he said that the State Government will provide 80 per cent and the Association 20 per cent cost of AII.AII is to provide basic infrastructure like road resurfacing, covering open gutter lines, installing CCTV cameras, street light, underground water tank and roadside paver
Gujarat: Congress to launch agitation against Modi government’s Rafale deal Ahmedabad : The Congress will launch an agitation in Gujarat against what the party claimed were scams in the Centre’s purchase of the French-built Rafale fighter aircraft and the state government’s procurement of groundnuts, the party’s Gujarat in charge Rajeev Satav said today. The Congress’ Lok Sabha MP from Hingoli in Maharashtra said that the agitation, which would begin in September, would demand the setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the Rafale purchase as well as inquiry by a sitting Supreme Court judge into the groundnut procurement. He said that party leaders would address press conferences across Gujarat till September 6 to apprise people of the irregularities in the Rafale deal. “We will be demanding the setting up of a JPC in the Rs 41,025 crore Rafale deal and judicial probe by a Supreme Court judge in the Rs 4,000 crore groundnut procurement scam.” Satav said. “The district-level agitation will be held between September 7-15 while the state-level protest will be carried out between September 16-30,” he said. Satav claimed that the Rs 4,000 crore groundnut procurement scam has links to the “higher-ups” in the BJP who were trying to bury it.
blocks. Mr. Rupani said that 70 per cent of MoUs signed during the Vibrant Gujarat Summit are for Small and Medium Scale Industrial Units. The state government plans to train 1-lakh apprentices in various trades, alongside skill development necessary for quality control. He presented agreement letters to apprentices, HK Industries and Amul Industries being the leading employers.
Nearly 4-lakh citizens benefitted by Seva Setuin a week, Gujarat CM Vijaybhai Rupani said at Rajkot Municipal Corporationfunction Ahmedabad, Thursday: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani today said that 4-lakh citizens have been benefitted by Seva Setu programme in the state during the last one week, to solve people’s issues under single window scheme at their doorsteps. Speaking at a multipronged function of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Airport Road, he
said that Seva Setu has been directed to solve poor’s problems. He said the government is committed to provide houses, fitted with toilet, water, cooking gas and electricity to all homeless by 2022 under the PM’s AwasYojna and CM’s AwasYojna, In Rajkot, it is being built in Kitipara locality. The new houses would be stronger, each beneficiary to get up to Rs.70,000.
Gujarat CM Vijaybhai Rupani felicitates 14 Brahma Ratnas with awards at community meal at Rajkot, seeks blessings of Brahma Samaj Ahmedabad, Thursday: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani today felicitated 14 Brahmaratnas with awards at a community meal programme arranged at Akshar Mandir Pramukhswami Hall at Rajkot. Speaking on the occasion, he said he has come to the function to seek the blessings of Brahma Samaj, as their blessings
have power. The Rishis, Munis and Brahmins are known for their sacrifices and penance, as they accorded more importance to nationalism rather than casteism. He gave detailed account of his government saying it worked for the welfare of the people through transparent, compassionate and decisive policies.
Bullet train project: New satellite station in Vadodara to manufacture India’s longest girder
Vadodara : In order to launch the longest girder of India’s first bullet train, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has decided to set up a new satellite station for Indian Railways in Vadodara, Gujarat. The 220-metre long girder is the longest being used in the bullet train project and is also longer than any girder, even in Japan’s Shinkansen; it will come where current platform number 7 of Vadodara station is. This platform is used by seven pairs of trains
daily for reversal only. In other words, trains which come to Vadodara from two different directions Delhi and Ahmedabad, have to use this platform to reverse here. Speaking to The Indian Express, NHSRCL Chief Project Manager (Vadodara) Pradeep Ahirkar said the new Chhayapuri station, which is five kms away, will give Vadodara the new satellite station, like Delhi’s Nizamuddin station. To be built at a cost of Rs 40 crore, which has been handed over to Western Railway by
NHSRCL, the station will consist of three floors and modern facilities, a far cry from the current halt station with a thatched roof for a single storey building without platforms. The new building will have two platforms for the four lines. The building, the construction of which has already begun, is expected to be ready by March 2019 following which operations will begin. The launching of the girder will take around two years after which the concerned platform will be restored.
Hardik Patel stops consuming water on day six of his fast
Ahmedabad : On day six of the indefinite hunger strike of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti leader Hardik Patel on Thursday, he was visited by AAP MLA Col. Devender Sherawat from
Delhi and a few Congress MLAs from Gujarat. The PAAS leader’s grandfather too visited him. According to sources, Hardik Patel stopped consuming water on Thursday. Hardik Patel has been demanding reservation for Patidars in
jobs and education besides loan waiver for farmers. The 25-year-old leader, who is facing sedition charges, took to social media and said his grandfather backed his decision to fight for farmers. Quoting his grandfather, Patel said the farmers are poor and in distress. Police bandobast continued outside Patel’s residence, and only a selected few were allowed to go inside to meet him. People in different villages and towns across Gujarat continued to support Patel in his hunger strike. The Gujarat government has clearly said it can not give reservation to Patidars by violating the Supreme Court guidelines, according to which reservation can not be more than 49 per cent.
Ahmedabad court asks Hardik Patel to be present on 14 September in connection with sedition case Ahmedabad: A court here asked on Thursday the Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel who has launched an indefinite fast from his house, to appear before it on 14 September in connection with a sedition case. The sessions court will start framing of charges in the case against Patel and two of his former aides from 14 September. Framing of charges is a process after which the trial starts. Hardik Patel’s lawyers informed the court that he could not remain present on Thursday as he was on hunger strike at his house near Ahmedabad over the quota demand. As co-accused Chirag Patel and Dinesh Bambhania were present, public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt requested the court to start with framing of charges in Hardik’s absence. However, as the lawyers of both the accused were also not present, sessions judge DP Mahida adjourned the hearing to 14 September.
international ‘India, China in talks to set up direct hotline between defence ministries’
Beijing : India and China are in talks to set up a direct hotline between the defence ministries of both the countries, said a Chinese official on Thursday. “The two sides conducted further in-depth discussions on important conclusions reached between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi. Deepening military security exchanges and cooperation, and strengthening the construction of mutual trust mechanism in the defense field, including establishing a mechanism for mutual visits by defense ministers, and establishing a secret telephone number for the Ministries of Defense,” Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Wu Qian said during the monthly press conference of the Chinese Ministry of Defense. Qian was responding to a question raised about how China viewed the achievements of Chinese defence minister General Wei Fenghe’s visit to India last week.
Russia to hold Mediterranean naval drills as Syria tensions rise
Moscow : Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Thursday it would hold a major naval exercise in the Mediterranean Sea from Sept. 1 to Sept. 8, the TASS news agency reported, a move that coincides with rising tensions between Moscow and Washington over Syria. Russia has this month been actively expanding its naval forces in the Mediterranean, part of what a Russian newspaper on Tuesday called Moscow’s largest naval build-up since it entered the Syrian conflict in 2015. TASS cited the defence ministry as saying that 25 warships and submarines and 30 planes, including fighter jets and strategic bombers, would take part, and that the drills would involve anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-mining exercises.The drills come amid rising tensions between Russia and the West over Syria’s northern rebel-held region of Idlib. A source said on Wednesday that Russia’s ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was preparing a phased offensive there. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that militants in Idlib had to be liquidated, describing them as “a festering abscess”. “In the interest of ensuring the security of shipping and aircraft flights in line with international law, the areas of the exercise will be declared dangerous for shipping and flights,” TASS quoted the defence ministry as saying. Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, said earlier on Thursday that he had told U.S. officials that Moscow was concerned by signs that the United States was preparing new strikes on Syria.
Donald Trump warns of ‘violence’ if Democrats win midterm elections
Washington : President Donald Trump urged evangelical leaders this week to get out the vote ahead of the upcoming midterm elections and warned of “violence” by opponents if they fail. Trump made the dire warning at a White House dinner Monday evening attended by dozens of conservative Christian pastors, ministers and supporters of his administration. Trump was stressing the stakes in November when he warned that, if Democrats win, they “will overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly and violently,” according to attendees and audio of his closed-door remarks obtained by media outlets, including The New York Times. He specifically mentioned self-described antifa, or anti-fascist groups, describing them as “violent people.” Asked Wednesday what he meant, Trump told reporters, “I just hope there won’t be violence.” “If you look at what happens … there’s a lot of unnecessary violence all over the world, but also in this country. And I don’t want to see it,” Trump said. At the dinner, Trump talked up his administration’s efforts to bolster conservative Christian causes and urged those gathered to get their “people” to vote, warning the efforts could quickly be undone. “I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote,” Trump said, according to the Times. “Because if they don’t vote we’re going to have a miserable two years and we’re going to have, frankly, a very hard period of time because then it just gets to be one election, you’re one election away from losing everything you’ve got.
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