San Jose: Praising theskill and commitment ofIndian IT professionals,Prime Minister NarendraModi today said themagic created by their fin-gers on the keyboard hasgiven India a new identityin the world.

"Your fingers have cre-ated magic on the key-board and the computerand this gave India a newidentity. Your skill andcommitment is wonder-ful," he said addressingthe Indian community atthe packed SAP Centre inSan Jose.

"Sitting here, with yourinnovations, you are com-pelling the world tochange. And the peoplewho refuse to change, aresoon going to becomeirrelevant."

"The biggest thing,American citizens feelproud of is the people of

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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister to Go on9-Day Japan, South Korea Visit

India to Launch 23 ForeignSatellites

To Manufacture Defence Equipment,Reliance Signs Strategic Pact P8

New Delhi/Mumbai: Thenational carrier, Air India todaysaid it will relocate its domesticoperations in Mumbai toTerminal-2 (T-2) fromTerminal-1A of the ChhatrapatiShivaji International Airport

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Air India to RelocateOperations from Terminal-1A to Terminal-2 in Mumbai

New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkarhas lent his voice to the SwachhBharat anthem, created under agovernment initiative to makethe "Clean India" campaign apublic movement.

The anthem, composed bymusical trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and sung by ShankarMahadevan and others, will be

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Sachin Tendulkar Lends Voiceto Swachh Bharat Anthem

Chaygaon: An boat carryingnearly 200 people overturned inriver Kolohi in Assam's Kamrupdistrict today.

The engine of the boat, carry-ing the passengers fromChaygaon to Champupara toattend a boat race, failed to

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Boat Carrying Over200 Overturns in Riverin Assam: Police

Ludhiana, Punjab: After facingcriticism for paying meagre com-pensation to cotton growers, PunjabChief Minister Parkash SinghBadal today announced a packageof Rs. 600 crore to be disbursedamongst farmers whose crops weredamaged by Whitefly attack in thestate. He had asked officers yesterday to start disbursingthe Rs. 600 crore. "We are firmly behind the hard

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Punjab Chief Minister Announces Rs.600 Crore Package for Cotton Farmers

New Delhi: Stressing that theforeign visits of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi were result-ori-ented, Union Minister MukhtarAbbas Naqvi today said "Modihas proved to be a milestone inmaking India a 'Vishwa Guru'(world leader)".

Mr Naqvi was reacting toCongress' charges that no world leader was so "self-obsessed" as Mr Modi and he could not see beyond "I,

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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: PM Narendra ModiMaking India a World Leader

New Delhi: The Governmentwill launch its Green HighwaysPolicy tomorrow that will make itmandatory for road developers toset aside 1 per cent of the totalproject cost for plantation, ascheme that is likely to see Rs.1,000 crore under the green cor-

pus this fiscal."Minister of Road Transport and Highways and

Shipping Nitin Gadkari will release the GreenHighways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautificationand Maintenance) Policy, 2015 at the National

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Nitin Gadkari to Launch GreenHighways Policy

New Delhi: The Centre todayadvised Karnataka and TamilNadu state governments to"cooperate" with each other onthe sharing of Cauvery waters.This comes after an angry TamilNadu claimed that Karnatakahad failed to release water as

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Centre Asks Tamil Naduand Karnataka to Cooperateon Sharing Cauvery Water

Hyderabad, Telangana:Hitting back at the Congress,Union Minister M VenkaiahNaidu sought to know why theparty was getting unnecessarilyperturbed over Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's remarks in theUS today, since no names werementioned in his address.

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'Why is Congress Perturbedby PM Modi's Remarks?'Asks Venkaiah Naidu

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Kolkata: The WestBengal governmenttoday declassified 401Cabinet files from thepre-independence era.

Announcing thedeclassification of thefiles which date from1938 to Independence,Chief Minister MamataBanerjee said the filesthrow light on variousdecisions by the thenBritish governmentincluding about the QuitIndia Movement.

"From 1938 to 1947, itis a very important peri-od of Indian history andthese files provide a lotof information about theCabinet decisions taken

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Mumbai: Days after RakeshMaria was controversiallytransferred as Mumbai Policechief in the middle of theSheena Bora murder investiga-tion, Maharashtra's seniormostpolice officer has come out inhis support. "A police officer

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NEWS IN BRIEF

New Delhi: TheCentral Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI)today told a special courtthat there is no primafacie evidence againstformer Prime MinisterManmohan Singh in coalblock allocation caseallegedly involvingJindal group firms.

Special PublicProsecutor RS Cheematold Special JudgeBharat Parashar thatthere is no prima facieevidence against the for-mer Prime Minister toname him as an accusedin allocation ofJharkhand's Amarkonda

Murgadangal coal blockto Jindal Steel andGagan Sponge.

Former JharkhandChief Minister MadhuKoda had filed a plea lastmonth seeking summon-

ing of Mr ManmohanSingh in the case but theCBI opposed it sayingthat the application wasfiled to delay the trial.

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Magic of Indian Techies Gave IndiaNew Identity in World: PM Modi

No Evidence Against Former PMManmohan Singh in Coal Case, Says CBI

BJP Lawmaker inBihar Accuses PartyColleagues ofThreatening Her

Patna: A BJP lawmakerhas said that she hasreceived a threat letter ask-ing her not to contest theupcoming Bihar assemblypolls as a rebel candidate.

Rashmi Verma, who wasreportedly denied a ticketby the BJP, told police: "Ihave received a threat letterin Hindi in which I wasasked not to contest thepolls as it will affect theprospects of others."

Ms Verma, a legislatorfrom Narkatiaganj assem-bly constituency, lodged acomplaint with the Sikarpurpolice station after

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New Delhi: TheSupreme Court todayrefused to entertain aplea opposing the prac-tice of political partiesforging post-pollalliances to gain poweron the ground that elec-tors were kept in thedark about it when theyexercise their franchise.

"The courts cannot gointo it. We cannot enter-tain this," a bench com-prising Chief Justice HLDattu and JusticeAmitava Roy said while

dismissing an appealfiled against Delhi HighCourt's decision refus-ing to entertain thePublic InterestLitigation (PIL) on theissue.

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Supreme Court Refuses to EntertainPlea Against Post-Poll Alliances

New Delhi: MeghalayaGovernor V.Shanmuganathan wastoday given additionalcharge of Manipur fol-lowing death of incum-bent Syed Ahmed.

"Consequent upon thedemise of Syed Ahmed,governor of Manipur, thepresident of India hasappointed V.Shanmuganathan, gover-nor of Meghalaya, to dis-charge the functions of

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Chandigarh, Punjab: Aclose relative of the leg-endary freedom fighter,Bhagat Singh, today urgedthe National DemocraticAlliance led government toname the new civil air ter-minal at the Chandigarhairport after martyr with-out any further delay.

Earlier on September 11,Prime Minister NarendraModi had inaugurated thenew building, which willhandle both domestic aswell as internationalflights.

"But when it was inau-gurated, the Shaheed'sname was ignored. This isan insult to the martyrs.When (Punjab)Government itself had pro-posed to name the airport

after the martyr, then itshould have been done...where does the problemlie?" said Abhay SinghSandhu, nephew of BhagatSingh.

The 57-year-old Sandhu,who is the son of BhagatSingh's younger brotherSardar Kulbir Singh,demanded that the Centreshould issue a notificationand name the airport afterBhagat Singh without fur-ther delay. Different organ-isations connected with themartyr across the countryare planning to hold ademonstration inChandigarh on October 11to protest against the insultheaped on the freedomfighter.

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Mina: The number ofIndians killed in a stam-pede at the Haj has risen to45 with authorities identi-fying 10 more bodiesamong the victims of theworst tragedy in 25 yearsto hit the annual pilgrim-age in Saudi Arabia.

"The death toll ofIndians killed in Haj stam-pede is now 45. We have50 Indian pilgrims in vari-ous hospitals in SaudiArabia," External AffairsMinister Sushma Swarajtweeted today.

The Hajj Consulate inJeddah has said thedeceased included threepilgrims from West Bengal

and two each from Keralaand Jharkhand and oneeach from Tamil Nadu andMaharashtra.

According to Saudiauthorities, a total of 769people died in the stam-pede on Thursday. Around

two million people fromover 180 countries tookpart in the five-day pil-grimage. This included 1.5lakh pilgrims from India.

The kingdom's leadershave ordered an inquiry

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Haj Stampede: 45 IndiansAmong Over 700 Dead

Meghalaya Governor ShanmuganathanGiven Additional Charge of Manipur

Kin of Bhagat Singh Demands Namingof Airport After the Freedom Fighter

Kathmandu, Nepal:Nepal's three major politi-cal parties today formed acommittee to hold talkswith agitating groupsopposing the newConstitution to address thedemands of the minoritycommunities like theMadhesis and Tharus, liv-ing in Terai plains border-ing India.

The three parties, NepalCongress, CPN-UML andUCPN- Maoist haveformed a three-member

committee to hold dia-logue with the parties andgroups agitating againstthe new Constitution.

Nepali Congress leaderand Forest Minister,Mahesh Acharya andCPN-UML Chief whip,Agni Kharel have beennamed as committee mem-bers, while the third mem-ber will be named laterfrom the UCPN (Maoist)party.

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Nepal Sets Up 3-MemberCommittee to Hold Talks

With Protesters

New York: After whathas been described as arock-star visit to SiliconValley, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is back in

New York, where he willmeet US president BarackObama and attend aUnited Nations summiton peacekeeping today

before leaving for home.PM Modi's last day in

the USA is packed withmeetings. He has already

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After Rock-star Visit to Silicon Valley,PM Modi to Meet Obama in New York

PM Narendra ModiMeets his BritishCounterpart DavidCameron

New York: PrimeMinister Narendra Modimet his British counter-part David Cameron inNew York today on thesidelines of the UNGeneral Assembly sum-mit.

"An Englishman inNew York. PM @narian-dramodi receives PM@David_Cameron ofUK," tweeted ExternalAffairs Ministryspokesperson VikasSwarup.

Mr Modi returned toNew York today on thefinal leg of his five-dayUS visit.

He has a packed day ofengagements, including asummit meeting with US

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Kolkata: West Bengalchief minister MamataBanerjee today declassi-fied documents relatingto 401 cabinet meetingsof the pre-independence

Bengal government from1938 to 1947.

"These documents mayhave been secret once butthere is no need to keep

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2 NEW DELHI | TUESDAY | SEPTEMBER 29, 2015Fight for right

Magic of Indian..Indian origin," the Prime Minister said. "I

congratulate you for this, I salute you."PM Modi said he was meeting Indian-

Americans a year after the Madison SquareGarden event in New York.

"I am coming to California after 25 years. Alot has changed. Many new faces that I cansee. I can see India's vibrancy here," he said.

PM Modi congratulated the Indian-originpeople here for the place of pride they creat-ed for themselves among Californians.

After Rock-star...met his British counterpart David Cameron

and is meeting French President FrancoisHollande. A meeting with US PresidentBarack Obama is to be held later.

The scheduled time for PM Modi's meet-ing with President Obama is one hour and 10minutes, during which the two leaders areexpected to discuss progress in Indo-USstrategic ties.

This will be the PM Modi's third meetingwith President Obama in just over a year.They had met in Washington last year and inJanuary this year, the US president was thechief guest at India's Republic Day celebra-tions in New Delhi.

Last week the US and India held theirfirst strategic and commercial dialogue,attended by US Secretary of State John Kerryand Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj. MrKerry said President Obama was very muchlooking forward to meeting PM Modi in NewYork. Also last week, US vice president JoeBiden set the tone for the interaction when hesaid at a business conclave, "Our goal is tobecome India's best friend."

The UN peacekeeping summit today isalso being attended by Pakistan PrimeMinister Nawaz Sharif. It will be the firsttime on this trip that PM Modi and Mr Sharifwill under one roof at the same time.

PM Modi landed in New York earlymorning today (local time) after wrapping uphis visit to the West Coast with a power-packed 60-minute address at a stadiumpacked with 18000 members of the Indiancommunity at San Jose, California.

He attended a Townhall at the Facebookheadquarters, where, answering a questionfrom Mark Zuckerberg, the PM broke downas he talked about the hardships his motherhad endured while raising her family.

He also visited the Google campus,where Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced11 new languages on Android next month,including PM Modi's mother tongue Gujarati.And, high-speed wireless internet service at500 railway stations in India.

In Silicon Valley the PM met the world'stop tech chiefs, including India-born SatyaNadella of Microsoft and Mr Pichai, sharinghis plans for Digital India.

PM Narendra Modi ...President Barack Obama, before he heads

home. The Prime Minister is also scheduledto hold a bilateral meeting with FrenchPresident Francois Hollande.

He will also attend a summit, organised byMr Obama, on countries that contribute toUN peacekeeping forces.

Mr Modi spent two days in San Jose,California, on the West Coast, tapping ITgiants Google, Facebook and other SiliconValley honchos for his Digital India andMake in India initiatives after havingaddressed the annual summit of the UNGeneral Assembly in New York.

Nepal Sets...formed at a meeting of senior leaders at

Prime Minister's office in Baluwatar.Senior leader of Nepali Congress, Sher

Bahadur Deuba hoped that the committeewill fulfil its mandate of holding talks andresolving the current volatile situation of thecountry.

Meanwhile, the Nepal Army personnel,who were mobilised to riot-hit areas in south-ern Nepal districts at the request of the localadministration, have returned to the barracks.

The agitating Madhesi Front claims that thenew Constitution adopted by the Nepaleseparliament does not guarantee enough rightsand representation to the Madhesi and Tharucommunities residing in southern Nepal.Madhesis are Indian-origin inhabitants of theTerai plains bordering India.

At least 40 people have died in over amonth of clashes between police and protest-ers from the Madhesi and Tharu communitiesand ethnic minorities who say the new inter-nal borders leave them under-represented inthe country's Parliament.

Last week, India had asked Nepal toaddress the underlying causes of the continu-ing unrest "credibly and effectively".

BJP Lawmaker...allegedly receiving the letter.She alleged that the letter also threatened to

harm her children if she goes ahead and con-tests the elections.

Ms Verma alleged that BJP lawmakerSatish Dubey and former BJP legislator RenuDevi, who is contesting polls as the party can-didate from Narkatiaganj, may be the oneswho sent her the letter, a police officer said.

Mr Dubey has denied his involvement andaccused Ms Verma of being "frustrated aftershe was denied a ticket by the BJP."

Renu Devi also accused Ms Verma of try-ing to create an environment in her favour. "Ifshe wants to contest, who will stop her. She iswelcome to contest," Ms Devi said.

No Evidence ...16 for delivering its order on Mr Koda's

plea. Mr Koda, in his plea, said: "Materialsplaced by the CBI shows the said conspiracy,if any, cannot be complete without theinvolvement of the (then) Coal Minister(Manmohan Singh) who had the final say inthe entire allotment."

He also sought summoning of the thenenergy secretary Anand Swaroop and the thenmines secretary Jai Shankar Tiwari, sayingthey were part of the three-member sub-group formed by the Jharkhand governmentto evaluate the pleas of firms and suggestsuitable application for recommendation bythe state.

Apart from Mr Koda, Congress leaderNaveen Jindal, former Union Minister ofState for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, formercoal secretary HC Gupta and others havebeen named as accused in the case.

They have been charge sheeted for criminalconspiracy and cheating as well as under thePrevention of Corruption Act.

Haj Stampede...into the disaster and a "revision" of its

organisation.The stampede broke out after two massive

lines of pilgrims converged on each otherfrom different directions at an intersectionclose to the five-storey Jamarat Bridge inMina for symbolic stoning of the devil.

The disaster was the second deadly acci-dent to mar the haj. A massive constructioncrane collapsed on the Grand Mosque in thenearby holy city of Mecca days beforehand,killing 109 people, many of them pilgrims.

The haj is one of the five pillars of Islam,and every able-bodied Muslim who canafford it is expected to perform it at least oncein a lifetime.

West Bengal ...at the period including historic events like

the Quit India Movement," said Ms Banerjeeat the state secretariat.

Both hard and soft copies of 401 Cabinetmeetings between 1938-1947 will be kept atthe state archive at the secretariat library andthe Kolkata Information Centre.

"There are total 401 documents about theCabinet meetings that took place. In 1938, 52Cabinet meetings took place, in 1939, 39meetings, in 1940, 66 meetings, in 1941, 26meetings, in 1942, 51 meetings, in 1943, 47meetings, in 1944, 46 meetings, in 1945, 13meetings, in 1946, 31 and in 1947, 30 suchmeetings took place," she said.

Ms Banerjee also took a jibe at theNarendra Modi government's "Digital India"initiative and said all the state governmentfiles post-independence will be digitized in aphased manner.

"Just by clamouring about digital India willnot suffice, you need to show that in deeds.You need to maintain transparency by makingdocuments public which we are doing.

"It's the need of the people to be awareabout the history and we are doing that bymaking public all these documents. In aphased manner we will digitize all the filesand people, researchers and students will getto know about the history which they have aright to know," said Ms Banerjee, who is alsothe Trinamool Congress supremo.

Besides sending copies of the digitized filesto both Lok Sabha speaker as well as RajyaSabha vice chairman, Ms Banerjee, who isembarking on a trip to Delhi, will personallyhand over a copy to President PranabMukherjee tomorrow.

Ms Banerjee would also be meeting DelhiChief Minister Arvind Kejriwal onWednesday.

"I will personally hand over a copy of thefiles to the president on Tuesday. Day aftertomorrow, Kejriwal had invited me for a sem-inar, which I will attend," she said.

The Banerjee government on September 18made public 64 classified files on NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose.

Ms Banerjee also reiterated the demand forthe central government to declassify 134secret documents on Netaji.

"This is not my demand along, but thewhole country wants to know what happenedto Netaji. So the centre must declassify thefiles on Netaji," she said.

Mamata Banerjee...them secret now. They contain history and

people have right to know," Ms Banerjeesaid. The files contain cabinet notes on theQuit India Movement, the Bengal Famineand the Great Calcutta Killings. They contain

details about Partition too.Asked if there was anything in the docu-

ments about Netaji, Ms Banerjee said, "Youhave to see the documents."

The documents will be available to the pub-lic at the state archives, state library and theCalcutta Information Centre.

Kin of Bhagat ...Mr Sandhu said, "I want to clarify that there

was no demand from the family that the air-port be named after Sardar Bhagat Singh...The proposal came from the government'sside. However, people now feel it as an insultto the great martyr who made supreme sacri-fice for the sake of this country."

The Punjab government has been demand-ing that the airport be named as 'Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Shaheed Bhagat SinghInternational airport, Mohali'. But theHaryana government had objected to theword 'Mohali', and insisted on keeping itsname after Chandigarh, though the state gov-ernment had maintained it had no objectionover the use of Bhagat Singh's name.

Mr Sandhu also reiterated that the files per-taining to Bhagat Singh and Sardar AjitSingh, a freedom fighter, be declassified. Heclaimed that the martyr's family had beenkept under "surveillance" for several yearsand demanded that the government mustdeclassify all files pertaining to them.

Supreme Court...Kumar Pandey said even the Law

Commission has expressed its disapproval ofthe practice of forging post-poll alliances onthe ground that the electors are misled as theyare not privy to it.

The plea, earlier rejected by the HighCourt, had challenged the "validity of post-poll alliances among political parties" on theground that the same was a "breach of thepromises made by them during the electioncampaigns".

It also said that promises made in the man-ifesto have to be enforced as otherwise itwould amount to breach of trust.

The PIL had also sought a direction"declaring as unconstitutional the practice ofpost-poll alliances among parties which con-tested elections against each other".

Meghalaya Governor...arrangements are made," said a

Rashtrapati Bhavan communique.Mr Ahmed, who was battling cancer, died

yesterday at the Lilavati Hospital inBandra, where he was admitted last week.

He was laid to rest with full state honoursat the Rehmatabad cemetery in Byculla insouth Mumbai today.

Punjab Chief Minister...working and resilient farmers of the state to

help them in this hour of crisis" added Badal.Whitefly has caused extensive damage to

crop in Punjab with 1.36 lakh hectares of areaout of 4.50 lakh hectares being affected by pestattack in the state. Farmers have uprooted thetotally damaged crop from 11,780 acres area inMuktsar, Fazilka, Bathinda, Mansa, Faridkotand Barnala districts of the state.

The Chief Minister said that it was on recordthat whenever our farmers had faced any sortof problem, the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJPalliance government has come to their rescue.

The government provided free power tofarmers worth Rs. 28,000 crore on account oftube-well bills in the past. Similarly, the gov-ernment had bought all grains from the marketdespite the wheat crop being damaged due tountimely rains in April, said the SAD leader.

Mr Badal said that the state government tookevery step to resolve the impending sugarcanecrisis by ensuring the payment of arrears to thefarmers from private and cooperative sugarmills.

Nitin Gadkari to...Conference in New Delhi tomorrow," an

official statement said today.The government intends to take up road

projects worth Rs. 1 lakh crore in a year and1 per cent of it -- Rs. 1,000 crore will be spentfor tree plantation along National Highways.

The policy is aimed at "greening of high-way corridors with the participation of thecommunity, farmers, private sector, NGOs,and government institutions", the statementsaid. After the implementation, the communi-ty will be benefited in terms of huge employ-ment opportunities and entrepreneurshipdevelopment, it said adding, there will behuge environmental benefits also and it willalso contribute to the economic developmentof the country.

At the National Conference over 1,000 del-egates from all over India will participate anddeliberate upon various issues related to thedevelopment of Green Highways in the coun-try.

The conference will have technical sessionson various issues such as designing greenbelt-A strategic approach, steps towards suc-cessful plantation along national highwaysand saving trees through transplanting.

Keen on transforming the highways into

green corridors to minimise pollution, the'Green Fund' is the brainchild of Mr Gadkari,who is confident that once kickstarted, thepolicy will not only create huge number ofjobs but also contribute significantly to theeconomic growth.

Mr Gadkari has specified that planting treesin any particular area will depend on the soilsuitability there, besides climate and successstories like Alphanso can be planted inKonkan in Maharashtra. The Indian road net-work at 33 lakh km is the second largest inthe world and consists of about 96,000 km ofNHs, which constitute only 1.7 per cent of theroad network but carry about 40 per cent ofthe total road traffic.

Mukhtar Abbas...me and myself". They also alleged that the

Prime Minister was misleading the country.He said that the foreign visits of Mr Modi

and of Mr Rahul Gandhi were totally differ-ent. "One is dominated by developmentdebate while another one is discussion of dis-covery drama," he said, while interactingwith reporters in New Delhi.

The Congress vice-president has beenattending an international conference atAspen, in the US, his official twitter handlestated today. The entire world is looking atIndia with a positive approach and thischange is giving a sense of pride to everyIndian, he said.

Mr Naqvi took a dig at Congress sayingthat Congress needed to figure out whethertheir 'Yuvraaj' (prince) was doing "part-timepolitics" or "full-time tourism" and theyshould at least know "where their leader is".

"The Congress is a unique party... has noknowledge about its own top leader, theCongress is in confusion about his visit," theMinister said.

Air India to ...(CSIA) from Thursday, as part of the phase-

wise transition plan.As of now, Tata-SIA joint venture airline

Vistara is the only domestic carrier operatingout of T-2. At CSIA, while internationalflights take off and land from T-2 which is atSahar in suburban Andheri, the two domesticterminals, 1A and 1B, are situated atSantacruz. On an average, around 90 AirIndia departures and arrivals take place fromMumbai per day. Air India's domestic opera-tions at T-2 will commence with the departureof flight AI-627 from Mumbai to Nagpur onOctober 1 at 5.55 AM and the arrival of AI-695 from Hyderabad to Mumbai at 7.45 AM,the airline said. With this move, Air Indiapassengers will have the advantage of asmooth and seamless transition with easyconnectivity, between domestic and interna-tional sectors, all from the same terminal, itsaid. Inaugurated by then Prime MinisterManmohan Singh in January 2014, T-2 is aworld-class integrated terminal designed tocater to 40 million passengers per annum.

Passengers are being informed about thechange through various channels like the AirIndia website, social media, direction signageat both the terminals, in addition to personal-ized information, said the airline.

The four-storey glass marvel, whose designhas been inspired by a dancing peacock, cameat an investment of Rs. 9,800 crore.

Mumbai airport is run by a joint venturecompany, Mumbai International AirportLimited (MIAL), in which GVK-led consor-tium holds 74 per cent while the rest 26 percent is held by the state-owned AirportsAuthority of India.

Sachin Tendulkar...released on October 2, marking one year of

the launch of Swachh Bharat campaign onMahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary.

Celebrities have come together to create aSwachh Bharat anthem aimed at enthusing andinspiring citizens to join hands in realising thecollective dream of a "clean India", said a sen-ior Urban Development Ministry official.

They have responded enthusiastically to thePrime Minister's call for a "jan andolan" (pub-lic movement) to make the Swachh BharatMission successful, he added.

The anthem song written by lyricist PrasoonJoshi will also feature a video being producedby Mukesh Bhatt.

Sachin Tendulkar has contributed to thisendeavour by reciting a few lines that will fea-ture in the anthem, as well as providing vari-ous musical suggestions for the recording.

The audio of the song is expected to bereleased on the eve of Mahatma Gandhi's birthanniversary.

Boat Carrying...function in the middle of the river and hit

against the post of a bridge, Kamrup (Rural)Deputy Commissioner Vinod Kumar Seshansaid. The details of the casualties are notknown yet. There are no reports yet of any pas-senger being rescued. The boat overturnedwith the passengers falling into the river,which was in spate, he said. The local residentshave begun rescue operations and the NationalDisaster Response Force or NDRF and theState Disaster Response Fund or SDRF per-

sonnel have rushed to the spot.Mr Seshan said many may swam to safety to

the other bank of the river, but reports wereawaited. He further said the exact number ofpassengers traveling in the boat was yet to beascertained and the local people have only saidit was overcrowded.

Senior police officials have rushed to thespot and the hospital authorities nearby havebeen alerted.

Centre Asks ...per the final order of the Cauvery Water

Disputes Tribunal, said sources."Both the states were requested to co-oper-

ate and see how best they can handle theshortfall situation collectively," sources saidafter the meeting of Cauvery SupervisoryCommittee. Earlier this month, Karnatakahad expressed inability to release Cauverywaters to Tamil Nadu, saying it was facing its"worst drought" in over four decades.

"We are trying to improve data collectionand data management and analysis so thatthis kind of distress situation can be under-stood well and appropriate decisions can betaken," the sources added. The Centre'sadvice came in the wake of Tamil Nadu ask-ing the Committee to order Karnataka that itmake good an alleged shortfall of 47.549TMCft water as on September 24.

The shortfall, Tamil Nadu said, has beenaffecting ongoing cultivation of samba cropand, thus, the state's food security. TamilNadu also demanded that the Committeeensure delivery of 48 TMCft of water due tothe state at Billigundulu for the months ofOctober-January as prescribed in the finalorder of the tribunal. It further charged thatKarnataka overdrew 37 TMCft water abovethe 103 TMCft it was entitled to in 2014-15.

In its submission before the Committee,therefore, Tamil Nadu government demandedthat a mechanism be set up to monitorinflows into major reservoirs along with thedrawing of water by Karnataka and the extentof the area irrigated. The Committee, TamilNadu insisted, should ensure that Karnatakadoes not draw water for summer irrigationand the balance storage is carried over for usein the next irrigation season.

According to sources, Tamil Nadu wantsthe constitution of Cauvery ManagementBoard and Cauvery Water RegulationCommittee without delay with reference toassurances given by Centre to Supreme Courtas on May 10."

Maharashtra's Top...can do anything he wants while investigat-

ing a case. There is no bar in the law orstatute. So where is anything wrong in that?"Sanjeev Dayal, Director General of Police,Maharashtra told NDTV, on criticism aboutMr Maria's unusual level of involvement inthe case. The state government had made nosecret of its unhappiness with Mr Maria'shands-on approach in the sensational murdercase. "In my career of 32 years, I have neverseen a police commissioner go to a police sta-tion," KP Bakshi, a top bureaucrat in theHome Ministry, had said while announcingthat the case would be handed over to the CBIfor an "impartial" inquiry.

The move to take the Mumbai Police offthe case came as a huge surprise just daysafter Mr Maria was replaced by a new chief.

There were allegations that new PoliceCommissioner Ahmed Javed was "close to"former media tycoon Peter Mukerjea, thegovernment said. "The current Commissionerof Police Mr. Ahmad Javed met Mr. PeterMukerjea and his wife at a time when therewere no investigations against them,"Maharashtra's police chief said, adding,"Both Mr Javed and Mr Maria are excellentofficers and there is no way anyone can com-ment on their competence."

Mr Mukerjea's wife, Indrani Mukerjea, wasarrested late last month on charges of killingSheena Bora in 2012. Ms Mukerjea hadalways introduced Sheena as a younger sister.She was 24 when she was killed. Along withMs Mukerjea, the police arrested her driverShyam Rai and former husband SanjeevKhanna.

'Why is Congress ..."Prime Minister has not taken name of any

party or person. Then why should Congressget disturbed? Perturbed? We are not able tounderstand. Prime Minister during his visits,has been explaining the situation, develop-ments in India to the Indian diaspora. Nobodyshould have any objection over that," theminister told reporters.

The Congress has criticised PM Modi forhis veiled attack in the US, saying they were"ashamed" of his behaviour on foreign soil.The Prime Minister had made a reference to"damaad" or son-in-law while talking aboutcorruption during his address to the Indiancommunity in California today.

The Union Parliamentary Affairs ministeralso said that criticism of PM Modi's frequentvisits abroad is unfair. "We can feel that thosemaking such criticism do not have knowledgeof history. It would be good if they check howmany visits prime ministers made earlier andhow many days they toured," he said.

This US visit is not just a new milestone,but the world is seeing the Prime Minister asa "reformer, performer and transformer", saidthe 66-year-old minister.

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