30012024-TTB-01.qxd 1/29/2024 11:47 PM Page 1 13 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 144 NO. 29 | 14 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 HARYANA HOPEFUL OF FINDING LAC RESOLUTION, SAYS ARMY CHIEF J&K DAY AFTER JORDAN ATTACK, US VOWS RETALIATION WORLD /thetribunechd INDIA CAN BE $7 TN MALDIVES PREZ FACES ECONOMY BY 2030: IMPEACHMENT THREAT BACK PAGE REPORT BUSINESS tuesday | 30 january 2024 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com SC extends stay on Allahabad HC order for survey of Shahi Idgah in Mathura Krishna Janmabhoomi row To take up all pleas on issue collectively in April Satya Prakash HC HAD ALLOWED SURVEY IN DECEMBER Tribune News Service New Delhi, January 29 The Supreme Court on Monday extended the stay on the Allahabad High Court’s order for a court-monitored survey of the Shahi Idgah mosque complex adjoining the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh as it deferred hearing on petitions challenging the high court’s order. “Interim orders wherever granted shall continue,” a Bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna said, posting a petition filed by the Committee of Management Trust Shahi Masjid Idgah, Mathura, for further hearing in April. ■ On January 16, SC had noted The Shahi Idgah mosque &Krishna Janmabhoomi temple in Mathura. FILE Directing the parties to complete the procedural formalities, the Bench said all petitions before it on the issue will be taken up together in April. Another plea filed by the mosque committee challenging the May 26, 2023, order of the high court transferring to itself all matters related to the dispute pending before a Mathura court was also On LS poll eve, BJP minister vows CAA rollout in a week Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service New Delhi, January 29 Racing to tick all the boxes on the 2024 Lok Sabha election eve, the BJP on Monday opened yet another front with the promise to implement the pending Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in one week — an announcement the ruling TMC in West Bengal, a state likely to be most impacted by the law, greeted with derision. “This is sheer poll-time rhetoric,” TMC’s Kunal Ghosh said responding to Union Minister Shantanu Thakur’s remarks that the CAA would be implemented across India within a week. Thakur, a Lok Sabha MP from Bengal’s Bangaon, ❝ ■ CAA allows citizenship to perse- pending before the top court. Noting that the Hindu side’s application for appointment of a court commissioner for a court-monitored survey continued on page 9 New Delhi, January 29 Days after an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report suggested existence of a large Hindu temple prior to the construction of the existing structure at the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi, the Hindu side on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking directions to the ASI to make necessary investigation of the “Shivlingam” found at the site in 2022. In an application filed before the top court, the Hindu side continued on page 9 The vessel that was released from pirates off the Somalia coast. PTI RESPONDS TO DISTRESS MESSAGE ■ INS Sumitra, deployed along the east coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, responds to distress message regarding hijack of Iranian-flagged fishing vessel Iman Navy said today. The fishing vessel was subsequently “sanitised” and released for its onward transit, the Navy said. In the past eight weeks, the Raisina Hills echo with patriotic tunes ■ Intercepts the vessel and acts in accordance with the established standard operating procedures to coerce the pirates for the safe release of the crew along with the boat Indian Navy has deployed 12 warships on patrol duty to keep the economically vital sea trade safe from pirates continued on page 9 IN BRIEF ‘I am a loser’, girl dies by suicide in Kota NEW DELHI: An 18-year-old JEE aspirant, Niharika Singh from Kota, was found hanging at her house. In a suicide note, she said, “Mummy, papa I can’t do JEE, am a loser.” BACK PAGE Lalu appears before ED in land-for-job scam NEW DELHI: RJD president Lalu cuted non-Muslim religious minorities who arrived in India by December 2014 from Pak, Afghanistan and Bangladesh ■ Though Parliament passed the law on Dec 11, 2019, the legis- lation was kept in abeyance following nationwide protests ■ CAA implementation was part of the BJP’s manifestoes for the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2021 West Bengal elections but rules were yet to be framed Prasad Yadav on Monday appeared before the ED in Patna for questioning in connection with the money laundering probe into the land-for-job ‘scam’. TNS home to Matua community that has been immigrating to India since the 1950s to flee religious persecution in present-day Bangladesh, was speaking days after top Union Home Ministry sources confirmed CAA rules would be notified before the 2024 LS polls. CAA promises citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim religious minorities who continued on page 9 NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Cul- Tribune News Service New York/panchkula, Jan 29 A 25-year-old Indian student, 25-year-old had helped who recently earned an MBA the homeless accused degree in the US, was hammered to death by a home- on January 16 while going less drug addict whom he home as he, concerned over had been helping for the past safety, requested Faulkner to couple of days in Georgia depart or face police interstate’s Lithonia city. vention. The police, who The horrifying inciarrived at the scene, dent was caught on found Faulkner camera when standing over Saini’s assailant Julian lifeless body. Faulkner mercilessly The young student, struck Vivek Saini who had migrated to nearly 50 times on the the US two years ago head with a hammer. after completing his Saini, a part-time Vivek Saini hailed BTech, had recently worker at a gas sta- from Panchkula earned an MBA. Saition that sheltered Faulkner, ni’s family lives at Bhagwanhad shown kindness to the pur village in Panchkula. The accused for almost two days family received his body and and provided him with chips, cremated it on January 25. a coke, water and even a jack- Aghast by the death of their et for warmth, M9 News elder son, the family wants Channel reported on Sunday. legal assistance to fight a legal However, Saini was struck battle in the US. — PTI/ TNS Home Minister Amit Shah cited the group’s involvement in “fomenting terrorism and disturbing peace and communal harmony” as the reasons behind the ban. SIMI was first banned in 2001 during the tenure of the NDA government led by Atal Bihar Vajpayee. Since then restrictions against the organisation have been extended periodically. Members of the group have allegedly been involved in bank robberies and blasts. Tribune News Service New Delhi, January 29 Seventeen persons on board a hijacked Iranian fishing vessel have been rescued by the Indian Navy. Naval warship INS Sumitra, deployed for anti-piracy operations along the east coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, responded to a distress message regarding the hijack of Iranian-flagged fishing vessel Iman. The fishing vessel had been boarded by pirates and the crew taken hostage. INS Sumitra intercepted the vessel and acted in accordance with the established standard operating procedures to coerce the pirates for the safe release of the crew along with the boat. “All 17 crew members along with the boat have been released,” the It is meant solely to reap poll gains. We had hit streets to protest NRC and CAA. The BJP is again chanting CAA to politicise matters on election eve. Mamata Banerjee, WEST BENGAL CM WHAT CITIZENSHIP ACT ENTAILS Haryana student in US done to death by addict SAYS FOMENTING TERROR, DISTURBING PEACE Satya Prakash the Hindu side’s plea for appointment of a court commissioner for a court-monitored survey of the Shahi Idgah mosque complex adjoining the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple was “vague”. ■ It stayed the December 14, 2023, Allahabad High Court order for the appointment of a court commissioner to oversee the survey. Tribune News Service BID TO REAP ELECTORAL GAINS Centre extends ban on SIMI by five years New Delhi, January 29 The Centre on Monday extended the ban on the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for five years under provisions of the UAPA. Investigate Gyanvapi Shivling: Petition in SC Indian Navy rescues hijacked Iranian vessel with 17 aboard Ministry of Culture’s tableau adjudged best Tri-services bands play mellifluous tunes during the Beating Retreat ceremony at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on Monday. PTI Rajya Sabha elections for 56 seats on February 27 Animesh Singh Tribune News Service New Delhi, January 29 The Election Commission (EC) will hold the biennial Rajya Sabha elections on February 27 for 56 seats from 15 states as the tenure of incumbents, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP president JP Nadda, will end in April. The nomination process will begin on February 8 with the Terms of Manmohan, Nadda, many Union ministers ending issuance of the notification. While the terms of 50 members will end on April 2, six will retire on April 3, the EC said. Uttar Pradesh will have the highest vacancies at 10. It is followed by Bihar and Maharashtra (six each), Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal (five each), Karnataka and Gujarat (four each), Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan (three each), and Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Chhattisgarh (one each). The vacancies also include seats held by Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupender Yadav and Mansukh Mandaviya. Nadda may have to hunt for Ageing fleet, shortage of drivers hit ambulance service in Karnal Parveen Arora 23 POSTS VACANT Tribune News Service Karnal, January 29 The Health Department is grappling with a severe shortage of ambulance drivers, aggravating problems in the healthcare system. Despite having 87 posts of ambulance driver, 23 are vacant, overburdening the ■ Of 87 posts of ambu- lance driver, 23 vacant ■ 20 of 33 ambulances have either crossed operational age or covered 3 lakh km each existing drivers. Sources said due to the driver shortage, an ambulance driver had to c m y b respond to emergency calls from more than one community health centre (CHC). Additionally, the ambulance fleet is in a poor condition with most vehicles crossing the operational age. As many as 20 of the 33 ambulances have either surpassed the recommended operational period of continued on page 9 a seat away from his home state of Himachal Pradesh for renomination, as the lone seat from there will go to the Congress, which is in power there. From Uttar Pradesh, BJP members Anil Agrawal, Ashok Bajpai, Anil Jain, Kanta Kardam, Sakaldeep Rajbhar, GVL Narasimha Rao, Vijay Pal Singh Tomar, Sudhanshu Trivedi and Harnath Singh Yadav as well as SP member continued on page 9 ture tableau crafted by the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts titled ‘India: Mother of Democracy’ has been adjudged the best in the Republic Day Parade. TNS HP yet to appoint Drugs Controller SOLAN: The indecisiveness of the Himachal Government in appointing a new State Drugs Controller after the superannuation of the earlier officer on December 31 is adversely affecting the working of the pharmaceutical industry. Manufacturers have alleged that the state government is indifferent to their problems. INSIDE Punjab gets three new ADGPs Chandigarh, January 29 The Punjab Government today promoted three police officers to the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP). With these promotions, the Punjab Police have 21 ADGPs posted in the state, besides 15 Special DGPs and one DGP (Head of state police) Gaurav Yadav. Those officers who have been promoted are Nilabh Kishore, Shive Kumar Ver- Moosewala case SIT head among promotees ma and Jaskaran Singh. Kishore is investigating the alleged nexus of dismissed police officers Raj Jit Singh and Inderjit Singh with other cops and drug smugglers. Jaskaran Singh is the chairman of the five-member SIT probing the Sidhu Moosewala murder case. — TNS
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