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MCS/067/2018 - 20 rni reGn. no. 1543/57 115 143 178 77 Happening today lPrimeministernarendra Modi will inaugurate the 9th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit. business as usual By EP UNNY 2026 nobel prize economics Opp leaders put up united front, march to SC, file joint petition michael Woodford using policy tools to ‘stabilise’ economy p 11 2 of 3 new venues over 20 km from Central Delhi asad rehman New Delhi, October 12 esCalatIng theIr campaign seeking the removal of Chief election Commissioner gyanesh Kumar and scrapping of the special Intensive revision (sIr) of electoral rolls, Oppositionparties,ledbytheCongress, drew thousands of workers and supporters to the streets of Delhi for a march to the supreme Court. senior Opposition leaders, who were part ofthemarchMonday,alsofiled a joint petition at the apex court, raising these issues. earlier, addressing a press conference, leader of the Opposition in lok sabha, rahul gandhi, said that “all protests (against Kumar) are part of just one protest”. “there are no parallel protests, there is one protest... We do not care who you are, which formation you come from... If you are protecting the »continued on PaGe 2 roBert e hall delhiPolice denotifies Jantarmantar asprotestsite No parallel protests, all one protest: Rahul; SP, TMC, RJD, CPM join march insiDe probe ec decisions: opp’s plea in sc page 7 sakshi chand, alok singh, amaal sheikh & sohini Ghosh New Delhi, October 12 During a protest march by opposition leaders on barakhamba road, new Delhi, Monday. AbhinAv SAhA Puretheatrics, congleadership atfaultforits losses,saysBJP express news service Over 60% of 33 lakh SIR cases in Delhi disposed of, shows CEO data devansh mittal New Delhi, October 12 New Delhi, October 12 as the Opposition leaders marched to the supreme Court on Monday to file a petition againstChiefelectionCommissioner (CeC) gyanesh Kumar, the BJP hit back at leader of Opposition(loP)rahulgandhi and the Congress, labelling the the Cases of 20 lakh electors — more than 60% — out of the 33 lakh who had received notices to prove their eligibility to stay on the electoral roll in Delhi have been resolved, the office of the Delhi Chief electoral Officer (CeO) said Monday. the CeO’s office still has »continued on PaGe 2 more than 50 days until December 4 to publish the final electoral rolls for Delhi. the deadline for the publication of thefinalrollswasrevisedforthe fourth time on september 26. the process of disposal of notices and objections progressedslowlyinthefirst30days with only 4 lakh notices disposed — until september 29 — »continued on PaGe 2 DelhI POlICe onMondaydenotifiedJantarMantarasadesignated protest site and notifiedthreeothervenuesinstead, two of which are at least 20 km from Central Delhi. the order came after the Congress-led InDIa Opposition bloc, the Cockroach Janta Party(CJP),andtheleftparties called for protests at various places in Central Delhi, includingJantarMantar,overthepast week to demand the resignation of Chief election Commissioner (CeC) gyanesh Kumar. Over the past three days, Delhi Police have deployed thousands of personnel to »continued on PaGe 2 what courts have said on protest sites p 11 more reports, pages 3, 7 days after rate hike, Pressure on rBi Rising food prices push retail inflation to 5.54% in Sept siddharth upasani New Delhi, October 12 DaysafterthereserveBank ofIndia(rBI)increasedinterest rates for the first time in over three-and-a-halfyears,government data released on Monday showed that headline inflation rate surged from 4.83% in august to 5.54% in september, driven mostly by high food prices. While there was a monthon-month increase in overall prices,anunfavourablebaseeffectalsoplayedaroleinpushing up the headline inflation rate. Inasignthatpricepressures are spreading, core inflation rose from 4.1% in august to 4.3% in september. Core inflation measures how the price of the household consumption basket has changed, after excluding food and fuel items whosepricescanmovesharply, tending to have an outsized influence on the overall inflation rate. as such, economists like to narrow down on the core inflation rate to understand underlying price pressures. according to data released bytheMinistryofstatisticsand Programme Implementation (MosPI)onMonday,foodinflation rose sharply from 5.97% in august to 7.74% in september, »continued on PaGe 2 to link Bullet train stn, metro line 13 Automated driverless system likely in Virar sabah Virani Mumbai, October 12 after MetrOs, monorails and the proposed pod taxi, the Mumbai Metropolitan region could get another mode of transport: an automated guidewaytransit(agt)system in Virar, linking the upcoming Mumbai-ahmedabad bullet train station to Metro line 13. the proposed 3.1-km elevated corridor will run from sahakar nagar in Virar east, near the high-speed rail station, to theMetrostationatnalasopara. Unlike a conventional Metro, the agt will use automated, driverless vehicles running on wheels along a dedicated guideway. Described by its planners as an “elevated automated bus”, the system is expected to be smaller and cheaper to build than a Metro, with an initial capacity of around 50 to 70 passengers per vehicle or trainset. »continued on PaGe 2 CBC 15204/13/0111/2627 in letter to rahul & kharGe, cJi flaGs seParation of PoWers, ethics and Judicial ProPriety Mumbai