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First woman naxal of A.P.-Telangana walks free

Tears welled in the eyes of Kursenga Motibai, a Maoist who went by the alias of Radhakka, as she walked free from the District Jail in Adilabad on Saturday. Emotions ran high once again when she reached her home in Pippaldhari, the tribal village located about 15 km from the district headquarters.

The 51-year-old Motibai is the first woman naxalite of Andhra Pradesh-Telangana and wife of Pulliri Prasad Rao alias Chandranna, a member of the Maoist Central Committee.

She spent 28 years as an outlaw and over two years in jail after she was arrested in Khammam on June 3, 2013. She arrived at Pippaldhari after 31 years and found much had changed since she left the village for joining the extremist movement in 1985.

The senior Maoist, a Gond Adivasi, who last worked as Bastar divisional committee secretary, was acquitted in all the 29 cases filed against her in various police stations of Adilabad district. She, however, will face trial in one case in Khammam, in which she has been granted bail.

The hardship of life on the run, however, started taking its toll on the gutsy tribal woman by the time she reached the Chhattisgarh forests. In t was in 1998, that she underwent surgery for a heart ailment and was down with an infection in her kidneys.

Motibai was apprehended when she was trying to reach a hospital with the help of a courier in Khammam. “I expect the authorities will leave me alone so that I can access medical treatment,” was all she told The Hindu as she came out of the prison.

Cong. stalling Parliament, says Jaitley :-

The government has walked the extra mile to explain the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill to the Congress but the agenda of the principal opposition party, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, is to “paralyse” the country. He also stressed that the government had played no role in the National Herald case, the Enforcement Directorate “had not issued any notice” and the tax authorities had “not passed any assessment order”.

The government, he continued, would wait for the court verdict before taking any action. “If there is a tax angle, then the taxation authorities will ask questions for which there is a due process. If anyone has an issue with tax authorities, they can go in for appeal,” he said.

The Finance Minister was speaking at the Aaj Tak Forum in the national capital on Saturday.

Mr Jaitley’s statement came even as the government has allotted four hours next week in the Rajya Sabha to discuss the GST Bill, suggesting that it intends to make another bid to get this contentious piece of legislation through.

It also came on a day when Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi told journalists in Guwahati that there is “no link” between the National Herald case and the GST Bill, stressing that his party was for the tax reform measure if three differences are resolved.

If the message from Mr Gandhi’s statement was ambivalent, Congress Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma on Saturday was more direct when he told The Hindu that the BJP was not interested in passing the GST bill: “They have badly failed in managing the economy and now they are linking its recovery to GST, which is not good.”

Pointing out that the government was falling behind on the GST schedule, Mr Sharma said that before it could be operationalised, the Bill will have to be ratified by the State governments, then three acts have to be passed at the Central, State and inter-state level: “They are clearly falling behind on the GST schedule. They know they cannot achieve all these linkages by March 31. So they are blaming us for delaying it. The truth is they don’t want it,” he said.

Saturday’s exchange of statements follows the high level meeting at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence on November 28, when he invited Ms. Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss Parliament’s legislative agenda, including the GST Bill. When that meeting ended, the decision was that both should confer with their respective parties and meet again to see whether the issue could be resolved.

Since then, though there has been no formal meeting, there have been informal interactions between senior leaders.

The BJP appears to have conceded ground to the Congress on two of its three objections.

On Saturday, Mr. Jaitley said that he had offered to the Congress that the GST Council could resolve disputes and form a dispute redressal forum, as was proposed by Mr Chidambaram. To the Congress’s demand to include the GST rate in the Constitutional amendment bill, he said the tariff cannot be written into the Constitution.

189 nations submit INDCs to UNFCCC on climate action :-

"What was once consider unthinkable, now has become unstoppable. We must stay united," said UN Secretary General.

The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, said on Saturday night at the CoP21 Plenary, that 189 parties had submitted their nationally determined contributions on climate actions, rising from 186 so far. Eight more were expected. The current level of ambition in the contributions by all countries was only the floor, not the ceiling, he said.

Every five years beginning 2018, the countries in the Paris Agreement would review what is needed by science to stop dangerous climate change. "What was once consider unthinkable, now has become unstoppable. We must stay united," the UN Secretary General said.

The Paris Agreement would be open for signature at the UN headquarters in New York from 22 April, 2016, and would enter into force on the thirtieth day after at least 55 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change accounting totally for an estimated 55 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

Palestine joins UN Convention

Palestine congratulated France and called the Agreement historic. It aligned itself with the G77 and China.

On behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas the delegation announced that it was submitting to the UN Secretary General its instrument of accession to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

It becomes the 196th state party, and the 197th party to the Convention. "The Palestinian people cannot be left behind. People under occupation cannot be left behind. We will act as a very responsible state," the delegation said.

Women in Saudi Arabia vote for first time :-
A total of 978 women have registered as candidates, alongside 5,938 men.

Municipal elections began on Saturday in Saudi Arabia in which women cast their votes for the first time.

Women also stood as candidates, another first, despite the conservative kingdom being the only nation where women were not allowed to drive, BBC reported.

A total of 978 women have registered as candidates, alongside 5,938 men.

Female candidates had to speak behind a partition during campaign appearances or be represented by a man.

About 130,000 women have registered to vote, officials said. That figure still falls well short of male voter registration, which stands at 1.35 million.

Salma al-Rashed was the first woman to register to vote. “It felt really good,” she told BBC.

“Change is a big word but the election is the way to make sure we are really represented.”

Elections themselves are a rare thing in Saudi Arabia — Saturday will be only the third time in history that Saudis have gone to the polls.

There were no elections in the 40 years between 1965 and 2005.

The decision to allow women to take part in election was taken by late King Abdullah and is seen as a key part of his legacy.

The results of the elections are expected to be announced later on Saturday.

The euphoria created by the Leaders Event nearly two weeks ago of a smooth Paris Climate Agreement emerging by Friday has evaporated, and countries are crunching the most contentious parts of the pact, hoping to come up an agreed outcome by Saturday morning.

Amidst demonstrations and campaigns at the CoP21 venue by activists, the multilateral issue that has gone to the wire is differentiation — the part of the agreement that will make obligations heavier for the developed world to both cut emissions and fund the developing countries, and give lighter responsibilities to developing nations.

The hope that the voluntary pledges made by 186 countries would make the Paris deal a simple and straight affair has been belied, as oil producing countries and their allies are opposing the 1.5°C tighter temperature target over the 2°C favoured originally by many emerging economies. In UNFCCC parlance, this number is the ambition to be included in the deal.

How much money would be raised by the developed world by 2020 with $100 billion as the floor and how that is to be earmarked is also hanging fire, as is the question of addressing loss and damage caused by the historical emissions accumulated in the atmosphere, mostly due to “dirty fuel” past of the rich nations. The West has ruled out a regime of damage and compensation in the agreement.

India is taking the line that developed countries are rigid, leaving little flexibility for alternative solutions. According to Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, the success of the Paris conference now depends on the spirit of accommodation and flexibility of the West.

The Minister met Mr. John Kerry on Friday, their third meeting in Paris, to greet the U.S. Secretary of State on his birthday with a hurriedly bought 6-foot-tall bouquet. He also held talks with China and would be meeting French Minister Laurent Fabius, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and others. “Developed countries should come forward. Their attitude on flexibility is now 50-50,” he said, expressing happiness that the draft released on Thursday night contained references to the role of lifestyle in combating climate change, a position the Modi government articulated.

The world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, China, remains firm on differentiation. “Our unity is intact,” Mr. Javadekar said, apparently referring to China’s presence in various blocs of countries, not all of them with like views, and its special partnership with the U.S. on climate change.

Elsewhere in COP21, India faces criticism for trying to weaken the legal rigour of a five-year review mechanism and engaging in brinkmanship. On its reservations on periodic review of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), civil society organisations agree that the proposal remains vague on whether it includes finance and technology transfer.

“China and India say they have already determined their INDCs, and do not want to revisit it early. The only countries supporting the five year review are vulnerable states,” said the Climate Action Network.

China is being panned for its conflicting positions: between the high ambition speech made by President Xi Jinping at the leaders event at the start of the conference, and the stand taken by its negotiators. “But this agreement is not all about China and India, this is a multilateral agreement that must put the quality of its provisions above everything else,” said a CAN observer. Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia, Gambia, the Marshall Islands and vulnerable island countries are among nations supporting a strong outcome in Paris.

Mr. Javadekar tried to counter this narrative. “I told the island states that if we stick to 1.5ׄ°C, the developed countries would have to come to net zero emissions soon and distribute rising quantum of climate funds. Are they ready?”

Saudi Arabia has also been blocking the 1.5°C target. Arabia represents the Arab region which along with the Middle East and North Africa is as much vulnerable to climate change as others. While it talks of a national shift to renewables, its approach to speak on behalf of the Arab world and block the 1.5°C target is not acceptable, said an activist.

Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Russia last night attacked the 1.5°C target, which is crucial to indicate that the world will shift away from coal, oil and gas.

The text of the Climate Agreement, however, is still open, and issues such as finance, loss and damage, and transparency are not yet wrapped up. The negotiators and Ministers will be spending another night in the French capital, which has low single digit temperatures, to come up with a consensus by Saturday at 9 a.m., when Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says he can present the deal.

Intense lobbying by National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval with the American authorities could have led David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, to turn an approver in the case, a senior government official told The Hindu.
Apart from the case being probed by the Mumbai Police, where he has offered to become an approver, Headley is also an accused in the case being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
When contacted, NIA chief Sharad Kumar told The Hindu, “As of now we have no plans to make Headley an approver in our case.” NIA is probing the larger conspiracy behind the case.
That Headley acted as double agent for the Americans as well as terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is a known fact. After his arrest in 2009 from Chicago airport, Headley entered into a plea bargain with the U.S authorities, which provided him cushion from death penalty and from being extradited to India or Denmark.
A senior official explained, “The plea bargain that he entered with the U.S ensured that he will not be extradited to India to serve the remaining sentence; it never said anything on his presence here in the course of the trial. There was a possibility that he could have been sent to India in future to face the trial. It could have proved troublesome for the Americans as they conveniently ignored his activities in Pakistan and links with LeT.”
A senior government official claimed that Maharashtra public prosecutor and senior officials of the central intelligence agencies had meetings with the U.S. Department of Justice two months ago, which prompted Headley to become an approver in the case.
When contacted Special Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam denied having met U.S authorities but added, “there are many aspects involving national security, which cannot be disclosed.” Mr. Nikam told The Hindu, “Headley becoming an approver is not the final word. I have put a condition that he ought to answer all the questions posed by us to become an approver.”
A senior official added that there still existed a possibility of Headley being made an accused during the course of the trial, if the prosecution was not convinced with his replies. NIA has already sent an extradition request to the U.S. in 2011 seeking Headley's custody. Former home secretary R.K Singh said, “This offer (to turn an approver) could not have come on his own; our agencies must have worked hard on it. The evidence provided by him could prove to be key against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Saeed, who is one of the main architects of 26/11 attacks.”

Former IPS officer V. Balachandran, who was part of the committee probing lapses in the 26/11 Mumbai attack case, said the Indian prosecution team had no other option but to make him an approver.

he talks will be called Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue; Pakistan assures early completion of the Mumbai terror attacks trial.

Seven years after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, India and Pakistan have agreed to resume structured dialogue between them. Announcing the breakthrough development, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said at a joint press conference in Islamabad, “We have decided to restart the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue. The dialogue that was earlier known as Composite Dialogue and later on known as Resumed Dialogue will now be known as the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue.”

Ms. Swaraj added that the decision had come as a result of the talks on terror by the National Security Advisors in Bangkok on Sunday. In their joint statement, Ms. Swaraj and Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz “condemned terrorism and resolved to cooperate to eliminate it”. The joint statement also notes that Pakistan had given assurances on an “early completion of the Mumbai trial”.

Earlier Ms. Swaraj and the Indian delegation comprising Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and India’s envoys to Pakistan and Afghanistan called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at his office in Islamabad. The meeting, that had been scheduled only as a “courtesy call” as Ms. Swaraj was there to attend the Heart of Asia conference, ended up lasting well past an hour. “The atmosphere was very warm and friendly right from the start,” a senior official present in the room told The Hindu, adding that Ms. Swaraj referred to the fact that Mr. Sharif had maintained his commitment to dialogue between India and Pakistan ever since he had been elected Prime Minister.

“She said repeatedly that PM Sharif’s sincerity was beyond doubt and appreciated his willingness to accept shortcomings and move ahead with the process.” In response, Mr. Sharif reportedly said that he was indeed committed to peace with India and that “no issue was off the table as far as he was concerned”.

The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government has rolled up its sleeves for the ongoing winter session of Parliament in a bid to guarantee the passage of the Constitution amendment Bill that will usher in a Goods and Services Tax. The government, which has staked a lot of political capital on ensuring that the April 1 target deadline for the implementation of GST is met, has moved to try to build a consensus through a combination of political outreach and an internal reappraisal of some of the contentious features of the tax measure.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his predecessor Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to court bipartisan support for the legislation in the Rajya Sabha, where the Congress still has the upper hand. And the government has said it hopes to continue talks with the Opposition to reach an understanding. Separately, a panel headed by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has recommended the government make some modifications to its proposals that are seen as helping to pave the way for a resolution of the political deadlock over the Bill.

Among key suggestions are that the government drop the proposed additional 1 per cent levy on inter-State sales over and above the GST rate, and that alcohol and petroleum products be included in the ambit of the tax. Crucially, however, the panel shied away from endorsing the Congress’s demand for writing into the statute an explicit cap of 18 per cent on the standard rate of tax. Dr. Subramanian reasoned it would be unwise to limit the future freedom of the political process by laying down the minutiae of policy. This could well end up being a bone of contention.

For both the government and the Congress, a lot now rides on the political calculations the two sides make ahead of a clutch of State elections due next year. On test will be the sagacity and statesmanship of their respective leaders. A Congress spokesperson was emphatic that the onus of finding a resolution to the differences lay with the government. The party stands by its core demands that include the introduction of robust accountability measures.

The party claims that the government’s efforts to communicate with the Opposition have been high on atmospherics and low on substance. It is now time both sides rose above partisan considerations. That the implementation of GST will help reduce the cascading impact of the prevailing multiplicity of taxes has been well-established. The projected benefit to the economy from an expected improvement in administration and compliance of the indirect tax regime is also fairly beyond doubt.

The challenge will remain in warding off incipient inflationary pressures in the early stages of the implementation of the tax, and enlightened politics is needed here. Both the Congress, which had once championed the GST, and Prime Minister Modi need to show the political will to get this key reform measure passed to create a common market that could spur growth.