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Tuesday,
February 26, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Move to
make MTP Act more stringent Ajit Caur
denied visa for convention Judicial
remand for Vikas till March 11 Amarnathan
is RAW chief Japanese
aid for four NGOs
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ESIC
staff to go on fast from today Examinations
cancelled
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Move to make MTP Act more stringent New Delhi, February 25 According to the new amendment, a five-member committee under the chairmanship of Chief Medical Officer, will be set up at district levels to issue licences to the places/hospitals for conducting MTP, Dr Thakur said while inaugurating a seminar here on “reproductive and child health — key to population stabilisation’’. The Health Minister also informed that the government was introducing a bill in the Budget session to amend Pre-natal Diagnostic Test (PNDT) act to make it more stringent and also to include some of the latest technologies of sex determination like chromosome splicing. He said improved delivery of reproductive and child healthcare would achieve rapid population stabilisation which, in turn, would improve the quality of life of the citizens and pave the way for better human development. “Reduction in mortality rates through simple interventions such as provision of better antenatal care, early detection and Management of Respiratory Infections can go a long way in addressing the problem of population explosion’’, he stressed. Dr Thakur also called for the urgent need to make two-child norm mandatory. Emphasising the need for continuous monitoring and evaluation of the Family Welfare Programme, Dr Thakur said that for the first time, a group of about 30 senior officers had been identified who would monitor six to seven districts in the eight poor performance states so that they can resolve the difficulties faced at the field levels in a prompt manner. The three-day seminar was organised by the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare. |
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Ajit Caur denied visa for convention New Delhi, February 25 Only a few participants could attend the convention as the Bangladesh Government had issued instructions to its missions abroad not to give visas to the invitees, well-placed sources told this correspondent today. The invitees who were not granted visas were Dr Ajit Caur from India, Mr Ali Sharif from Maldives and Ms Asma Jahangir, Mr Zaheer Heena and Urdu writer Mr Ahmad Faraz, all from Pakistan. The convention was held at the Institute of Engineers in Dhaka and was inaugurated by Awami League chief and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a bete noire of Begum Zia. The two-day convention adopted a six-point Dhaka Declaration which included taking immediate steps to stop the ongoing violence, repression, political and religious persecution. The convention appealed to the international community to express solidarity and share concern with the victims of the crime against humanity. |
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Judicial remand for Vikas till March 11
Ghaziabad (UP), February 25 Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajinder Kumar remanded Vikas, son of Rajya Sabha member D.P. Yadav, and his cousin, Vishal, to judicial custody till March 11 here after they were brought to the city from Dabra in Madhya Pradesh by a special UP police team this morning. “We will be seeking police remand from the court tomorrow so that we can question the duo in connection with the case,” Ghaziabad SP A.K. Raghav, who headed the special police team told PTI. The Magistrate at Dabra had remanded the duo in judicial custody till March 7 in connection with a case of possessing illegal cartridges. The Yadav brothers were brought here on a transit remand granted yesterday. Meanwhile, Vikas Yadav, who is on bail in the Jessica Lal murder case, told reporters outside the court that he had a minor scuffle with Katara “but I never knew who he is.” Vikas, who was defeated in the assembly elections, and Vishal have been charged with the kidnapping of 24-year-old Katara after the latter danced with their sister, Bharati at a marriage party last Saturday. A charred and disfigured body was later found in the Bulandshahar area. “I did not know who he (Katara) is. There was an altercation outside the gate (of marriage venue). After that there was no talk, neither did he sit with us. I do not know from where all these reports (of his own involvement) are coming,” Vikas said. Vikas said only later he came to know that Nitish was the person with whom he had some altercation. “Nothing happened beyond this,” he said. The police has meanwhile sent DNA samples of the body to Hyderabad-based National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) for test after the victim’s mother expressed apprehensions that the half-burnt body could be that of her son.
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Amarnathan
is RAW chief New Delhi, February 25 The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet cleared the name of Mr Amarnathan, a 1967 batch officer, from the Orissa cadre, for the post, an official pressnote said today. Mr Amarnathan, who was serving as the Director-General of Orissa prisons, replaces Mr V. N. Singh, who has retired, it said. The committee also approved the appointment of Special Commissioner (Administration) of the Delhi police, Mr R. K. Sharma, as the new Special Secretary in the Home Ministry. Mr Sharma, a 1967 batch IPS officer from the UT cadre, will take over soon. |
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Japanese
aid for four NGOs New Delhi, February 25 One of the NGOs, involved in providing medical and ophthalmic care to underprivileged people, will be given $ 56,916 to procure sophisticated ophthalmic equipment. Another NGO will be given $ 92,357 for its drinking water supply project. The grant will be utilised for installation of 150 handpumps in 50 villages in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh which would benefit about 50,000 people. The other NGOs being given the grant are working in the fields of de-addiction and rehabilitation of drug-affected people and in educating and bringing up orphans. Japan had last year provided an assistance of $ 1,886,000 (Rs 8.5 crore approximately). |
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ESIC staff to go on fast from today New Delhi, February 25 A statement issued by the ESIC Employees’ Federation said the management of the ESIC had “arbitrarily and autocratically withheld the promotion of the ESIC” employees. The scarce promotional avenues for Group D and Group C employees were generated due to superannuation/retirement only in the cadre of Insurance Inspector/ Manager Grade II/ Office Superintendent etc, the Secretary-General of the ESI Employees Federation, Mr Satpal Sehgal, said. The federation had been demanding the restoration of promotional process in the corporation, but the management had been sidetracking the issue”, he said. “To express anguish against the decision of the management, the federation would hold a relay hunger strike on February 26, 27 and 28,” he said. |
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Examinations cancelled Shillong, February 25 Chief Secretary J. Tayeng said the government had decided to cancel the exams, conducted by the Maghalaya Board of Secondary Education (MBOSE), last night after a thorough investigation was conducted and the leakage of papers of all three streams confirmed. The CID had so far identified four MBOSE officials, whose names were not disclosed, to help nail the kingpin involved in the racket. The government, however, suspended Assistant Secretary S.D. Basaiawmoit, W. Kharmnuid (UDA), M.L. Tron (LDC) and chowkidar A.M. Sangma.
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