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Friday,
May 10,
2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Gujarat rocks House again Dara ‘set fire’ to Staines’ vehicle
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Mysterious disease stalks Muzaffarpur Mann felicitates
The Tribune Jaya deflecting real
issue: Tehelka MPs’ bid to pre-empt move on Stalin Labour panel to meet today No shortage of drugs: Dhindsa
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Gujarat rocks House again New Delhi, May 9 Alleging that Mr Modi was putting thousands of inmates to enormous hardship, members from the Congress, RJD, Left parties and Muslim League stormed the Well during zero hour shouting slogans “Modi hatao, desh bachao” (Remove Modi, save the country). Contesting Union Home Minister L.K. Advani’s statement in the House that no such move had been resorted to or was on the anvil, the angry members displayed the notice of the authorities regarding shutting down of camps. They accused Mr Advani of misleading the House. BJP members sought to counter the Opposition onslaught by urging the Chair not to allow the issue to be repeatedly raised in the House when a full-fledged debate had already taken place. The issue of closure of camps was raised by Congress member Madhusoodan Mistry who drew the attention of the House to the condition of over 1 lakh persons who were unable to return to their homes. Mr Mistry cited specific orders of the district magistrates ordering the closure of camps. The decision was mysterious as the state
government was unable to provide security to people leaving the camps, he pointed out. Several ruling party members were on their feet taking exception to Mr Mistry’s charge that Home Minister L K Advani has deliberately misled the House by asserting that relief camps had not closed down. Repeated attempts by Deputy Speaker P.M. Sayeed to restore calm proved futile with the Opposition members refusing to sit, leading to the adjournment till 2 p.m. After the House rose, Leader of the Opposition Sonia Gandhi was seen confabulating with party colleagues P R Dasmunsi and S Jaipal Reddy. Earlier, Left and RJD members staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha protesting against the government’s refusal to give an assurance that a revival package on the Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO), a subsidiary of the Steel Authority of India (SAIL), would be submitted to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction(BIFR) before July 1. Replying to a call attention raised by CPM member Basudeb Acharia on the IISCO issue, Minister of State for Steel Brajakishore Tripathy said the government would take a decision on its revival by July 1. However, he declined to give an assurance that it would be submitted to BIFR before that date. This prompted Mr Acharia and others to walkout. However, other members like Ms Mamata Banerjee and Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who pressed for the revival package, did not participate in the walkout. Responding to members’ demand, the minister said Russia had not shown interest in the revival of IISCO. Mr Dasmunsi wanted the minister to include the revival of IISCO in the package of petroleum and defence production for the consideration of Russia. |
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Dara ‘set fire’ to Staines’ vehicle Bhubaneswar, May 9 Deposing before the District and Sessions Judge Mahendra Nath Pattnaik, the trial judge in the Staines murder case, Raghunath Dehuri also identified all four accused present in the dock, who, he said, had set fire to the vehicle. Australian Missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons were charred to death at Manoharpur village in Orissa’s Keonjhar district while asleep in their vehicle. Raghunath said he was asleep when he heard a big sound. He then woke up and went to the church where he saw nearly 60 to 70 persons thumping the two vehicles and setting them on fire with the help of some straw.
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NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT New Delhi, May 9 These proposals will be considered along with similar proposals from other state governments after the finalisation of the Tenth Five Year Plan and availability of funds, keeping in view the revised criteria for declaration of new national highways and traffic needs, the minister said. In reply to another question, the minister said Khateema-Panipat was not entirely a national highway route. However, Najeebabad-Haridwar sections falls on the National Highway No. 74 and a number of rapats exist in this section of the Highway. No study relating to damages caused due to wiping away of vehicles on the rapats had been conducted by the government so far, the minister said. The high-level bridges in replacement of rapats had already been sanctioned in the Najeebabad-Haridwar section. Total estimated cost of these bridges was Rs 20.54 crore, the minister added. The construction of-high-level bridges on other rapatas on Najeebabad-Haridwar section of NH-74 will be taken up in a phased manner depending upon the availability of the resources, the House was told. A target of opening of 36 new branch post offices in Himachal Pradesh was fixed for the 9th five Year Plan and 20 new branch post offices were opened. The opening and upgradation of branch post offices was subject to the fulfilment of prescribed norms and availability of requisite resources, the Minister of State of Communications and Information Technology, Mr Tapan Sikdar, told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today. There is provision of fixing target for opening of new post offices in each year of the Tenth Five Year Plan. Achieving target is subject to the fulfilment of norms prescribed for opening of new post offices and availability of requisite resources, he added. The estimates on the basis of surveys carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation during 1993-94 and 1999-2000 reveals that employment in Haryana was 65 lakhs and 70 lakhs in 1993-94 and 1999-2000, respectively,
Minister of state of Labour Muni Lall told the Rajya Sabha today. |
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Mysterious disease stalks Muzaffarpur Patna, May 9 The doctors are puzzled owing to reports of “reappearance” of a disease like chickenpox in the state when it has officially been eradicated. The team will also test the disease. Panic spread in this north Bihar district after the death of about 30 persons, mostly children in the Dubhan, Sakra and Bochha blocks of Muzaffarpur district, 80 km off the state capital. Five children died yesterday at Bochha. The disease resembles the symptoms of chickenpox and is being considered as contagious. The Civil Surgeon, Mr A.P. Singh, has ordered all government doctors to rush to the affected villages to provide on the spot medical help and also probe the disease. |
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Mann felicitates
The Tribune New Delhi, May 9 The party has felicitated The Tribune Editor, Mr Hari Jaisingh, for the “first open rebuttal of the malaise that afflicts our judicial system.” In a statement issued here today, the party said, “We have no doubt that this judgement has been possible because of the exemplary stand taken by Mr Hari Jaisingh, the Editor of The Tribune, in his front-page editorial titled ‘No, my Lord: Before this appeal of Mr Hari Jaisingh, the media had shied away from publishing any reference or criticism of judicial procedures or judgements.” Hailing the judgement which upheld the public and the media’s right to information, President of the party, Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, appreciated the prompt action of the court. He appealed to the court to show the same speed and boldness while deciding cases relating to human rights abuse. The party supported the demand of the Bar Association of the Punjab and Haryana High Court for action against erring Judges of the high court who have their wards recruited by corrupt means through the Punjab Public Service
Commission headed by Mr Ravinder Pal Singh Sidhu. The party was in agreement with the Bar Association that such Judges should not be given any work till they were honourably exonerated. |
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Jaya deflecting real
issue: Tehelka New Delhi, May 9 Tehelka Director and reporter Aniruddha Bahal, moving an affidavit in the Venkataswami Commission
responding to Ms Jaitly’s plea demanding investigation by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the commission into the purchases of equipment, including tapes, said, “At the outset, it is stated that the instant application is misconceived, and is yet another effort to deflect the attention of the commission
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MPs’ bid to pre-empt move on Stalin New Delhi, May 9 Contending that the Tamil Nadu Municipal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2002, to be passed by the state legislature is violative of the Representation of People’s Act and the Constitution of the country, the MPs urged Mr Narayanan to direct the state Governor not to give assent and refer the Bill to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The provisions of the Bill provides for disqualification if a person holds posts in the legislature and local bodies. Mr Stalin holds the post of Chennai Mayor and also a member of the state Assembly.
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Labour panel to meet today New Delhi, May 9 The SLC, which will be inaugurated by Labour Minister Sharad Yadav, will also take up skill building, training of workers for employment generation, social security in the unorganised sector and government policy on disinvestment along with industrial sickness. The SLC, after a day-long deliberations on the issues, will select two out of the four issues for the consideration of the Indian Labour Congress which will meet shortly. The SLC will be attended by representatives of the various central ministries and departments, employers’ organisations and central trade unions. The industrial sickness has assumed alarming dimensions with the 20901 RBI report putting the number of sick or weak units at 2.53 lakh. |
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No shortage of drugs: Dhindsa New Delhi, May 9 Addressing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to his ministry, Mr Dhindsa said there had not been any reports of general shortage of medicines in the country in past two years. He said in case of temporary shortage of individual drugs, substitutes of equivalent therapeutic value were available in the market. Members of the Consultative Committee discussed the recently announced pharmaceutical policy which prescribes the span of price control on pharmaceuticals in an objective manner. |
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