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June 17, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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No talks
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perceptible tension along LoC: George 26
pilgrims die in bus mishap Capt
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50 p
cut in petrol, diesel prices likely Arundhati
counters CM’s rehabilitation claims TMC, Cong
merger talks today NEWS ANALYSIS UP BJP chief
meets Vajpayee Bihar
jail siege ends WINDOW ON THE SOUTH Films on
Bhagat Singh fail at box office MP seeks nod to aid Gujarat victims Summons
to Mulayam in Mayawati case
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No talks till Pakistan ends
cross-border terror: Advani Ahmedabad, June 16 Mr Advani, who arrived here today on a two-day visit, told reporters that preliminary reports from the border revealed that there has been no reduction in cross-border terrorism. About the rehabilitation work on riot-hit Gujarat, he said he was satisfied. Nearly 70 camps were still running in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and these should be dismantled immediately, he stressed. Regarding the proposal for joint patrolling on the Indo-Pak border, Mr Advani said the matter had ended with Pakistan’s rejection. Since the past four years, the Centre had been tackling the Jammu and Kashmir issue on two fronts — through direct talks with Pakistan and by creating international opinion against terrorism there, Mr Advani explained. The Lahore bus trip and the Agra summit were part of the efforts to have dialogue with Pakistan, he added. The Agra summit had failed due to Pakistan’s refusal to accept the trouble in Jammu and Kashmir as terrorism, the Home Minister said, adding that Islamabad had so far been terming the terrorism in the troubled-state as a freedom struggle. But now, there had been a change in Pakistan’s attitude as it had admitted that killing of innocent people was wrong, Mr Advani said. Mr Advani said the international opinion had also changed between the Agra and the Almaty summits. He said US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had told Pakistan that terrorism was terrorism and could not be described as a freedom struggle. Since the past two to three weeks, several other countries have also said that Pakistan was supporting terrorism and should immediately stop it, he added. Mr Advani also mentioned the recent opinion poll conducted by the Mori International of London. The poll had revealed that majority of the Kashmiris feel that they have suffered due to Pakistani interference in their land and would prefer to stay with India. The Home Minister said India did not want a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir. ‘’We had approached the United Nations Security Council after Pakistan committed aggression on our territory. The UN Security Council had said that plebiscite should be held only when Pakistan withdraws its army from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.’’ Mr Advani said the two banned terrorist organisations — the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad — active in India, have also a base in Nepal. On Gujarat, Mr Advani said he was satisfied with rehabilitation work being carried out in the riot-ravaged state. People living in relief camps in the state had started returning home, he said. There were 150,000 persons in 121 camps at one time, but now there were 19 camps with 18,500 inmates, he said. Of these, 12 camps housing 15,300 persons were in Ahmedabad, the Home Minister said. Mr Advani also called for public participation in the restoration of harmony and confidence in the violence-marred state. Though peace was returning to Gujarat, the government and society should take efforts to instill harmony and trust among the people, he added. Mr Advani represents the Gandhinagar Constituency in the Lok Sabha and was quizzed as to why he had visited only twice during the worst phase of the communal riots in the state. “Security reasons’’, was his answer. About the Godhra train carnage, Mr Advani said the incident was pre-planned as it was not possible for so many people to come together without planning. It would not be proper to say anything beyond this when the judicial inquiry is going on, he added.
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No perceptible tension along LoC:
George Vijayawada, June 16 Patrolling troops on border areas on both sides did not mean tension, Mr Fernandes, who was here to attend the two-day Samata Party national council meeting, told reporters. “We have already withdrawn our Navy, lifted the ban on Pakistani overflights on Indian skies with an intention to defuse tension......hope Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will realise all these aspects,” he said. “However, our jawans are always alert on duty to safeguard the borders,” the Defence Minister added. Referring to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s statement in Pakistan that he did not have adequate information with regard to the presence of Al-Qaida activists in Kashmir, Mr Fernandes said Mr Rumsfeld had only said that information was not adequate to initiate any action and beyond that he had not said anything. India’s relationship with the USA was stable and good. The USA had started supplying engines for India’s light combat aircraft, which was earlier stopped, he said. The USA was supplying engines for the Kaveri aircraft which was under trial in Russia, Mr Fernandes said. The Kaveri light combat aircraft would be ready within two years.
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26 pilgrims die in bus mishap Dehra Dun, June 16 According to sources here, the driver of the ill-fated bus - who had jumped off the bus before it rolled down the slope — was among the six injured in the mishap. The bus (No.UP-07-D 4797), operated by the Garhwal Motors Owners Union (GMOU), was proceeding to Hardwar from the Badrinath shrine when the mishap occurred. At least 22 pilgrims belong to the Kutch region of Gujarat. Five bodies have been found so far. The police with the help of the Border Road Organisation, is searching for survivors. Police officers supervising rescue operations, said there was little hope of anybody surviving the mishap. The rescue teams were finding it difficult to locate more survivors or bodies owing to the inhospitable river volume following rains in the higher reaches in the past 48 hours. The mishap occurred when the bus driver lost control over the vehicle due to bursting of one of the front tyres, shortly after it had left the temple town of Joshimath on Saturday evening. Even as he tried to steer clear the bus from ramming into other vehicles, the driver, unable to prevent it from drifting into the river valley, made good his escape by jumping off from his cabin-door. The bus rolled down the 150-m slope to take the ultimate plunge into the swirling river waters. The injured bus driver, Suresh Semwal, a resident of Chamiyala village (Tehri), has been admitted to the Joshimath Community Hospital along with other injured persons which include four women. The condition of two of them is stated to be critical. Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari, who is in Delhi, has expressed shock at the tragedy. |
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Capt Sahgal creates history New Delhi, June 16 The NDA nominee, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who is all set to be elevated to the top post with the backing of the majority of political parties, would be the first person from a non-political background to enter Rashtrapati Bhavan. Former President, Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, though an academician, was closely associated with the Congress. On the other hand, Capt Lakshmi Sahgal, backed by the Left Front would go down in Parliamentary history as the first woman candidate to contest for the President’s post. Presidential election in the past have been marked by moments of high political drama — from the stunning defeat of ‘official candidate’ Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy in 1969 to entry into the poll fray by none other than former Chief Election Commissioner T.N. Seshan against the incumbent President K.R. Narayanan in 1997. Dr Reddy had a peculiar record. After a humiliating defeat in 1969 against Mr V.V. Giri despite having the status of “official” candidate of the Congress, he bounced back by creating history in 1977 by becoming the first person to be elevated to Rashtrapati Bhavan without a contest. The 1969 Presidential election was remarkable due to the unprecedented measures introduced to ensure secrecy of voting. The serial numbers on the back of the ballot papers were covered with coloured slips, reveals a handbook on Presidential elections brought out by the Election Commission. The ballot papers were also shuffled three or four times during the polling so that the agents of the candidates found it difficult to note down the serial numbers to identify the votes cast by Members during counting. The fifth Presidential election in 1969 and the seventh in 1977 were both held before term in tragic circumstances when incumbents Dr Zakir Hussain and Mr Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed died in office after serving for two years and two-and-a-half years, respectively. Ahead of the sixth Presidential election in 1974 in which Mr Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was elected, Parliament amended the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Act, 1952, to make it mandatory for a Presidential nominee to be backed by at least 10 electors (MPs or MLAs) as
proposers and 10 as seconders. The security deposit was made Rs 2,500. This was done to deter non-serious candidates who contested without even a remote chance of getting elected. Also, it was stipulated that a petition challenging a Presidential election could be filed only before the Supreme Court by any contesting candidate or by a minimum of 20 electors joined together as petitioners. The ninth Presidential poll, which saw the election of Mr R. Venkataraman, had its moments of high drama when 22 disqualified MLAs of the Punjab Assembly were allowed by the Supreme Court to vote as part of the electoral college under special conditions. Another interesting highlight of these elections was the request by noted jurist V.R. Krishna Iyer, who lost to Mr Venkataraman, to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to let the contestants air their views on AIR and Doordarshan. The government, however, did not accept this. In the 10th elections in 1992, illiterate contestant Joginder Singh alias ‘Dharti Pakad’, who used to find his nomination papers rejected every time, was among the final line-up. While Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma won, ‘Kaka’ Joginder Singh managed to poll 1,135 votes. Ahead of the eleventh Presidential elections in 1997, Parliament once again amended the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Act, 1952, to increase to 50 each the number of proposers and seconders for a candidate. The amount of security was also increased from Rs 2,500 to Rs 15,000. Former Chief Election Commissioner T.N. Seshan stood for the elections against Vice-President Narayanan, the first time that an erstwhile election officer was in the ring, not as a referee but a contestant. |
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50 p cut in petrol, diesel prices likely New Delhi, June 16 ‘’The fact is crude prices since May 30 have been softening and fell below $ 23 per barrel last week from more than $ 24 in the third week of May,’’ officials said. Prices of LPG (domestic) and kerosene were unlikely to be revised as the government had yet to settle the issue of flat subsidy on both the products, they said. Since last midnight, both petrol and diesel prices in the country were increased by 23 paise to 30 paise per litre due to an increase in crude prices in the second fortnight of May. The oil companies had steeply increased the prices of petrol and diesel on June 3, after the government finalised a scheme to check volatility under which the government will revise excise duty every quarter while oil companies will have the freedom to revise prices every fortnight. With the second revision in less than a fortnight, petrol and diesel prices touched an all-time high. The introduction of the new system of fixing prices and allowing oil companies to fix prices at a regular interval had created several problems and even oil company managers were trying to find out solutions for the new situation. They said a mechanism had to be devised for fixing the retail prices because several factors had to be taken into consideration while revising the prices. Besides, cost of crude (at the international level), various duties, volatility in the international market, transportation cost, margins and productivity were responsible for the actual cost.
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Arundhati counters
CM’s rehabilitation claims Bhopal, June 16 In her three-page hard-hitting reply to the Chief Minister’s letter, she says: “You say it is not the government policy to buy land and ‘allot’ it to adivasi people. But this is not true. Under Section 3.2(a) and (b) in the MP Rehabilitation Policy for the Narmada valley, it is exactly what the government is supposed to do.” Ms Roy then says: “Your letter suggests that everything is as it should be – that the government has dealt fairly and generously with the people who are to be displaced. This is not the case. I have travelled to the Maan villages. I have spoken to people. I was told about the outrageous manner in which cash compensation was distributed”. “It is illegal even according to your own policy to distribute cash compensation like this. It is simply not true that people were given the choice between land for land and cash. Most people said they were made to feel that they could take cash (I would not go so far as to call it ‘compensation’) or nothing at all. Many said that they took cash because they were threatened with legal action and forced eviction. Many others did so for the simple reason that they were not aware of their rights – the Narmada Bachao Andolan was not active in the area at the time.” At the outset, the celebrated writer says in her letter dated June 15: “I am a little puzzled and embarrassed that you chose to write to me and not to those who have been petitioning you for your attention for the past 25 days. Today is the 26th day of the fast of the NBA activists demanding rehabilitation for those who are being displaced by Maan dam. Two days ago, you tried to arrest them. They escaped and are now underground. This correspondence takes place in the shadow of their death or permanent debilitation”. “First, I would like to clarify in no uncertain terms that I am not a member of the NBA. I do not represent the andolan. I cannot and do not wish to negotiate on its behalf. I am merely someone who has taken the trouble to find out what is actually happening on the ground (as opposed to on paper) in the Narmada valley. And frankly, the more I learn, the more appalled I am”. |
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TMC, Cong merger talks today New Delhi, June 16 The proposed merger had been lingering for the past 10 months as the sticking point between the two parties had been who would head the Tamil Nadu Pradesh Congress Committee once the TMC joins the Congress. The TMC, which has a larger presence in Tamil Nadu, wants that one of their leaders take the mantle, while the Congress remaining indecisive on the issue with a section of the party, including former Union Minister Vazhapadi K. Ramamurthi, voicing against giving the post to the TMC. Although TMC President G.K. Vasan, who has so far had three rounds of talks with Ms Sonia Gandhi on the merger issue, maintains that his party is not for bargaining since a decision has been taken to merge with the Congress, his party colleagues feel that it is in the fitness of things that the post of party President should go to the TMC, considering its larger presence in the state. The TMC has also claimed the post of the Legislative Party Leader as a matter of right since the party has 24 MLAs in the state Assembly as compared to just seven belonging to the Congress. The TMC, which would lose its regional party status once the merger takes place, has also pressed for a representation in the central leadership of the Congress, including the Working Committee. Tamil Nadu has had no presence in the central leadership of the Congress for the past 14 years and the last General Secretary from the state was the late G.K. Moopanar in 1988. All these issues are likely to be sorted out in tomorrow’s meeting as the two parties wants the formal merger announcement to coincide with the birth centenary celebrations of the late Kamaraj next month. |
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NEWS ANALYSIS Lucknow, June 16 These two meetings, held separately, gave a clear signal that the BJP and the BSP leaders have decided to stick to their guns and consolidate their vote bank. The BJP leaders — nine of whom held meeting at a guest house around 10 km from the state capital — unanimously decided that the BJP state President Kalraj Mishra, Urban Development Minister Lalji Tandon and Irrigation Minister Om Prakash Singh would be party’s nominee for the co-ordination committee. Among others former Chief Minister Rajnath Singh, Kalraj Mishra, Lalji Tandon etc, attended the meeting. Mr Shiv Kumar, political adviser to Prime Minister, too was present. Through with this decision, the party tried to give a terse message to the BSP that it would not take things lying down any more. Recently, the Chief Minister acting suo motu had removed Mr Mishra and Mr Singh from the co-ordination committee. Though she changed her decision after intervention for Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and issued press note saying that it was party’s prerogative to nominate any person for the co-ordination committee. The BJP rubbed the BSP leader the wrong way and on its part re-nominated Mr Mishra and Mr Singh on the co-ordination panel much to the chagrin of Ms Mayawati. But Ms Mayawati settled score at the workers’ meet held at the party headquarter. In no uncertain words she issued warning to the BJP saying it was their (BJP leaders’) compulsion to have an alliance with the BSP. She said: “Though we were ready for another round of battle of ballots, the BJP is not ready to face another election in the state. If elections were held the BJP would be reduced to 44 from their existing strength of 88.” This statement of Ms Mayawati has not gone well with the BJP leaders. “Who is she to talk like this to her party workers. We can understand that she wanted to give a political message to her workers. But the language she used against the BJP was against the spirit of coalition politics,” said a general secretary of the party. The BSP state President Indrajit Saroj is not impressed. “The BSP knows its strength. We are not dependent on the BJP. Whatever Ms Mayawati has said we stick to it,” he said. The intransigent stand taken by leaders of the two major allies raises a big question mark over the tenure of the alliance. If it continues like this then will it continue for even a year is a million dollar question? |
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UP BJP chief
meets Vajpayee New Delhi, June 16 Although Mr Mishra maintained that he did not raise the issue of resignation and during the 40-minute meeting with Mr Vajpayee here discussed only “general” issues, sources said the veteran BJP leader expressed his keenness to step down. “It was a routine meeting. Whenever I come to Delhi, I meet the Prime Minister. We discussed the situation in the state,” Mr Mishra told newspersons. The meeting came amidst reports indicating that Faizabad MP and Bajrang Dal’s founder president Vinay Katiyar is tipped to head the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh unit. Mr Katiyar, however, maintains that he has not been approached by the party high command as yet. Mr Mishra had on June 3 submitted his resignation letter to party President K. Jana Krishnamurthi, two days after he announced his decision “owning responsibility” for BJP’s defeat in the Assembly elections. He had also expressed resentment over the “attitude of some party leaders against the smooth functioning of the BJP-BSP coalition government in the state.” |
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Bihar jail siege
ends Gopalganj, June 16 Bihar Minister of State for Jails, Ashok Choudhary told PTI that the prisoners, who took control of the jail yesterday after the death of an inmate, relented following an assurance from District Magistrate Ramanand Prasad, Superintendent of Police Saheb Akhtar and Jail Superintendent Mahangu Ram who held talks with them. Mr Choudhary said the prisoners demanded the immediate release of six inmates aged over 70 years as well as the construction of a new building to lessen the pressure on the overcrowded jail. They also demanded the revocation of transfer order of 19 inmates to Buxar and Gaya district jails. The government had already acquired land and the Cabinet had sanctioned the money for construction of the new jail building at
Gopalganj, he said. Mr Choudhary said the state government was in favour of releasing the prisoners aged over 70 but since the state Law Department raised certain objections to the proposal, it could not be implemented. However, the department was still pursuing the matter, he added. In trouble began yesterday after the death of one inmate Jeetan allegedly due to “negligence” of prison authorities following which agitated prisoners forced securitymen and jail officials out, bolted the main gate from inside and took control of the premises.
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WINDOW ON
THE SOUTH THE people of Tamil Nadu, fed up with the unceasing and unseemly quarrels among their leaders, are just now in a celebratory mood. Not over the electoral victories of Puratchi Thalaivi Ms J. Jayalalithaa in the recently held three byelections to the state Assembly. It is over the unexpected development in which a fellow Tamilian is poised to occupy the highest office in the land. One could say humility thy name is Abdul Kalam. Unlike in the Capital, there are no two opinions in the state about the suitability of the eminent Bharat Ratna scientist to become the President of India. Now to return to the outcome of the Assembly byelections. For Ms Jayalalithaa, it has been a shot in the arm since doubts had been expressed in some quarters if the tough budgetary measures taken by the state government in the background of a virtually empty treasury would boomerang on the ruling party. But it turned out that the AIADMK had not lost its popularity that it had clearly established in the last year's Assembly elections. The DMK leader, Mr M. Karunanidhi, who personally campaigned to woo the voters, had to eat the humble pie. The results of the byelections provoked him into launching an unprecedented attack on the independence of the Election Commission. In his view, the Commission had acted in a “partisan and irresponsible manner” and “cheated” his party. The Election Commission had rejected his plea for a repoll in the entire Saidapettai constituency in Chennai demanded by his party on grounds of electoral malpractices, and instead confined it to 58 polling booths. Even this limited action met with the disapproval of Ms Jayalalithaa, who felt that the Commission had tried to “please” a constituent of the ruling NDA. A striking feature of the byelections was that smaller parties like the MDMK led by Mr Vaiko and the PMK headed by Dr Ramdoss (supported by the DMK) and the loose third front of Leftists, the Congress and the TMC came a cropper with its candidates losing their deposits. Mr Karunanidhi, who turned 79 recently, has not stopped giving vent to his feelings of anger and despair. “I have been in public life for about 65 years. If I had died earlier, I would not have had to see such a gruesome attack on democracy,” he said at a public function. More unwelcome news is awaiting him as his son, Mr M.K. Stalin, has to choose either continuing as the Mayor of Chennai or as a member of the state Assembly. This is because under a recently enacted law, MLAs and MPs are barred from holding dual posts as chiefs of local bodies. The DMK has charged the ruling party with having invented the law just to spite Mr Stalin. Ms Jayalalithaa, savouring the byelection victories, and in full command, has embarked on a mini reshuffle of ministerial portfolios and a major shakeup in the bureaucracy that saw the exit of the Chief Secretary, Mr P. Shanker, who was brought from the Centre only a year ago when the AIADMK came to power. The reshuffle highlights the return to key positions of “known and trusted” officers who had served the earlier AIADMK regime during 1991-96. There can be no doubt that there is a sense of frustration among senior officials of the state government, but none has the courage to admit it except in whispers. *** One would like to presume that it will not be contempt of court to suggest that the judiciary in India is rather thin-skinned, compared to its counterparts in western countries like the United States and the United Kingdom. Two leading newspapers, the Hindu, and the Deccan Herald, were recently hauled up in the Madras High Court for contempt for carrying critical reports on the transfers of judicial officers, imputing that they had been effected at the behest of the Jayalalithaa government. The High Court Bench presided over by chief justice Subhashan Reddy, while accepting the “unconditional apology” of the newspapers, said the case deserved the maximum punishment of six months and a Rs 2000 fine, but “it is the presence of eminent senior advocates that has saved the day for the clients.” Not to be intimidated, The Hindu, while publishing the apology on the front page, also carried an editorial titled “tilting at windmills', suggesting that “it is time the higher judiciary woke up to the danger (to legitimate democratic debate) and restrain judges from invoking the contempt jurisdiction to shield themselves from criticism and public scrutiny. The cause of judicial dignity is ill served by judges who seek to extract respect through the crude and unrestrained use of authority.” Now it was the turn of the High Court to hit back at the Hindu. While disposing of another contempt case against the editor of Netrikkan (Third Eye), Chief Justice Subhashan Reddy snapped at The Hindu: “The Hindu came out with an apology affidavit, and then said democratic debate was not allowed in court. The strategy is to seek sympathy. After the discharge they hit back....Time is not sufficient to do judicial work. We do not want to waste our contempt powers.” Amid the poll debacle, Mr Karunanidhi has reason to smile. The Madras High Court has dropped the criminal contempt of court proceedings brought against him by the state Advocate-General, Mr N.R. Chandran, for “publishing derogatory articles” in Murasoli (DMK organ), following the acquittal of Ms Jayalalithaa in the Tansi land deal cases. “We are unable to deduce any meaning out of the interview so as to determine any derogatory remarks have been made against the judge or the judgement, the court said. It was must have been sweet music for Mr Karunanidhi when the court described him as “eminent politician, statesman and literateur”. It could also be the opium that should make him forget his party's defeat at the polls and the taunts of Ms Jayalalithaa. |
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Films on Bhagat Singh fail at box office Mumbai, June 16 Says Taran Adarsh, “The craze and excitement for Bhagat Singh existed only in the film trade and failed to translate into box office euphoria at the turnstiles, as a result of which both films failed to generate any initial.” The fact that some theatres have reduced the admission rates of their matinee shows has in no way lured the crowds to watch the films based on the revolutionary freedom fighter’s life. Adarsh asserts that the clashing release of both films, released on June 7, has affected the trade as well as the producers. “With tickets costing almost Rs 80 each, how many people can afford to go to a cinema house and watch both films,” he asks. The collections of the Guddu Dhanoa-directed ‘Shaheed’ started dropping on the second day itself in Punjab and Delhi — considered as producer Sunny Deol’s goldmine territory. Sunny, however, was expected to recover at least part of his investment since he had sold the film to other distributors, unlike Ramesh and Kumar Taurani of Tips, who had released ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’ all over the country and overseas on their own. ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’, directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, opened with barely 30 per cent collections, except in Mumbai where the first day’s collections were in the region of 65 to 70 per cent. Even word-of-mouth promotion, which was expected to bolster the collections from the second day onwards, did nothing to enthuse the collections. According to Komal Nahata of Film Information, Tips, which had invested Rs 18 crore in the film’s making, would suffer losses to the tune of Rs 12 to 14 crore. Sunny, on the other hand, would be poorer only by about Rs 10 crore since he had the foresight to sell his film to a few other distributors, keeping a ratio of Rs 2.75 per territory. Sunny had released the film on his own only in Mumbai, Delhi-UP, Nizam and overseas. Meanwhile, the third film based on Bhagat Singh’s life, Sukumar Nair’s ‘Shaheed-e-Azam’, starring Sonu Sood, proved to be a disaster in spite of being a good product in terms of characterisation, detailing and performances. It now remains to be seen how Ramanand Sagar and Tarun Wadhva’s versions of Bhagat Singh fare at the box-office.
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MP seeks nod to aid Gujarat victims New Delhi, June 16 In a letter to Mr Vajpayee, the former Union Minister said, “Under the MPLADS, every MP is entitled to an allocation of Rs 2 crore per year for development works in his constituency or state. Like the rules were relaxed to permit allocation by MPs under the scheme for the victims of Gujarat earthquake last year and of the Orissa cyclone in the year before, similar relaxation may now be permitted for the benefit of the victims of the recent Gujarat holocaust.” “If the rules are relaxed, most MPs would like to utilise a substantial part of their allocation under the MPLADS for this noble purpose,” he added. |
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Summons
to Mulayam in Mayawati case Lucknow, June 16 Issuing the bailable warrants against former SP MLA Dhani Ram Verma, former SP MLC Arun Shankar Shukla and three others yesterday, the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Santosh Kumar
Vishwakaram, fixed August 2 for further hearing of the case. The court also issued summons to Mr Yadav, also an accused in the case. The accused persons had allegedly roughed up and mobbed Ms Mayawati after her party withdrew support to the then BSP-SP government led by Mr Yadav in 1995. PTI |
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