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Kulu-Manali airport may be privatised Sonia coming to Mandi on Oct 28 MC inspectors to curb tehbazari Symposium held on philosophy of history Faulty phones:
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Kulu-Manali airport may be privatised Kulu, October 19 He said Kulu, Manali were important tourist destinations and a bigger airport was needed. Earlier surveys done. This time, he said that expansion and extension of the runway would be taken up. The minister said that flow of the Beas would have to be diverted to make land available for the extension of the airstrip. He said Himachal Government had signed an MoU with the Airport Authority of India (AAI) for the development and upgradation works at Kulu-Manali and Kangra airports for Rs 18.22 crore. He added technical studies had been carried out by IIT Roorkee and CWPRI Pune which had recommended that the airstrip could be extended by diverting river’s flow. He told that as flow of the river had to be monitored for two three years so execution of work would take at least three to four years. The cost of the project would be Rs 32 crore. The minister said he would get tariff structure on flights to Kulu revised as the cost of flights to this part of the country was considered the highest in the country. He also revealed that the AAI had also taken up development of a new civil enclave, capable of handling air traffic of Air Bus 320 type of aircraft at Pathankot Air Force Station. This would provide better air connectivity to Dalhousie and Dharamsala. The civil enclave would be commissioned by May 2003, he added. He
said the Kangra airport terminal building with capacity of 100 passengers would be commissioned by December this year. Runway at Shimla has already been extended up to 4100 feet and recarpeting and profile correction work were in progress. Earlier, Shah Nawaz
Hussain inspected the Kulu-Manali airport and had discussions with AAI experts. Mr Karan Singh, Himachal Minister of State for Primary Education and Environment, and Chander Sen
Thakur, Chairman, HPMC were also present at the airport. Mr Maheshwar Singh, MP, joined the Civil Aviation Minister at the
Press conference. Mr Maheshwar Singh stressed inclusion of ace pilots in the advisory committee of the AAI flying to Kulu airport for better practical advice. “Bal Thackeray is a nationalist and I admire his sentiments” Mr Shah Nawaz Hussain, Union Civil Aviation Minister stated this on Thackeray’s comments in reply to a question on the suicide squads of Hindus and an FIR against by the Maharashtra government. The minister said that we should look into the spirit and theme of his sentiments. He emphasised that Bal Thackeray was not anti-Muslim. To another question, he said the Vishav Hindu Parishad was a non-political organisation, whereas the BJP a political one, hence there was no question of any differences. He said the VHP represented the Hindus whereas the BJP believed in secularism. When asked why the government and the Election Commission had double-standards for holding elections in Jammu and Kashmir and deferring these in Gujarat while 25000 Muslims were rendered homeless and were in camps in Gujarat whereas more than seven lakh Hindus of J&K were in camps, Mr Hussain said Jammu and Kashmir elections were a challenge for the country and it was like a battle, which the country had won. On the poll reforms suggested by the Election Commission, Mr Hussain evaded the question. |
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Sonia coming to Mandi on Oct 28 Shimla, October 19 Maj Vijay Singh Mankotia (retd) and Mr Kuldeep Rathore, General Secretary and Secretary, respectively, of the PCC, would oversee the arrangements for the rally. She made light of the decision of the Governor to grant prosecution sanction against Mr Virbhadra Singh, Congress Legislative Party leader, in the khair wood allotment case and said the Dhumal government had over the past four years registered numerous such cases but it could not prove any of the charges. The present case would also meet the same fate. She said the Congress would soon come out with its second charge sheet against the Dhumal government. |
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MC inspectors to curb tehbazari Shimla, October 19 According to sources, Mr A.N. Sharma, Municipal Commissioner, has decided to hold a special meeting to devise novel strategies to deal with this menace. The sources point out that Ridge Maidan, the Ridge-Lakkar Bazar area, Ridge-Jodha Nivas, Ram Bazar to Naaz and the Rivoli road will be a forbidden area for tehbazari. Inspectors have been deputed to keep a check on this menace and they will remain on duty from 1 pm to 8 pm. Earlier the municipal corporation used to keep a check on tehbazari in the morning and afternoon which used to start after 2 pm. The hawkers used to occupy the space on the roads with their wares. As a result, the tourists and public were put to a lot of inconvenience. Due to these encroachments especially in the lower bazar area, the movement of the people is just not possible. The municipal corporation hopes to curb this menace by passing these orders. It has also asked the tehbazari inspectors to give daily reports. However, the municipal employees are apprehensive as they have been roughed up while dealing with this menace. |
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Symposium held on philosophy of history Shimla, October 19 Prof Roy Harris of Oxford University discussed at length the different perceptions of time and history beginning with the Greek philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, and continued in the modern times with Saussure and Wittgenstein. He said Newtonian linear time and the Einsteinian relative time were the two basic streams of thought in the West. It was also related to the notion of language, the means of communication as a natural or human phenomenon. The integrational approach of Professor Harris brought him closer to the Buddhist notion of time as elaborated by the second century logician, Nagarjun. The Indian tradition was elaborated by Prof. G.C. Pande, renowned historian of Indian thoughts, as an ongoing debate between the Indian realist philosophers of the Sankhya and Vedanta schools and the nominalilst Buddhist philosophers, Dignaga and Dharmakirti. Different conceptions of time and language led the Indian thinkers to pose a wide range of philosophical hypothesis. The eternity and the specificity of time, the notion of universal matter or soul and the concept of time and reality influxled to diametrically opposed conceptualisations even though each tradition had its own conceptual context, there were striking theoretical similarities, emphasised Professor Pande, which required to be investigated in depth. |
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Faulty phones:
DYFI threatens stir Shimla, October 19 Mr Rajendra Tejta, district committee member of the DYFI, said the area had been cut off due to lack of telephone facility and for the past 10 months the
exchange had been out of order. The consumers had been paying the bill. The DYFI alleged that telephone cables were laid across the road and came in direct contact with vehicles. The DYFI further stated that telephone facility in Kwar Panchayat was out of order for the past four months and the residents had threatened to surrender phone connections and gherao the telecom office in
Rohru. |
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2 held with 28 kg of charas Mandi, October 19 Mr Satinder Pal Singh, Superintendent of Police said today that the smugglers had concealed drug under four window panes of the car. He said a police party headed by SHO Brijesh Sood stopped the car at a naka at Lalit Chowk in Sundernagar following a tip off. The two occupants of the car. Dehal Singh of Katrain in Kulu District and Dinesh of Goa, were arrested and a case under the NDPS Act was registered against them. |
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Deaths not due to measles: CMO Chamba, October 19 |
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