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Monday,
October 28, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Paswan
courts arrest, seeks ban on VHP Resolution
on terrorism adopted
Speed
restrictions on fast trains in Bihar
‘Prithvi’
on sale |
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PUCL
cites instances of persecution
KP
entities paid Rs 3,191 cr: JPG
14 BJP
men held at Peraiyur
Mr
India is Mr International International
Film Festival from Nov 21 ‘Devdas’
is India’s entry for Oscars
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Paswan courts arrest, seeks ban on VHP
New Delhi, October 27 Addressing the protesters, Mr Paswan flayed Mr Togadia for his “derogatory” remarks against Congress President Sonia Gandhi and denounced the VHP for making “disparaging” statements against the minorities in order to “create communal disharmony”. He also blamed the VHP for the killing of five Dalits in Jhajjar district of Haryana. Mr Paswan was arrested along with some 10,000 party activists at Parliament Street when he was leading a protest march to the Prime Minister’s residence. However, they were released after some time. Among others who courted arrest were party Vice-President Ramvir Singh Bidhuri and MP Ram Chander Paswan. Mr Paswan also deplored the “anti-dalit” policies of the Vajpayee government at the Centre and the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh. He also criticised Ms Mayawati for “not uttering a single word against the VHP, which is the real culprit in the Jhajjar killing.” Earlier, the protesters burnt the effigies of Mr Togadia and VHP working president Ashok Singhal at Jantar Mantar here. Gulbarga: The tenth Dharmasansad, scheduled to be held during Kumbh Mela at Prayag between January and March next year, will decide the date for the construction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya, Vishwa Hindu Parishad Vice-President Sadananda Kakade said on Sunday. Addressing reporters here, he said the necessary groundwork for the construction had been completed. Sixty per cent of the carving work was over. The shifting of the material to the site would begin shortly, he added.
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Resolution
on terrorism adopted New Delhi, October 27 The member countries agreed that progress was urgently required in the sphere of disarmament and non-proliferation to contribute to global efforts against terrorism and in addressing other pressing concerns, a senior official of the Ministry of External Affairs said at a briefing here yesterday. The resolution, like all other UNGA resolutions, is non-binding on member countries. The Indian resolution was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka and countries from Latin America besides NAM members. The participating countries voiced concerns over the growing risk of terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. The first committee of the UN General Assembly deals with general and complete disarmament. The resolution called upon all member states to support international efforts to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, and their means of delivery and urged all member states to undertake and strengthen national measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring such weapons. |
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Gill for policy on counter-terrorism New Delhi, October 27 “The absence of a national policy abandons each policy maker, planner and commander to his resourcefulness, without any standard against which he may test his judgement. The terrorists and their abettors are encouraged if the state’s responses are tentative and uncertain,” Mr Gill said at a function here today where he was given the K. Santanam Award for National Integration. The function was held at the residence of Prof
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Speed restrictions on fast trains in Bihar Patna, October 27 The decision that was affected from Saturday itself, also includes the order to run a pilot rail engine ahead of all Rajdhani Express trains running in and crossing through Bihar. The decision comes as part of the Railways efforts to boost rail safety and deal with incidents of sabotage in Bihar. Sources said that the Railway Board had ordered to reduce the maximum speed of all Rajdhani Express trains, Shatabdi Express and other super fast trains to 75 km ph only in Bihar as against the normal peak speed of 130 km ph. The rail divisions of Danapur, Asansol and Mughalsarai have their areas of operation in Bihar. These trains in all three divisions would follow the new speed guidelines. In the past one week, there have been reports of track damages and removal of fish plates in various parts of Bihar. Even yesterday tracks near the Rafiganj (where Rajdhani Express had met with an accident) were found cracked. The sources said the Railway Board had also decided that a pilot engine would run ahead of all Rajdhani trains to pre-empt any sabotage move by extremists and anti-socials. They maintained that the Railways had tip-offs that extremists were targeting these super fast trains and that was why entire Bihar had been marked as “danger zone” for railway operations. The new speed regime has been made operational from Saturday. Earlier, the Railway Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar had announced a project worth Rs 1,700 crore for rail safety involving circuiting of all rail sections to avert collisions and satellite tracking of trains, especially the Rajdhani Express.” |
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‘Prithvi’ on sale Patna, October 27 Hydrogen bombs, sixers, bullet bombs, grenades and firecrackers named after India’s top missile ‘Prithvi’ are on sale and not clandestinely, with their prices are as low as Rs 35 for a piece. As Divali approaches, the sale of these firecrackers has picked up and though the administrative machinery is conducting raids to nab those selling these, these seem to be available everywhere and are in great demand. Already, these are making the weak-hearted in colonies pray for their safety. The administration, in the light of the Supreme Court ruling prohibiting manufacture and use of dangerous firecrackers, have conducted raids, but the black market continues. The sellers defend their crackers as safe, blaming it on their improper use by people. |
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PUCL cites instances of persecution
Jaipur, October 27 In a letter to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the PUCL also alleged that the government had failed to instil a sense of security and protect the religious freedom of minorities in the district. Immediate intervention was needed to ensure that the issue did not become a communal problem, said the PUCL after its ‘fact-finding committee’ toured the area. “This is not an isolated incident but part of a chain of such incidents.” According to the ‘report’, Christians were feeling insecure in the area adjoining Bhawanikheda where last month a priest was arrested on charges of sodomising schoolchildren. The PUCL said Hindu organisations here had been using the ‘abused children’ as a tool to further their agenda, with the local media sensationalising the whole affair. A school principal of Ajmer, who had gone to Bhawanikheda after hearing about the incident, was publically humiliated by these organisations, it added. All missionary schools in Ajmer district had been branded as ‘Christian conversion centres’ and ‘centres of sexual exploitation’. Parents were being forced to withdraw children from the schools as the Christians terrorised and asked them to convert to Hinduism, the PUCL claimed. Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Praveen Togadia was present at one such conversion ceremony for 125 families at the Pisangan block late last month. Another conversion ceremony for 24 families was held at Bhawanikheda on October 7, according to reports. In its letter the PUCL said, the NHRC should direct the state government to pay compensation to the ‘abused children’ and the school principal who was publically humiliated. Prosecution proceedings be initiated against the right-wing Hindu leaders “for spreading disaffection among communities” and guilty policemen, who had failed to act impartially in the case, punished to prevent such incidents in future, it added.
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KP entities paid Rs 3,191 cr: JPG
New Delhi, October 27 “The pay-in problem at the CSE revealed that large positions were built up by these brokers in few scrips and they had close linkages with Ketan Parekh”, the JPC looking into the stock scam and temporary freeze on the UTI’s flagship scheme US 64 said in its draft report to be finalised soon. “Ketan Parekh entities had paid a sum of Rs 3,191 crore over a period to the Dinesh Singhania group, the Ashok Poddar group and the Sanjay Khemani group for purchase of share, payment of margins etc at the CSE”, the report said. The SEBI, which undertook investigations in the wake of disturbing developments in the CSE, found huge pay-in liabilities from these groups. While the net amount of outstanding due to the CSE on account of the pay-in liabilities from the Singhania group stood at Rs 34.43 crore, the liabilities from the Poddar and Biyani groups stood at Rs 26.84 crore and Rs 30.10 crore, the SEBI’s investigations revealed. It said the CSE completed the payout of these settlements by meeting the shortfall on account of the pay-in default by these brokers out of the Settlement Guarantee Fund and other reserves of the exchange. The CSE then declared all 10 entities of these three groups as defaulters and initiated recovery proceedings, including civil and criminal proceedings against them.
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Jail term educative: Salman
New Delhi, October 27 “Perhaps I needed to go inside... I had always lived a life of luxury, had never seen so much pain and discomfort. The stuff I saw inside helped me put things in perspective,” Salman told BBC World’s Asia Today programme to be aired tomorrow. Claiming himself innocent and denying he was driving the car, Salman said he was destined to undergo such a crisis. “Nobody could have stopped it. It was destined. I had to see it all. It was unfortunate my car which had never even been scratched before was involved in the accident”, he said. “I was not driving, but it was my car... It was an accident, a mistake,” he said adding no one was ready to get his side of the story. Salman said though he always used to pick up people from streets who met with accidents, it was unfortunate that he could not do so when his own car hit somebody. “That was not because I ran away, I was there and did not want to leave but a mob gathered and started throwing stones. One hit my knee, one my thigh and another my head. I feel very sad when people say I ran away and my brother went to pick up the car stereo. It is completely untrue,” he said. Salman’s car met with the accident on September 28, killing one person and injuring four others. A sessions court released him on conditional bail on Thursday after 17 days in custody. Asked about his recent behaviour when he is reported to have forcibly taken actress Aishwarya Rai with him on the sets of a Shah Rukh Khan film, Salman said “Can anybody force anybody to do something they don’t want to do? So let that go.” Asked whether his “obsessive” love for Aishwarya was not hurting him, he said “Not at all. It’s nothing like that.” When further queried on wasn’t too much of emotion bad, Salman replied “...I am not too emotional. I laugh and cry like an ordinary man. May be I will change tomorrow, but then it will be only for the worse. I will become calculative and manipulative and be nice to people I hate.” Asked whether he still loves Aishwarya, the star said, “I am not going to talk to you about this. It is only for me to know.” PTI |
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Sinha leaves for London on Oct 30 New Delhi, October 27 The CMAG meeting will discuss a host of issues, including the question of Pakistan’s re-entry into the Commonwealth. Pakistan was suspended from the Commonwealth after General Pervez Musharraf’s bloodless coup of October 12, 1999. Mr Sinha will return to New Delhi and accompany Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his four-day trip to Cambodia beginning on November 4 for the ASEAN-India Summit. Shortly later, Mr Sinha would be visiting Seoul for the second meeting of the Community of Democracies on November 11 and 12. |
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14 BJP men held at Peraiyur Madurai, October 27 The BJP workers, who earlier held a demonstration, were protesting against some remarks allegedly made by Mr Karunanidhi against Hindus during a rally held by minorities in Chennai last week, demanding repeal of the ordinance on religious conversion. A heated exchange of words between the BJP workers and the police took place when the former tried to burn the effigy. The police later arrested them. Mr Karunanidhi’s remark has triggered a controversy with several Hindu leaders, including Kanchi Sankaracarya Jayendra Saraswathi, criticising it.
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George
for tenfold
arms export New Delhi, October 27 Setting a target of Rs 1,000 crore for export of armaments this year, Mr Fernandes said “We have started a drive to find export markets to achieve economies of scale for our indigenous armament industry”. Maintaining that the Defence Industry till now had been mainly catering to domestic needs, Mr Fernandes said exports which were worth less than Rs 100 crore would now be raised 10 fold.
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Mr India is Mr International New Delhi, October 27 Mukherjee said “My mom” to the final question from the judge as to what would be the one thing he would like to remember if he were to lose his memory. “Because she gave me the attitude and the self to be what I am,” said the 20-year-old from
Bangalore, who pushed 25 other contenders from around the world to the title.
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International Film Festival from Nov 21
Mumbai, October 27 Being organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI), the festival will include a selection of films produced between 2000 and 2002 from across the globe and those capturing the latest trends in international cinema. Works of eminent film personalities, who have contributed towards the enrichment of film culture, both Indian and international, will also be screened under the retrospective section, a press note said here today. The festival would showcase films created by and for Indians living overseas. Special screenings of old outstanding films from all over the world as well a retrospective of films from one specific country would also feature at the festival. The highlight of the festival would be “Chauraha”, a daily open forum for delegates and the public to interact with film personalities.
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‘Devdas’ is India’s entry for Oscars Mumbai, October 27 The other films in the race were ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’, ‘Legend of Bhagat Singh’, ‘Agnivarsha’, two Bengali films and one Tamil film.
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