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November 1, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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PM, Advani to canvass for Modi Another hoax call;
AI plane offloaded ‘Poor’ support system for children abused Tributes paid to Indira, Patel
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Mann writes to George on relief NCERT not alone to blame for errors: Rajput
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PM, Advani to canvass for Modi New Delhi, October 31 Besides Mr Vajpayee and Mr Advani, nearly 100 Central ministers and office-bearers of the party will campaign in Gujarat for the December 12 Assembly poll. They will include Mr Vinod Khanna, Mr Murli Manohar Joshi, Mr Pramod Mahajan, Ms Uma Bharti, Ms Sushma Swaraj, Mr Yashwant Sinha, Mr Ananth Kumar and Mr Shahnawaz Hussain. The date, time and venue for Mr Vajpayee and Mr Advani’s public meetings will be finalised by the Gujarat BJP in consultation with Central leaders and final campaign programme for other Central leaders will be finalised by the Gujarat State Election Campaign Committee, led by former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel, sources said. According to the broad outline drawn for the campaign, each Central minister and office bearer will campaign for seven days. Meanwhile, the BJP took the campaign for the Assembly elections in Gujarat launching a broadside against Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin and playing the nationalist card to the hilt. |
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Another hoax call;
AI plane offloaded New Delhi, October 31 Following the call, all passengers on board were evacuated from flight AI 310 at an isolated bay at the airport. After a search by the bomb squad, it was revealed that there were no explosives on board and it was just another case of a hoax call. This is the second such incident in the past three days at the airport. On Tuesday, a British Airways flight made an emergency landing at the airport when an unclaimed bag was found on the plane. After a thorough search of the bag, only toothpaste and toothbrush were found. Today’s flight left Mumbai with 178 passengers, of whom 138 were New Delhi-bound. Fortyone international transit passengers were to be joined by 35 more at New Delhi for onward journey to Hong Kong. Hong Kong officials told Air- India here that two passengers — Paramjit Kaur and Pawan Kumar—were travelling on the flight with explosives which they planned to set off on reaching their destination. But the security officials claimed that there were no passengers on board with these names. |
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‘Poor’ support system for children abused New Delhi, October 31 Advocating the setting up of an agency like the National Child Protection Authority in Sri Lanka, which reports directly to the President of the country, he said child protection services in India, and South Asia as a whole, needed to be improved. “Though extensive studies have been conducted on child sexual abuse, but I feel that in India it is neither high nor low, as it is a global issue, which needs to be handled sensitively,” he opined. He felt that during recent years, the situation had improved considerably as joint collaboration between international agencies like UNICEF, government sector, NGOs and social workers had shown positive results. “The process of revamping the juvenile justice system and the pioneering work done by some of the NGOs has helped in improving the plight of the sexually abused child,” he stated. He added that there was an urgent need for good training for child-care functionaries. Dr Danya Glaser, a senior researcher at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, in her lecture on emotional abuse and neglect, at the International Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, said in case of child sexual abuse the biggest hindrance was that the identity of the abuser was often hidden or disputed. She added that a sexually abused child faced problems like low self-esteem, distress, depression, anxiety and fright, with serious behavioural problems, impeding the child’s educational development. A majority of the studies highlighted the fact that the needs of families which had suffered the trauma of child sexual abuse were often not taken care of and understanding these was important. Psychiatrists say that there are adverse psychiatric consequences, like anxiety, depression, insecurity and aggression in sexually abused children. As part of a rehabilitation programme for sexually abused children in Sri Lanka, the victims were helped to regain and redirect their strengths through exposure to a number of components. These included interactive sessions with the group on biology of the human body, the meaning of sexual abuse and why it was wrong, how to face stigmatisation, thinking positively about life and parenting skills. The other strategy to deal with such children included counselling, informal education sessions, after which the children were sent back to rejoin their families. |
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Tributes paid to Indira, Patel New Delhi, October 31
Mr Kalam, who visited the “Shakti Sthal”, offered floral tributes at the samadhi in memory of the late leader who governed the country for nearly 17 years. Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and a host of other dignitaries also paid tributes by placing wreaths at the samadhi. An all religion-prayer meeting was also held on the occasion. Meanwhile, the nation also paid rich tributes to former Deputy Prime Minister and ‘Iron Man of India’ Sardar Vallabhai Patel, the chief architect of a unified and integrated India, on his 127th birth anniversary. Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sonia Gandhi and several other dignitaries paid floral tribute at Sardar Patel’s portrait in the Central Hall of Parliament House.
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Set up task force on linking rivers: SC New Delhi, October 31 A Bench comprising Chief Justice B.N. Kirpal, Mr Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Mr Justice Arijit Pasayat made this observation while saying that the task force would work out the modalities for creating the National River Network (NRN). Appearing for the Centre, Attorney-General Soli J. Sorabjee, along with advocate Krishnan Venugopal, assured the court that the President and the Prime Minister were in favour of the issue being worked out at an early date.
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Mann writes to George on relief New Delhi, October 31 In a memorandum to Mr George Fernandes, the senior Akali leader has said that instructions should be given to the Army and the civil administration to look after the poor and clear fields of landmines. Mr Mann has pointed out that the fields in the border areas could not be used for cultivation as these had not been cleared of landmines. |
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NCERT not alone to blame for errors: Rajput New Delhi, October 31 Replying to questions at the Gobind Sadan Institute for Advanced Studies in Comparative Religion in Mehrauli here on Wednesday, Professor Rajput asked, ``Do you think NCERT books have made mistakes for the first time?’’ He, however, added that the factual errors and spelling mistakes in social sciences books of Class VI and IX have been corrected in new books. |
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