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Friday,
March 7, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Move on
privilege motion against Maya SP to seek
fresh no-trust motion 7 ITBP men killed Neiphiu
Rio is Nagaland CM India to
give $ 70 m grant to Afghanistan
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Ban terrorist groups: Mann White
Paper on rail safety soon NORTH INDIA IN
PARLIAMENT J&K
Govt plans to resettle Pandits
Uplinking
of TV channels to be reviewed Visa
fraud cases on the rise NCM
meeting today
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Move on privilege motion against Maya New Delhi, March 6 The Opposition leaders, including former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, Mr Shivraj Patil (Cong), Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav (Samajwadi Party), Mr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (RJD) and those from the left parties, discussed the issues and decided to act on the decisions, CPM leader Somnath Chatterjee told newspersons after the meeting. Describing yesterday’s developments in the UP assembly as “total breakdown of the constitutional machinery”, Mr Chatterjee said “we have decided to demand an urgent discussion on the matter under Rule 184 (which entails voting) as the principles of parliamentary democracy are being trampled in UP.” “We are also considering moving a privilege motion and are working on it. We will submit it as soon as possible,” he said, adding that the motion would be “against those who have made the allegations. Someone making baseless allegations should also suffer”. “We totally repudiate this blanket allegation that all MPs are misusing MPLAD funds.... the image of all politicians is getting such a beating for some wrong-doers,” he added. |
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SP to seek fresh no-trust motion Lucknow, March 6 The decision was taken during the meeting of the SP legislature party here. Leader of the Opposition Mohammad Azam Khan would lead the march of party MLAs to Raj Bhawan shortly. According to SP state general secretary and MLA Shivpal Singh
Yadav, the party leadership would also hand over a memorandum to Governor Vishnukant Shastri demanding a fresh no-confidence motion to be tabled in the assembly fulfilling all “constitutional norms.’’ The Opposition had yesterday alleged biased attitude of the Chair in handling the no-confidence motion.
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Akhilesh
apologises New Delhi, March 6 Accepting the apology, Dr Joshi warned Mr Akhilesh Singh that there should be no recurrence of such behaviour and that he should be careful in future.
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7 ITBP men killed
Dehra Dun, March 6 According to delayed reports received here, the jawans were killed on March 2 last when two chowkies of the ITBP, situated at a distance of 16 km from each other, were buried under the moving glacier. Four jawans were killed in the Malari chowki, while three were killed in the Sumana chowki.
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Rio is Nagaland CM Kohima, March 6 The Governor, Mr Shyamal Datta, administered the oath of office to Mr Rio at an impressive function held at the Darbar hall of the Raj Bhavan. Altogether 28 ministers, including six ministers of state, took oath today. The function was attended by all members of the Democratic Alliance of
Nagaland (DAN) except the BJP leader and chairman of DAN, Dr Hokishe Sema, who was indisposed.
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India to give $ 70 m grant to Afghanistan New Delhi, March 6 This was conveyed to the visiting Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who had 30-minute-long one-on-one talks, apart from two rounds of restricted delegation-level and full delegation-level talks with Mr Karzai. Foreign office spokesman Navtej Sarna said Mr Karzai was very happy with the Indian government decision and said it would go a long way to connect the landlocked country with sea. Mr Karzai today also had talks with a host of Indian leadership, including President Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Mrs Sonia Gandhi. Mr Karzai was given a ceremonial welcome on the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan here at the start of his four-day visit to this country. |
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Ban terrorist groups: Mann New Delhi, March 6 The party has expressed the hope that the Chief Justice of India would take suo motu cognisance of this reality and enforce the rule of law and practices enshrined in the Constitution. While enumerating names of organisations banned by the government on the ground that they are terrorist in their ideology and actions, Mr Mann demanded that “these be placed on the banned list.’’ He has pointed out that the government has not identified Hindu terrorist organisations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal, the Shiv Sena, the Sewa Bharti, the Hindu Jagran Manch, the Swayam Sewak Sangh, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, the Ekal Vidyalaya, the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and the Eklavya Sena. In a statement issued here on Thursday, Mr Mann said if the government failed to include the organisations in the list, a section of the minorities would feel that it was not plural, democratic or secular. |
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White Paper on rail safety soon New Delhi, March 6 “We are preparing a White Paper on safety and this should be fully debated here,” the Railway Minister said, replying to a two-day long debate on the Railway Budget for 2003-04 in the House in which 120 members participated. Rejecting the Opposition charge that there had been a shortfall in passenger travel due to safety reasons, Mr Kumar said an anti-collision device was being introduced and the Railway Protection Force strengthened to enhance security. Mr Kumar announced an increase in the frequency of Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Express to all days in a week with the train going via Patna on five days and via Lucknow on two days. The House passed the vote on account for Railways for a four-month period till July of over Rs.14,000 crore as also a supplementary demand for grant for 2002-03 and relevant appropriation bills. The Railway Budget with a total outlay of Rs 43,000 crore will be taken up by Parliament next month after a three-week Budget session recess beginning March 14. “Collision will soon be a thing of the past,” Mr Kumar said, observing that 10,000 route km would be surveyed this year for the anti-collision device to prevent accidents. On the demand of Congress chief whip P.R. Dasmunshi that the government should make public the list of passengers killed in last year’s Godhra train tragedy, Mr Kumar said he was prepared to do so next week. Stressing the importance attached by the government to all aspects of safety, Mr Kumar said an amount of Rs 2,311 crore had been earmarked for a special railway safety fund. |
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NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT New Delhi, March 6 The ‘model
stations’ will be equipped with facilities like National Train Enquiry System, self printing ticket machines, modular catering stalls, automatic vending machines and improved retiring rooms, toilets, booking offices, circulating area, waiting rooms and other infrastructural facilities. In Punjab, railway stations at Amritsar, Jalandhar City, Anandpur Sahib, Beas, Bhatinda,
Ferozepore Cantonment, Ludhiana, Pathankot and Patiala will also be developed as model stations, whereas Shimla in Himachal Pradesh and Ambala Cantt, Faridabad, Hissar, Kalka, Panipat Junction and Rewari will be developed as model stations, the minister told the house. The Minister of State for Planning, Mr SB Mookherjee, informed the Rajya Sabha that Punjab continues to have financial problems. In 2001-02, the state had revenue deficit of Rs 3,781 crore and the revenue deficit as a percentage of the GSDP had increased from 2.54 per cent in 1993-94 to five per cent in 2001-02. The total debt (percentage of the GSDP) also registered an increase of nearly 9 per cent- from 34.7 per cent in 1993-94 to 43.4 per cent in 2001-02, the minister told the house. However, a request by the Punjab Chief Minister to the Prime Minister for considering financial packages to the state on lines of those given to HP, J&K and Uttaranchal was reviewed by the Department of Industry Policy and Promotion but was not found feasible, the minister informed. During the past five years, the Jalandhar passport office issued nearly 6,27,000 passports, whereas the Chandigarh passport office, which covers several districts of Punjab, Haryana, HP and Chandigarh issued more than 6,60,000 applications . The number of passports issued in 2002 was 1,27,096 by the Jalandhar Passport Office and 1,40,326 by the Chandigarh passport office, Minister of State for External Affairs Digvijay Singh told the Rajya Sabha. Mr M. Kannapan, Minister of State for Non-Conventional Energy Sources, informed the House that the government provided financial assistance of Rs 12.87 crore in 2001-02 to Punjab, Rs 3.47 crore to Haryana; Rs 6.15 crore to HP and Rs 0.84 crore to Jammu and Kashmir. |
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J&K Govt plans to resettle Pandits
New Delhi, March 6 The government proposes to construct about 500 apartment flats with provision of security and essential facilities in the vicinity of Mattan temple, a pilgrimage centre, in Anantnag for the Pandits to stay there. If the experiment succeeds it will be replicated at another prominent pilgrimage centre — Kheer Bhavani. Efforts are also being made to persuade the displaced persons to return with the government fielding two representatives, Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary Iqbal Khandey and Vijay Bakaya, to hold negotiations. “Initial talks have been encouraging with many persons showing interest in going back. But before that some of them would visit the place to assess the situation,” state government sources said. Raman
Mattoo, lone Kashmiri Pandit minister in the Mufti Sayeed-led government, will also pay a visit to the area within a week in this
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Uplinking
of TV channels to be reviewed New Delhi, March 6 Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the matter was already being examined in consultation with other ministries. |
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Visa fraud cases on the rise New Delhi, March 6 When Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat sought details of the steps taken to check fake visa rackets, Minister of State for Home Harin Pathak said the government received information about visa rackets and frauds from only two immigration checkposts in the country. He told the House during question hour that it was the responsibility of state governments to check such malpractices even though the Centre was extending help whenever required in checking the frauds. On being asked specifically by the Chairman what action was the government taking on information from checkposts, the minister said the Union Government could act only after a state government reported the matter. He also said it was not getting enough information from immigration checkposts. He said many agencies were involved in running fake visa rackets and the government was keeping a close watch on them. |
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NCM meeting today New Delhi, March 6 The NCM Chairman, Mr Tarlochan Singh, told TNS here today that the main objective of the meeting was to bring together representatives of Kashmiri organisations and draft a joint charter of demands. He said the demands would be placed before the Union Home Minister, the Jammu and Kashmir Government and the Delhi Government |
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