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June 3, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Poll campaign to focus on Advani, PM |
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TRIBUNE SPECIAL Train derails in AP
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Dawood’s brother
chargesheeted 7,000 CGHS workers go on strike today Indo-Bhutan border to be guarded by SSB Shetty’s
father moves HC for bail Kadirgamar to deliver Prem Bhatia lecture Govt considering law on integrated food Army to continue flood relief in Lanka IAF to take part in Alaska exercise 3 held in Vile Parle blast case
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RLD MLAs play hide and seek
Bhopal, June 2 “We do not know where we are going. Ajit Singh (party president) has told us to leave Bhopal,” Ganga Prakash Pushkar and Virendra Singh, two of the RLD legislators, told reporters at the airport. They said Governor Kesri Nath Tripathi should dismiss the Mayawati government and the Opposition — the Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the RLD — should be invited to form the government. Police officials and airport authorities declined to disclose the destination of the RLD legislators to the media. The legislators who had arrived here unannounced on May 26 went to Pachmarhi on May 28 and returned here on Saturday. During their stay, the MLAs played hide and seek with mediapersons. New Delhi: The Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat on Monday urged Muslim legislators of Uttar Pradesh to withdraw their support to the Mayawati government. The time has come when these legislators proclaim their faith in “secularism and break away from the apron strings of Mayawati”, he said. He also urged Governor V.S. Shastri to dismiss the Mayawati government and ask it to prove majority on the floor of the House.
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Poll campaign to focus on Advani, PM New Delhi, June 2 “We would be projecting Mr Vajpayee as ‘vikas purush’, the leader who brought development to the nation and Mr Advani as ‘lauh purush’, the iron man. It (campaign focus) would be a combination of both,” BJP President M. Venkaiah Naidu told newspersons here today. In the last general elections, the BJP had focused solely on Mr Vajpayee with the slogan ‘tried, tested and proven’. Denying any shift in the party strategy, Mr Naidu said, “Mr Advani is now Deputy Prime Minister. The ‘lauh purush’ is solidly behind the ‘vikas purush’. Hence, both leaders are being projected.” During the recent two-day meeting of state presidents in Hyderabad, we had drawn a 25-point action plan for the forthcoming Assembly poll and the general elections next year,” he said adding that top party leaders would be holding a brainstorming session later this month where these points would be fine-tuned and the final battle strategy drawn. The BJP President made it clear that his party would not wait for the election date to begin its campaign. “A massive ‘jan sampark abhiyan’ will be launched soon. The logistics and details of the programme, entailing “touching” every voter, every home and every village was being worked out and would be given final shape by the month end,” he said. |
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TRIBUNE SPECIAL New Delhi, June 2 Sources in the government said that as a compromise formula for the Finance Minister, a Joint Secretary-level officer from the Press Information Bureau (PIB) had been posted in the ministry to coordinate news dissemination. The move to post the Joint Secretary level officer from the PIB came as the proposal mooted by the Finance Minister entailed the setting up a separate publicity section on the lines of that existing in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) under a Joint Secretary-level officer of the Government of India. The opposition to the proposal came as any such move by the Ministry of Finance would have not only set a precedent for the other ministries to have similar set ups but would actually have rendered the PIB redundant. Besides the I&B Ministry also pointed out that since the PIB is responsible for the coordinated and integrated publicity of the Government of India, a separate publicity set up in the Ministry of Finance could lead to confusion. The scenario of the possibility of two divergent views emerging on the same subject from two different ministries without a central control putting the government in an embarrassing situation was also not ruled out. It was pointed out that since the target audience for the news emerging from the Ministry of Finance are the people within the country, the PIB with its vast infrastructure can be the only organisation which can efficiently disburse the information without any confusion. Further with the Principal Information Officer (PIO) being the head of this umbrella organisation, a coordinated single view of the Government of India can easily be handled. During the deliberations it was also pointed out that for the Ministry of Finance to have its own publicity set-up outside the purview of the PIB, the complicated process of changing the Allocation of Business Rules of the Government of India would also have to be undertaken. All these reasons put together have now led to Mr Jaswant Singh’s proposal being put on the back burner with no possibility of it being considered again in the near future. Apparently unhappy with the earlier information officers posted with the Ministry of Finance, Mr Jaswant Singh had moved a proposal to set up a separate publicity division on the lines of the XP division in the MEA. The Finance Ministry had also sought the clearance of the I&B Ministry to bring out a magazine similar to one being brought out by the XP division. As per the proposal, the Finance Ministry would have had the separate division under a Joint Secretary with a similar hierarchy as presently exists in the XP division of the MEA. It was also proposed that the separate publicity division would have director-level officers and Officers on Special Duty (OSDs) which was again on the lines which exists in the XP division. |
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Train
derails in AP
Hyderabad, June 2 However, no one was injured in the mishap after a coach and two wheels of the engine jumped its rails, 30 minutes past midnight, SCR sources said here. The passengers were taken to Kachiguda by a special train. Traffic in Dronachalam-Kurnool section was restored at 9.45 am. Some of the passengers were also sent by road to their destinations. The cause of the mishap is under investigation. One passenger was killed and 25 others were injured when 14 coaches of the Patna-New Delhi Magadh Vikrashila Express derailed near Buxar in Bihar yesterday. Following the derailment, SCR diverted a few trains including the
Bangalore-Kachiguda Express, the Bangalore-Nizamuddin K-CET special and Tirupati-Kachiguda Venkatadri Express through Raichur and
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Dawood’s brother
chargesheeted
Mumbai, June 2 The other two accused are Sardar Teli and Abdul Rehman Sheikh. The police has charged them with extortion and land-grab under the IPC and the Maharashtra Control for Organised Crime Act. They are facing charge of evicting a woman from her house, which obstructed Sara Shopping Centre in South Mumbai. On a plea by the police, designated judge A.P. Bhangale had attached Sara and Sahara Shopping Complexes, allegedly owned by Dawood Ibrahim. The police said the three accused in this case were front men of Dawood Ibrahim and he had invested in real estate through them to channelise the flow of black money.
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7,000 CGHS workers go on strike today New Delhi, June 2 Association General Secretary Ram Kishan told reporters here that the strike by around 7,000 CGHS employees in 250 dispensaries and six hospitals would affect the health care facilities in 20 cities of 14 states. Distribution and procurement of medicines, including life-saving drugs, would be stopped and reimbursement of cost of treatment of beneficiaries in private hospitals would be hampered during the strike. Laboratory facilities, dressing rooms, injection rooms would remain closed and sanitation would be badly affected because of the participation of safai workers in the strike. The employees are against the Union Health Ministry denying Rs 690 as the patient care allowance to the employees not posted in dispensaries. This was not only violative of the agreement signed between the association and the ministry in 1990, but also “discriminatory” as no such stoppage of the allowance has been ordered for other health organisations, Mr Kishan said. Moreover, similar type of work was being performed by staff of various hospitals and teaching institutes, where no dealing of patients were involved, but they were entitled to the allowance. All CGHS employees were recruited in the same manner and have a common seniority list. It was the administration’s decision to post them in a dispensary or store so employees should not suffer, Mr Kishan said.
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Indo-Bhutan border to be guarded by SSB New Delhi, June 2 The Indo-Bhutan border stretches over 661 km covering areas of Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam or Arunachal Pradesh. The Centre’s decision comes in the wake of recent reports that the anti-national elements of the North-East and North-Bengal have set up training camps and misutilising the territory of Bhutan. “It has come to the notice that the ULFA, the BDFB and the KLO, all terrorist organisations active in the North-East, are using this border for subversive activities,” sources said. Cadres of these organisations have found safe heavens in the dense hilly forest of Bhutan for their base camps and for training and logistics support. Earlier, the SSB has been guarding only the Indo-Nepal Border. The Home Ministry is examining a proposal to raise additional forces of the SSB to meet the increasing need for guarding such borders. |
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Shetty’s father moves HC for bail Ahmedabad, June 2 A Surat court had rejected an anticipatory bail application of the accused last week ruling that prima facie there was sufficient evidence against him to justify the extortion charge based on the confessional statement of a gangster and tapes of telephonic talks allegedly between Shetty, members of the overseas-based Fazl-ur-Rehman gang and Praful Sarees owner Pankaj Agrawal.
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Kadirgamar to deliver Prem Bhatia lecture New Delhi, June 2 Mr Kadirgamar, who is also a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament, would speak on the World Order After Iraq at the India International Centre here on August 11, said a communication from the Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust, An award with a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh would also be given away to an outstanding political writer on the occasion. Earlier speakers in the annual lecture series organised in memory of the noted Editor included Mr Soli Sorabji, Mr Karan Singh, Justice M.N. Venkatachalliah, Mr M.S. Swaminathan, Mr A.M. Khusro and Mr Deepak
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Govt considering law on integrated food New Delhi, June 2 The new Bill will deal with multiple food laws — the PFA Act, the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, the Packaged Commodities Rules — with multifarious central and state enforcing departments, many a time overlapping and even contradicting each other. The official assured the visitng delegation of All India Bread Manufacturers Association that inter-ministerial discussion would soon be held to evolve a mechanism to screen, monitor and supervise allocation of wheat. |
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Army to continue flood relief in Lanka New Delhi, June 2 According to the information released by the Army here, the medical teams and the troops would now stay in Sri Lanka till June 6. So far, about 13,000 flood-ravaged victims have been provided with relief and medical attention. The medical teams and the troops were despatched on May 20 following a request from the Government of Sri Lanka after unprecedented floods in the central and southern parts of the country. |
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IAF to take part in Alaska exercise New Delhi, June 2 The team comprising aircrew, ground crew and air defence personnel will be headed by Group Capt S.R.K. Nair. This is the first ever participation of the IAF in a multilateral exercise. |
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3 held in Vile Parle blast case Mumbai, June 2 Among those arrested Atif Mulla, Hasib Mulla and Dr Wahid Ansari. Atif and Hasib were accused in the Mulund bomb blast case while Dr Wahid was facing a charge of conspiracy in the Ghatkopar bomb blast case. They were produced before designated Judge A.P. Bhangale.
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