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Amarmani, wife fail to surrender
SC pulls up Centre in Bihar Assembly case
Congress predicts hung Assembly in Bihar
Seat-sharing trouble for RJD
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BJP releases second list for Bihar poll
Para wings for Chief of Air Staff
1 more arrested in Bhandarkar case
Users of forest land to pay: SC
Flights rescheduled to cope with strike
Investment cap of small industries raised to Rs 1 cr
Hasina arrives in Delhi
Sonia seeks Kalla’s explanation on book
21 given Bhatnagar awards
New potato varieties to add zest to chips industry
Lawyers call off strike
CBI raids at nine places
People of PoK want undivided Kashmir
Gen Vij is vice-chief of NDMA
Son denied ticket, mother loses life
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Amarmani, wife fail to surrender
Lucknow, September 28 They were the unexpected beneficiaries of the flash lawyers strike across the state. With the lawyers getting back to work on Thursday the surrender may take place in the Sessions Court tomorrow. The media and curious onlookers waited for the husband-wife team to make an appearance in the Sessions’ Court as the couple had moved an application for their surrender in the court. However, the Tripathis got a temporary respite when they discovered that the lawyers’ strike was continuing. According to the Supreme Court there was ample material to show that the two had tried to interfere with investigations. The Allahabad High Court had granted bail to Amarmani and Madhumani on April 29 and July 8, 2004. Commenting on the Supreme Court’s decision Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav told mediaperson in Allahabad on Monday that “in this case the law will take its course”, indicating that he had little to offer to his party MP embroiled in the murder case. Twentythree-year-old Madhumita Shukla, was shot dead at her Lucknow Paper Mill colony residence on May 9, 2003. The CBI, which was later handed over the investigation, alleged the husband-wife duo of conspiring to eliminate Madhumita as she had a relationship with Amarmani. The DNA tests have subsequently proved that Madhumita was expecting Amarmani’s child and was adamant to carry her pregnancy to full term resulting in her violent end. |
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SC pulls up Centre in Bihar Assembly case
New Delhi, September 28 Taking exception to the Union Government counsel harping on “purity of governance and purity of politics” in their arguments to justify the imposition of the Central rule in Bihar after the March election even before convening the newly-elected Assembly and forcing the state to go to the polls again, a five-judge Bench, headed by Mr Justice
Y.K. Sabharwal, said “our anguish is that unfortunately no government had made any effort to implement these reports.” Referring to the reports of various commissions and committees since 1969, the Bench having Mr Justice K G
Balakrishnan, Mr Justice B.N. Agrawal, Mr Justice Ashok Bhan and Mr Justice Arijit Pasayat made a special reference to the Constitution Review Committee and Sarkaria Commission recommendations, saying “ultimately someone has to take a decision on these reports. “We don’t know whether there is will to put them into action. But if they are put into action, it will achieve a lot in countering all these problems (being spelt out by the government in its arguments on defection and unholy alliances), “ the court observed. It said that all these problems arose because of the non-implementation of these reports. “But nothing stops them (government) to put them (reports) in practice,” the Bench said. The Sarkaria Commission, which had made recommendations on constitutional reforms, specially on the imposition of Central rule in a state, the court said the arguments being forwarded by the Union Government for the past two days on the “purity of governance and purity of politics” would have been avoided and the precious time of the court would have been devoted to deal with other cases, if the recommendations of the commission had been implemented.” While furthering his arguments on various aspects of the Governor’s power to recommend the imposition of President’s Rule and the dissolution of the state Assembly on behalf of the Union Government, Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam contended that the Governor could even refuse to administer the oath to a legislator, who was facing action under defection laws even if the Speaker had yet not decided the issue. As the court specifically asked should it be taken as a stand of the government that the President at the Centre and the Governor in the state could refuse to administer the oath as minister to such a legislator who faces action under the defection laws, which could even be his expulsion from the House before the Speaker taking a decision on the issue, Mr Subramaniam said. “I am of the view that he can refuse to administer him the oath. I take a position on this. This is the correct position, of course subject to a decision by the Speaker later.” On the question of split and merger between two parties, he said the split by a two-thirds legislature group for such a merger would not be recognised under the 10th Schedule till there was a merger between the original parties. The court, which did not look much satisfied with this stand of the government, grilled the government counsel by firing several questions on this aspect. |
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Congress predicts hung Assembly in Bihar
New Delhi, September 28 As of now, the assessment is that unlike the last election when there were some cracks in RJD’s traditional Muslim-Yadav support base, this time it is consolidating in its favour. Similarly, the upper castes and Kurmis are veering towards the Janata Dal (U)-BJP combine and are unlikely to vote for the LJP as they did in the February election. The Congress is banking on the non-Paswan scheduled castes and the RJD’s ability to transfer its vote to its candidates. Despite reports suggesting a ground swell of support for the NDA, the Congress believes the UPA will improve its position this time since there is greater clarity and unity in the coalition. This is a distinct improvement from the last election when the RJD was on its own and there was complete confusion in the UPA with the Congress going in for friendly contests with Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and a partial pact with Mr Paswan. This time round, the list of 41 candidates released so far by the Congress suggests that its basic purpose is to counter the LJP’s Muslim and cut into the NDA’s upper caste support base. The Congress has given tickets to 10 Muslims and 12 upper castes, including Brahmins, Thakurs and
Bhumihars. Although AICC General Secretary Digivjay Singh in charge of Bihar maintains that “winnability” has been the sole criteria, the caste factor was crucial in the selection of candidates. Besides re-nominating nine of its sitting legislators, the Congress is also fielding 11 new faces, based on the premise that people want a change. The complete understanding among the UPA allies - RJD, Congress, NCP and the CPM- will also extend to a common minimum programme (CPM) which will address their core constituency, given that it is weighted heavily in favour of the “poor, farmers, minorities and other socially and educationally backward classes.” Likely to be released in Patna on September 30, the CMP will also promise to implement a Vidhan Sabha resolution offering reservation for Dalit Muslims. |
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Seat-sharing trouble for RJD
Patna, September 28 “We have decided to contest the Purnea seat though it has not been allotted to us as our party has a strong support base there” CPM state secretary Vijaykant Thakur told a press conference here. The CPM, which has been allotted nine seats, will cross swords with the RJD candidate in Sugauli and the Congress nominee in
Bisfi. RJD president Lalu Prasad had yesterday announced a seat-sharing accord under which the RJD would contest 175 seats, the Congress 51, the NCP eight, while leaving nine seats for the CPM. He had said that ‘rare exception’ was allowed with regard to Sugauli and Bisfi seats where the allies would contest against each other. Mr Thakur, however, sought to play down the differences describing these as ‘minor’ and claimed that in rest of the seats all allies would fight as ‘one’. He also released the list of nine candidates. Claiming that the RJD will have to settle for just 40 seats in the coming Bihar Assembly elections, Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) chief Ramvilas Paswan said today that his party had finalised the seat-sharing arrangement with its allies — the CPI and the Forward Bloc. Elaborating about the present seat-sharing arrangement, he said the LJP would contest in “around 200 seats” while the CPI would contest 37 seats and the Forward Bloc would field three candidates. However, the RSP had not specified the number of seats it intended to contest. The LJP, together with its Left allies, would form the next government in state, Mr Paswan claimed while predicting that the RJD would be forced to ‘cool its heels’ with less than 40 seats in the 243-member House. The LJP or its allies, however, would not field candidate in Sheikhpura as the party decided to support the candidature of slain former Congress MP Rajo Singh’s daughter-in-law, Mr Paswan said. Further sharpening attack on Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, Mr Paswan said the ‘sweet dream’ of the RJD about coming to power again would not be fulfilled. “His sweet dream of the RJD returning to power again will never come true”. In Bihar corruption was already a major electoral issue and the RJD was thrown out of power mainly because of that, he said.
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BJP releases second list for Bihar poll
New Delhi, September 28 The BJP had on September 22 released the first list of 80 candidates, which comprised 37 sitting members. Meanwhile, party General Secretary and in charge of Bihar Arun Jaitley said although both the BJP and the Janata Dal (United) will have separate manifestoes, both the parties will come out with a Common Minimum Programme. |
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Para wings for Chief of Air Staff
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1 more arrested in Bhandarkar case
Lucknow, September 28 According to STF SSP Akhil Kumar, Ram Milan, the rickshaw puller, had helped Samir, a shooter sent by Naresh Pardesi to acquire a country-made weapon from Uttar Pradesh, in getting the weapon. Pardesi was to use the weapon to eliminate Bhandarkar on a ‘supari’ given by aspirant actor Preeti Jain. Mohd. Ibrahim Sheikh, alias Samir, was sent to UP by Pardesi to contact one Rajan in Unnao. This person was the regular supplier of weapons to Pardesi and had also worked for him at some point, said the SSP. However, on his arrival, Samir discovered that Rajan had already moved out to Dubai where he was reportedly working as a washerman. When Samir informed Pardesi about this latest development, he was reportedly ordered to acquire a weapon from any other source as such weapons were freely available in Uttar Pradesh. In Lucknow, while plying on Ram Milan’s rickshaw, Samir broached the topic and the resourceful Ram Milan came to his aid. He helped him in getting a weapon for Rs 2000 from his native district of Hardoi neighbouring Lucknow. Samir is one of the persons already arrested in this case by the Mumbai police. The said weapon is already in their possession. According to the Mumbai police, Preeti gave “supari” to former Gawli aide, Naresh Pardesi, to eliminate Bhandarkar. Mumbai SP Rajendra Kane brought Samir to Lucknow where after close interrogation he spilled the beans. Ram Milan had even given him a telephone number of a PCO in Talkatora area where he could be contacted for facilitating future supplies. The STF and Mumbai sleuths arrested Ram Milan with the help of this vital clue. After his arrest, a diary was recovered from him that had Pardesi’s Mumbai contact number. The Mumbai police team left with their catch - the rickshaw-puller-cum-arms supplier as well as Samir. The investigations in the case have led to the arrest of not only Preetii and Pardesi, but also three other men who were allegedly supposed to execute the plan. |
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Users of forest land to pay: SC
New Delhi, September 28 Noting with grave concern a shortfall of nearly 36 per cent in afforestation compensatory or afforestation activities in the country, a Bench of Mr Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, Mr Justice Arijit Pasayat and Mr Justice S.H. Kapatia rejected the proposal of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries to fix the rate of NPV at 10 per cent for major minerals and 5 per cent for minor ones, saying “a larger public interest has to be the guiding principle.” Directing the expert committee to submit its report within four months, the Court said that the NPV had to be worked out on the economic principles, which could be done only by experts, while directing the Union Government to appoint the three-member panel within one month, which would lay down the parameters for deciding the value of different categories of the forest land used for economic activities. The court, however, exempted government projects like hospitals, dispensaries and schools to be covered under the NPV scheme and upheld the notification of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and
Planning Authority (CAMPA), by the Union Government on April 23, 2004, for this purpose. “Undoubtedly national development was necessary but it has to be in consistent with protection of environment and forest. There is an absolute need to take all precautionary measures when forest lands are sought to be directed for non-forest use,” the court observed. The judgement came on an application of the Union Environment and Forest Ministry, seeking a direction on the calculation of the NPV as the matter pertaining to the protection of forests from encroachment was pending before the apex court, which had issued a series of guidelines since then for the protection of green cover. The committee, which would have an Institution of Economic Growth expert, Ms Kanchan, as one of the member, would identify and define scientific, bio-metric and social parameters for determining the categories of values of forest land, formulate a practical methodology for different bio-geographical zones in the country for the estimation of the NPV in monetary terms and obtain actual numerical values of different zones. While asking the panel to apply the principle of public finances, the court said that it would also determine which project deserved to be exempted from the payment of NPV. Stating that “economic development at the cost of degradation of environment and depletion of forest would not be long lasting”, the court said that the user agencies engaged in the project would be required to furnish undertaking for further payment, if any, as might be determined, on the receipt of the report by the expert panel. |
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Flights rescheduled to cope with strike
Mumbai, September 28 According to senior Airports Authority of India officials here, Indian Airlines, Jet Airways, Air Sahara and the low-cost operators like Air Deccan, Kingfisher, SpiceJet, etc have decided to cancel several flights to cope with the strike. Officials here say baggage and passenger handling, airport operations, including movement of aircraft on parking bays, and ground traffic organisation will be affected. Air traffic controllers have, however, decided to stay away from the strike. The strike will, however, result in passengers being inconvenienced as the striking employees have decided to cause maximum disruption. Airport Director at Mumbai airport Sudhir Kumar, however, said here that Home Guards and Air Force personnel had been deployed. However, they do not have much expertise in passenger and cargo handling. The situation is likely to worsen further tomorrow. So far all major unions at the country’s main airports have banded under the banner of the AAI Joint Forum to orchestrate the strike. About 20,000 employees are expected to participate. The strikers are being supported by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, affiliated with the Communist Party of India. |
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Investment cap of small industries raised to Rs 1 cr
New Delhi, September 28 The Finance Minister P Chidambaram had said the flow of credit to SSI and tiny sector was targeted to be doubled in five years. The limit for credit-linked capital subsidy scheme too would be enhanced from Rs 4 million term loan to Rs 10 million, while the percentage would be simultaneously enhanced from 12 to 15 per cent. A notification for this is expected shortly, Mr Chidambaram said. For the small and medium-sized enterprises, the Finance Minister had charted a four-pronged strategy for the sector's development, including bringing in a legislation and doubling bank credit to Rs 1,350 billion in five years. He said the SME Development Bill will be taken up for passage in Parliament in the winter session. The government has proposed to bring the small and medium enterprises under the category of ‘limited liability’ firms in the new Company Act, likely to be introduced in Parliament in next winter session. “Under Section-3 of the Act, any firm with more than one partners would be considered as limited liability firm. Earlier, it was applicable to the professionals like chartered accountants, doctors and lawyers,” said Mr
Dasgupta. The proposed amendment, said Mr Satyananda Mishra, Additional Secretary, would result in that these firms would have limited liability, up to the outstanding amount invested in the plant and machinery. Conceding demands of various stakeholders, said Mr
Dasgupta, the Parliamentary Standing Committee of ministry has also recommended to introduce amendments in the proposed Small and Medium Enterprises Act, including to make “stringent provisions for delay in payment by clients of the SME enterprises, restructuring of National Small and Medium Enterprises Board and specific provisions for the tiny sector — constituting 98 per cent of the total SME sector.” |
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Sonia seeks Kalla’s explanation on book
New Delhi, September 28 “Action will be taken in the matter,’’ AICC General Secretary Ambika Soni said. “The only intention of the author, who has no place in the party, was to publicise the book to create sensation,” Ms Natrajan
said. RPCC expels author of book
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Congress today expelled Man Chand
Khandela, who wrote a book critical of party chief Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The book “Sonia Gandhi and Indian Politics’’ by Mr
Khandela, former General Secretary of the Human Rights cell of RPCC, was released by RPCC President
B.D. Kalla on August 30 last. Mr Khandela — who claims to be a ‘’consumer rights activist, a social worker, besides being a primary member of the Congress” — was not holding any party post at present. Among other things, the book blames Indira Gandhi of promoting corruption and accuses Ms Sonia Gandhi of resembling a ‘Maharani’ and accuses her of ‘’selfish’’ motives while refusing the Prime Minister’s post. “We have expelled him from the party,’’ Mr Kalla said while speaking to mediapersons. He said the author and publisher of the book had kept him in the dark about the remarks on the Congress leaders before its release. Rejecting Mr Kalla’s charge, Mr Khandela said he stood by his observations in the book. “My next book on current Indian politics is going to be much more controversial,’’ he said, without divulging the details.
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21 given Bhatnagar awards
New Delhi, September 28 Addressing the gathering after giving away the CSIR Diamond Jubilee Technology Award, 2004 and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes for Science and Technology for 2004 and 2005, Dr Manmohan Singh said if the 21st century is going to be a knowledge century, then it is not military power, nor economic power, but brain power that would determine the country’s place in the comity of nations. He said Knowledge Commission headed by Sam
Pitroda, was expected to come forward with bold initiatives to create excellence in research and teaching, especially in the frontier areas of mathematics, science and technology. “We would create exciting career opportunities for scientists to retain our talent at home,” he said. Dr Manmohan Singh said the challenge before Indian science and technology was to generate technology that created wealth for the country while also ensuring that it improves the lives of the poor. He said the two proposed institutes at Pune and Kolkata would deal exclusively with science education and research. The
institutes will be modelled on the times of the Indian Institute of Science. The Prime Minister said to strengthen investment in basic science, as well as to improve the processes of funding, a new national science and engineering research foundation had been approved. “It will receive generous funding and it will
operate in an autonomous manner. Dr Singh said the government was keen on pushing forward many meaningful and productive public-private partnership. “In particular, research in pharmaceuticals is of critical of us, particularly with change in patent regime,” he said. The Prime Minister presented the CSIR Diamond Jubilee Technology Award 2004 to Midas Communication. The award is instituted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR). Minister of State for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal and CSIR Director-General
R.M. Mashelkar was also present. Dr Manmohan Singh presented 2004 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology to young scientists including Dr Gopal Chandra Kundu (National Centre for Cell Science, Pune), Dr Ramesh Venkata Sonti (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (Hyderabad), Dr Vinod Kumar Singh (IIT, Kanpur), Dr Siva Umapathy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Dr Subhasis Chaudhuri (IIT, Mumbai), Dr Vivek Vinayak Ranade (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune), Dr Arup Bose (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Dr Sujatha Ramdorai (Tata Institue of Fundamental Research, Mumbai), Dr Chetan Eknath Chitnis (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi) and Dr Madan Rao (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore). He also presented S S Bhatnagar Prize for 2005 to Dr Tapas Kumar Kundu (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore), Dr Shekhar Chintamani Mande (Centre for DNA Finger printing and Diagnostics,
Hyderbad), Dr Samaresh Bhattacharya (Jadavpur University, Kolkata), Dr S Ramakrishnan (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Dr Nibir Mandal
(Jadhavpur University, Kolkata), Dr Kalyanmoy Deb (IIT, Kanpur), Dr Valipe Ramgopal Rao (IIT, Mumbai), Dr Probal Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Dr Kapil Hari Paranjape (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), Dr Javed Naim Agrewala (Institute of Microbio Technology, Chandigarh) and Dr Sandip Parimal Trivedi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai). |
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New potato varieties to add zest to chips industry
New Delhi, September 28 A new variety, Chipsona-3, is free from all internal and external defects. Currently, only two indigenous processing varieties have been notified in the country and the release of this hybrid variety will provide an additional processing variety to the industry. The processing industry requires a potato variety with better tuber specific gravity at the time of harvest, tuber dry matter content, chip colour and reducing sugars and Chipsona-3 is significantly better in all these quality parameters, ICAR said. The Kufri Chipsona-3 hybrid is easy to cook, has excellent flavour with best aroma when boiled or baked and is free from discoloration after cooking. There is no cracking, no hollow heart and no deformation, which are encountered in existing varieties. The hybrid maintains excellent processing qualities even after six months of on-farm storage at intermediate temperatures, thus providing raw material to the processing industry for almost round the year. The hybrid variety, identified for North Indian plains, gives significant higher yields at 333 quintal/hectare than the earlier varieties of Kufri Chipsona-1 (278 q/ha) and Kufri Chipsona-2 (272 q/ha). It has high tuber dry matter with excellent chip colour and produces acceptable quality chips after storage at 10-12°C up to 180 days. Both under laboratory and online testing in industry, the hybrid had more than 20 per cent dry matter, excellent chip colour and very low undesirable colour of chips than the existing processing varieties. Its round-oval shape makes for low peeling losses and it is highly resistant to late blight. The variety gives highest dry matter yield of 94 q/ha, thus flakes industry would be able to manufacture international quality flakes with high recovery using this variety. Another new hybrid variety “Kufri Himalini” has been identified by the ICAR for commercial cultivation in hilly regions. In this region, late blight in potato crop has become more frequent and intense in the past few years and the resistance to late blight was found eroding in existing varieties Kufri Jyoti and Kufri Giriraj. To overcome this, the new hybrid variety has been developed, which has higher level of resistance to late blight. It has medium maturity of 110-120 days and is also adapted to sub-tropical plains, which is an additional feature of this hybrid. It provides a yield advantage of over 10 per cent over Kufri Jyoti and Kufri Giriraj in the plains and its keeping quality is better than all the cultivars developed so far for hill regions. India is the third largest producer of potatoes in the world with a production of about 23.12 million tones from about 1.27 million hectares with 18.2 t/ha productivity during 2003-04. Although, India contributes about 7.6 per cent to the total potato production in the world, the per capita consumption in the country is much less than many of the countries. Less than 1 per cent of the produce is processed in the country and our exports share in the
world potatoes trade is 0.45 per cent. |
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Lawyers call off strike
Lucknow, September 28 In a severe indictment of the state administration the court has summoned the record of the city and district log control book as well as the entire wireless communication for September 26, the day the lawyers and the police fought a pitched battle for well over 5 hours near the high court premises. In an unprecedented and prompt response, the full Bench of the high court also issued criminal contempt notices to the Allahabad Divisional Commissioner, DM, IG, DIG, SSP, and the CO, Civil Lines. The court has fixed October 18 as the date when the officials can “explain their position” in person or through their counsel. The police-lawyer clash near the Allahabad High Court on September 26 left a trail of bad blood. It also caused injuries to 27 lawyers and damaged 50 of their vehicles. The Allahabad sequel came almost a year after a similar incident in the premises of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court that had repercussions across the country with lawyers’ striking work in solidarity. |
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CBI raids at nine places
New Delhi, September 28 The complaint was of the alleged ‘pilfering’ of Municipal Corporation of Delhi employees’ money to private investments. Among places raided include that of kingpin R.K. Mahajan in Pushpa Vihar and that of LIC officers in Khan Market area of New Delhi, CBI spokesman said. The MCD’s complaint was that the premium money of its employees meant for the LIC was not being deposited with the insurance company and instead being invested with private investors. Till now Rs 37 lakh worth accounts have come to light including cash recovery of Rs 1.18 lakh from R. K. Mahajan’s Pushpa Vihar residence. The figure is likely to cross the Rs 50 lakh mark with raids still continuing, the spokesman said. |
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People of PoK want undivided Kashmir
New Delhi, September 28 Shahid insisted that people in PoK were not swayed by communal ideology, they desired peace and their thinking was secular in nature. However, he felt that the wish closest to their heart was one of re-unification with Indian Kashmir. They want the state to exist as it did pre-Partition. People feel that this re-unification could easily have happened in 1947-49 when the Indian forces had been able to expunge invaders sent by Pakistan into the valley. Both Khaleeq and Shahid stressed that people advocate that, despite the fact that a re-unification scenario is difficult, given today’s situation, still the LoC can be made irrelevant in reality. This can be achieved only if both India and Pakistan create conditions for the free and easy movement of people, goods and services across the LoC. Easy access should be provided to connect all traditional routes especially across India’s Jammu region, PoK, Ladakh and
Gilgit. Both leaders deplored the use of violence to achieve the political aims of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. |
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India protests wrong map
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Gen Vij is vice-chief of NDMA New Delhi, September 28 The Vice-Chairperson will have the status of Cabinet Minister and the members of Minister of State, an official press note said here. The government had earlier issued a notification on May 30, 2005 constituting the NDMA with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the Chairperson. As per that notification the Authority will have members not exceeding nine, to be nominated by the Prime Minister and one of the members may be designated Vice-Chairperson of the authority by the Prime Minister. The NDMA has been constituted by the government for laying the policies for disaster management.
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Sania ambassador for Sach
Hyderabad, September 28 She launched SACH bands, the proceeds of which would go towards helping children with heart diseases through SACH. Sania presented the first set of SACH bands to popular Telugu film artistes Jagapathi Babu, Charmi and Vishnurvardhan.
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Son denied ticket, mother loses life
Bhagalpur, September 28 She had sold her ornaments to arrange funds for her son, who had begun preparing for the poll as he was confident of getting nomination. The BJP has given the ticket to Mr Dilip Kumar Sinha, who recently switched over to the party from the Congress. Mr Mandal had unsuccessfully contested from Pirpainti in the last Assembly poll in February this year.
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