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Terror Codes
Chinese N-subs cause of concern: Navy chief LS adjourned sine die
Budhia Coach Murder
10 hurt in Nandigram clashes
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N-Deal
Police wakes up to spurt in thefts
Design changes delay Arjun tank
BSF to upgrade 4,000 border posts
PM sees latest satellite pictures of his residence
PM postpones K’taka visit to May 8
RS, LS pay tributes to Deshpande
Deshpande’s ashes to be immersed in Indus
Sarna demands marriage Act for Sikhs
India can solve global food worries: Swaminathan
Protest against genetically modified crops
Number of Kisan Call Centres increased
Obituary
Laptops for school kids in TN
Roorkee streets littered with garbage
4 booked for dowry
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Terror Codes Names of actors, historical buildings also used Ajay Banerjee Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 5
So names like Sonia or Manmohan are “given” to a task that may have nothing to do with either the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi or Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said a senior functionary. The militants don’t miss out on the opposition party leaders and “Vajpayee” and “Advani” are equally popular codes, a source said. All such codes heard on the communications intercepts are taken seriously and put through a detailed analysis on specially designed computer software. This software has the capacity to indicate when a specific word was used time and who used it and how many times. A source said these names are used by militants as it is known fact that mobile phones and hand-held walkie-talkie sets are tapped or intercepted by intelligence agencies who eavesdrop on suspects. The codes are used to camouflage the real motive. The militants have not stopped at having code names based on politicians. Historical monuments and historical places like the Taj Mahal, Lal Qila ( Red Fort), Chandni Chowk are other names in the long list of code words. Film actresses are not far behind. Dia Mirza is one of the popular names across the border and so are Kareena and Priyanka. The name of King Khan of Bollywood, Shah Rukh, has had cropped up a few times in the coded language, said sources. Names of cities are also used. So Mumbai could just mean something else and so could Agra or Delhi. Specialists work on each word, its origin and the person using it. Certain organisations have a liking for particular words but they keep changing the codes, said sources while adding, “We live with these words and know what they mean”. For long agencies have known that militants do not send mails, they just write it and keep it in the “drafts” so their accomplices, who know the password of the email, can read it. This leaves no trace on the server of the mail provider.
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Chinese N-subs cause of concern: Navy chief
New Delhi, May 5 It a “cause for security concern” to India, naval chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta told news persons here when asked about the revelations by satellite pictures that China had amassed five nuclear submarines carrying long range missiles. “It is not the nuclear submarine bases that matter, we are concerned over the number of nuclear submarines that are being built in our neighbourhood,” he said. Defence minister A K Antony sought to be evasive on the subject, saying the country's armed forces are capable of taking “full care of our security interests” whether it is sea lanes or land borders. The CCS is likely to meet soon to deliberate on the security implications that the build-up in the South China sea will have on India. The pictures suggest that China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten India and other countries in the region.
— PTI
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LS adjourned sine die New Delhi, May 5 The adjournment came amid protests by Gurudas Dasgupta, deputy leader of the CPI, who objected to the NDA and Congress coming together to adjourn the house. He also termed as “hoax” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s assurance on the tabling of Women’s Reservation Bill. The Speaker on his part emphasised he had always favoured within the parameters of rules debates on the issues affecting public. “It is this very purpose that our democracy strives to achieve. However, instances of interruptions and forced adjournment do not help our common goal of public welfare,” he added, as the issue of house discipline weighed on his mind even after the crisis had been diffused through a formula. Incidentally, the principal opposition party’s main stance on the Speaker’s move to “tame” unruly MPs has been this - “If we can’t raise pressing issues like price rise in the House forcefully, where else can we raise such matters. We were only shouting slogans for the cause of the poor”. Facts, however, suggest the BJP had the opportunity to raise the issue in the House, with the Speaker himself facilitating a separate discussion on price rise when the House reassembled on April 15. The BJP, however, disrupted proceedings that day and shouted slogans; the next day it allowed discussions on the subject. The BJP and its NDA partners again raised the issue of inflation on April 24, forming a human chain, even when the same matter could not have been taken up for debate more than once in the session. No wonder this session saw repeated warnings from the Speaker, who kept saying he was not issuing empty threats to members for “disorderly conduct”. The matter eventually led to the Speaker on last Thursday sending the names of 32 MPs to the Privileges Committee. Under rules 373, 374 and 374 A, however, the speaker could have punished any member by suspending him from the House for a day or the entire session. Interestingly, the price rise issue, over which the opposition kept cornering the government, was debated in the House for over six hours. The first part of this budget session had commenced on February 25 and the house was adjourned on March 19; the second part commenced on April 15. In all, the session had 28 sittings; 51 amendments were moved; 17 government bills were introduced; the house passed 20 bills including five ordinance replacing bills. n The house sat for 162 hours, 11 minutes n Time lost due to interruptions: 28 hours,
30 mins n Time for which house sat late: 36 hours, 38 mins n 307 matters of public importance raised n 51 statements made by ministers
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Budhia Coach Murder
Panaji/Bhubaneswar, May 5 However, there were conflicting reports whether the accused Raja Acharya, who was declared an absconder by a court two days ago, had surrendered to the Goa police at Panaji with the Goa police claiming that he gave himself up while its Orissa counterpart insisting that he was held. Acharya walked into the Panaji police station at 2.30 pm and surrendered before the state police, who was unaware about his presence in Goa till then, the Goa police said. Sources said the Orissa police had tracked down his whereabouts on the basis of the mobile number, which he was using. The signals indicated that Acharya was somewhere in North Goa. The Orissa police contacted Acharya and asked him to surrender before the local police. Goa police control room was informed about Acharya’s willingness to surrender in the afternoon, they said. However, Bhubaneswar police commissioner Binoy Behera told reporters in Orissa capital that “Raja has not surrendered. We have caught him with the help of the Goa police with information from our own sources”. Behera said he had spoken to the Goa director-general of police after deputy commissioner of police Himanshu Lal and additional commissioner of police Sharat Sahu came to know about the gangster’s whereabouts. He, however, declined to disclose details of the operation as it may help other criminals to evade the arm of law but said the same police team that had brought Chagala, co-accused in the case from Bhopal, would leave for Goa soon to bring Raja here expectedly by May 7. The gangster had been on the run since the gunning own of the judo coach here on April 13. A non-bailable warrant of arrest was issue against him by a local court, which declared him an absconder on May 3. Panaji police inspector Francis Corte said that the police is registering his statement and he would be produced before the magistrate to get the remand. “We have no case against him. We will have to hand him over to the Orissa police for further investigations,” IGP Kishan Kumar said.
— PTI
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Nandigram, May 5 The attacks came barely six days before the first phase panchayat election beginning May 11. Official sources said the injured were rushed to the Nandigram hospital where the condition of two of them was stated to be critical. Haldia SDO Sankar Haldar and SDPO Gourav Sharma rushed to the spot with a large police contingent. Meanwhile, the Nandigram Block Development Office sent an SOS message to East Midnapore SP S.S. Panda to despatch more police contingents to the area. “Due to some administrative lacunae in Nandigram, close coordination between the police and the CRPF is being hampered,” Panda said. However, he claimed that the situation was under control. Meanwhile, the BUPC supporters alleged that three armed teams of CPM activists, each comprising about 70 to 80 cadres, had driven out around 500 BUPC supporters from Sonachura, Gokulnagar and Roynagar villages. About 60 persons had been injured in the pre-poll violence in east and west Midnapore districts so far. Panda said stray incidents of violence and clashes between the activists of the CPM on one side and the AITC, the Congress and the Jharkhand Party (JP) on the other were reported yesterday. Hundreds of people, who were returning home to Nandigram after the year-long absence following the March 14 carnage here last year, were seen fleeing their villages once again. “People are apprehensive of fresh violence in the wake of clashes between the CPM and the BUPC at Janbazar, Tekhali, Garchakraberiya, Sonachura, Bhangaberiya, Southkhali and Gangra,” the SP had said. — UNI
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N-Deal
New Delhi, May 5 As the Left parties remain steadfast in their opposition to the deal, the UPA government appears to have reconciled to the fact that the agreement is unlikely to fructify during its regime. Although privately UPA ministers acknowledge that it will not be able to operationalise the N-deal, the government will not publicly declare the demise of the agreement. The government will maintain that it is committed to the deal and that it will continue with its efforts to persuade the Left parties. Consequently, the dialogue between the two sides may well continue till after July, the deadline set by Washington for the finalisation of the safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the approval of the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG). The Congress, UPA’s lead player, has lost enthusiasm for the nuclear deal as it is too busy fending off criticism on the price rise front. Besides, the party is presently focusing on the Karnataka Assembly polls, which may well set the tone for the year-end Assembly elections and the 2009 Lok Sabha poll. In fact, a substantial section in the Congress, which was never happy about the nuclear deal, will be quite relieved as this agreement is being perceived as an endorsement of President George Bush’s anti-Islam and anti-Muslim views. In an effort to correct this perception, the UPA government went out of its way to welcome the Iranian President during his brief official visit and even snubbed Washington when it tendered some advice to India on how it should conduct its relations with Iran. Speaking to mediapersons at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh persisted with the government’s official line that the dialogue with the Left will continue. “We will discuss whatever our colleagues would like to raise during the meeting,” he said. At the last March 17 meeting, the government had shared the details of its discussions with the IAEA on the India-specific safeguards agreement and the Left had promised to study these and get back for further clarifications. CPM general secretary Prakash Karat has since sent a detailed questionnaire to external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, who also heads the UPA-Left panel. Following up on this note, the Left parties will seek further clarifications from the government tomorrow on the uninterrupted supply of enriched uranium for the running of the country’s nuclear plants and will ask whether India will be permitted to build a strategic reserve of nuclear fuel.
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Police wakes up to spurt in thefts
Dehra Dun, May 5 It is pertinent to mention that since May 1 two or three incidents of theft are being reported every day from various areas of the city. Inquiries by The Tribune revealed that so far the police was clueless about the thieves, though it believed that those behind the theft incidents may be from a particular gang. The modus operandi of the thieves is that they first identify locked houses and then target them during night. In most of the incidents, the thieves decamped with jewellery and cash after making their way into the house by breaking grills. Police sources disclosed that labourers, who come to Dehra Dun from other states in summer to work in mango and lichhi fields, could also be involved in the theft incidents. SSP Amit Sinha today assured that the thieves would be nabbed soon. “Besides conducting a combing operation within the city, strict instructions had been issued to all police stations and police picket in charges to remain extra vigilant and carry out patrolling, especially during night hours”, said the SSP. Sinha also convened a meeting in this regard with the SHOs of various police stations today.
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Design changes delay Arjun tank
New Delhi, May 5 The manufacture of Arjun tank is being regularly monitored through a working group, headed by director-general mechanised forces, and the steering committee under the co-chairmanship of secretary (defence production) and scientific adviser to the defence minister. He said the defects noticed during the ongoing accelerated user-cum-reliability trials by the Army include failure of power packs, low accuracy and consistency, failure of hydro pneumatic suspension units, shearing of top rollers and chipping of gun barrels. Separately, defence minister A.K. Antony said the modernisation of the Army was a continuous process based on threat perception, operational challenges, technological changes and budget allocations. The DRDO has undertaken projects to develop necessary technologies in respect of seabed arrays and autonomous underwater vehicle, said Antony.
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BSF to upgrade 4,000 border posts
Chandigarh, May 5 “A major portion of Rs 278 crore earmarked for improving the living conditions of jawans will be spent on improving facilities at the BOPs,” he said. He added that the BSF had been able to provide basic amenities to six out of 31 BOPs in the eastern sector that so far were only air-maintained through helicopters. He was here to lay the foundation stone of the BSF’ Headquarters Additional Directorate-General (West), which is responsible for the border management of the entire western border from Jammu and Kashmir to the Rann of Kutch. The BSF chief said the force was “badly stressed” primarily due to election duties and prolonged deployment in hard areas. He said he was not satisfied with the quality of personnel joining the BSF of late and that the force was getting the “left over” from the police service aspirants. The BSF today was short of about 20 battalions, which amounted to manpower deficiency of about 24,000 personnel. On the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, Mitra said it had not been able to fully satisfy the needs of the BSF personnel. “There are a few shortcomings in its recommendations and we have taken up the matter with the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Home Affairs,” he said. “The BSF had mooted a constabulary hardship allowance, but it has been turned down,” he added. Mitra said the BSF had reliable inputs that militants were waiting along the border to infiltrate into the country once the mountain passes in Jammu and Kashmir opened ie when the snow melted. When that happens, militant activities along the border are likely to increase manifold, he added. He did not rule out the possibility of increase in the militant activities in the wake of upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. “In the past also it has been observed that whenever elections are close in Jammu and Kashmir, attempts have been made by militants to step up violence,” he said. Mitra also said the number of training camps of militants in Pakistan had gone up but did not give out any figures. Cross-border smuggling as well as constructions along the border was continuing. Infiltration along the eastern border with Bangladesh, he said, was more but steps were being taken to bring it down.
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PM sees latest satellite pictures of his residence
New Delhi, May 5 Cartosat-2A was among a record 10 satellites successfully put in orbit by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) last Monday in a landmark space mission. “The pictures are very clear,” Singh remarked upon seeing the satellite pictures. Singh lauded the scientists of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) behind the successful launch of polar rocket. A delegation of top space scientists led by ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair presented to the Prime Minister a scale model of the PSLV and satellite pictures of the national capital taken by Cartosat-2A. Cartosat-2A carries a state-of-the-art Panchromatic camera (PAN) that can record high clarity images covering a swathe of 9.6 kms. The highly agile remote sensing satellite can be manoeuvred to facilitate imaging of any area more frequently.
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PM postpones K’taka visit to May 8
Bangalore, May 5 Earlier, the Congress had announced that Singh will pay a day’s visit to Karnataka to undertake electioneering and address a rally in the city and at Mysore on May 6 for the first phase of polling to be held on May 10. A total of 89 Assembly segments, including 28 in the city, will go to polls in the first phase. However, there is no change in the electioneering schedule of Congress president Sonia Gandhi who will be in the city on May 7. Sonia will address a public meeting in the city and at
Tumkur. Sonia will also be campaigning during the second and third phase of elections in the state, Chavan said. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will also campaign in districts which go to polls in the second and third phase, he said adding that dates would be finalised later.
— PTI
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RS, LS pay tributes to Deshpande
New Delhi, May 5 The Lok Sabha also paid tributes to the Rajya Sabha member and veteran Gandhian, who died here on Thursday. As soon as the Upper House met for the day, Chairman Hamid Ansari, made reference to the passing away of Deshpande, expressing sorrow over the death of the distinguished sitting member of the House. Describing her as a true disciple of Vinoba Bhave, he said Deshpande worked tirelessly for peace and harmony between India and Pakistan and also strived for peace in militancy-hit Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. “A true disciple of Vinoba Bhave, Kumari Deshpande joined his Bhoodan Yatra in 1952 and walked more than 40,000 km to propagate the ideology of the non-violent revolution,” he said. A receipent of the Padma Vibhushan and the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhawana Puruskar, she was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha from August 1997 to 1999 and then again from January 2004 till her death. Ansari said in passing away of Deshpande, the nation had lost a renowned Gandhian and an eminent social activist. The House observed a minute of silence in memory of the departed soul after which Ansari adjourned the proceedings till tomorrow. Making an obituary reference in the Lok Sabha, speaker Somnath Chatterjee said Deshpande had dedicated more than 60 years of her life working relentlessly for the promotion of communal harmony and in selfless service for women, tribals and the underprivileged. Affectionately called “didi”, Deshpande joined the Bhoodan Land Reform Movement in 1952, marking the beginning of her tryst with social work. Her simple life, indefatigable zeal, energy and enthusiasm endeared her to all those, who came in touch with her, Chatterjee said.
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Deshpande’s ashes to be immersed in Indus
Islamabad, May 5 Deshpande, 79, died in New Delhi on Thursday. The Pakistan government was represented at her funeral by a team led by information and broadcasting minister Sherry Rehman. Pakistani trade union leaders and peace activists B.M. Kutty and Karamat Ali, who attended Deshpande’s funeral, told the Dawn newspaper that they would return with Deshpande’s ashes. The ashes would first be taken to Karachi. The immersion would be done after a suitable site near the Indus was selected in consultation with activists on both sides of the border, they said. Kutty, a Malayali who migrated to Pakistan, and Ali are members of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy. They flew to India especially to be present for Deshpande’s last rites.
— PTI
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Sarna demands marriage Act for Sikhs
New Delhi, May 5 Committee president Paramjit Singh Sarna, who met law minister H.R. Bhardwaj along with other committee members on Friday, said today that the registration of marriage had become compulsory after the verdict of the Supreme Court and a separate Sikh Marriage Act would help the community maintain its independent identity. “Recently, on the request of the Sikhs in Pakistan we had made a draft proposal for the Sikh Marriage Act with the help of well-known Sikh lawyers in India, which was passed by the Government of Pakistan. We want that a similar Sikh Marriage Act should be enacted in India so that Sikh marriages could be registered under this Act and not under any other Act,” Sarna said. This would help the Sikh community to maintain its independent identity, Sarna said, offering to provide all possible help in drafting of such an Act. According to Sarna, Bhardwaj informed the delegation that the government was favourable toward the enactment of a Sikh Marriage Act and also wanted to pass a law for the legal recognition of customary religious rites of other minority communities. “Therefore a common Bill is being drafted and after the approval in the next Cabinet meeting, the Bill will be presented in Parliament.” Meanwhile, the DSGMC also demanded that the black list of Sikhs living abroad be abolished. After the Operation Bluestar, the black list was prepared and the committee had written to the government that the list be abolished. “As there has been no law and order problem for many years now the black list causes distrust and heart-burning among affected members of the community. In view of normal conditions in Punjab, it is highly imperative to annul the black list to allow them an opportunity to visit India and be part of the mainstream,” Sarna said.
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India can solve global food worries: Swaminathan
New Delhi, May 5 A rich diversity of secondary food crops, a huge base of rural workers and good rainfall mean India is able to raise production quickly with small investments, allowing it to export a bigger surplus to world markets, he said on Monday. “Today we have a great opportunity to produce for ourselves and for others,” M S Swaminathan, father of the late 1960s Green Revolution that helped reverse growing gloom about world food supplies, said in an interview. But he said that public policy was a crucial ingredient in realising India's potential as a world exporter, and that he was dissatisfied with the government's pace of reform so far. At the moment India is coming under pressure for worsening the world's food fears by banning exports of rice, a move that helped trigger a near threefold rise in global prices. On Sunday US President George W Bush said India was partly responsible for rising global food prices. Diverse climate and the world's biggest population of farmers would help India achieve the status of a major supplier of food to the world, Swaminathan said.
— Reuters
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Protest against genetically modified crops
New Delhi, May 5 The anti-GM protest has been organised by the coalition for a ‘GM-Free India’. The coalition represents farmers and the organisations across the country, including farmers’ unions, the environmental organisations, organic farming groups and the women’s organisations. The coalition has one of the largest memberships based in terms of practising ecological farmers. Member secretary, coalition for a GM-Free India Kavitha Kuruganti, political leaders celebrities and consumer activists concerned about GM crops in general and Bt Brinjal in particular and consumers from Delhi are expected to join the farmers in this protest against the government and big agri-business corporations in their “undemocratic attempts to thrust unsafe food down people’s throats”. Kuruganthi says in India, we are standing on the verge of the first GM food crop, Bt Brinjal; being approved for the second (and probably last) year large scale trials this Kharif 2008.
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Number of Kisan Call Centres increased
New Delhi, May 5 As many as 144 call centre agents are engaged in 14 KCCs, who answer farmers’ queries in 21 local dialects. In case call centre agents at level I are not able to completely answer their queries, calls are escalated to level II (128 in number, nationwide), where experts from agricultural universities answer farmers queries directly. Out of 128 level II experts, two are located in Jharkhand. As many as 20 nodal officers designated by the government are keeping liaison with the call centre agents for providing technical support for running the KCCs. Besides, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation has also taken initiative to develop a data structure in the form of the Kisan Knowledge Management System (KKMS) and software is being developed to provide data bank on various packages of practices on crops, horticulture, poultry, fishery, animal husbandry and veterinary sciences. In order to monitor the activities of the KCCs, a state-level monitoring committee (SLMC) has been constituted under the chairmanship of the agriculture secretary and allied departments, representatives of the local BSNL office and concerned nodal officer of the KCC as members to address the issues related with training programmes, publicity and connectivity.
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Obituary With the passing away of Pt Kishan Maharaj an era has come to an end. That era bespoke of Varanasi as the great hub of classical music and dance. Within Varanasi, it was the area of Kabir Chaura that had produced legendary stalwarts in the field of tabla such as Pt Baldeo Sahai, Pt Kanthe Maharaj and later Pt Samta Prasad, alias Godai Maharaj, and Pt Kishan Maharaj. (The Chaura derives its name from the 16th century saint-poet Kabir, whose wooden sandals and the rudraksh rosary are enshrined in the nearby Kabir Matth). My first meeting with Pt Kishan Maharaj was in 1965 when I was introduced to him by my guru, Pt Birju Maharaj. ‘Kishan chacha’ as he was popularly known, entranced all with his wizardry on the tabla and his ability to play cross-rhythms. The most complex rhythmic calculations seemed to flow effortlessly out of his dexterous fingers. Chacha with his trademark large red tika adorning his forehead, also captivated the audience the moment he walked on to the stage with his most arresting personality, autocratic bearing and a smiling face, all of which made a heady cocktail. He was a versatile singer and an excellent conversationalist. At his home in Kabir Chaura, he never failed to take visitors to his ‘riyaz’ room where he had installed a larger than life statue of Lord Ganesha playing the ‘mridanga’. Curiously, Kabir Chaura that had produced several legends in the field of classical music and dance was known for the ‘dancing damsels’. It was the meeting point of the sensitive, the spiritual and the sensuous! Kishan chacha was omnipresent in almost all music and dance festivals (known then as conferences) till the early part of the 90s, accompanying kathak artistes as well as well-known instrumentalists and vocalists. The later part of Pt Kishan Maharaj’s life saw a transition in kathak presentations. Earlier, it was the norm that kathak artistes would perform with tabla players booked by the organisers. Even as a very young dancer in the early seventies, I had the good fortune of having Kishan chacha as well as the other stalwart of his time, Pt Samta Prasad, accompany my dance on the tabla on a number of occasions at Kanpur, Delhi, Meerut, Allahabad and Patna. These ‘greats’ in the field of tabla never thought it below their dignity to accompany a young artiste. In fact their readiness to provide tabla accompaniment displayed their inner confidence of their position, stature and humility. It served as a great motivation to us young performers. I will never forget a particular performance in one of the ‘whole night’ festivals at Kanpur in late 80s when after the performance, as I touched Kishan chacha’s feet, he blessed me with the remark that the evening’s programme was akin to that of Panditji or that of my guru. My joy knew no bounds! My last meeting with him was in Delhi but it was our meeting just few months before in his home at Kabir Chaura is the one that will always remain etched in my memory. How can I forget how he served me snacks and cold drinks himself and discussed my work in detail while showing me the renovation that he was undertaking in his studio, even while ruing that no child from the Kathak-Mishra families of Kabir Chaura had been able to make a mark in the field of tabla or sarangi. Alas, Pt Kishan Maharaj who epitomised Kabir Chaura and the Varanasi music scene, is no more!
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Laptops for school kids in TN
Chennai, May 5 Local administration minister
M.K. Stalin announced this while replying to the debate on the demand for grants for the IT Department, on behalf of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi in the state Assembly today. He said the state government had decided to implement a new scheme called “Education is not a burden”, under which school kids would be given mini-laptops, instead of books. Displaying the mini laptops in the House, Stalin said the scheme would be implemented on an experimental basis in two schools in the state. Multimedia would be used for teaching the lessons to the students and they would no longer be required to carry a huge bag of books and notebooks, Stalin said.
— UNI
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Roorkee streets littered with garbage
Roorkee, May 5 The streets are littered with garbage that spills out of dustbins giving an open invitation to health hazard. Sources say inadequate sweeping staff in the health section of the Roorkee Municipal Council is the primary cause of this problem. There has been no increase in the sweeping staff of municipal council for nearly over last 20 years, the sources say. The MC at present has staff of 178 for sweeping work that is far from sufficient to cater the need of increased population of city. Residents rue that mismanagement and unconcern of the Roorkee Municipal Council has compelled them to live in most unhygienic conditions. “The garbage remains littered for several days in the same place and there’s no one to clean the rubbish in the peripheral areas. It’s only the posh colonies like civil lines and adjacent vicinities that are served well with cleanness,” says Pramod, a student. The dustbins are positioned at inconvenient places and that too are few in number, as a result, filth just piles up following which stray dogs and cattle scatter the garbage on the streets.
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