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45 burnt alive in AP bus crash
Investment scam: No SC relief yet to Subrata Roy
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Azam Khan’s personal staff seeks mass transfer
No one to chair, minority education meet cancelled
third front Talk
Rahul: Central funds not reaching people in UP
Sanjay Dutt returns to Pune jail
Chandigarh-born engineer is Skype vice president
Mars orbiter’s mission life may not exceed 6 months
Kayani discusses LoC tension with Chinese leaders
Asaram’s bail plea turned down
NIA to probe Patna blasts
Fresh Muzaffarnagar clashes leave 3 dead
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45 burnt alive in AP bus crash
Hyderabad, October 30 The Hyderabad-bound Volvo bus from Bengaluru was carrying 52 passengers against its capacity of 42, besides the driver and his assistant. The mishap occurred when the driver of the air-conditioned coach lost control while overtaking a car and rammed into a culvert near Kothakota in the neighbouring Mahaboobnagar district, about 130 km from Hyderabad. When the overspeeding bus hit the culvert, its diesel tank exploded leading to fire. And within seconds, the fire engulfed the bus, killing the passengers while they were asleep. The accident occurred around 4.50 am. The police said that some passers-by who tried in vain to rescue those trapped in the Volvo, described the bus as a huge ball of flame. The driver and the cleaner noticed the flames starting in the rear of the bus. They managed to rescue five other injured passengers. The rest were burnt alive, with their charred skeletal remains making the task of identification almost impossible. While the five survivors were shifted to DRDO Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad, the driver and the cleaner are in police custody and are being questioned on the cause of the accident. The diesel tank of the bus exploded into flames when the vehicle hit the culvert, and within minutes, the fire engulfed the entire bus, giving little chance to the passengers who were asleep to escape, Mahabubnagar SP D Nagendra Kumar said. Some of the passengers were techies working in the IT sector in Bengaluru and were returning to Hyderabad for Diwali vacation. State Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana told reporters that the bus, registered in Anantapur district in the name of Diwaker Roadlines, had been given on lease to Jabbar Travels. The police have detained the manager of Jabbar Travels in Hyderabad and took him to Mahabubnagar for questioning since there were discrepancies in the passenger list. Incidentally, Diwakar Travels is owned by the family members of the veteran Congress legislator JC Diwakar Reddy. Horrific tragedy
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Investment scam: No SC relief yet to Subrata Roy
A Bench comprising Justices KS Radhakrishnan and AK Sikri asked Roy’s senior counsel Aryaman Sundaram to file a petition seeking a review
of the October 28 SC order. Mentioning the matter before the Bench, Sundaram said the order placed on the SC website was different from what was dictated in the open court and as such his client just wanted the order to be corrected without having to go through the process of seeking a review. However, the Bench said there was no alternative to seeking modification through a review petition. According to Roy, the court had dictated that the overseas travel ban would kick in only if the Sahara group failed to submit the
property title deeds within the three-week deadline, but under the uploaded order the restriction was already in place and would go only upon provision of the documents.
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Azam Khan’s personal staff seeks mass transfer
The so-called Muslim face of the Samajwadi party has a knack of remaining in news for all the wrong reasons. After a sting operation accused him of interfering in controlling the Muzaffarnagar riots, now his personal staff has sought mass transfer. In their letter sent to the Uttar Pradesh’s department of secretariat administration, the staff accused the minister of parliamentary affairs of using “unparliamentary” language which had made them lead very tense lives. Under such circumstances, it was not possible any longer work under him, they said. Copies of the letter have also been faxed to the Chief Secretary, principal secretary to the chief minister, secretary secretariat administration among others. Reacting to the accusations secretary of the 'Sachivalaya Sangh' Onkar Nath Tiwari has urged the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to sack Khan. No official version on the development was forthcoming. Meanwhile, in another case of arbitrary behavior on the part of the minister he has taken back an order issued by him giving himself managerial powers in the UP Jal Nigam in violation of rules following a PIL. 'Leading' tense lives
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No one to chair, minority education meet cancelled
New Delhi, October 30 The Tribune has learnt that the primary reason for the postponement of the meeting which was to be held tomorrow is the absence from office of HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju, who continues to skip important ministry meetings to protest the Government's decision to form a separate state of Telangana. Raju had resigned over the issue and the PM is yet to take a call on the resignation. Meanwhile, Raju has stopped attending work and major education policy meetings though he continues to summon the officers and files home. The meeting of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions which Raju was supposed to chair tomorrow at Vigyan Bhavan was to happen after almost 18 months gap, the last meeting having taken place on March 5, 2012. The gathering was to discuss the minority education agenda as enlisted in the Prime Minister's 15-point programme for minorities besides reviewing the report of the National Monitoring Committee on Minority Education. The progress of several scholarship schemes meant for the five central minorities - Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhist and Parsis - leaves much to be desired and the physical targets under schemes - such as hostel facilities for minority girl students etc - are much lower than expected. In the run-up to Lok Sabha polls, the discussion on schemes related to minorities was critical but the postponement of the meeting without intimation of a future date has irked some of the members concerned with the conference. The meeting had to be cancelled because none of the two MoS HRD - Shashi Tharoor and Jitin Prasad - would be in town tomorrow. Raju, who is currently in his LS segment Kakinada, said when contacted, "My absence is not the main reason for postponement of this meeting. We have some schemes related to minorities in the pipeline and wanted to include those in the meeting agenda. Hence the postponement.”
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third front Talk
“The concerns being expressed from this so-called third front platform are genuine. These leaders are ultimately echoing the Congress’ sentiment of secularism. Fascist forces are gaining ground and trying to divide the country and therefore, the concerns against communalism are natural,” said Congress’ national spokesperson Raj Babbar. He dismissed as routine the presence of ally NCP on the same platform as the Left Parties-led third front, explaining NCP’s limited relationship with the Congress. “Our relations with the NCP are restricted to the Centre and Maharashtra. In the other states, the NCP has other alliances. We need not comment on their attendance at the convention of secular forces today. Their party is free to decide,” the party said officially.
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Rahul: Central funds not reaching people in UP
Lucknow, October 30 "I have an old relationship with you. Following interactions with farmers here, the UPA government had decided to waive farmers' loan across the country to the tune of Rs 70,000 crore," he said. But the benefits of the Rs 1500-crore Bundelkhand package had not reached the people, he said. "We are sending money for better roads, education, health services and water, but things have to be changed by the state government at the ground level. That is not happening," he said.
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Sanjay Dutt returns to Pune jail
Mumbai, October 30 Dutt left his home in suburban Mumbai early this morning accompanied by his relatives. His wife Manayata saw him till the gates of the Yerwada jail. Before leaving for Pune Dutt thanked the media for respecting his privacy. "I still have a problem in my legs, but it is better than before," he said.
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Chandigarh-born engineer is Skype vice president
Pall, 46, studied in Chandigarh's St John's school before completing his engineering degree in computer science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, and is working as corporate vice president at Microsoft Corporation. He is heading the information platform and experience team in Microsoft's new applications and services division. According to the Microsoft website, Pall has more than 20 patents (in process or approved) in networking, VoIP and collaboration areas. He also holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Oregon. Pall is on the board of trustees of Ashesi University, Ghana. The first Sikh to reach the top management of Microsoft, Pall joined the company in January 1990 as a software design engineer. He has worked on many breakthrough products in his tenure, starting with LAN Manager Remote Access Service. Pall was part of the Windows NT development team and led design and implementation of core networking technologies. Named one of the "15 Innovators & Influencers Who Will Make A Difference" in 2008 by Information Week, Pall co-authored "Institutional Memory Goes Digital", which was published by Harvard Business Review as part of Breakthrough Ideas for 2009 and subsequently presented at the World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos. At Microsoft, he has led acquisitions and technical partnerships with leading companies. — IANS
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Mars orbiter’s mission life may not exceed 6 months
Sriharikota, October 30 While ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan refused to spell out anything specific on the lifespan of the orbiter, ISRO officials questioned by this correspondent during a visit to Sriharikota today said the maximum lifespan of the probe after it was inserted in Martian orbit would be six months. Radhakrishnan said life of the spacecraft would depend on how much fuel was consumed during different stages of maneuvering of the spacecraft. The fuel consumption could vary, making it difficult to predict the life of the spacecraft at this point of time, Radhakrishnan told mediapersons during an interaction here today. The fact that the orbiter will have a short lifespan, however, should not belittle the project which was being given last minute touches now. The spacecraft, after it is inserted in the earth’s orbit by the PSLV C25 after a 50 minutes extended flight, will on its own travel a distance of 15 crore kilometres over a period of 300 days before it is placed in Mars’s orbit in September 2014. If one adds the travel time with the mission life of the orbiter, it comes to 15 months - decent enough for a job that has been found tricky by all space-faring nations. Starting from 1960s, there have been 57 missions by various countries (including USA and USSR/Russia) to Mars till date. Only 21 of the 57 were successful.
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Kayani discusses LoC tension with Chinese leaders
Security situation in the region and the possible role the two countries could play towards “strategic stability” was also discussed during his meetings with Chinese interlocutors, reports received here said. Officials said New Delhi was closely monitoring the Pakistani General’s four-day visit to China to see if it had any implications for India against the backdrop of frequent ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops along the LoC in the past few months. The sense here is that the Pakistan Army has intensified its activities along the border with the twin objective of pushing militants into the Kashmir valley and thwarting any attempt at resumption of dialogue between the two countries. General Kayani, who still holds the veto power on Pakistan’s relations with India, is set to retire in the last week of November. His visit to China is said to be part of the ongoing high-level consultations between the two countries in view of the rapidly changing situation in the region, particularly the endgame in Afghanistan. General Kayani is understood to have discussed with the Chinese military top brass the recently concluded India-Russia defence exercise, “Gang Neva”, along the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan.
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Asaram’s bail plea turned down Ahmedabad, October 30 The court heard the arguments on Asaram’s regular bail application for the last three days but rejected the contentions of his advocate that the septuagenarian ‘godman,’ currently in the Jodhpur jail in connection with another case of sexual assault on a minor, be granted bail in the Surat case. His advocate BM Gupta later expressed strong resentment over the actions of Asaram’s supporters. He told mediapersons outside the court that he felt that trustees of the Asaram trust were “interested in keeping the spiritual leader in jail.” He said he needed to present some papers and documents before the court in support of his arguments, but the trustees did not co-operate with him.
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