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K.C. Pant tipped as Uttaranchal CM
’84 riots:
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to help hostage swap CHENNAI, Aug 16 — A Designated Court today discharged Venkatesan, a member of a Tamil extremist outfit whose release has been demanded by forest brigand Veerappan, from charges under the TADA Act. Who goofed peace talks?
Soil degrading in Punjab, Haryana NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — The agricultural land in Punjab and Haryana is becoming deficient in micro-nutrients, soil health has degraded, moisture-holding capacities have been drastically affected, according to an ICAR report, the Minister of State for Agriculture, Dr Debendra Pradhan told the Lok Sabha today. BSF gets bomb disposal squads Clarification on flag code RSS flayed for not hoisting flag Villages with 300
persons to have letter boxes Scribes stage
silent protest Basu backs Centre
on Kashmir Delhi police
honours brave
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K.C. Pant tipped as Uttaranchal CM NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — The Bharatiya Janata Party leadership is of the view that a seasoned central leader should be installed as the Chief Minister of the newly formed hill state of Uttaranchal. Considering the complexities of the people from the hills and the plains requiring delicate and tactful handling, the names of Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
K.C. Pant and the Lok Sabha MP from Garhwal, Maj Gen (retd) B.C.
Khanduri, are under active consideration of the BJP leadership. It is argued in the higher echelons of the BJP think tank that the leader of the interim government of Uttaranchal must be a person of stature who infuses confidence and commands the respect of all the sections of the people. As of now the scales tilt in favour of Mr Pant. At the same time there is quiet opposition to Mr Pant from the Sangh Parivar as he only recently joined the BJP without RSS baptism. But his lineage as son of the late Govind Ballabh Pant does change certain prerequisites drastically. Gen
Khanduri, on the other hand is a nephew of the late Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna and prides himself on being a loyal worker of the saffron brigade without being bothered about ministerial trappings. He was handpicked by the BJP leadership to be a member of the party’s fact finding missions to Gujarat and
Kerala. The BJP is sitting pretty in the new state with no opposition worth the name. The party has a brute majority in the proposed assembly of 31 seats which includes 22 assembly and nine legislative council seats. The Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress have a minuscule presence. After the interim government assumes office, the delimitation exercise will be undertaken so that the Uttaranchal assembly strength can be raised to 70 members. Thereafter, fresh elections will he held for the enlarged assembly. BJP sources said among the 23 legislators hailing from Uttaranchal, the options narrow down to Ramesh Pokhriyal
“Nishank”, who is the Cabinet Minister for Culture and Religious Affairs in the Ram Prakash Gupta coalition government in Uttar Pradesh and Nityanand Swami, a member of the Legislative Council. Mr Pokhriyal had earlier held the portfolio of Hill Development. Mr
Pokhriyal, who is in his early 40s, and a third time MLA from Karnprayag might be edged out in the leadership stakes because of his proximity to former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh who had to make an ignominous exit from the BJP for challenging the leadership of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. The BJP leadership believes that with Hardwar and Udham Singh Nagar being included in Uttaranchal, the party has to tread carefully keeping in mind the susceptibilities and apprehensions of the people in these two areas. Despite staunch opposition to Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar being brought within the ambit of Uttaranchal state, the Vajpayee government went ahead with the inclusions. The majority Sikh population of Udham Singh Nagar has now urged the NDA leadership that six contiguous districts be included in Uttaranchal to protect their economic interests. That is unlikely to happen though some command areas of sugarcane mill in adjoining districts might form part of Uttaranchal. Even though the Uttaranchal leadership issue will be decided by Mr Vajpayee, Union Home Minister L. K. Advani and Union Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, the accent is on having a Chief Minister from the Garhwal region to strike a balance vis-a-vis the
Kumaonis. The Kumaon region has been accommodated in the Union Cabinet — as both Mr Joshi and his Minister of State nominee Bachi Singh Rawat are from
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’84 riots:
Dhindsa writes to Advani NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — The Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports and Mines and leader of the SAD, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, has urged the Union Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, to take steps for the speedy settlement of all “genuine difficulties” of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. “You will appreciate the need for the early settlement of all genuine difficulties of riots victims, in view of the unspeakable misery through which these people have passed,” Mr Dhindsa said in his letter to Mr Advani, Home Ministry sources said today. “Till sometime back we could blame the Congress for being unresponsive to the demands of the riot victims but now our own government being in power at the Centre it will be very difficult for all of us to explain non-implementation of various promises/court orders made from time to time,” he said. The SAD leader, who enclosed along with his letter a three-page memorandum submitted to him by Mr Atma Singh Lubana, executive member of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee listing the demands of riots victims, said: “I will request you to please look into the demands raised in the memorandum and direct the authorities concerned to take a compassionate view on each one of these.” Mr Lubana in his memorandum on behalf of the victims made a 10-point charter of demand and sought an early settlement. The demands included enhancement of death compensation, allotment of flats free of cost to families of those killed in the riots, compensation for loss of property, enhancement of old age and widow pensions from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000, employment to widows and next to kin of the deceased, regularisation of jobs of widows working in the Delhi State Civil Supply Corporation on ad hoc basis and broad terms of reference of the newly constituted Nanavati Commission to empower the commission not only to investigate the causes but also to recommend punishment to those found guilty. |
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Bill on chemical arms passed NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — Parliament today passed a Bill seeking to ban production and use of chemical weapons even as the government rejected the opposition charge that the legislation had been brought forward to coincide with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s next month visit to the USA. “It is wrong to infer that the passage of the Bill is taking place on the eve of the Prime Minister’s visit to the USA. The Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha only in the current session and, therefore, it had to be brought to the Lok Sabha now,” Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Suresh Prabhu said in his reply after a discussion on the Chemical Weapons Convention Bill, 2000 in the Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress today urged the government to reactivate the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan on disarmament and make the millennium summit in New York the summit of India. Initiating a debate on the Bill on prohibition of development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their destruction in the Lok Sabha, a former diplomat and Congress member, Mr Mani Shanker Aiyar, said there were rumours that India was teetering on the brink of signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty during the forthcoming visit of the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, to the USA. He said there was no need to rush with the signing of the CTBT as the USA would not do it until a new President was elected in that country. Mr Aiyar said the Bill provided the draft for the CTBT and India should capitalise on it to once again emerge as the champion of disarmament in the world. He said eversince India conducted the Pokhran blasts, the world did not take the country seriously on matters of disarmament. He said the government in a recent answer to a question in Parliament had acknowledged that it was aware of the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan on disarmament and this was a good sign. |
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Court clears rebel to help hostage swap CHENNAI, Aug 16 (PTI) — A Designated Court today discharged Venkatesan, a member of a Tamil extremist outfit whose release has been demanded by forest brigand Veerappan, from charges under the TADA Act. Designated Judge M Chinnapandi allowed a petition from the Public Prosecutor, who had cited a government order passed on August 14 last ‘in public interest’ to drop TADA charges against Venkatesan. Clarifying the state’s position following a query by the court, the prosecutor filed a memo saying the accused could be proceeded against under provisions of law other than TADA. The government has already revoked detention orders under the National Security Act against four others whose release has been sought by Veerappan as a condition for the freedom of Kannada star Rajkumar and three others he is holding hostage. The government’s action in dropping charges under TADA makes it easier for the accused to seek regular bail. The TADA cases pertain to offences that took place in 1993 in places like Kullanchavadi, Mannargudi and Kodavasal, and he is said to be facing seven or eight cases. Different courts may have to be approached for bail, lawyers say. Meanwhile, the Madras High Court today dismissed as infructuous, three writ petitions challenging the detention of Sathyamurthy, Muthukumar and Manikandan under
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Who goofed peace talks? NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — The failure of talks with the Kashmiri militant outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen has started a debate here in the Capital over the handling of the sensitive matter and allegations and counter-allegations are flying as to who goofed. Not only is there a murmer within the Home Ministry over the manner in which the ministry officials themselves handled the response to the ceasefire offer, but there is again a talk of lack of coordination between the North Block and the South Block on sensitive matters concerning the country. Officials in the Home Ministry point out that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), in an attempt to corner glory, made wrong moves and could not handle the peace talks. They point out that the talks were doomed from the very beginning as the government it seemed was overenthusiastic about the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen offer. While initially trying to project that it was having cautious approach towards the offer and was not wanting to sideline any party, the government suddenly went into the top gear and went almost overboard to start the peace process. There is a feeling that the government was probably trying to go out of the way to show to the world that it was prepared to hold talks with anyone. But in the process it made too many things public, which actually should have been settled behind the curtains. There have been so many peace talks around the world, including the West Bank peace talks and the Oslo peace talks, but not much has been known about them. The details came out only when the talks were in the final stages. But in this instance details of the talks were out even before they had started. This, they point out, is not the way sensitive matters are handled. Even in appointing the Home Secretary, Mr Kamal Pande and Special Secretary in the ministry, Mr M.B. Kaushal as government representatives for the talks there was haste. Officials say that the initial round of talks should not have been made public at all and that they should have also been handled by lower functionaries in the ministry rather than officials of such a stature. The Home Secretary and the Special Secretary could have been involved at a time when the talks would have progressed to some extent and there was a hope of a breakthrough. Critics say that even the two officials of the ministry sought to seek too much publicity. Besides the ministry officials in Delhi also sought to leak out too many details of the talks rather than keeping a lid on them. Reports regarding differences between Syed Salahuddin and Abdul Majid Dar were leaked to the media when efforts should have been to secure the support of the latter to ensure that even if the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen leaders in Islamabed backtracked, the government still had something to proceed on. There has also been criticism of the fact that there was no coordination between the PMO and the Home Ministry. The PMO sought to show too much eagerness and undue haste in taking the credit. The statement by the PMO after the talks had begun that the dialogue would be within the “constitutional parameters” was one such example of the lack of coordination. Besides the fact that the Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, was not part of the group of leaders taken to Pahalgam by the Prime Minister reflected that all was not too well between the PMO and the Home Ministry. The initiative for the trip to Pahalgam had incidentally been taken by the PMO. The lack of coordination between the PMO and the Home Ministry has been evident in the past also — the Kandahar hijacking being one such incident — but the damage done on this occasion has been far worse than in the past, officials said. |
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BKU up in arms over Hardwar inclusion HARDWAR, Aug 16 — The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) led by Mr Mahender Singh Tikait has taken up cudgels against the inclusion of both Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar in Uttaranchal. The BKU at a two-day panchayat which concluded here yesterday, has made its intentions clear that it would not allow the “inclusion of Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar in Uttaranchal at any cost”. The BKU supremo even threatened the Union Government that farmers of both western Uttar Pradesh and Udham Singh Nagar would not “desist” from taking up arms against its “arbitrary” decision to include the two districts in Uttaranchal. The situation in Hardwar is tense. The Union Home Minister Mr Lal Krishan Advani, had to skip all his programmes in Hardwar last evening and had to go straight from Rishikesh to Delhi under a heavy security escort because of the flagrant situation in Hardwar. Only two days ago, BKU members had held the Labour Minister of Uttar Pradesh captive for two hours while another minister quietly escaped the town and took shelter in a rest house, 10 km from here. Official sources told TNS today on the telephone that the delegates of the BKU had forcibly occupied the Dam Kothi-2 where the Labour Minister was staying and broke its window panes and furniture. The BKU put its flag on the kothi to show its control over the government rest house. It was with great difficulty that members of the Uttar Pradesh Armed Constabulary and other forces could get the kothi vacated. The BKU is not alone in its agitation against the merger of Hardwar and Udham Singh Nagar. The Samajwadi Chatra Sabha at a demonstration yesterday in Roorkee burnt the effigy of the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee. The Western Uttar Pradesh Mukti Morcha had also raised a banner of revolt against the merger. The president of the Gurukul Kangri Chatra Sangh at a meeting yesterday maintained that Hardwar was an inseparable part of western Uttar Pradesh. It said the Union Government had played with the sentiments of the people of both Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar with its decision. Sadhus in Hardwar under the banner of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad and the Khat Darshan Sadhu Samaj are already up in arms against the Union Government’s decision. It is learnt that on September 5, a rally is proposed to be held in Saharanpur for the constitution of a separate state of western Uttar Pradesh and the exclusion of both Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar from Uttaranchal. The Samajwadi Party has already started mobilising public opinion against the merger and its members are already holding a dharna in front of the District Magistrate’s office in Hardwar for the past fortnight under the leadership of Mr Ambrish Kumar, MLA. The women wing of the Samajwadi Party has also declared that it would participate in the “Hardwar bachao” agitation. The BKU has decided to convene another meeting of its Sangharsh Samiti in Hardwar on August 19 to chalk its future course of action. On the other hand, Mr Tikait has declared that the National Working Committee of the BKU would hold a meeting in Hardwar on August 19 and it would be attended by all members of Parliament and MLAs from western Uttar Pradesh. He has asked the farmers that if the MLAs and MPs fail to attend the proposed meeting, they should be boycotted in their respective constituencies. Mr Tikait declared that the union would announce the date of “chakka jam” in western Uttar Pradesh on that day. The BKU supremo stated that it was unfortunate that the BJP government had shied away from talking to the people of Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar before announcing its decision of the merger. He accused the Union government of diverting the attention of the people from the problems confronting them by deciding the controversial merger. Mr Tikait said the government should first hold an opinion poll in the area to know the sentiments of the people. In fact, the situation in Hardwar is deteriorating with every passing day while more and more social and religious organisations are coming forward to oppose the decision. |
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AIR begins digital broadcasts NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — All India Radio started digital broadcasting through satellite from the morning of Independence Day, yesterday. This has helped ensure clear reception in East Africa, Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries. The Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Mr Arun Jaitley, informed the Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament attached to his ministry that letters of intent for operating private FM channels had been issued to 26 companies. He said Doordarshan had commissioned 18 projects during July-August, 2000 and redeployment of staff in DD/AIR had helped in increasing the transmission time from six hours a day to 18 hours a day in most of the around 300 transmitters. In-house production of programmes in regional stations of DD/AIR had also increased between two to four hours daily, he said. Mr Jaitley solicited members suggestions on the Report of Review Committee on Working of Prasar Bharati, particularly regarding the autonomy and mandate of Prasar Bharati as a public broadcasting organisation. Participating in the discussion, Mr H.R. Mollah cautioned that private monopolies, worse than government monopoly, may develop and swallow the organisation. He laid stress on more in-house programme production and representation to employees on the Board. Mr Balkavi Bairagi said the market alone should not be the guiding criteria for the public broadcaster. Dr C. Narayana Reddy wanted steps to develop the human resources in the organisation. The meeting was attended by Mr Hannan Mollah, E.M. Sudarsana Natcfhiappan, Pawan Kumar Bansal and Amir Khan from Lok Sabha and Mr Kartar Singh Duggal, Balkavi Bairagi, Gandhi Azad and Dr C. Narayana Reddy from the Rajya Sabha. |
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Soil degrading in Punjab, Haryana NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — The agricultural land in Punjab and Haryana is becoming deficient in micro-nutrients, soil health has degraded, moisture-holding capacities have been drastically affected, according to an ICAR report, the Minister of State for Agriculture, Dr Debendra Pradhan told the Lok Sabha today. Replying to a question by Dr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, he said the energy balance had not been disturbed and the requirement of energy for agricultural operations was going up. But, use of more inputs had not resulted in decline in productivity barring a few exceptions, he said. The minister informed that new methods of commercial energy and proper supplementation and substitution with new and renewable resources of energy were being developed to reduce dependence on commercial energies. He said to rectify imbalance of energy, integrated use of farmyard manure, compost, green manures and bio-fertilisers and inclusion of legumes in crop rotation was being advocated to restore soil micro-nutrient status, soil health and moisture retention capacity. For the small and medium farmers, the minister said on-farm research programmes were being taken up in mission mode after ensuring greater participation of the farming community with low cost technology and locally available resources. Science centre in Chandigarh: There is a need to develop a modern science centre and a planetarium in Chandigarh. In a special mention in the Lok Sabha, the MP from Chandigarh, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, said the performance of city schools was among the best in the country. He said with rapid developments in science and technology, particularly information technology and space, Chandigarh needed to be given due attention by the Centre to provide the students latest knowledge about the fast moving world. He urged the Centre to take up projects on modern science centre and planetarium on priority. Backward classes: The National Backward Classes Commission Act, 1993, does not extend to Jammu and Kashmir, the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Ms Maneka Gandhi told the Lok Sabha today. Replying to a question by Mr Vishnu Datt Sharma about the details of reservation provided to the Other Backward Classes in Jammu and Kashmir during the past three years, the minister said the state government had, however, set up its own State Backward Classes Commission. The state government had provided reservation to socially and educationally backward classes (other than SCs and STs). This included 2 per cent for weak and underprivileged classes, 3 per cent for residents of backward areas adjoining the Actual Line of Control and 20 per cent for residents of the backward areas. Details of reservation to OBCs, including the number of posts lying vacant and the number of posts likely to be filled up were maintained by the state government, she said. No mismanagement: There is no mismanagement prevailing in the District Telecom Office, Faridabad, the Minister of State for Communications, Mr Tapan Sikdar, told the Lok Sabha today. He said proper accounting was being done in regard to telephone bills paid at various post offices. However, in some stray cases some telephones got disconnected inadvertently if there was delay in receiving the payment particulars from post offices. |
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BSF gets bomb disposal squads NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — The Union Home Secretary, Mr Kamal Pande, today stressed the need for innovative training for BSF personnel and constant upgradation of training equipment to face the new challenges from within and outside. “Training has to be constantly reviewed, methodologies updated with an innovative mind and training equipment and aids constantly updated to keep pace with the situation on the ground,” Mr Pande said inaugurating the 29th Annual Training Conference of the BSF here. Underlining the importance of refining operational drills and procedures of platoons, companies and battalions regularly so that the given tasks were accomplished in a professional manner, the Union Home Secretary advised officers and men trained in counter-insurgency operations to train other BSF personnel. Earlier, the BSF Director-General, Mr E.N. Rammohan, tried to impress upon the Home Secretary about the urgent need for “uncommitted reserve” for the force which would facilitate concentration of battalions relieved from commitments in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere to peace time locations for rest and training before their deployment on international border. Mr Rammohan also requested the Centre for additional staff for training institutions under the BSF and said though the number of battalions had gone up from 35 to 170, the authorised staff working in these institutions had remained the same. The Director-General said training on bomb disposal had been introduced for BSF personnel and bomb disposal squads had been created initially at Baramullah and Jammu. Such bomb disposal squads would be created at all other frontiers, he said. |
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Clarification on flag code NEW DELHI, Aug 16 (UNI) — There is a clear proviso in the flag code permitting putting flower petals inside the national Tricolour before it is unfurled on special occasions like Republic Day and Independence Day, the Defence Ministry said today.
Denying that there had been any insult to the Tricolour when Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee unfurled it from the ramparts of the Red Fort yesterday as alleged by Petroleum Minister Ram Naik yesterday, the ministry said the proviso permitting the use of petals had been added to Section 5.9 on January 24, 1997. The ministry also said in a press note that the Indian Meteorological Department had been attaching cotton buntings, having three stripes of green, white and saffron to a large white balloon for several years for sending up on national days, but these did not carry the Ashok Chakra in the centre. Furthermore, while releasing the buntings, the stripes were kept vertical. Small gas balloons of green, white and saffron colour were also released. |
RSS flayed for not hoisting flag NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — The RSS today came under attack in the Lok Sabha with the Opposition alleging that the organisation had no respect for the national flag and that it never hoisted it on its headquarters at Nagpur. Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Pramod Mahajan, however, came to the rescue of the organisation and claimed that he had been associated with the organisation since his childhood and all RSS offices hoisted the Tricolour on Republic Day and Independence Day. The issue was raised by Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh member, Mr Prakash Ambedkar during zero hour. He said an all party meeting in 1998 at Nagpur had decided that its workers would go to the RSS headquarters and hoist the flag if the organisation failed to do so. Mr Mahajan said he would take Mr Ambedkar to the RSS headquarters on Republic Day next year and allow him to unfurl the Tricolour.
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Villages with 300
persons to have letter boxes NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — All villages with a population of 300 or more will have a letter box, the Communications Minister, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, said here today. He said in order to increase the availability of stamps and stationery in the rural areas, the Panchayat Sanchar Sewa Kendra scheme was now being made more attractive by increasing the fixed allowance permissible to scheme agents from Rs 300 to Rs 600 per month. The present facility of commission permissible to agents on the sale of stamps, stationery, registered articles, sale of insurance policies etc. would also continue. Addressing the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to his ministry, Mr Paswan said all gram panchayat villages where opening of branch post office was justified on distance and population norms should be given immediate preference for provision of the scheme.  |
Scribes stage
silent protest CALCUTTA, Aug 16 — Reporters, photographers and other media personnel took out a silent protest march today against attacks by workers and supporters of CPM. The processionists carried placards, wore black badges and went round the streets in silence. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the Governor, Mr Viren J. Shah, demanding immediate arrest of the ‘guilty persons’. Last week, some 15 newsmen, covering Writers Buildings, the state government’s headquarter, were beaten up by some employees of the CPM-controlled co-ordination committee inside the protected area. Ten journalists were admitted to hospital. On Saturday, in another incident, mediamen were severely assaulted while covering the municipal poll of Uttarpara, Hooghly district. Both Chief Minister, Mr Jyoti Basu and the state Information Minister, Mr Buddhadev Bhattacharyya condemned the incidents and ordered an official inquiry. The Railway Minister, Ms Mamta Banerjee, the WBPCC(I) president, Mr Ghani Khan Chowdhury and the BJP president, Mr Asim Ghosh strongly criticised the attacks and demanded immediate arrest of the persons responsible. Mr Anil Biswas, a CPM politburo member, also criticised the attack on journalists but justified the action by stating that a large section of party workers and supporters were aggrieved by repeated publication of false, motivated and
malicious news items. He advised journalists to be true to their profession.
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Basu backs Centre
on Kashmir CALCUTTA, Aug 16 — Mr Jyoti Basu has sided with the Vajpayee Government on the Kashmir problem. Talking to reporters, the veteran Marxist Chief Minister said there could not be any compromise on the Kashmir issue that hampers the country’s interest. “Kashmir is an integral part of India and we all stand united on the issue in the interest of the country,” Mr Basu said, adding that the USA had no business to meddle in the Kashmir problem. He said the cross-border terrorism problem in Kashmir should be settled bilaterally by India and Pakistan themselves and no party should have any role in this matter. The CPM politburo has so far not made any statement in support of the Vajpayee Government on the Kashmir issue and in that respect Mr Basu’s public comment bears a special significance. But it is to be seen if the politburo endorses his statement on Kashmir. Mr Basu yesterday took the salute at the Independence Day parade by the police and other para-military forces in the city. He also for the first time hoisted the national flag at Writers Buildings during his 23 years of Chief Ministership in the company of the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadev Bhattacharyya.
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Delhi police
honours brave NEW DELHI, Aug 16 — The Delhi police felicitated Jai Indar Singh Shergill, son of Lt-Gen M.S. Shergill for bravery. He was awarded a shield and some cash by the Commissioner of the Delhi police, Mr Ajai Raj Sharma, in a function “Felicitation of brave public and policemen” organised by the police today. Mr Indar Shergill, a top Indian polo player who has lineage of defence officers, caught two armed robbers who barged into the house of his friend, Ajai Sharma in Panchsheel Park at 1.30 p.m. on August 4. |
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