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BJP acts tough with JMM ISRO: Insat
not designed for DTH President decorates 50 Army personnel
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Narendra Modi’s wings clipped Lankan Navy Chief to visit India Dilip Kumar, CM launch
anti-polio drive Myanmar minister meets Fernandes Jogi govt faces instability 3 killed in
inter-gang clash India’s 14th N-plant
attains criticality Do not lie to people,
Basu tells politicians TN Cong men ignore Prasada Own a cow, forget power bill
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BJP acts tough with JMM NEW DELHI, Nov 3— Even as Jharkhad Mukti Morcha (JMM) Chief Shibu Soren waited in vain the whole day here to hear something from his NDA partners, the BJP high command has finally decided to keep the Chief Ministership of the newly created state of Jharkhand under wraps. While Mr Soren’s supporters, before he left for Delhi from Patna yesterday, had suggested that their leader was going to meet the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, official sources said that there was no meeting scheduled between the two. In fact, the Finance Minister,Mr Yashwant Sinha,and the senior BJP leader, Mr Kailashpati Mishra, have been asked to convey to Mr Soren that the BJP would not only have its own Chief Minister in a NDA dispensation in Jharkhand,which comes into existence on November 15, but would also not give the post of Deputy Chief Minister to the JMM, sources said. A JMM spokesman, Mr Mukti Nath Upadhyay,told The Tribune that the JMM was keeping all its options open but the ball was in the NDA’s court. Explaining,Mr Upadhyay said ,“We were promised the Chief Ministership by the Defence Minister and the Samata Party leader, Mr George Fernandes, when the JMM extended support to Mr Nitesh Kumar for the Bihar Chief Minister’s post”. “We are really suprised that Mr Fernandes, after giving the promise, is now maintaining a studied silence over the entire issue”, the JMM spokesman said ,adding that the NDA had to decide the matter but no meeting of the NDA was being convened. , Mr Upadhyay said that the JMM supremo had not met any leader from the BJP or the Finance Minister. Meanwhile, the BJP Secretary, Mr Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who has been made in charge of Jharkhand, said that it would be ''our effort to keep the JMM in the government in Jharkhand''. “We will try to sort out problems there”, he said. However, sources in the BJP and the NDA stressed that the JMM could be part of the Jharkhand government only on their terms. The BJP is of the view that its main battle in the region is with the Congress and the JMM must remain out of the government to occupy the opposiiton space. Once part of the government, the JMM would be discredited and the oppositon space would be occupied by the Congress, the BJP leadership thinks. The BJP high command has decided to have either Mr Babu Lal Marandi or Mr Karia Munda as the Jharkhand Chief Minister, the former having a slight edge over the latter, sources said. Since there is enough time, the name would be announced close to November 15, they added.
Soren hints at deserting NDA PATNA, Nov 3 — “Now I am with NDA but tomorrow I may join hands with Laloo and others to ensure our rule in Jharkhand”, the JMM chief Shibu Soren said at Patna on Wednesday night. He, along with 11 legislators, arrived here for a meeting of senior party leaders to chalk out JMM’s future course of action. The meeting continued late in the night. It is believed the JMM has decided to wait till Mr George Fernandes, the NDA coordination committee head and PM’s troubleshooter, renders the final answer of the NDA to the JMM over the Chief Ministership. He has been entrusted with the ‘truce-task’ by the PM. The choice of the venue of the JMM meet may enthuse the non-NDA Opposition, but not much importance is being assigned to Mr Soren’s uttering in the eleventh hour of the creation of the new state. As the BJP has already announced Mr Babu Lal Marandi as its chief ministerial candidate and is in the celebration mode, Mr Soren’s talks of alternative secular government in Jharkhand is deemed as just a last ditch pressure tactics. Political ground realities do not augur well for an alternative secular front. Even minus the JMM’s 12 MLAs, the NDA is only one short of the magic figure of 42 in the 82-member Jharkhand House. Flocking together of the JMM, the Congress, the RJD, the splintered Left parties and other smaller groups in a short time is well nigh impossible. Both the RJD and Congress are facing troubles within their parties. However,
a Laloo-Soren meet on cards will naturally psychologically help both of them. Mr
Soren will get a political leverage vis-à-vis the NDA and Mr Yadav will throw
the possibility in the political air that the NDA’s government will be a weak
one and any time an alternative secular front with the help of the JMM will
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ISRO: Insat
not designed for DTH HYDERABAD, Nov 3 (PTI) —Although the government has opened up the Direct-to-Home
(DTH) television market, India’s own Insat satellites cannot be used to provide this service, according to the Indian Space Research Organization
(ISRO) in Bangalore. “The currently available transponders on
Insat satellites are not at all designed for DTH service because of the radiated power being low, only about 45 dbw,” an
ISRO official told PTI over telephone. He said in a broadcast service like
DTH the size and cost of receiver equipment should be small “which means that the satellite radiated power should be much higher that what Insat satellites can offer”. According to the official, there are a few foreign satellites, which provide a radiated power level of 50-52 dbw over India in the Ku-band, and these can be used to begin with, even though this power level “is not sufficient for a good
DTH”. Asked whether ISRO was planning to launch satellites with
DTH capability, he said that “we can build satellites of DTH class provided we are asked to do so”.
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President decorates 50 Army personnel NEW DELHI, Nov 3—In a moving gesture, the President,Mr K. R.Narayanan,today departed from tradition and stepped down from the rostrum of the Ashoka Hall to walk up to wheelchair-borne Subedar Mohan Singh Rawat to decorate him with Shaurya Chakra at an impressive investiture ceremony here at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. In all ,50 armed forces personnel were honoured for their acts of outstanding courage at the ceremony, which saw other poignant moments with the father of one of the awardees raising the slogan ,“Bharat Mata ki Jai” , as his daughter-in-law received Vir Chakra. Amid thunderous applause, the President came down from the special stage to pin the medal on the JCO as the invitees rose to acknowledge the extraordinary feat of Mohan Singh Rawat ,who, despite being hit by five bullets, killed three militants in the Sonth area of Jammu and Kashmir in a fierce gun battle. Mohan Singh Rawat,however,has hard days ahead as the doctors have told him that due to the injuries he received during the encounter both his legs would have to be amputated. Twelve Param Vishisht Seva Medals, two Kirti Chakras, two bar to Ati Vishisht Seva Medals, 24 Ati Vishisht Seva Medals, nine Vir Chakras and 10 Shaurya Chakras were given for acts of valour during Operation Vijay, daredevil feats against militants in Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East and for distinguished service of the highest order. Seven medals, one Kirti Chakra, and three Vir and Shaurya Chakras were awarded posthumously.The father of late Naik Kaushal Yadav of 9 Para-Commandoes, created a stir when he rose up to shout “Bharat Mata ki Jai” as his daughter-in-law recieved Vir Chakra and his wife sat next to him unable to control her tears. Kaushal Yadav was decorated for his extraordinary charge to the 5100 -metre-high Zulu Top during Operation Vijay. Later, his father said he raised the slogan to salute Kaushal’s feat for the nation. Among the Shaurya Chakra recipients, awarded for gallantry other than in the battlefield, was a naval commando, Lt Deepak Pathania of the newly raised special force called Marcos. Pathania was strangely not decorated for a feat on the high seas, but for leading a commando assault group on a mercernary hideout in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, where he gunned down three militants in an encounter. Subahra Raghavan, wife of late Lt Col Natraj Vijay Raghavan, the highest ranking officer to be killed in anti-militancy operation in Jammu and Kashmir last year, received a thunderous applause when she walked up to receive her husband’s Shaurya Chakra. Among the 12 PVSM winners were Lt-Gen Yuvraj Kumar Mehta and Lt-Gen Surinder Bir Singh Kochar, Commandants,respectively, of the Army’s two prestigious cradles—the IMA and NDA.
Probe sought against Bhagat NEW DELHI, Nov 3 (PTI) — A senior law officer of the central government has recommended fresh probe into a closed 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat saying the police was predetermined to absolve him. “I find that in this case there are strong reasons warranting order for further investigation as the case has been probed irresponsibly,” Additional Solicitor-General (ASG), Mr K.K. Sud, said in his opinion to Delhi Lt-Governor Vijai Kapoor. The Lt-Governor had sought legal opinion from the ASG following a representation by the “84 Riots Carnage Justice Committee”, a body of eminent persons fighting for justice to the riots victims. The committee had given the representation after Bhagat was exonerated in a murder case relating to the riots in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi after the police said there was no evidence against him. “A probe into the investigation of the case leaves me in no doubt that whole material was collected (by the police) with predetermination to absolve prime accused H.K.L. Bhagat”, Mr Sud said. This opinion was strengthened with the fact that evidence of complainant Harminder Kaur, whose husband was killed, was not “considered sufficient by the Magistrate for taking action against Bhagat,” he said. Metropolitan Magistrate J.P. Narain, while accepting the police report giving clean chit to Bhagat, had cleared him of the allegations on September 11. Recommending a fresh probe into the case, the ASG said the matter should be expedited so that supplementary chargesheet was filed and the trial does not get unnecessarily delayed. TNS adds: Meanwhile, the Sikh Rorum has demanded that the Nanavati Commission should summon the then Home Minister and senior police and intelligence officials to know about “conspiracy angle” in the riots. Speaking at a public meeting to pay homage to the people killed in the riots, speakers including Mr R.S. Narula and Mr K.R. Malkani, Mr H.S. Phoolka and Lt-Gen J.S. Aurora also called for setting up special courts to deal with cases in the riots. Narendra Modi’s wings clipped NEW DELHI, Nov 3 — Bharatiya Janata Party President Bangaru Laxman today finally allocated work to his office-bearers who had been waiting for it since September 11. Improving upon the till-now prevailing system of job work for his team members, he has chosen to allocate small areas for effective party’s work with the former Delhi unit BJP President, Mr O.P. Kohli, being made in charge of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. While the former Rajasthan unit President, Mr Ram Das Agarwal, has been given Haryana and Chandigarh, the General Secretary, Mr Narendra Modi, who held Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir along with Himachal Pradesh under his belt in former party President Kushabhau Thakre’s regime, is left with only Himachal now. While Mr Modi also shares the responsibility of organisation along with the senior Vice-Presidents, Mr K. Jana Krishnamurthy, and Mr Pyarelal Khandelwal, sources said that Mr Laxman decided to adopt the new system of job work for his colleagues as the party high command had taken a grim view of his handling of states. The senior party leader, Mr Vijay Kumar Malhotra has retained Delhi and the leader from Bihar, Mr Kailashpati Mishra also continues to be in charge of Bihar in Mr Laxman’s team. The former Delhi Chief Ministers, Mr Madan Lal Khurana and Mr Sahib Singh Verma have been given West Bengal-Sikkam and Rajasthan, respectively. An interesting side of Mr Laxman’s team is the return of Mr Pyarelal Khandelwal to important position. Not only that Mr Khandelwal, who had been literally banished to woods in Mr Thakre’s regime, has not only been given the organisation work but has also been made in charge of Uttar Pradesh. Mr Jana Krishnamurthy, who was earlier expected to be the party President, is the only one who has emerged tall in the work allocation. He has not only been given Gujarat and Maharashtra along with organisation but has also been made in charge of headquarters. He is also the chief spokesman of the party. Mr Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will take care of the politically sensitive state of Jharkhand while Mrs Maya Singh takes over the charge of Chhatisgarh affairs. The former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Kailash Joshi, will oversee the third newly created state of Uttaranchal. Madhya Pradesh is the only state which has no specific person nominated to be in charge. The three office-bearers taking care of organisational matters will directly oversee the party affairs. The party Vice-President, Mr S.P. Gautam, will look after Goa while former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Gopinath Munde, will look after Karnataka party matters. The following is the lishe office-bearers and their responsibilities. Mr Sunil Shastri (Assam), Mr Padmanabha Acharya (Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland), Mr Ved Prakash Goyal (Kerala, Lakshadweep), Mr Ramdas Aggarwal (Haryana and Chandigarh), Mr Devdas (Bapu) Apte (Orissa), Mr V. Ramarao (Tamil Nadu), Mr K.N. Lakshmanan (Andaman Nicobar and Pondicherry), Mr Kabindra Purakayastha (Tripura) and Ashwini Kumar (Andhra Pradesh).
Lankan Navy Chief to visit India NEW DELHI, Nov 3 — Cooperation to combat gun-running on the high seas of the Bay of Bengal would be high on the agenda when the Sri Lankan Naval Chief Vice-Admiral Cecil Tissera arrives here on November 5 on a four-day visit. Heading a high-powered naval delegation, Admiral Tissera will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Admiral Sushil Kumar. He will also meet Vice-Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi and Vice-Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Vinod Patney. The highlight of Vice-Admiral Tissera’s visit will be a briefing he will hold for top naval brass at the naval war-room. He is likely to brief Indian commanders on intelligence inputs about sea-routes used by the LTTE for arms-running. |
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Dilip Kumar, CM launch
anti-polio drive
NEW DELHI, Nov 3 (UNI) — Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and renowned actor and MP Dilip Kumar launched the second phase of the pulse polio immunisation programme by administering pulse polio drops to several children in the city today. Later addressing a joint press conference, Ms Dikshit and Delhi Health Minister A.K. Walia said 8000 polio kendras had been set up in all hospitals, dispensaries, schools, community centres and private institutions across the city for the programme being organised here on November 5. The Chief Minister appealed to all Delhiites and parents who have children of up to five years of age to participate in the programme and get their children immunised at their nearest polio centre. Special kendras have also been set up at all the entry points of Delhi such as airports, railway stations, inter-state bus terminals and national highways. Ms Dikshit said these polio kendras would be manned by at least 26,000 doctors, nurses, para-medical and other staff. At least 750 vehicles had been deployed to carry vaccines to the kendras while wireless sets had been provided at all regional vaccine stores and 12 zonal headquarters of the MCD for meeting any additional needs. Myanmar minister meets Fernandes NEW
DELHI, Nov 3 (UNI) — Myanmar Home Minister Col Tin Hlaing today met External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh and Defence Minister George Fernandes and discussed measures to further strengthen institutional mechanism to check cross-border insurgency, gun-running and terrorism. Col Hlaing who is here on a nine-day visit to India for discussions with Indian leaders on ensuring peace and tranquility in the border areas, also appreciated cooperation between the two countries in the security arena. During the talks the two sides reviewed bilateral economic relations and felt the need to expand these by creating infrastructure to facilitate more border trade. The visit comes close on the heels of the recent incident in which Myanmar Army personnel shot dead three jawans of Assam Rifles in Nagaland mistaking them for nscn rebels. Myanmar army later apologised for the incident. The two sides expressed satisfaction over smooth functioning of institutional machanism for curbing insurgency in the two countries. It was felt that field level and sectoral contacts were satisfactory. Col Tin Hlaing will meet Home Minister L.K. Advani tomorrow. He is accompanied by Mr Aung Thein, Director General, General Administration Department, and Lt Col Kham Aung, Director (International Relations) Law Enforcement Department. He will visit the Narcotics Training Centre, Faridabad, nsg Training Centre, Manesar, Central Forensic Science Laboratory (cfsl) and the National Police Academy at Hyderabad and the Indian Police Research Organisation at Banagalore. He will also go to Calcutta, Agra and Bodh
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Jogi govt faces instability BHOPAL, Nov 3 — The first few months will be crucial for the Congress government of Chhattisgarh that came into existence on November 1. The manner in which the AICC spokesman, Mr Ajit Jogi, was declared elected leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) and the subsequent events at Raipur on October 21 forebode a politically unstable period ahead. The first surprise came on October 30 when the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Digvijay Singh, announced that he would propose Mr Jogi’s name for the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. Never before has an important party functionary pre-empted the election of the Legislature Party leader by making public his choice. Till 36 hours earlier, Mr Digvijay Singh had been saying that the election of their leader was the job of the Chhattisgarh Congress MLAs and that he had no role to play in the process. The same assurance he had repeatedly given to senior party leaders like Mr Vidya Charan Shukla whenever they had met him. The AICC observers, Ms Prabha Rau and Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, made an elaborate show of assessing the choice of the 48 Congress MLAs concluded that Mr Jogi was the unanimous choice of all. No one was convinced and this jaded the credibility of not only the two AICC emissaries but also of Mr Jogi who has to deal with those MLAs. Their bluff was called when only 41 party MLAs reached the meeting convened to formally elect Mr Jogi as CLP leader. Seven Vidya Charan supporters abstained in protest. Later on, as Mr Digvijay Singh and the two AICC observers went to Mr Vidya Charan Shukla’s farmhouse to mollify him, Mr Singh and Mr Azad were beaten up by Mr Shukla’s supporters for their role in the election of Mr Jogi. Apparently, the Shukla supporters are not in a mood to accept the diktat of the party high command. Reports from Raipur indicate that Mr Shukla is brooding and contemplating the next course of action. It has been found that the anti-defection law will not apply to the MLAs defecting at this stage because the relevant Act has to be adopted by the Assembly concerned to make it effective in respect of members of that Assembly. It has not been done by the Chhattisgarh |
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India’s 14th N-plant
attains criticality RAWATBHATA (Rajasthan), Nov 3 (UNI) — India’s 14th nuclear power plant based on pressurised heavy water, attained criticality at 3.53 a.m. today. The 220 mw plant, the fourth unit of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Plant
(RAPP), was declared critical by RAPP Director Kailash Pati Ojha in the presence of Nuclear Power Corporation Limited
CMD V.K. Chaturvedi. Mr Ojha said the unit would be synchronised with the northern power grid within a week and start commercial production by the end of this year. With this, the capacity of
RAPP has gone up to 790 mw, and that of the country to 2720 mw. |
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Do not lie to people,
Basu tells politicians CALCUTTA, Nov 3 (UNI) — West Bengal Chief Minister and veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu today called upon the politicians not to make false promises to the people but to work for their cause. “We, who are in politics, cannot have any other objective but to serve the people and work for their betterment,’’ Mr Basu told media persons during a farewell organised by the Press Corner of the state Secretariat. Advising the young politicians not to make false promises, Mr Basu said, “If you can’t fulfil the promise, explain to the people the reasons for not fulfilling it. Don’t keep them in the dark and don’t tell them a lie.” He said there was a tendency among the politicians to deviate from the goal. “If you don’t work for the people you will be thrown out,” he pointed out. |
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TN Cong men ignore Prasada CHENNAI, Nov 3 — It was somewhat ironic for Congress leader Jitendra Prasada, challenging Mrs Sonia Gandhi in the party presidential election, to choose the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial in Sriperumbudur near here to launch his campaign, but to him “there is no better place to take a pledge to revitalise the Congress party.” Mr Prasada’s one-day visit to the city, during which TNCC leaders, notwithstanding their personal rivalries, chose to cold-shoulder him, was a stark message that his decision to contest against Mrs Sonia Gandhi was ill-conceived. Many of the leaders, including TNCC president E.V.K.S. Elangovan, and former presidents, Mr K.V. Thangabalu, and Mr Tindivanam Ramamurthy, were in New Delhi, and other leaders, who were in the city, ignored his visit. Despite the rebuff, Mr Prasada, talking to newsmen, reaffirmed that he would not withdraw from the race, “If anyone can convince me that my contesting the elections will weaken the party, I will withdraw,” he said, adding “I am confident that none can convince me, and my agenda will only strengthen the party. Mr Prasada said the Congress workers’ “concern” was the basis of his confidence of getting elected. He had come to Chennai only to “appeal to the conscience” of party workers. While acknowledging that the contribution of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi was “unparalleled”, Mr Prasada refused to answer a specific question concerning the contribution of Mrs Sonia Gandhi, saying “It will not be proper for me to say anything. All these will be reflected in the party elections.” He added: “I am not against any individual. I am not here to charge-sheet Sonia.” Mr Prasada had a half-hour meeting with the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) leader, Mr G.K. Moopanar, at the latter’s residence. Describing it as a “courtesy” call, he said he had “immense respect” for Mr Moopanar. When newsmen asked Mr Moopanar if he had tried to persuade Mr Prasada to withdraw from the contest, he said it was too late for persuasion. Own a cow, forget power bill PATNA, Nov 3 — Keep a cow and forget your electricity bill! At least this is what promises to be in near future if the claim of a student of Bihar’s Regional Institute of Technology is to be believed. Sujay Kumar Singh Prashar, an M.Tech. student, has successfully run table and wall clocks with the help of the electricity made from cow’s urine and boasts that in the next two months he will successfully run fans and light bulbs. His college teachers and Bhartiya Education and Social Trust are promoting and funding his innovations. He has been successful in producing 12 volts of electricity from the cow’s urine. He says that he is currently facing trouble in the transmission of the produced energy and once this obstacle is crossed he will light the world. Having dreams of making the villages energy independent, he has written to the Central Government of his achievements and has sought to patent his innovations. He has also sought funds from the government for his future research. Sujay says that he started with attempts to make electricity with his own urine but after persistent failure he switched onto the cow’s urine and got success. It is to be mentioned here that it was in Bihar that first time in the world, power was generated from human excreta. The Sulabh movement, which creates public toilets and uses the human waste as raw material for electricity generation, was launched at Patna and it is now a world famous movement. The patented innovation has now been successfully running in Japan, Germany and many other countries. If power is successfully generated from cow urine, it will solve the power blues of the lakhs of villages of India. Cow dung is already a major power backbone of the rural economy.
3 killed in inter-gang clash MUMBAI, Nov 3 (UNI) — Three persons, including a city-based hotelier, were gunned down at Chinchphata-Vitthalwadi on the Panvel-Uran highway in the adjoining Navi Mumbai township shortly after midnight in what the police believes to be an incident of gang rivalry. The police said hotelier Vinod Shetty, who is said to own a chain of restaurants, was travelling with two of his friends in a Tata Safari when the attack took place around midnight last night. Mr Shetty, who suffered multiple bullet injuries, died on the spot. The driver of Mr Shetty’s vehicle was stopped by a speeding vehicle on the highway and then the attack took place, according to Pramod Hegde, who survived the attack. The driver later succumbed to gunshots. While Mr Hegde, who sustained bullet injuries, has been shifted to Hinduja Hospital from Panvel, another associate of the hotelier, Shankar Iyer, died in the hospital. The vehicle used by the attackers was later recovered from Taloja in Navi Mumbai. The police recovered as many as 24 empties from the site. Deputy Commissioner of Police, crime, Navi Mumbai, Vijay Shankar Yadav suspects the incident to be a fall-out of the gang rivalry between the Chotta Shakeel faction of the Dawood Ibrahim gang and the Chotta Rajan gang. Top police officers have rushed to the spot and investigations were in progress.
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India can ‘manage’
N-submarines MUMBAI, Nov 3 (UNI) — India can “manage” nuclear submarines, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sushil Kumar here said today. “We have nuclear scientists working with us and we can manage nuclear submarines,” Admiral Kumar, who is also the Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee, said while addressing a seminar on “Human Resource in ex-Defence Officers”. |
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Medicinal plants
board formed NEW DELHI, Nov 3 — The Centre has constituted a medicinal plants board to coordinate matters pertaining to medicinal plants including policies for their proper development, propagation and sustainable availability. The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr
C.P. Thakur will be the Chairperson of the board while the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare will be the vice-Chairman. Sources in the Health Ministry told TNS here on Thursday that the board was a non-statutory body set up by a resolution of the government. |
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Mamata exhorts
railway men to work hard NEW DELHI, Nov 3 — The Railways Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee has called upon the railway employees to work hard to meet the challenges in the new millennium. Addressing the All India Technical Staff and Supervisors Conference here yesterday, the minister assured that the interest of the railway employees would be safeguarded and their genuine demands considered. |
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Tansi cases CHENNAI, Nov 3 (UNI) — The Madras High Court today suspended the single-judge order convicting and sentencing former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalitha, her close aide Sasikala Natarajan and three others in the Tansi land deal cases till the disposal of the appeals preferred by them. Mr Justice B. Akbar Basha Khadri suspended the sentence and granted bail to the accused on the condition that they should execute a bond for Rs 50,000 each and two sureties for the like sum. The Judge passed the order on a plea from the accused-Ms Jayalalitha, Ms Sasikala Natarajan, former Tansi Chairman and Managing Director T.R. Srinivasan, former Special Deputy Collector (Stamps) S. Nagarajan and IAS officer R. Karpoorasundarapandian-seeking suspension of the sentence till the disposal of the appeals filed by them. |
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