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Abhishek scuffles with lensmen Maran to
stay as minister Is Trinamool heading for a split? Verma’s case: CBI to seek IT dept’s help Vacate 3 bungalows in Delhi, Cong told No CBI probe initiated against Sonia: govt Cong holds rally on Tehelka issue India, Iran to take steps on Afghanistan: PM TDP to back PM in House Joshi: no saffronisation Railways and freedom struggle Pistol, Rs 50,000
stolen from Thackeray’s secy Cow’s carcass paraded Devi Lal’s ashes immersed 
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TMC expels Chidambaram Chennai, April 15 TMC Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) Chairman A. R. Marimuthu, told reporters here that the committee proposed to issue show-cause notice to two other TMC leaders — Dhanapal and Vallalperumal — for supporting Chidambaram and joining the TMC Democratic Forum, floated by him in protest against the TMC decision to strike an electoral pact with the AIADMK. All four expelled leaders had been prohibited from using the party name, flag and symbol, he added. Mr Marimuthu said the committee had, on March 31, unanimously decided to expel Chidambaram, two sitting MLAs B. Ranganathan and D. Sundaram and Sivaganga district president Kasilingam, but was delaying implementing it in the hope that the four would have a “change of heart”. He said the committee had yesterday decided that no “useful purpose” would be served in further delaying the decision after Chidambaram and Ranganathan shared a DMK platform and exhorted people to vote against the AIADMK-alliance. Mr Marimuthu said the TMC executive committee and district office-bearers’ meeting on March 21 had asked party President G. K. Moopanar to take action against Chidambaram and others after which it was referred to the DAC. He said the main charge against Chidambaram was that being a member of the party’s election committee, he had not participated in its meeting but used the media to criticise the election committee. Chidambaram also came down on party’s decision to have an electoral pact with AIADMK, he said adding that Chidambaram had then met DMK chief M. Karunanidhi and obtained seats for some of his friends to contest the May 10 assembly poll. Mr Marimuthu said after a study of the replies sent by Chidambaram and others for the show-cause notice issued to them, it was found that all charges against them had been proved beyond. Chidambaram had criticised the party for entering into an electoral pact with the AIADMK without any pre-condition, even though the PMK, which had entered into an alliance with the AIADMK, was able to wrest ‘concessions’ from it. He had also openly said AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha would not be able to provide a ‘good and corruption free’ government.
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Vajpayee dares Cong on no-trust move Lucknow, April 15 Addressing a kisan rally on the banks of the Gomti river here, the Prime Minister criticised the Opposition particularly, the Congress, for stalling proceedings in Parliament over the Tehelka expose. “It is an undemocratic step,” Mr Vajpayee said on the Congress demand that the Prime Minister should resign in the wake of the expose. “If they have confidence in themselves, they should bring in a no-trust motion against the government,” Mr Vajpayee said. The NDA would not move a confidence motion as it was in the majority, he added. “The Congress is ruling in many states and what would happen if the Opposition takes similar recourse of stalling the House over any issue,” Mr Vajpayee asked. About the second phase of Budget session in Parliament from tomorrow, he said the opposition should come forward with suggestions over fighting the corruption and the Tehelka issue. He assured that the government would try to keep the Opposition in good spirit. Describing corruption as a “national disease”, he said it was eating into the vitals of the country and added a “united and concerted” effort was needed to fight the dreaded disease. Claiming that his fight against corruption was continuing, Mr Vajpayee called upon the Opposition to join hands in countering the problem which had brought bad name to the country. “Mujhe satta ka moh nahi hai....main biyaban mein jane ko tayyar hoon, lekin swal yeh hai ki mere baad kon,” Mr Vajpayee said on the Congress demand seeking his resignation. He, however, said “in the power race, one should never forget the interests of the nation.” NDA convener and former Defence Minister George Fernandes, Communication Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, Civil Aviation Minister Sharad Yadav, Sports Minister Uma Bharti and Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Rajnath Singh were the others who spoke on the occasion. Mr Fernandes reiterated his allegation that Hindujas were behind the Tehelka expose. The expose not only had
lowered the morale of the defence forces, but had endangered the defence purchases, he said. “Several details could not be revealed for security reasons and the opposition should understand it.” “The Defence Ministry officials are not ready to take any risk and are shying away from signing a defence deal in the aftermath of the Tehelka expose,” he said adding that his resignation as the Defence Minister was essentially to upkeep the morale of the defence forces and not linked to the corruption issue. Mr Fernandes termed as “unjustified” the opposition demand of PM’s
resignation. Mr Vajpayee today said he would talk to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to help smooth functioning of Parliament, paralysed over tehelka expose issue, when it resumes its Budget session
tomorrow. “I had spoken to Sonia Gandhi while I was in Tehran and would speak to her again and try to persuade her to help run Parliament smoothly”, Mr Vajpayee told reporters at Raj Bhavan. “A negative propaganda is being made to demoralise the country,” he said assuring that despite signing the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements the interests of the nation was protected at all costs. A favourable atmosphere was being created to attract multinational companies to India but at this juncture efforts were being made to create obstacles, Mr Vajpayee said. Mr Vajpayee today said the case relating to kickbacks in Bofors gun deal was progressing and the Congress “may find itself in the docks”. “Corruption in the Congress is not a new thing” he said in response to a reporter’s query that whether his government was countering the Congress with corruption charges following the tehelka expose.
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Government braces up for stormy session New Delhi, April 15 The all party meeting convened by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, yesterday has, for the moment, paved the way for business to resume in Parliament even though the Congress still is agitated over the CBI episode over Dr Subramanian Swamy’s letter on Sonia Gandhi. The good news for the Government is that the Opposition parties, which stood united immediately after the Tehelka disclosures, have not framed any strategy. The Left parties and the Samajwadi Party have said that they would not have floor coordination with the Congress and to this extent the Government should have little difficulty in getting the Budget for 2001-2002 passed in the current session. The newly formed People’s Front wants Parliament to function as they want threadbare discussion on corruption at high places and other contentious issues. However, apart from the passage of the Budget the Government would have little to cheer about as the Opposition parties have issued warning on the issues to come. Corruption in high places would definitely be high on the agenda and the Government would have to face some embarrassing moments in both the Houses of Parliament. The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s interim report on the stock scam is bound to reverberate in Parliament and the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, would have to do some explaining. The reported involvement of Unit Trust of India and the banking system in the stock scam would make Mr Sinha’s position difficult. The arrest of former Chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs B.P. Verma in corruption cases would act as a stick for the Opposition to beat the Government with. The repercussions of the new export-import policy that has liberalised the import regime under the World Trade Organisation is likely to be another matter of contention. The only silver lining for the Government is that some of the heat in Parliament would be diverted by the coming Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Leaders of the political parties, especially those of the Left parties, the Congress, and the Trinamool Congress would be preoccupied with campaigning. Though the Congress has not made its stand on the coming session clear, its Parliamentary party would meet here tomorrow to work out a strategy to be adopted in the second phase of the Budget session. |
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Cong not responsible Opposition: Naidu Panaji, April 15 Addressing a press conference here, he said the Congress was apparently trying to continue their campaign till the next Assembly elections in five states by obstructing Parliament. Charging the Congress with not being a responsible Opposition, Mr Naidu said the Opposition parties were shying away from a debate as they had no facts to place before Parliament. He said the Opposition was also not ready to bring a no-confidence motion against the Vajpayee government as it would expose “chinks” in their camp. Urging all political parties to allow the smooth functioning of Parliament, Mr Naidu said only 15 working days were left during which the general Budget and railway Budget were due for discussion. He reiterated that the government was ready to discuss the Tehelka issue in Parliament. Stating that the NDA, under the leadership of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, gave a “scam free government” in the past three years, the Union Minister said BJP President Bangaru Laxman, Samata Party President Jaya Jaitley and Defence Minister George Fernandes had resigned following the Tehelka expose to set high standards, although none of them were involved in any deals. Mr Naidu further said Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee will repent her decision to desert the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. He said Ms Banerjee would have to explain to the people as to why her party deserted the NDA and entered into an understanding with the Congress, which he termed as a party plagued by scams, for the West Bengal Assembly elections. Replying to a question whether the Trinamool Congress was welcome within the NDA fold if it wanted to re-join the alliance, the senior BJP leader said, “It is a hypothetical question at this moment”.
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Abhishek scuffles with lensmen New Delhi, April 15 An FIR was later filed by the two cameramen — Mustafa Qureshi and Umesh Puri — who were given some first aid at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. According to witnesses, Abhishek — son of megastar Amitabh Bachchan — grabbed Umesh Puri from behind to prevent him from taking a photograph of Mustafa being beaten up, attracting a large number of crew members who beat him up and damaged his camera equipment. Abhishek was whisked away in his car. Abhishek and Jackie Shroff were shooting on the road between the North and South Blocks and at Vijay Chowk for the film “Bus Itna Sa Khwaab Hai” directed by Goldie Behl. The film also stars Rani Mukherjee and Sushmita Sen. The trouble started when Mustafa wanted to take the photograph of a woman unit member trying to control the crowd with the help of a wooden staff. Although he refrained from taking the photograph, the unit members were not satisfied and wanted to snatch his camera, resulting in the scuffle. Ironically, Abhishek had put on fake blood stains for a scene in the film, and these stains left their mark on the shirt of Puri where the actor held him. A large number of journalists and cameramen signed as witnesses at the Parliament Street police station. UNI
Maran
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Chennai, April 15 Mr Baalu, who along with Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister Arcot
Veerasamy, called on Mr Maran at his residence here last night said Mr
Maran, however, would not be able to undertake hectic campaigning for
next month’s state assembly poll.
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Is Trinamool heading for a split? Kolkata, April 15 A leading Bengali newspaper, Aajkal, carried front-page news items on two successive days this week, stating that Mr Ajit Kumar Panja, a former Union Minister of State for External Affairs and four other MPs of the party not only expressed their resentment against Ms Banerjee’s “dictatorship and high-handedness”, but also met the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, to seek their support. Other MPs are Mrs Krishna Bose,
daughter-in-law of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Dr Ranjit Panja, Mr Bikram Sarkar and Mr Nitish Sengupta. Recently, they not only protested against Ms Banerjee’s severing of ties with NDA, but also resented the method of selection of candidates in the Assembly elections. Mr Tapan Sikdar, BJP minister from West Bengal, claimed in a public statement that several Trinamool MPs and other workers had been in touch with them. He hinted that Mr Panja and others met Mr Vajpayee and Mr Advani and expressed willingness to be in the NDA soon after the Assembly elections in the state. Interestingly enough, there was no formal protest either from Ms Banjeree or the party against Mr Sikdar’s public statement and the newspaper report. On the other hand, Dr Ranjit Panja admitted he was quite aggrieved at the selection of candidates for the Lok Sabha seat of Barasar, where five candidates had been chosen against his decision. He said he felt so much insulted that he was seriously thinking to leave the party. The Trinamool Congress, which has nine MPs, became a part of NDA with Ms Banerjee as Railway Minister and Mr Panja, Minister of State, when the Vajpayee government came to power in 1998. During three years of term, Ms Banerjee had threatened to resign four times and actually resigned on three occasions. On two occasions, her resignation was rejected and Mr Vajpayee asked her to remain in the ministry. But recently, on Tehelka issue, when she and Mr Panja had resigned, Mr Vajpayee did not ask them to withdraw their resignations. On the contrary, their resignations were accepted and the Railway portfolio also reallotted to Mr Nitish Kumar, a former Railway Minister. It has been now learnt that at that time, some prominent party leaders had suggested Ms Banerjee not to resign and leave the NDA but they had been overruled. |
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Verma’s case: CBI to seek IT dept’s help New Delhi, April 15 The sources said the agency would seek the help of Income Tax authorities in scrutinising his annual returns filed besides providing the taxmen with the details of the seizures made by its sleuths. The CBI had registered a disproportionate assets case against Verma after he had been charged with criminal conspiracy and misuse of official position for personal gains. The sources said several assets were found either in his name or those of his family members besides some “benami” property. The CBI would provide the details of the documents seized during the March 31 raid detailing the assets of Verma to the Income Tax authorities, which would help them in tallying the returns filed by the IRS official. Verma already has been sent to judicial custody in the first case and the agency plans to take him on remand again in the disproportionate case. In this connection, the agency had already summoned the Chennai-based Customs Commissioner V.K. Prasada and recorded his statement. They said some more statements were likely to be recorded from other persons in this connection.
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Vacate 3 bungalows in Delhi, Cong told New Delhi, April 15 The premises affected by the court order are located at 5 Raisina Road, 26 Akbar Road and C-II-109, Chanakyapuri. The Chanakyapuri bungalow was allotted to Mr Vincent George while the Raisina Road property houses the office of the Indian Youth Congress. The Akbar Road premises, too, were held by the party for a long period. Dismissing the party’s appeal against the January 1 eviction order of the Estate Officer, Additional District Judge Raghubir Singh said last Thursday, “I do not find any infirmity in the order passed by the Directorate of Estate against the Congress.” Earlier, the court had stayed the eviction proceedings initiated by the Union Urban Development Ministry after the party filed an appeal against the Estate Officer’s order. In fact, the allotment of the three premises was cancelled on April 3 last year. When the Congress failed to vacate the premises, the Directorate of Estate filed a case and initiated eviction proceedings. The party was served a show-cause notice asking to file its reply by November 13 last. However, the party submitted its reply only on December 27. PTI |
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No CBI probe initiated against Sonia: govt New Delhi, April 15 In a clarification, which came a day after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee denied that any official investigations had been started against the Congress president, the government said Mr Swamy had addressed a letter on March 3 to Minister of State for Personnel Vasundhara Raje and the “Communication had been routinely forwarded to the CBI for “appropriate action”. “The position has been ascertained from the CBI which has confirmed that nor formal or preliminary inquiry into the matter has been initiated by them. They have further indicated that the complaint is at a very preliminary stage of examination with a view to ascertaining whether the allegations contained therein would at all warrant an inquiry and whether the matter is worth pursuing,’’ an official release said. “The CBI has further stated that even in normal circumstances, such a preliminary examination is undertaken by them in respect of complaints received by it directly from any quarter.’’ The Congress yesterday boycotted the all-party meeting convened by the Prime Minister, saying that there was an attempt by the government to “indulge in witch-hunting using the CBI to promote its partisan objectives”. Mr Vajpayee had clarified at the all-party meeting, called to evolve a consensus on the need to ensure the smooth functioning of Parliament, that the CBI had not even taken prima facie cognizance of the charges. Following the Prime Minister’s assurance, the Congress said it had been reasonably satisfied with the government’s explanation. Mr Swamy had made allegations against Mrs Gandhi and her family members, pertaining to a period ranging from 1972 to 1993. It is noteworthy that even while reiterating that no formal probe has been initiated, the government has not ruled out preliminary scrutiny of the complaint. Dr Manmohan Singh, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha told TNS, “I have not seen the clarification. I cannot react to it.” In a statement issued on Saturday on behalf of the Congress Parliamentary party, Deputy leader of the party in the Lok Sabha, Madhav Rao Scindia and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Dr Manmohan Singh said that it was simply unacceptable to the Congress that “the CBI should be used as an instrument of intimidation and persecution of the Congress and its leadership in a manner wholly inconsistent with
democratic norms.” Meanwhile, the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) would meet tomorrow to finalise its strategy and issues to be taken up during the second phase of the Budget session of Parliament beginning on Monday. CHENNAI: Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Sunday threatened to move court for a court-monitored inquiry against Congress president Sonia Gandhi if the Union Government failed to perform its constitutional and statutory duties on this issue. Dr Swamy’s threat came even as the Union government in a statement in Delhi clarified that the CBI had not initiated any inquiry against Mrs Gandhi on the basis of the complaint by Dr Swamy and that the complaint was routinely forwarded to the CBI. Dr Swamy claimed that there was a secret understanding between the government and Mrs Gandhi not to expose each other. Congress Working Committee member Arjun Singh said the government intended to pressurise the Congress by “engineering a false, motivated, frivolous and unsubstantiated” allegation against party president Mrs Sonia Gandhi. |
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Cong holds rally on Tehelka issue New Delhi, April 15 In yet another rally organised here as part of its nationwide campaign to expose the “black deeds of the corrupt government”, senior party leaders came down heavily on the Vajpayee government, saying it had no moral authority to rule any longer. Party general secretary Kamal Nath hit out at the BJP for being a “double-faced party.” “It poses as an honest party when it goes to the public to seek their votes, but when in power it indulges in corruption,” he said. The corrupt face of the BJP, he said, had been exposed by the Tehelka tapes and the party had no right to continue in power. Charges should be framed against those involved in the defence deal scam not only for corruption but also for anti-national activities as it amounted to betrayal of the country’s security, he added. Congress treasurer Ahmed Patel said it was common knowledge that the Prime Minister’s Office was involved in many questionable deals, but Mr Vajpayee, who claims to be the most honest citizen of the country, was not taking any action against the guilty. Mr Oscar Fernandes said the Congress was not fighting any battle to return to power but to cleanse the system of corruption and communal forces. Mr Moti Lal Vora said the BJP, which had always been demanding action against others involved in corruption, was not taking any action when their own party President had been involved. Mr R.K. Dhawan said the BJP was only trying to suppress the issue by instituting a commission of inquiry in the Tehelka controversy. Stating that no self-respecting Indian would tolerate such tactics, he said the Congress would intensify its agitation to bring the guilty to book. Convener of the rally Sajjan Kumar challenged the BJP leaders to come out in the open and face the people in public debates rather than hiding behind Doordarshan cameras and issuing unconvincing justifications on the issue. Delhi Pradesh Congress committee President Subhash Chopra said the Congress agitation would continue till the Vajpayee government tendered its resignation. Others who addressed the rally included Mr Suresh Pachauri, Mr Jagdish Tytler and Mr Deep Chand
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India, Iran to take steps on Afghanistan: PM New Delhi, April 15 “The two countries have also decided to increase international pressure and have criticised Pakistan for its support to Taliban,” Mr Vajpayee told “Worldview India” programme telecast on Doordarshan. He said on the international stage, many steps had been taken to put pressure on Afghanistan which stood completely isolated even among Muslim nations. The Prime Minister said the Afghan question would be thoroughly discussed at the forthcoming session of the United Nations and some concrete steps would be envisaged to change the situation radically.
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TDP to back PM in House Hyderabad, April 15 The politburo of the party met here late last evening presided over by the party supremo, M. Chandrababu Naidu, to discuss various issues, including the stand to be taken on Monday when Parliament will be meeting after a recess. The party leader in Parliament, Mr Yerram Naidu, had met Mr Naidu, in the morning before leaving for Delhi to attend the all-party meeting convened by Mr Vajpayee. The politburo could discuss only briefly about the issue and has broadly decided for a discussion on the Tehelka issue to resolve the impasse. The detailed stand the party would take on the merits of the expose will, however, be conveyed to party MPs over teleconference from Hyderabad on Monday. |
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Joshi: no saffronisation New Delhi, April 15 Referring to the recent replacement of some “Left wing” historians from the experts’ committee on history of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Mr Joshi said, “Their tenure was over and they had to be replaced. We wanted to modernise the curriculum and needed fresh ideas.” “In fact, those who are opposed to new ideas are the real academic fascists. For 50 years, red (Left wing) ideology was having a free run in this country, its history and education and when we thought of change, they have labeled it as saffronisation,” he said. “Every year, we have been facing so many cases because of the texts prepared by these academics,” Mr Joshi said. The NCERT recently dropped well-known historians Romila Thapar, R. S. Sharma, Bipin Chandra and Satish Chandra and included K. S. Lal, G. C. Pande and S. P Gupta, known for their rightist leanings. Mr Joshi said his endeavour in the field of education has been not only to inculcate modern education, including information technology, but also ancient Indian values like “sarva dharma samabhav” (equal respect to all religions). PTI |
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Railways and freedom struggle New Delhi, April 15 Besides acting as a vital integrating force at the social, political and economic levels, the Railways also figured prominently in several episodes of the freedom struggle, says the publication brought out by the Ministry of Railways. In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was thrown out of a first class compartment at St Martizburg station in South Africa in 1893, the country would not have got its foremost freedom fighter, historian K. K. Khullar, who authored the publication, told UNI. According to Mr Khullar, one of Gandhiji’s favourite books was the railway time table, which he always kept with him. An indefatigable traveller, Mahatma Gandhi toured extensively through the length and breadth of the country to make the freedom struggle a mass movement. This, however, was not Governor-General Dalhousie’s motive when he established the first rail link in India between Bombay and Thane on April 16, 1853. The railway minutes of the year clearly say that the main purpose of introducing railways was to “immensely increase the striking power of the military forces at every point of the Indian empire, to bring British capital and enterprise to India and to bring into the ports the produce from the interior.’’ “But hardly did Dalhousie realise that he was unconsciously laying the foundations of a communication system which would turn the wheel of Indian history, making each whistle of the locomotive, a call for liberty, a cry for freedom,’’ Mr Khullar said. Indians initially viewed the railways with suspicion, calling it shaitan ka daftar. However, it did not take them long to realise its importance as a linking force, says the former lecturer of history in Panjab University and retired Director, Human Resource Development Ministry. “The Railways provided the freedom fighters the necessary link with each other. When the boy Bhagat Singh heard about the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, he took the first available train to Amritsar and visited the spot....His return journey was memorable. Like Lenin, who conceived the plan of the Russian revolution in a train journey from Berlin to St Petersburg, Bhagat Singh conceived a similar revolution called “Inquillab’’ to oust the British from the motherland, the historian said. Even the entry of Jawaharlal Nehru into politics can be ascribed to a train journey because it was on one such trip in 1919 that he heard a group of British, including General Dyer, give a gruesome account of the Jallianwala killings. “It was too much for Jawahar’s sensitive soul. He was thoroughly shaken and transformed into an arch-rebel who fought against the British without a break till independence,’’ Mr Khullar quotes Ajit Prasad Jain, an associate of Nehru and a minister in Nehru’s Cabinet as saying. The publication, Indian Railways - the Freedom Struggle, contains several rare photographs and gives a vivid account of the Kakori train dacoity planned in 1925 by Ram Parsad Bismil and executed by Ashfaquallah, Lahiri and Roshan Lal. It also gives a full account of the martyr’s coach, in which the body of 24-year-old Jatin Das, who died after a 63-day fast-unto-death in Lahore Central Jail, was taken to Calcutta. The sensational escape of Bhagat Singh and Durga Bhabhi by the Calcutta Mail in 1928 and the disruption of trains during the 1942 Quit India Movement are also given in graphic detail. Another interesting account in the booklet is of “Hindu pani Muslim pani’’ (Hindu water, Muslim water) which was served at railway stations to passengers. “This was a nefarious system introduced by the British for serving of drinking water to the railway passengers. The idea was to create a deep chasm between the two communities.
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stolen from Thackeray’s secy Mumbai, April 15 The incident occurred when the Sena chief’s secretary, Ravindra Mhatre, was returning home in suburban Goregaon from Bandra, the police said. Mr Mhatre, who was driving a two-wheeler, got down near the Bandra flyover to answer nature’s call, the police said. However, when he reached home, he found that a Colt pistol with 40 cartridges, Rs 50,000 and some documents were missing from the boot of his vehicle.
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Cow’s carcass paraded Ahmedabad, April 15 The police said today that trouble erupted after the cow attacked a person on Friday night, provoking a brutal response from four persons who pounced on it and beat it to death. Enraged at this, the locals took out a funeral procession. However, no untoward incident occurred during the procession, during which a heavy police arrangements had been made. The police has lodged an FIR and registered a case under various sections of the Animal Cruelty Act.
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Devi Lal’s ashes immersed Bangalore, April 15 Earlier, Janata Dal (S) workers received the urn at the airport here. Haryana Finance Minister Sampat Singh was among those who brought the urn. The ashes of the departed leader would also be immersed in various rivers across the country by the party representatives after people of the respective regions paid homage to him. PTI |
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