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Centre for more HC circuit Benches Arrest Tejpal: BJP Mahila Morcha Charge sheet filed against RS member |
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Jessica murder: order on Manu’s bail
reserved BJP joined Ram issue for mileage: VHP chief Phoolan’s first husband stakes claim to property NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT Dalit killings: Patna SP transferred Striking AIIMS doctors meet Health Minister INS Tarasa
inducted into Navy Army Chief to
visit Japan Ex-civic body chief
behind murder Bomb explodes in Capital HRD minister ‘misled’ Parliament IT Minister uses laptop in LS HC directive to CBI on UTI’s investment Mahanta files
defamation suit
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Centre for more HC circuit Benches New Delhi, August 24 Referring to the recent Supreme Court judgement on the demand for bifurcation of Karnataka High Court, that it could only be done with the consent of the respective courts, Mr Jaitley said this had given veto powers to the high courts on the issue and said the only option before the government was either to resolve the issue by consultations or go in for a new legislation. Replying to demand by members in the Rajya Sabha for setting up of more Benches of high courts to help save litigants from travelling distances and incurring extra expenditure, Mr Jaitley said the government would have to go by the primary objective of ensuring that the administration of justice did not suffer. Intervening in the discussion on a private member’s Bill on the High Court of Gujarat (Establishment of a Permanent Bench at Rajkot Bill), moved by Mr Lalitbhai Mehta, Mr Jaitley said the government was at disagreement with the Supreme Court on the issue of setting up of a Bench of the apex court in the southern region. He also said he did not agree on the demand for setting up of
circuitry courts in the North-East. Elaborating on high courts being the “slowest in the judicial chain”, Mr Jaitley said while arrears of pending cases in the Supreme Court had come down during the past decade from a little more than one lakh to 22,000, it had jumped up from 19 lakhs to over 34 lakhs in the case of high courts. Regarding the district courts, he said the arrears cases in these courts had peaked at more than two crores, adding that “it is not going up further”.
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Arrest Tejpal: BJP Mahila Morcha New Delhi, August 24 In a letter to Union Home Minister L.K. Advani, morcha President Sushma Padhy said the portal’s use of women for blackmail to obtain information on national security and to jeopardise the social ethos was reprehensible and condemnable. “The Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha condemns the action of using women as a commodity and by that lowering of the dignity and image of women”, Ms Padhy said. “As he is utilising women for these types of mean works, which is a clear-cut violation of media norms which he has admitted also, the morcha demands his journalistic accredition be cancelled by which such yellow journalism can be
curbed, "the letter said. Noting that journalists should not get any chance to misuse media to denigrate women, Ms Padhy questioned the need to provide a security cover to such persons. It appears that Tejpal and his associates were working at the behest of some foreign hands to demoralise the defence forces and disrupt the democratic set-up of the country, Ms Padhy said. Maintaining the pressure, Vishwa Hindu Parishad Vice-President Acharya Giriraj Kishore said Tehelka had done a “great disservice” to the nation by “demoralising” military personnel and “inactivating” the government. “If there was a foreign attack at such a crucial time what impact it would have created,” Mr Kishore asked. “The people who are actually behind the entire matter and their motive would come before the country in due course of time”, he asserted. In the same breath, the VHP leader absolved the Samata Party and its leaders from the exposure made by the Tehelka tapes, saying that he saw no reason to blame
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NYC seeks Padma Shri for Tejpal New Delhi, August 24 NYC General Secretary Suraj Yadav said his organisation would arrange a reception to honour Tejpal and his team of investigative journalists for their valuable service to the nation by exposing corruption in defence deals and compromises with national security.
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Charge sheet filed against RS member
Bilaspur, August 24 The Rajya Sabha secretariat has been informed about the matter, District Superintendent of Police Sanjay Pillai said. He said the charge sheet was filed yesterday under Section 153 of the IPC and Section 125 of the Representation of the People Act. Three similiar cases are pending against Mr Judeo. Mr Pillai said permission for the prosecution of Mr Judeo was sought from the Chhattisgarh government after registering a case and conducting investigations. A police team that went to Mr Judeo’s native district Jashpur had returned with a detailed report of his assets, he said.
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Jessica murder: order on Manu’s bail reserved New Delhi, August 24 Prosecution counsel S.K. Saxena told Mr Justice R.C. Chopra that three “eye
witnesses” had already turned hostile in the case and there was strong apprehension that the accused might influence the remaining witnesses to be examined. Claiming that prosecution had sufficient circumstantial evidence to indicate that it was Manu Sharma, who had shot at ramp model Jessica Lal in a south Delhi restaurant on the intervening night of April 29-30, Mr Saxena said the accused might “purchase” the other witnesses, if released on bail. Mr Saxena said two witnesses — Deepak Bhojawani and Malni Ramani — in their statements had told the trial court that Manu Sharma was the person involved in the crime.
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BJP joined Ram issue for mileage: VHP chief New Delhi, August 24 “The BJP involved itself with the Ram janambhoomi movement with the objective of gaining political mileage and Mr Advani’s Rath yatra in 1990 gave him the dividend,” he told the Liberhan Commission which is probing the sequence of events leading to the demolition of disputed structure at Ayodhya in December 1992. However, he said the VHP had no objection to the BJP making use of the Ayodhya movement for political purpose as Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi had also tried to politicise it. “Rajiv Gandhi himself had started his political campaign in 1990 from Saket (Ayodhya),” Acharya Giriraj said. He said Ram janambhoomi assumed greater political dimension after the BJP started making use of the movement. Other political parties also wanted to be associated with it but they were pushed behind by the BJP. The VHP leader said the organisation has never invited any political party including the BJP to support its movement. “The VHP had neither prayed nor proposed to any party including the BJP to support its movement,” he said. Acharya Giriraj said Ram janambhoomi movement has attained the status of international issue itself and if anybody has provided support to it, they have done it for their own benefit.
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Phoolan’s first husband stakes claim to property Kanpur, August 24 The civil judge of the Kanpur Dehat Court admitted the suit yesterday and issued notices to Phoolan’s second husband Umaid Singh, Mula Devi and Munni Devi, mother and sister of the former bandit queen, and her brother. The case will come up for hearing on September 11. Putti Lal, in his petition, claimed that he married Phoolan Devi in 1972 under the Hindu law and was never divorced lawfully.
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NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT New Delhi, August 24 The computerised reservation facility at Rajouri would be commissioned when the necessary infrastructure like accommodation, communication channels and electrification was ready, the minister told the House. No survey had been done to assess the number of forest dependent communities in Himachal Pradesh, but it was estimated that bout 90 per cent of the rural population was heavily dependent on forests for timber, water, grazing, etc, the Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr T.R. Baalu, informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today. There was no scheme to rehabilitate them as the local population had specified rights in the designated forests, the minister told the House. The cost of the Udhampur-Baramula rail line project in Jammu and Kashmir had been assessed at Rs 3,244 crore at the 1998-99 price level, the Minister of State for Railways and Parliamentary Affairs, Mr O. Rajagopal, told the Rajya Sabha today. The time for its completion would depend upon the availability of resources. An amount of Rs 100 crore had been allocated for this work during 2001-02. Work was being done in phases. In the first phase, work on the Udhampur-Katra (26 km) stretch had been taken up where earthwork, tunneling and works were in progress. In phase II, work on the Qazigund-Baramula stretch had been taken up where land acquisition and construction of the Srinagar station building was in progress, the minister said. There was no proposal, at present, for introducing any train between Jammu Tawi and Hardwar and via Hardwar to other stations, Mr Rajagopal informed the Rajya Sabha today. In pursuance of the recommendations of the Core Group, a consortium of the National Stock Exchange, the ICICI, the Mahindras and the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation, was given in-principle approval by the government in July to establish a national commodity exchange. Due to delay by the promoter consortium, the national commodity exchange has not become operational so far, the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution informed the Lok Sabha today in a written reply. |
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Dalit killings: Patna SP transferred Patna, August 24 The step comes close on the heels of growing incidents of crime and killing of Dalits in the state. State Home Secretary U.N. Panjiar would head the committee. Meanwhile, the state government has replaced Patna SP (Rural) Parasnath with Amit Kumar, SP (Railway), after the killing of six Dalits, three women and three children, allegedly by the Jaynadan Yadav gang of PWG at Dasmai village on Wednesday, official sources said. Arwal ASP has also been transferred, they added.
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Striking AIIMS doctors meet Health Minister New Delhi, August 24 Patients services suffered considerably as the OPD and casualty remained virtually non-functional. The faculty members who are giving moral support to the resident doctors strike, manned the skeletal service. AIIMS Director P.K. Dave, Deputy Director of Administration and Resident Doctors Association President, Prem Kumar met Union Health Minister C.P. Thakur and informed him about Wednesday’s incident. |
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INS Tarasa
inducted into Navy
Visakhapatnam, August 24 The third trinket class warship was commissioned by Andaman and Nicobar Lt-Governor N.N. Jha in a colourful ceremony at the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) headquarters in jetty naval base here. The craft, with a speed in excess of 30 knots, would be based in Port Blair. It has been built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, Kolkata. |
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Army Chief to
visit Japan New Delhi, August 24 Defence cooperation between the two countries has been on the rise ever since the visit of the then Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, to Tokyo in January, 2000, which was also a first by an Indian Defence Minister. A strategic dialogue on security issues was then initiated between the two
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Ex-civic body chief
behind murder Kolkata, August 24 The DIG, Presidency Range, Mr Gautam
Chakraborty, who is handling the case, said the plot was uncovered during interrogations of Mr Bhattacharjee, who was detained earlier in the day. The money had been paid by Bhattacharjee to the killers through a group “D” employee of the municipality hospital
S.P. Kamath. Kamath was arrested last night. Mr Bhattacharjee had been the municipality chairman for 32 years till 1999 and had been expelled from CPM for anti-party activities.
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Bomb explodes in Capital New Delhi, August 24 According to the police, the bomb exploded around 10 p.m. and damaged a Ford Escort car on way from Delhi to Gurgaon. The driver of the car escaped unhurt, the police said. |
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HRD minister ‘misled’ Parliament New Delhi, August 24 Mr Joshi was concluding the debate initiated by Mr Somnath Chatterjee on “Saffronisation of education”. He is reported to have said that experts had been invited to discuss the preparatory material for the national curriculum framework (NCF) for school education. The scholars named, however, denied having been a party to any such formulation. “According to information Prof Yashpal, Prof Kapila Vatsayayan and late Prof Ravinder Kumar have denied their role in the formulation of the NCF”, said Prof Arjun Dev. |
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IT Minister uses laptop in LS New Delhi, August 24 Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan surprised members when he started reading from a laptop computer government’s business for remaining part of the Monsoon session that is scheduled to end on August 31. Speaker G.M.C. Balayogi pointed out that Mahajan, who is also the Information Technology Minister, was using a laptop in the House. As Mahajan read out the government’s business, Congress member A.C. Jose, in a lighter vein, remarked that all members should be given laptops.
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HC directive to CBI on UTI’s investment New Delhi, August 24 The court was hearing a public interest litigation, filed by Janata Party President Subramaniam Swamy, seeking a thorough probe into
alleged financial irregularities committed by RIL in connivance with various high officials in the government.
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Mahanta files
defamation suit Guwahati, August 24 In the petitions filed in the court of the Civil Judge here, the AGP President pleaded that he had not married for the second time nor had any romantic liaison with a woman officer of the Assam Government. Mr Mahanta pleaded he never had any illicit relationship with the woman and the news items in the “Agradoot” and “Pratidin” had maligned his personal image. He said the reports were false, baseless and aimed at causing damage to his political career. UNI |
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MP’s notice to Buta New Delhi, August 24 |
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Rajiv murder: CBI official for Canada
New Delhi, August 24 CBI officials told UNI that though Mr Kaul was going to attend a conference, he would also take time out to meet government officials in Canada to expedite execution of letters rogatory sent by the special court in Chennai. UNI
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Gandhi award New Delhi, August 24 Bhuj rocked New Delhi, August 24
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