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Centre’s move on IPS officers ‘unhealthy’ Parents of drowned
children to get Rs 5 lakh each
Centre ignoring issues of common man: Sonia Delimitation exercise in Uttaranchal
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Reel villains are more real: Rana Moopanar’s son is TMC President
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Centre’s move on IPS officers ‘unhealthy’ Chennai, September 1 The Centre’s move was against “healthy traditions” of Centre-state relationship and was against the federal polity envisaged in the Constitution, MDMK General-Secretary Vaiko told a press meet here. Even the Congress, which had invoked Article 356 several times to dismiss state governments, had not done so, he said adding that the Centre’s move was “unprecedented”. As a regional party, the MDMK always stood for regionalism and for state autonomy. Anything which infringed the rights of the states should be opposed, he said. He also criticised Attorney General Soli J. Sorabjee for appearing for K.V. Venkatapathy, the special prosecutor in the TANSI land deal case, in the Supreme Court which had stayed the proceedings of the case in the Madras High Court.
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Parents of drowned
children to get Rs 5 lakh each New Delhi, September 1 A Division Bench comprising Mr Justice A. P. Mishra and Mr Justice Umesh C. Banerjee, however, modified the interest rate of 12 per cent per annum awarded by the high court to 6 per cent simple interest from the date of the high court judgement of March 4, 1996, till the payment of reducing interest. The high court had also ordered an additional payment of Rs 30,000 each to the parents for undergoing suffering. “The amount so directed by the high court together with interest as modified above be paid by eight quarterly instalments”, the court ordered. On the fateful day, May 28, 1995, 59 boys and 18 girls of the school were taken for a picnic to Tandapatanindora on the bank of the Beas accompanied by five teachers. In the post-lunch period 14 students with two teachers went down a considerable distance for fun where the children got drowned in a ‘dibber’ of about 6-8 feet. While the teachers saved themselves. |
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Centre ignoring issues of common man: Sonia Dharampur (Gujarat), September 1 “Tehelka, Agra summit, UTI’s US-64 muddle, share market scam and suicides by farmers have shown that the government has failed on all fronts,” Mrs Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, said while addressing a farmers’ rally at the Taluka town in Valsad district of south Gujarat. “Ve ladein ya marein par Bharat ki kurbani nahi karein” (they may fight or die, out let them not sacrifice the nation and its interest), she said, adding that most of the time of the 24-party NDA government was consumed in internal fights. Referring to the Tehelka episode she said, “Inhone bhrashtachar ki kitab ka koi bhi panna safed nahi chhoda” (they have not left a single page of corruption white). Mrs Gandhi also flayed the NDA government’s foreign policy and said it had failed completely and this was evident from the Agra summit. She pointed out that innocent people were being killed (by terrorists) in Kashmir and the North-East. During her 10-minute address in Hindi, she said during the tenure of the BJP government the common man had suffered badly and after the UTI’s US-64 scam, the government stood exposed. She said farmers were committing suicides throughout the country, Mrs Gandhi said and accused the Central Government of ignoring the problems faced by them. “Condition of farmers is pathetic - their income has reduced and debts are piling up, while the prices of seeds, fertilisers and pesticides have increased manifold.” Mrs Gandhi also came down heavily on the Keshubhai Patel-led BJP
government in Gujarat saying, the state government had not acted in a manner as it should have to provide succour to the distressed people after
the January 26 devastating earthquake.
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Delimitation exercise in Uttaranchal
New Delhi, September 1 Although the delimitation committee had arrived at a broad
consensus on the number of seats from each of the 13 districts in Uttaranchal at a meeting held on August 13, the commission had decided to meet again on September 3 to refine the draft further before its publication. Besides Mr Lyngdoh and the two Election Commissioners, Mr T.S. Krishnamurthy and Mr B.B. Tandon, the meeting would be attended by Associate Members Kedar Singh Phonia, Mohan Singh Rawat, Ajay Bhatt, K.C. Singh ‘Baba’ and Harbans Kapoor. According to the broad consensus arrived at in the last meeting, the 70-member Uttaranchal Assembly after the delimitation of constituencies will have seven seats from the Punjabi-dominated district of Udham Singh Nagar and nine seats from Dehra Dun. According to the draft proposal, Uttarkashi district will have three Assembly seats, Tehri Garhwal six, Hardwar (9), Pouri Garhwal (8), Rudraprayag (2), Chamoli (4), Bhageshwar (3), Almora (7), Nainital (5), Champawat (2) and Pithoragarh (5). In the last meeting it was also decided that no Assembly constituency will fall in two different districts. Regarding reserved seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, there was a consensus that 12 seats out of the 70 Assembly constituencies will be reserved for Scheduled Castes and two seats for Scheduled Tribes. While deciding the draft proposal, the commission had taken into account the geographical location, administrative convenience and communication facilities to keep each constituency a compact block, the sources said. |
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Northern Railway to run special trains New Delhi, September 1 Special superfast trains (437D and 438D) will run between New Delhi and Allahabad. It will run from New Delhi on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from October 11 to November 20 and from Allahabad on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Special trains (403D/404D) will run between New Delhi and Jammu Tawi. From New Delhi, it will run on all days except on Friday and from Jammu Tawi on all days except on Saturday from September 4 to November 11. Holiday special No 403A and 404A will run between New Delhi and Jammu Tawi once every week. It will run from New Delhi on every Friday between September 7 and November 16 and from Jammu on every Saturday.
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Reel villains are more real: Rana Mumbai, September 1 “A villain is one who uses other’s potential for his own development and progress. There is no confusion between his thought process and the actual behaviour. Hence he is a confident man and makes a maximum impact on the audience, while the hero comes across as a confused person dogged by dilemmas”, Rana said in an interview to UNI here. Rana, who shot to fame in 1998 as the menacing Gokul Pandit in Tanuja Chandra’s “Dushman” feels that his debut film introduced the concept of “common man’s villain” thereby changing the traditional perception and projection of the bad man in movies. “Here, the villain was an ordinary postman, who does not repent his deeds till the end. I feel that a character with grey shades who is a changed man at the end of the film is not a villain, but a person forced to change due to circumstances”, he pointed out. Rana’s ideal villains are Ravana, Kans and Duryodhana. The versatile actor, first seen in Mahesh Bhatt’s television serial “Swabhimaan” in the mid-90s as the underworld criminal, later shifted to the big screen and is now back on the telly as the anchor of Zee TV’s “Baazi Kiski”, which goes on air from tomorrow.
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Moopanar’s son is
TMC President Chennai, Sept 1 Mr Vasan was elected at a meeting of party’s MPs, legislators, front-ranking leaders, members of the party’s Political Affairs Committee.
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