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School for blind blamed for two pupils’
deaths CBI may seek Balayogi’s nod to
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Dasmunshi
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5 more killed in Bihar
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Shabir Shah
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Pant today Foodgrain scheme empowers
women Dowry menace claims
another life
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School for blind blamed for two pupils’ deaths New Delhi, September 9 In a report submitted to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), PUCL-Delhi general secretary Gopa Joshi said today two visually impaired students - Punam and Hema - of Rashtriya Vrijanand Andh Kanya Mahavidyalaya died on July 10 and 11 respectively. Punam reached Delhi from her village in Jharkhand on the morning of July 10 with high fever. “Because of her ill-health, she was not formally admitted into the hostel. However, she remained there and no medical help was arranged for her. At 4.30 pm when her condition worsened, her brother was forced to take her to the nearby family hospital,” Ms Joshi said. “The hospital authorities discharged her after 25 minutes. From there, she was taken to the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospital where she died around 7.30 p.m.” The report said while Punam was battling for life, another boarder of the hospital, Hema, was having bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea. The whole night she had this problem and finally in the morning of July 11, she was found dead by her roommates. Earlier on March 12 and May 4, two pupils of Andh Mahavidyalaya, Panchkuiyan Road, in central Delhi, died allegedly due to lack of proper medical treatment. The PUCL-Delhi had conducted a thorough probe into these deaths also and found carelessness of the authorities concerned responsible for the “untimely” demise, Ms Joshi said. A delegation of the PUCL-Delhi, led by its general secretary, met the NHRC chairperson and demanded suitable action against the school authorities. It also demanded a thorough probe into the functioning of these schools besides suitable compensation to the affected families.
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CBI may seek Balayogi’s nod to question Dasmunshi New Delhi, September 9 The move is being planned in the wake of the Central Forensic and Scientific Laboratory (CFSI) “confirming” that the letter purportedly written by the Cabinet Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office opposing Air India’s disinvestment was “not genuine.” CBI sources said Mr Balayogi’s permission would be sought under the House rules and, if granted, the Congress leader, who read out the letter in the Lok Sabha, would be questioned to ascertain the individuals responsible for the act. Earlier this week, the CFSL confirmed the CBI’s initial findings that the document was not genuine after which the investigating agency launched a probe to find those responsible for forging such a letter. The CFSL, in its report, stated that the letter was “not genuine” and did not bear the signatures of Cabinet Secretary T.R. Prasad, the sources said. The agency had registered a case on August 24 after Mr Dasmunshi read out the contents of the letter in the Lok Sabha on the previous day.
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Home they want their warriors alive New Delhi, September 9 “On June 6, 1972, the name of Major Ashok Suri of Faridabad was mentioned in Punjab Durbar Programme of Lahore Radio, Pakistan. On 26.12.1974, his father received a letter dated 7.12.74 from the Major. Again in August 1975, he sent a note to his father from the Karachi jail with a covering letter from a Pakistani Muslim, who said he could only manage to slip this note from the Karachi jail. In 1976, the major’s father received information from the contact that Major Ashok Suri was captured on 2.12.1971 (a day before the war was officially declared) and was treated as a spy of India by the Pakistani Army. “Major Suri in one of the notes written to his father had said there were 20 more officers with him. Later, his father received information that he had been shifted from Karachi to North West Frontier Province to Fort Sawabis, Mardan and Malkan. “An Indian prisoner Mukhtyar Singh who was repatriated from Pakistan on 5.7.1988 had said he had seen Ashok Suri in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. “Mukhtyar Singh, said he had also seen Captain Ravinder Kaura, Captain Kalyan Singh Rathor, Flt-Lt Babul Guha, Flt-Lt Gurdev Singh Rai and Captain Kamal Bakshi and Flg Officer Krishan Lakimaj Malkani in Multan jail around 1983. According to a file compiled by the Association of the Missing Defence Personnel Relatives, another Indian prisoner Dalji Singh released in March 1988 said he had seen pilot V.V. Tambay at the Lahore interrogation centre in February, 1978. Another Iqbal Hussain Tantir Singh repatriated with Dalji Singh said he had seen Major Kanwaljit Singh Sandhu in Kot Lakhpat, while Ghulam Hussan who was also repatriated in March 1988 said he had seen Flying Officer Sudhir Tyagi at Shahi Quilla Lahore in 1973. Pilot Tambay’s wife Damyanti Tambay, has also collected clippings of the Sunday Pakistan Observer dated 5.12.1971 giving the news of the capture of her husband and five other pilots. Ms Tambay has also cited a meeting with a released Bangladeshi naval officer, T.A. Yususf in Jamnagar, who was detained for having supported the cause of Bangladesh, as having seen in his adjoining barrack in Lyallpur jail pilot Tambay writing his name on the wall. Major A.K. Ghosh was recognised from a photo about Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails published in the Time magazine of 27.12.1971. Similarly, relatives of other officers have painstakingly collected information from repatriated prisoners, press reports and even published books that could lead to any clue of these personnel, “whose neither bodies were retrieved after the war nor did they arrive in the two trains that came from Pakistan as a result of exchange of PoWs after the simla agreement was signed in 1972,” reads the file, information from which has been forwarded to various official departments in both the countries for perusal.
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5 more killed in Bihar
floods Patna, September 9 Five persons are feared drowned in the floods in Hayaghat block of Darbhanga district of north Bihar. The district administration has informed that the five died of drowning while attempting to swim their way to safer places. The district administration has also sent an SOS to the state headquarters for help. In the meantime, the Air Force plane, Gajraj, carrying 100 Army jawans from Gawalior arrived at Patna Airport and they were immediately sent to Saran district where floodwaters entered. Another Air Force plane carrying Army boats is expected today, Relief Department sources said. Incessant rain in entire north and central Bihar for the past three days owing to the low-pressure trough formed over the Bay of Bengal has devastated many flood hit areas. The weather office informed that the trough had moved away from Bihar. Seeing the intensity of flood relief task, the state government has appointed a Special District Magistrate, in Saran district to supervise the flood relief task. The recent floods have engulfed the hitherto districts of Munger, Khagaria, Saran and Darbhanga in its spate. The Army has already taken over the relief work again in Gopalganj as second bout of floods devastated more areas. The incessant rain has increased the floods of the Baghmati, the Gandak and the Koshi as Nepal has been releasing extra water from its dams into the river causing floods in lower reaches in Bihar. Koshi is at its devastating best and already more than 200 houses in Simri Bakhtiarpur, Salkhua and Navhatta have been washed away by the waters. |
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MP sees red on salary hike New Delhi, September 9 In a hard-hitting letter to the minister, Mr Deshmukh questioned the propriety of the Central Government and Mr Mahajan himself of piloting as well securing support of all MPs (except Communists) in both Houses of Parliament in enhancing their salary, while people whom they represented died of starvation. Mr Deshmukh said while presenting the Bill in the Lok Sabha on August 27 for increasing salaries, Mr Mahajan had several times repeated that “I am not introducing this Bill out of guilty conscience.” However, he said while doing this, Mr Mahajan should have been fully aware of the apex court’s observation about the recent spurt in starvation deaths at the same time asking the government to provide food immediately to those unfortunates, who were dying of starvation. He asked Mr Mahajan to secure the support of all MPs in the same manner to get relief for “our unfortunate downtrodden people from their pitiable plight, which could have added to his name and fame in the record of history of parliamentary affairs. While dismissing the argument of some members that their salaries in India were much lower then MPs of many other countries. Mr Deshmukh asked whether in those countries people were dying of starvation. He also deplored the tendency of MPs of taking ‘shelter’ of the Indian Constitution for increasing their salaries and ignore to fulfil their duty according to the Directive Principles. “One of them is that the government must arrange free and compulsory education to all children below the age of 14 years within a span of 10 years,’’ he said.
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Shabir Shah to meet
Pant today New Delhi, September 9 The meeting will take place at Pant’s residence, official sources said today. Pant had earlier held talks with Shah during his visit to Jammu and Kashmir in May to hold talks with various groups there. Shah, who heads the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP), had given certain suggestions to Pant on resolving the Kashmir issue. The JKDFP leader, who is in the capital, is also likely to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
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Foodgrain scheme empowers women Hyderabad, September 9 The Andhra Pradesh Government agreed to provide rice at Rs 6.40 per kg, as fixed for drought-hit areas, and the self-help groups agreed to price it at Rs 7 per kg to cover the interest and cost of transportation, management and savings for the women’s groups. Mr K.S. Gopal of the CEC said the experience with this scheme over the past five months was quite gratifying as ready availability of foodgrains induced a sense of satisfaction and happiness among the beneficiary families, particularly women. Explaining the implications of the success of the scheme for women, Mr Gopal said it was found that women had more time to attend group meetings which, in turn, led to unity among them and expeditious formation of self-help groups. Food security also led to improved family relationships, he added. Mr Gopal said the success of the scheme so far had shown how empowerment of women was closely linked with the food at home. “When they are not sure about their next meal, they are more prone to go in search of food rather than to attend a meeting, however well meaning it may be. If food is readily available, they are under less pressure and ready to participate in community activity”, he added. Mr Gopal said the most important and positive result of the scheme was that it enabled families to reduce their dependence on the open market and moneylenders, besides raising their net income. “Money saving became possible because of low prices compared to the market prices”. Previously, as the quantity of grain supplied through the Public Distribution System was inadequate, they were forced to turn to the open market to meet their needs.
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Dowry menace claims
another life Greater Noida, September 9 According to the police, Kiranwati (26) was married to Bhagirath Singh, a resident of Rampur village in Greater Noida three years ago. After the marriage, the in-laws started demanding a new Maruti car as dowry. Following her failure to fulfil their demand, they started torturing Kiranwati physically and mentally. Yesterday Kiranwati’s in-laws allegedly gave her same poisonous food, resulting in her death. Maraal Singh, brother of deceased, has lodged an FIR against Kiranwati’s husband, father-in-law and brother-in-law. |
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