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May 26, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Pakistan still not
serious: BJP Congress ready for
elections in Gujarat BSP-BJP pact
limited to UP: CM
Maan dam: probe indicts
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Normal monsoon forecast
International film festival
to be held in Delhi Panel on Punjab
Bhavan set up 5 die in mishap No increase in CBSE pass percentage
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Pakistan still not
serious: BJP New Delhi, May 25 “Pakistan instead of heeding world opinion has carried out the missile test and this should make the international community realise that Pakistan is not serious about checking terrorism, specially cross-border activities. In view of this, India needs to take strong action,” party spokesman V.K. Malhotra told newspersons here. Mr Malhotra said while the USA said the Pakistan would not indulge in provocative acts, that country had carried out the missile test “not listening to anybody showing that Gen Pervez Musharraf does not heed world opinion and is continuing to encourage terrorism. It has made no move to hand over the 20 terrorists whose list was given by India months ago. The BJP leader said party cadres were looking at what firm steps the Government was taking to ensure that Pakistan stopped cross- border terrorism. Mr Malhotra also compared the All-India Congress Committee session to a “Kaurav sabha” where Congress leaders merely sang paens of praise for party President Sonia Gandhi. “The flattery of Ms Sonia Gandhi at the AICC session yesterday resembled the Kaurav sabha where Duryodhan was praised and who ultimately was the cause of the downfall of the Kaurvas,” Mr Malhotra told reporters here. He said it appeared the Congress was going back to its earlier days when slogan “Indira is India and India is Indira” coined by then Congress President Dev Kant Barooah rented the country’s air. |
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Congress ready for
elections in Gujarat New Delhi, May 25 Former Chief Minister and Gujarat PCC chief Amarsinh Chaudhary, who was here to attend AICC session, said today that situation had improved after Mr KPS Gill assumed security-related responsibilities in the state. “It seems Mr Gill is not working under pressure. People belonging to the VHP and the Bajrang Dal have also begun to be arrested,” he said. Presenting a different picture of the events leading to Godhra, Mr Chaudhary said that the ‘Kar Sevaks’ aboard Sabarmati Express had been misbehaving with vendors at Railway stations and, in certain cases, not paying them money. He said that there was apprehension of two girls having been abducted from Godhra which led to chain-pulling and subsequent attack on the train. Mr Chaudhary said investigations into the Godhra carnage had ruled out the involvement of any external agency in the attack. Alleging that investigations into the communal violence had pointed to the involvement of three ministers of the Modi government, including the state Home Minister, Mr Chaudhary maintained that Gujarat was engulfed in a communal flare-up because the ruling BJP had suffered reverses in election after election. The PCC chief said that BJP was rattled by the Congress’s gaining control of 22 of the 23 Zila Panchayats, 60 of 210 block panchayats besides the Ahmedabad and Rajkot Municipal Corporations in the recent elections to local bodies. |
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Sunil Dutt heads
Sadbhavana ke Sipahi New Delhi, May 25 In her concluding remarks at the AICC session, the Congress President also announced the setting up of a council of Congress Chief Ministers to discuss issues of development regularly. The Congress President promised to work for improving the lot of small farmers in the Congress-ruled states. She said a code of austerity and ethics for all Congressmen and women would be circulated soon and indicated that another
Pachmarhi-type brainstorming session would be held soon. |
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BSP-BJP pact
limited to UP: CM New Delhi, May 25 Addressing a luncheon press conference here she ruled out further alliance in other states like Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, but said that two parties had reached a consensus prior to the government formation in Uttar Pradesh over supporting the same candidate for the President and the Vice-President. Categorically denying reports that the BSP was to enter into alliance with the BJP in other states also the BSP leader said that as per the agreement, her party would contest next Lok Sabha election in alliance with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh only. Ms Mayawati reiterated that the coalition government in the state was installed to end political instability. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister also denied that there was any resentment among BJP leaders and other allies over her style of functioning. “My government is running smoothly and will last its full five-year term”, she asserted. She came down heavily on her detractors who held that the BSP had changed its ideology to grab power. “The BSP will provide political stability to the state for security and development of Sarvjan Samaj by assimilating all ideologies”, she affirmed. Ms Mayawati also brushed aside allegations of misuse of the Dalit Act against the upper castes. While furnishing comparative data during the regimes of Mr Kalyan Singh, Mr Mulayam Singh and her own government in 1997, she said the cases registered during her rule were much lower. |
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Maan dam: probe indicts govt Bhopal, May 25 A large number of men and women from the 17 villages affected by the Maan dam have been sitting on dharna here for the past 12 days. Four of them, Ram Kuwar, Mangat Ram, Vinod Patwa and Chittaroopa Palit, started indefinite fast on May 21. Meanwhile, an independent inquiry conducted by the Indian People’s Tribunal (IPT) in the dam project has severely indicted the Madhya Pradesh Government for failing to provide just and suitable rehabilitation to the adivasis who are being displaced and whose lands and homes are being demanded from them in the national interest. The inquiry was conducted by a three-member team of IPT comprising Justice G.G. Loney, former Judge of Mumbai High Court, Dr Nandini Sundar, Associate Professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and Mr Vinod Shetty, an advocate practising in the Mumbai High Court. The team held a public hearing on March 17 at Khedi Balwadi, the first village to be affected by the dam. An interim report was released by the IPT the following day. The 62-page final report, released now, says that the state government has violated the stipulations of its own rehabilitation policy, the conditions of environmental clearance and the spirit and letter of all international conventions concerning indigenous and adivasi peoples. The IPT team found that the government was resorting to forcible eviction of the affected people rather than resettling them. It tried to make it impossible for the people to continue living in their villages by destroying whatever little amenities it had provided. |
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Normal monsoon forecast New Delhi, May 25 However, there was a likelihood of a weak to moderate El Nino conditions building up concurrently during monsoon which could have an “adverse impact” on monsoon. “This year, 11 out of 16 model parameters considered for monsoon prediction are favourable and indications are that the south-west monsoon rainfall for 2002 is likely to be normal”, Director-General of the IMD, Dr R.R. Kelkar, told newspersons. Dr Kelkar said the El Nino conditions were being closely monitored even as he said the previous strong El Nino conditions did not have too much of an adverse impact on monsoon in India. Over the broad homogeneous regions of the country, ranifall for the south-west monsoon (June to September) is likely to be 104 per cent, of its long period average (LPA) over north-west India, 99 per cent of the LPA over the peninsula and 100 per cent of the LPA over north-east. He said meteorological divisions of the country have been restructured and with the addition of Chhatisgarh, there were 36 meteorological divisions in the country. |
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International film festival
to be held in Delhi New Delhi, May 25 Sources in the Directorate of Film Festivals told The Tribune here that the 10-day festival expected to begin on October 1 will have the Asian film competition which is held every alternate year. The organisers are expecting 3,000 delegates from over 40 countries for the festival. The last international film festival scheduled to be held in Bangalore in November was cancelled due to drought in Karnataka and the slump after the terrorist strikes in New York on September 11. Sources said they were in the process of writing to Asian film directors and film-makers representing cinema from other parts of the world. The organisers had already invited entries for feature films and documentaries for the Indian Panorama section and the national film awards. The last date for sending entries for the Indian Panorama section and the national film awards is June 17. The jury selects 21 feature films and 21 documentaries produced by film-makers and students of film institutes for the Indian Panorama section. The Asian film competition likely to be open to about 15 countries, including China, Korea, Moscow and Sri Lanka offers three cash awards. These include two awards of Rs five lakh each for the best film and the best jury award of Rs 2.5 lakh. This year, there would be a common jury for the National Film awards and the Indian Panorama section. Sources in the Directorate of Film Festivals told The Tribune that the festival was likely to cost the government Rs 3 crore. Sources said most films for delegates would be screened at Siri Fort auditorium. The venue for public screening at four other theatres would be decided by the theatre committee of the festival. Shankar Mohan, Deputy Director, Directorate of Film Festivals who had recently returned from the Cannes International Film Festival said, he renewed contacts with film-makers from Europe and the USA. “Film-makers in Europe and the USA sell their international sales rights. So, our task is to find out the right holders and the sub right holders to invite them to our festival.”
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Panel on Punjab
Bhavan set up New Delhi, May 25 Chief Minister Amarinder Singh announced the setting up of the committee during his visit to the bhavan yesterday. Headed by Finance and Food Supply Minister Lal Singh, it comprises PWD Minister P.S.
Bajwa, Minister of State for Public Health J.S. Randhawa, Chief Secretary
Y.S. Ratra and Principal Resident Commissioner J.S Maini. |
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5 die in mishap Dehra dun, May 25 The accident occurred when a private jeep, on way from Bharadi to
Sharan, met with an accident between Godhighat and Sharan in the morning. Of the 14 occupants of the jeep, four died on the spot, while one died on way to Almora hospital. |
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No increase in CBSE pass percentage New Delhi, May 25 Girls outperformed boys with their 80.86 pass percentage as compared to the 70.91 of the boys. |
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