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Punjab to seek heritage status for Golden
Temple PM convenes CRA meeting
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RSS for consensus to ban cow
slaughter Umbrella legislation on labour
soon Naidu inaugurates
BJP conference Thackeray refuses to meet
Nair NSG joins hunt for Veerappan CPM flays US air raid on Iraq Amarinder Singh hospitalised Salman moves HC
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Punjab to seek heritage status for Golden
Temple New Delhi, September 7 State Culture and Tourism Minister Ashwani Sekri, who was here to attend a tourism ministers’ conference, said the state government had already contacted the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) for elaborate documentation work on the Golden Temple. A local commitee, comprising members from the SGPC, Amritsar Deputy Commissioner, the city Mayor, a historian and a cultural affairs expert from Guru Nanak Dev University, has also been constituted, he said. The committee, he said, would collect relevant material on the history of the Golden Temple, the cultural heritage of the city and the works of Sikh Gurus. Around 20 sites have been declared as “world heritage” by UNESCO. Mr Sekri met Union Tourism Minister Jagmohan and Minister of State for Tourism Vinod Khanna, who is also an MP from Punjab. Talking to The Tribune, Mr Sekri said the Centre had agreed to include Amritsar among the 26 integrated tourism development circuits which would be promoted internationally. As part of the infrastructure development at Amritsar, for which Rs 8 crore have been sought from the Centre, provision of light and sound arrangements would be made at the Jallianwala Bagh, Durgiana Temple would be beautified and more facilities created at historical places like Ram Tirath and Ram Bagh. While a big bird sanctuary would be set up at Hare-ke-Pattan at the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas near Amritsar, a duty-free shop was proposed to be set up at the Amritsar international airport. Mr Sekri said a heritage village was proposed to be set up on the Guru Nanak Dev University campus in Amritsar. He said while pilgrim tourism would be promoted at Anandpur Sahib, Patiala would be developed as a heritage and culture center. Mr Sekri said the state government would hold zonal and state level cultural competitions to encourage talent, specially in the rural areas. |
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PM convenes CRA meeting today New Delhi, September 7 The Chief Ministers of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry are the members of the CRA, the apex decision-making authority in the dispute. Earlier today, efforts to hammer out a distress-sharing formula by the Cauvery Monitoring Committee failed with Tamil Nadu ruling out the acceptance of any quantity below the Supreme Court-directed 1.25 TMC ft of water daily. No consensus could be reached on the issue, Water Resources Secretary A.K. Goswamy said after a marathon meeting with Chief Secretaries of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Pondicherry held in the wake of a ruling given by the apex court earlier this week. Mr Goswami said since “no final conclusion” could be arrived, Karnataka made an offer proposing releases from its reservoirs at an average of 8,000 cusecs per day at Mettur reservoir in Tamil Nadu for September and October. “The Tamil Nadu Government insisted on 1.25 TMC ft per day as ordered by the Supreme Court,” he said. MANDYA: Protests against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu were marred by violence in Mandya on Saturday as angry mobs threw burning tyres on a railway platform, pelted stones injuring seven policemen and continued to block the Bangalore-Mysore road traffic for the third day. As Mandya district observed a bandh to protest the release of 1.25 TMC ft of water in line with the Supreme Court verdict, irate mobs ransacked the railway office, damaging the ticket counter, computer room and the Station Master’s office, the police said.
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Clearance for Hawks after PM’s
return New Delhi, September 7 While confirming that the proposal had been received by the CCS, Defence Minister George Fernandes told reporters last night that it would formally be taken up for discussion by the CCS after the return of the Prime Minister. The CCS was earlier expected to give its clearance to the deal this week as the Prime Minister is scheduled to leave for the USA on September 9. However, although the CCS met earlier in the week, it did not take up the proposal for discussion. The Defence Minister confirmed that India had decided to opt for the acquisition of 66 British Aerospace Hawks jet trainers which would come at a cost of over Rs 5,000 crore. “It is going to be Hawks and there are no other contenders for the contract,” the minister said, adding that price negotiations for the deal had been concluded. The Indian Air Force will receive the Hawks in batches with the first 22 to be picked up off the shelf and delivered by next year. Defence Ministry officials said though the trainers would be received in batches, these would all be upgraded versions. They said details of setting up of an assembly line for the Hawks were still under discussion. As part of the deal, India has opted for assembling the rest of the 44 Hawks here and for manufacturing another 134 jets in the coming years under a transfer of technology agreement. |
RSS for consensus to ban cow
slaughter New Delhi, September 7 While the common minimum programme of the NDA emphasised on the importance of an agriculture-based economy, there was a need to evolve a consensus among all political parties on the issue of banning cow slaughter, Mr Sudarshan said while addressing a two-day convention on cattle wealth based economy at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here. He suggested that while the Congress could move a Constitutional amendment in this regard, BJP and other parties could support it. “People’s movement should be strengthened to pressurise political parties,” he said. The RSS chief also demanded that the government implement the recommendations of the National Cattle Commission. Mr Sudarshan blamed the country’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru for adopting the western model of development at the cost of the rural economy. In his address, Union Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi said the problem of malnutrition among women and children in the country was grave. Stating that India was the first country to carry out agricultural revolution centuries back, he said: “Indian scientists will have to overcome their mental slavery” and evolve an alternative model of development based on Indian needs and realities. |
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Umbrella legislation on labour
soon New Delhi, September 7 Releasing the voluminous two-part Second Labour Commission report here, the Labour Minister said he would hold discussions with trade unions, employers’ organisations, political parties and others to evolve a consensus on the recommendations and umbrella legislation. Stressing the need for such a legislation, Dr Verma said while there were 200 odd central and state labour laws, almost 97 per cent of the country’s workforce remained in the unorganised sector. The long-awaited report of the Second Labour Commission had recommended, among other things, steps to check the multiplicity of trade unions, reduction in the number of holidays and empowering employers to lay off and retrench without prior permission. The commission, headed by Mr Virendra Verma, also sought a comprehensive legislation relating to working conditions at workplaces and another for the unorganised sector, besides asking the Centre to notify a national floor level minimum wage, giving the state governments powers to fix the minimum wage which should not be below the national level. A two-day meeting of Indian Labour Conference, to be attended by state Labour Ministers, employees’ and employers’ organisations, would be held here on September 28-29 to discuss the full recommendations of the labour panel. The commission, which was set up in October 1999, submitted the 1751-page report to the government in June this year. |
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Naidu inaugurates
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Kolkata, September 7 The credibility of the party has gone down on account of the Tehelka expose, Gujarat riots and the issue of the holding of Assembly elections the LPG agency and petrol station distribution scandal and the alleged involvement of Union Minister Pramod Mahajan in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar.
Mr Naidu claimed at a crowded press conference here last evening that the purpose of the conference was to dispel all misgivings and counter propaganda against the Vajpayee government. |
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Thackeray refuses to meet Nair
Mumbai, September 7 Mr Nair went to meet Mr Thackeray at his “Matoshree” residence but the Sena chief did not see him. Mr Thackeray’s secretary, however, accepted a letter from the producer and said the Sena chief would get back to him, Mr Nair’s spokesman said.
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NSG joins hunt for Veerappan Bangalore, September 7 Police sources here said the NSG force, numbering 150 men, arrived here this morning by a special flight and immediately left for Ramapura.
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CPM flays US air raid on Iraq New Delhi, September 7 In a strongly worded statement, the CPM Politburo said the USA had attacked Iraq despite an almost universal disapproval of the move. |
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Amarinder Singh hospitalised New Delhi, September 7 Dr H.S. Wazir, Medical Adviser to the hospital, who is attending to the Chief Minister, said Capt Amarinder Singh had come for a “routine medical check-up.” He said the Chief Minister was under observation and was likely to be discharged tomorrow. |
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Salman moves HC Jodhpur, September 7 Filing a special petition in the court here yesterday, Khan contended that the Judicial Magistrate had erred in taking cognisance of the charge sheet.
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The Punjab Government will approach UNESCO for securing world heritage status for the Golden Temple at Amritsar.
State Culture and Tourism Minister Ashwani Sekri, who was here to attend a tourism ministers’ conference, said the state government had already contacted the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage for elaborate documentation work on the Golden Temple.
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