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March 1, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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UP Budget session begins amidst
uproar Drug trafficking has picked up:
UN SC stays trial proceedings against
Jaya
Nine Maoists
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Indo-US cooperation on nuclear safety Karzai’s India visit deferred
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UP Budget session begins amidst
uproar Lucknow, February 28 As soon as the House began the opposition members showed back flags to the Governor asking him to go back. “We will not listen to the murder of democracy,” shouted Opposition leaders as some of the members threw paper missiles at the Governor. After Governor completed the formality, Speaker Kesari Nath Tripathi adjourned the House for the day. The Governor in his speech showcased the development of the state government saying that the law and order situation has improved with the arrest of criminals in the last few months. He also touched the Ayodhya issue saying that the government would follow the court order in this issue in letter and in spirit. Later, the leader of Opposition Mohd Azam Khan and a senior SP leader told mediapersons that the ruling coalition would create ‘problems’ in the House. “I do not rule out any possibility of violence inside the House,” he said. He said that the SP would support the no-confidence motion against the Speaker brought by the Congress in the House. |
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Drug trafficking has picked up:
UN New Delhi, February 28 The International Narcotics Control Board’s (INCB) annual report for 2002 said that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan had registered a steep rise with 3,400 tonnes of opium produced in Afghanistan last year followed by Myanmar and Laos. The UN has also urged countries in South Asia to mount a heightened vigil on drug trafficking and ignore the temporary lull in the trade due to increased border security between India and Pakistan. This indicated that the traffic routes had merely been diverted as a consequence of Indo-Pak tensions and the state of disrepair in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, its ouster and the aftermath. However, now that peace and the refugees were returning to the country, poppy cultivation had picked up given the general “poverty and privations of the Afghani people with the ravages of war,” INCB member M.M. Bhatnagar said. According to the UN narcotics watchdog: “The subject of terrorism has come to the forefront of discussions in national and regional forums dealing with drug control issues.” It pointed to the January 2002 SAARC forum which acknowledged the narco-terrorism link and reaffirmation to strengthen the SAARC Terrorist Offences Monitoring Desk and SAARC Drug Offences Monitoring Desk. As a result, new routes had opened up in the subcontinent and around 80 per cent of the consignments seized in India last year were meant for Sri Lanka and from there to Europe. The report said, ‘’In Sri Lanka, the conflict with the Tamil Tigers has absorbed law enforcement and military capacities and has prevented more adequate patrolling of the country’s 1,100 miles of coastline. |
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SC stays trial proceedings against Jaya New Delhi, February 28 A Bench comprising Justice S. Rajendra Babu and Justice B.N. Agrawal, while staying the trial proceedings in two cases before Chennai courts, issued notice to the Union Government on DMK General Secretary K. Anbazhagan’s plea for transfer of the cases from Chennai to any other place outside Tamil Nadu. The notices were also issued to Ms Jayalalithaa, Director-General of the Police, Ms Jayalalithaa’s confidante Sasikala and four others. Appearing for the petitioner, senior advocate
T.R. Andhyarujina submitted that “if the state government, which is headed by Ms Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister, is to be in charge of the conduct of the prosecution of the case, in which she figures as an accused, it will result in the negation of justice and rule of law”.
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Nine Maoists
arrested Patna, February 28 All these Maoists would be deported to Nepal as per India’s agreement with the Himalayan kingdom, official said. Officials said the MCC was providing safe shelter to the Nepalese Maoists on Indian soil who were on the run from Nepal because of the crackdown of Nepalese Army against them. Nepalese Maoists flee to India for safety and MCC men provide them safe haven here and that was why the police here conduct periodic raids to nab them. The officials were checking the factsheets after the arrests of important Nepalese Maoists to ascertain whether their game plan also included harming Indian interests. |
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Indo-US cooperation on nuclear safety New Delhi, February 28 Mr Richard A. Meserve, Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who is on a six-day visit here, told reporters that the two countries agreed to renew the relationship on nuclear safety
cooperation and have resumed dialogue in this regard. |
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Karzai’s India visit deferred New Delhi, February 28 His visit is being rescheduled, sources said. Mr Karzai, who was to arrive tonight ,was slated to hold wide-ranging discussions with the Prime Minister.
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