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May 22, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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India not to lower guard:
George Hindi deserves better status: Vajpayee |
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Karunanidhi’s
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Make marital offences compoundable: HC 10 killed in storm
TRAIN FIRE DDA SCAM 14 pc
jobs for upper castes in Rajasthan Indian relief teams for
Sri Lanka Rail concessions for disabled Sonia Gandhi reallocates work
Sonia writes to PM on drought relief BSF, BDR agree for joint patrolling
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India not to lower guard: George New Delhi, May 21 Pointing out that India was still trying to verify the information regarding the closing down of the terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Defence Minister said the progress of the peace moves should not be linked to measuring daily infiltration levels on the Line of Control (LoC). “Infiltration levels cannot be a barometer for the peace progress. There is a movement forward”, Mr Fernandes said while again pointing out that confidence building was a long exercise. Welcoming Pakistan’s move of banning two terrorist organisations in PoK, the Defence Minister declared that there would be no lowering of guard on India’s part. He added that the anti-insurgency operations would continue. He dismissed suggestions that there was any contradiction on the part of government agencies in gauging the infiltration levels. Various measures put in to ease tension needed time to fructify, he added. Mr Fernandes was speaking here after releasing a book “Kashmir; Peace or War” by Pyare Lal
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Hindi deserves better status: Vajpayee Lucknow, May 21 Addressing a function to present awards to eminent Hindi writers and poets by the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan for the year 2001, Mr Vajpayee said even though only two to three per cent of the country’s population was well versed with English, it influenced and dominated other languages. “While every country in the world has promoted its own language along with English, we in India have concentrated more on English than our mother tongues’’, he lamented. He further said that primary education in the country should be imparted in the mother tongue instead of English. Maintaining that recognition to Hindi on the international front would be hard to come, the PM said technically it would be difficult to include the language in the United Nations. Admitting that Hindi did not get the required uplift, he claimed the language had still developed a lot in the past five decades. “People can forget anyone but the books written by these eminent personalities are immortal’’, he added. Earlier, 48 eminent Hindi writers were honourned on the occasion by Mr Vajpayee, state Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri and Chief Minister Mayawati. The prestigious Bharat Bharati award was given to Acharya Rammurti Tripathi. Ms Mayawati announced a new “Balmiki” literature from next year. Among the prominent ones who received the awards were Mr Daya Prakash Sinha
(Lohia Sahitya Samman), Pt Krishna Ballabh Dwivedi (Hindi Gaurav
Samman) and Asha Rani Vora (Avantibai Samman). Mr Vajpayee also gave away the Pandit Krishna Bihari Vajpayee (his father) award to Udit Kumar Rajput and Renu
Agarwal. UNI |
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Karunanidhi’s son arrested Madurai, May 21 After being interrogated by the police, Azhagiri was remanded
in judicial custody by a local magistrate and taken to Central Prison at
Tiruchirappalli, about 150 km from here. PTI |
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Congress remembers Rajiv New Delhi, May 21 Party leaders namely Mr Arjun Singh, Mr Natwar Singh, Mr Ahmed Patel, Mr Oscar Fernandes, Mr Anil Shastri, Ms Shiela Dikshit and a number of her colleagues were among those who offered floral tributes to the portrait of the leader at a function here. Congress leaders across Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry paid tributes to Rajiv in Chennai. The day was observed as Anti-Terrorism Day across the country. Leaders also garlanded a statue of the former prime minister at Sriperumbudur, the place where he was assassinated on May 21, 1991. In Kanpur, separate functions were held at the party office and other organisations. The Home Ministry observed the day with ministry’s staff taking a pledge to promote peace and social harmony and fight forces of disruption. Minister of State for Home I.D. Swami administered a pledge to staff and employees of the Home Ministry to “uphold and promote peace, social harmony and understanding among all fellow human beings and fight the forces of disruption threatening human lives and values.” Meanwhile, the Janata Party President, Dr Subramanian Swamy, today accused the Congress of maintaining “silence” on the issue of extradition of LTTE supremo Prabhakaran and wanted to know why the party was “shy” on the issue. He said the government should beef up vigil against LTTE activities. |
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Make marital offences compoundable: HC New Delhi, May 21 Suggesting that the probe into a dowry case be vested with the civil authorities like executive magistrate rather than the police, Mr Justice J.D. Kapoor said the trial courts take cognizance of such complaints only after receiving the report from the magistrate. The courts below should proceed only on the basis of the investigation done by the executive magistrate or any such civil authority for offences committed under Section 406 (misappropriation of dowry articles) and Section 498-A (harassment for dowry) of the IPC, the High Court said. Till such a provision was made in the law, no police officer below the rank of ACP and DCP should be given the authority to investigate the dowry related offences, the High Court said, adding that no minor children, named in the complaint, should be arrested or produced before the court for taking cognizance of the alleged crime against him/her. “The arrest of children ruins their future and lowers their self-esteem,” Mr Justice Kapoor observed. The order came on an appeal challenging a trial court decision to frame charge of dowry harassment only against the husband and father-in-law and the charge of misappropriation of dowry against the husband alone and not against other members of his family. Upholding the March 13 order of the trial judge, the High Court said the non-acceptance of the gifts by the brother-in-law and sisters-in-law of the bride did not amount to harassment or cruelty as contemplated under Section 498-A of the
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10 killed in storm Kolkata, May 21 Three persons, including a woman, were killed when the roof of a portion of a Kali temple collapsed at Char Majhdia Government Colony in Nadia, district police sources said.
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TRAIN FIRE New Delhi, May 21 At a function held in the South Block, General Vij gave the Chief’s Commendation Card and Rs 5,000 to Hav Bhagwan Singh and Hav A.D. Singh of 119 Assault Engineer Regiment. Praising the two men, General Vij said the Army was proud to have such men who had put their lives at great risk to rescue so many people from the burning coaches of the train. The two were members of a party of six persons moving from Chandigarh to Khem Karan by the Amritsar-bound Frontier Mail. They boarded the train at Ambala Cantonment on May 15 around 1 a.m. and were in coach S-3. At 4 a.m. after crossing Ludhiana railway station, they heard people shouting “fire fire” and running into their coach from the adjoining bogie S-4. Showing presence of mind, the two Army men immediately pulled the chain and brought the train to a halt. They helped panic-stricken passengers to disembark and continued doing so till it became too suffocating. They then succeeded in entering the burning coach S-4. Showing exceptional courage, they rescued two children, a woman and a man from the S-4. Realising that if coach S-2 was not decoupled, the casualty rate would increase, they assisted the train guard to decouple coach S-2 and brought the engine and the rest of the coaches to a safe distance. The two then rushed to the rear coach S-5 and tried to douse of fire in coach S-6, taking help from other passengers. |
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DDA SCAM New Delhi, May 21 Lawyer Sidharth Luthra, appearing for one of the DDA official mentioned the matter bebore a Bench headed by Chief Justice B.C. Patel pleading that the bail application should be heard today, the Bench said the file relating to the case had not yet reached it. The bail applications of sacked DDA vice-chairman Subhash Sharma, two other officials — Anand Mohan Sharan and Jagdish Chander — have been rolling from one court to another as two of the judges have refused to hear them. |
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pc jobs for upper castes in Rajasthan Jaipur, May 21 The decision was taken this afternoon at a meeting of the state Cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. The
government would write to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to
effect the necessary constitutional amendment for granting reservation
to the upper castes, raising the total under the reserved category to
63 per cent, Mr Gehlot told reporters. UNI |
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Indian relief teams for
Sri Lanka New Delhi, May 21 An Army spokesman said here two IL-76 aircraft carrying teams of Army medical mobile units and Army engineers, carrying heavy bridging equipment, had left for Colombo from Secundrabad and Allahabad. |
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Rail concessions for disabled New Delhi, May 21 An official release said 50 per cent concession in AC 2-tier and AC first class and 75 per cent in sleeper, first, AC chair car and AC 3-tier Mail/Express fares to thalassaemia, cancer, heart and kidney patients. Disabled persons like orthopaedically-handicapped, deaf and dump, blind and mentally retarded persons are also granted concession in fares subject to certain terms and conditions. |
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Sonia Gandhi reallocates work New Delhi, May 21 Mr Jameet Singh Brar, who was earlier attached to CWC member Vilasrao Deshmukh for states of Chhattisgarh and Gujarat, is now an unattached Secretary. Similarly, Mr K.K. Sharma, who was earlier Secretary with General Secretary Mohsina Kidwai for Punjab, Assam and Chandigarh, is now an unattached Secretary. Of the 28 AICC Secretaries, seven are unattached. They are likely to be assigned specific jobs in five states which face elections later this year.
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Sonia writes to PM on drought relief New Delhi, May 21 “Unless timely steps are instituted immediately, there could be a severe intensification of drought-related distress and shortages in many parts of the country in the coming months,” Ms Gandhi said in a letter to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. She accused the Centre of not taking adequate steps to check drought-related distress. |
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BSF, BDR agree for joint patrolling New Delhi, May 21 A decision, which is likely to be implemented by July, was taken during the recent India-Bangladesh border coordination meeting held at Dhaka, BSF Directon-General Ajai Raj Sharma disclosed here yesterday. “It was decided to firm up the modalities for joint patrolling by the end of June so that it can be implemented from July,” Mr Sharma said. |
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