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July 22, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Mulayam accuses Centre of misusing
CBI Rahman for settlement of Kashmir
issue Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav with
pro-Taliban Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam general secretary UK seeks letters rogatory on
Quattrocchi NORTH INDIA IN
PARLIAMENT RS mourns death of two
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Raids yielded no evidence:
Sukhbir NCM to submit paper on riot control At last, kin
of riot victims get relief Teachers’ selection: SC directive to
Chautala Govt working on new sugarcane package Jyotishpeeth seer courts arrest
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Mulayam accuses Centre of misusing
CBI New Delhi, July 21 Addressing mediapersons at an early morning press conference, the Samajwadi Party leader said the Central Government had misused the CBI to “dilute” the chargesheet against Mr Advani and another Union Minister, Mr Murli Manohar Joshi, in the Babri Masjid demolition case. In an apparent reference to the Opposition’s move to bring an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha, Mr Yadav said, “The CBI is an independent body and the Centre is misusing it to serve its political objective”. The Opposition parties had yesterday decided to bring an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha on the issue of “misuse” of the CBI by the government. Mr Yadav also alleged that a private contractor was involved in the controversial Taj project. He said this should be exposed by the CBI during the course of its probe. Alleging the involvement of Chief Minister Mayawati in the project, he said the Union Tourism Ministry also did not pay much attention to the controversy surrounding the project. |
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Rahman for settlement of Kashmir
issue New Delhi, July 21 The Jamiat-e-Ulema leader, who is in India on a five-day goodwill visit, had an hour-long meeting with Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav at his residence here this morning and later said that all political parties in Pakistan too favoured talks to resolve the issue. Maulana Rahman said efforts must be made to reach a settlement. “Since the people of Pakistan and India still nurture a feeling of friendliness towards each other, we must strive to reach a settlement,” he said, adding that he would return to Islamabad with a message of love and friendship from New Delhi. The Samajwadi Party leader also said that the talks with the Pakistani leader were fruitful. “The people of India and Pakistan love each other. Maulana Rahman is visiting India to bring the people of both countries closer,” he said. Asked whether the issue of mosque at Ayodhya figured in the meeting, Mr Yadav shot back that there was no point raising the issue of mosque at this moment. Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh also had similar views on the issue and said this was not the occasion to raise the issue. New Delhi, July 21
Rahman meets RSS leaders New Delhi, July 21 |
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UK seeks letters rogatory on
Quattrocchi New Delhi, July 21 Confirming the receipt of a communique from the British authorities in this regard, a CBI official said today that the agency was confident of meeting the deadline. “All
necessary procedures and steps are being taken to ensure that the
letters rogatory reaches the British authorities,” he said. The letters rogatory had been obtained from the court holding trial in the case. The British authorities had said the account in a London bank of Mr Quattrocchi had been frozen till July 22, by which time they expected to receive the letters rogatory. The
CBI had earlier requested the British Government to freeze Quattrochhi’s
account after getting information from Interpol in London that it had
traced a bank account. Interpol had issued a red-corner notice against Quattrocchi at the request of the CBI, seeking his extradition for trial in the Bofors case. Quattrocchi
was facing an extradition trial in Malaysia. After the CBI’s appeal
was rejected by the lower court and high court in Kuala Lumpur, the
Italian businessman had left that country and was believed to be in
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NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT New Delhi, July 21 A small area of the state had been shifted and there would be no reduction in the foodgrain production due to this shifting, the minister added. Opium cultivation: On the Himachal Pradesh Government’s request to allow cultivation of opium poppy, the minister said as signatory to UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, the cultivation of opium was restricted to notified tracts in three states — Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Existing stock of opium, was far in excess of the domestic and export requirements, so no permission was being granted to Himachal for its proposal to cultivate poppy and cannabis for industrial hemp. Cold stores:
In reply to another question, Mr Yadav informed the House that no proposal had been received from Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Jammu and Kashmir for setting up more cold stores in the state He said cold stores were being set up in these states under a Central scheme, which called for 716 cold stores creating an additional capacity of 31.79 lakh MT with a subsidy to the tune of Rs 227.40 crore had been sanctioned in the country. Airport expansion: The Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy, informed the Lok Sabha that land was required for increasing the runway length of Kulu-Manali airport by diversion/ draining of river. The state government had appointed a committee of experts to give confirmed opinion either for river draining or construction of bridge over the Beas river. |
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RS mourns death of two
members New Delhi, July 21 Remembering a Muslim League member from Kerala, Korambayil Ahammed
Haji, and a Congress member from Chhattisgarh, Bhagatram Manhar, Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat described them as distinguished parliamentarians and said their deaths had created a void which would be difficult to fill. The Chairman also condoled the deaths of former members Kishori Ram, Pasumpon Tha
Kiruttinan, Indradeep Sinha and Premilabai Dajisaheb Chavan. The House also mourned the deaths of those killed in the fire on the Golden Temple Express in Punjab and the derailment of the holiday special at Konkan and Golconda Express at
Warangal. It also condoled deaths in flash floods at Kulu in Himachal Pradesh and the earthquake in Algeria. As a mark of respect to the dead, the members stood in silence for a minute before the House was adjourned. |
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Raids yielded no evidence:
Sukhbir New Delhi, July 21 Accusing Chief Minister Amarinder Singh of launching a witch-hunt against Akali leaders without any basis, Mr Sukhbir Badal, MP, said the raids on Orbit Resorts failed to unearth anything incriminatory. “Sixteen months of his so- called anti-corruption movement has bitten the dust as his own colleagues are mired in various corruption charges,” he said in a statement here. Stating that the state government was “overflowing with corruption,” Mr Sukhbir Badal asked, “Why does not the state government interrogate the serious charges against the state Irrigation Minister, levelled by the Irrigation Secretary?” |
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NCM to submit paper on riot control New Delhi, July 21 The seven-member commission, headed by its Chairperson, Mr Tarlochan Singh, called on Mr Jaitley here today and drew his attention to doubts raised on the role of the investigating agency in the Best Bakery case. The commission said a mechnism would have to be evolved to prevent witnesses from turning hostile. |
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At last, kin
of riot victims get relief Mumbai, July 21 It was a touching moment for 15 families, who received a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each from the Congress-led Democratic Front (DF) government nearly a decade after the worst-ever communal flare up, here today. Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies Mohd Naseem Khan, along with suburban collectors, handed over cheques to families of missing persons in his chamber at Mantralaya. Mr Khan said the families of missing persons would get a cheque of Rs 30,000 while the rest would be deposited in the post office. —
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Teachers’ selection: SC directive to
Chautala New Delhi, July 21 A Bench comprising Mr Justice R.C. Lahoti and Mr Justice Ashok Bhan gave three weeks time to the Chief Minister and the Haryana Government after their counsel made a request for the same. Mr Sanjiv Kumar, in his rejoinder to the state government and Mr Chautala’s earlier reply, stuck to his allegations in his main petition against the Chief Minister that he was “pressurised” to change the selection lists for the appointment of 4,000 primary school teachers in 19 districts in 2000, which he did not oblige. The Chief Minister and the state government, in the earlier replies, had refuted the allegations contending that at no stage any “second selection” list was prepared. But the court had sought counter-affidavits from them to the rejoinder, filed by Mr Sanjiv Kumar. Six candidates, who could not make it to the selection lists, had also filed a petition, alleging that Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh were demanded from them at the behest of Chief Minister’s OSD Vidyadhar and each of them had paid Rs 10,000 in advance to two politicians through whom the money was demanded. |
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Govt working on new sugarcane package New Delhi, July 21 Mr Yadav, Union Agriculture Minister, Rajnath Singh and Minister of State H.N. Yadav met Union Finance Minister Jaswant Singh to work out a financial package to deal with the opposition expressed by Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Last week, after a meeting presided over by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Centre had announced a Rs 609-crore package for cane growers of states under the SAP regime. The new package would include non-SAP states also, the minister said. Sources said the suggested all-India outlook would balloon the financial bill. Meanwhile, Mr Rajnath Singh informed the Lok Sabha that arrears worth Rs 3218.33 crore were due to sugarcane growers in the country. Of this, the arrears due to Punjab and Haryana farmers were Rs 228.21 crore and Rs 128.78 crore, respectively. |
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Jyotishpeeth seer courts arrest New Delhi, July 21 Marching under the banner of Akhil Bharatiya Sarvadaliya Goraksha Mahabhiyan Samiti (ABSGMS) from Jantar Mantar, the protesters also raised slogan. Earlier, addressing the gathering, Shankaracharya Madhavashram, national president of the samiti, said the government should resign if it failed to bring a comprehensive legislation in the monsoon session of Parliament
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Pakistani hardliner Maulana Fazlur Rahman today reiterated that he was in the favour of negotiated settlement of the Kashmir issue between the two neighbouring countries.
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