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BJP on river-linking issue Bar BJP nominee,
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Cheating by politicians on the rise: Lyngdoh
New Delhi, November 30 Observing that there was need to change the system, Mr Lyngdoh said “we need better people in power and it is up to the voters to insist on getting better people”. Replying to a question in an interview to “Indian Currents” magazine on the Chhattisgarh Government’s controversial programme of distributing schoolbags with pictures of Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, the CEC said “tomorrow somebody will outdo him (Jogi). These are all little tricks of politicians, irrespective of their political affiliations”. About the effectiveness of affidavits by candidates detailing criminal cases pending against them and assets, Mr Lyngdoh said: “Let us see. It is too early to say whether it has any lasting effect. I hope it has. We hope at least it may trigger some public debate on the merit of candidates, People are beginning to debate.....” With the assembly elections in four states tomorrow, Mr Lyngdoh hinted that the assembly poll in Andhra Pradesh could be held in the last week of March. “They (Andhra Pradesh Government) have every right to make a request and obviously the EC will try to hold the election as early as it can. In this case, it can’t be earlier than March. We can hold it in the last week of March,” he said. Anyway, I will not be there to monitor that election. I am retiring in early February,” the CEC said. Mr Lyngdoh, a Magsaysay award winner, said that Penguin Books wanted him to write a book on Kashmir elections. “I have finished work on it and it will be published in April”.
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Cong leader flays BJP on river-linking issue New Delhi, November 30 “This idea, we also mooted in seventies, but was given up, as a realisation dawned that due to the paucity of power, water could not be pumped over the mountain nor tunnels could be dug for hundreds of miles... Besides, it would result in large-scale displacement,” Mr Mahajan, also a senior Supreme Court lawyer, told The Tribune. The Congress leader, who has been taking up the cases of Bhakra Dam and Pong Dam oustees, a majority of whom had been fighting legal battles for their rehabilitation for the past 40 years, said, “I have no doubt that this ‘Tuglakan’ project will be abandoned half way through even by the NDA government, which is trying to make it as a big issue, even in the ongoing Assembly polls.” Criticising the BJP for taking up the matter in a casual way, he said it would not only prove “disastrous” to the economy of the country considering the fact that the total estimated cost had been put at nearly Rs 50,000 crore, it would bring “misery to millions of people to be uprooted.” “The human misery caused by the construction of dams like Bhakra, Tehri, Sardar Sarovar and Pong indicates that the rehabilitation of the displaced persons has never been considered an important component.” |
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Bar BJP nominee, pleads Shiv Sena
New Delhi, November 30 In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, the party’s state unit President, Mr Jai Bhagwan Goel, alleged that the BJP candidate from Karawal Nagar in north-east Delhi, Mr Mohan Singh Bisht, was booked by the police on charges of attempting to commit culpable homicide, wrongful confinement and common intention. In the letter a copy of which was released to the Press, the Shiv Sena said Bisht was sentenced by a Karkardooma court on September 23, 1995 to a month’s imprisonment, if he did not pay a fine of Rs 1,000. The party also alleged that the Gokulpuri Police had also registered an FIR against him in a case of eve-teasing.
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Ex-commissioner quizzed again Mumbai, November 30 He was called as he was unavailable for questioning yesterday due to personal commitments, the police said here. Incidentally, today was Mr
R.S. Sharma’s last day in police service. He was transferred to the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation as security chief after his role in the fake scam scandal came to light. Sources here say the decision to question him was taken after another police official
S.M. Mushriff provided information in this regard to investigators during questioning. Mushriff had levelled a number of allegations against Mr
R.S. Sharma and even accused him of tampering with investigations into the scam during his tenure as Police Commissioner of Pune in 2002 when the scam was unearthed. The special investigating team looking into the fake stamp case is planning to initiate criminal proceedings against Mr
R.S. Sharma, sources here say. NASIK: Three Currency Note Press (CNP) employees, including a store department officer, were suspended in connection with the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam, sources said here on Sunday. Three employees in the press’s store department were suspended yesterday after 10 reams of water-mark paper, being used to print currency notes, was found missing a few years ago, CNP sources said, adding that the search is on find the missing paper. With this the total number of suspensions in both Indian Security Press and CNP have gone to seven. |
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3 Indians among 46 detained Pudukkottai (Tamil Nadu), November 30 The 46 people were taken into custody at the Delt Island, where the boat was intercepted at the midnight of November 24, according to delayed reports reaching the police headquarters here. The Lankan refugees, staying in different camps in Tamil Nadu, left their respective camps without any prior permission to the camp authorities and reached the Jagadapatnam coast in the district on November 24. Later, they chartered the boat and left the Delt Island at midnight the same day, where they were detained. After preliminary inquiries, they were handed over to Jaffna police station. The External Affairs Ministry had been informed by the authorities.
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33 to get Sangeet Natak awards
Chennai, November 30 The selection was made at the General Council meeting of the Akademi in Chennai yesterday. The other awardees are — Music: Yashwant Bua Joshi (Hindustani Music vocal), Arvind Paresh (Hindustani music instrumental sitar), Bhavani Shankar (Hindustani music instrumental pakhawaj), M.A. Narasimhachar (Carnatic music vocal), A. Kanyakumari (Carnatic music insturmental violin) and Kadri Gopalnath (Carnatic music instrumental saxophone). Dance: C.K. Balagopalan (Bharatanatyam), Sunayana Hazarilal (kathak), Urmila Nagar (kathak), Sadanam Balakrishnan (kathakali), Suryamukhi Devi and Kalavati Devi (both Manipuri), Uma Rama Rao (kuchipudi) and Harekrishna Behera (Odissi). Theatre: Arun Sharma (playwriting Assamese), Ratnakar Matkari (playwriting Marathi), D.R. Ankur and Neelam Mansingh Chaudhary (both direction), Saoli Mitra (acting Bengali), C.R. Simha (acting Kannada), Srinivas G. Kappanna (allied theatre arts lighting and stage design) and Anant Shinde (allied theatre arts makeup). Traditional/folk/tribal dance: Lalshram Birendrakumar (folk and tribal, Manipur), Prabhat Sharma (traditional and folk music, Assam), Leela Omchery (traditional and folk music, Kerala), Chukka Satthiah (Oggu Katha, Andhra Pradesh), Balachandra Vyankatesh Pendharkar (Natya Sangeet, Maharashtra), Banamali Maharana (Odissi music, Orissa), Puran Bhatt (puppetry, Rajasthan) and Koshakant Dev Goswami (mask making, Assam). Overall contribution/scholarship in performing arts: P.V. Subramaniam ‘Subbudu’.
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Teenaged Naxal arrested Guntur, November 30 Narrating her experience to the media, the ultra, A. Suguna, alias Padma (16), of outlawed PWG, who was arrested yesterday, said she had sustained several bullet hits in the encounter in the Vemagiri forest on the night of November 18. However, ignoring her cries for help, the other members of the Guthikonda PWG squad fled leaving her to fend for herself, she said. Bleeding profusely, she hid herself behind the shrubs the whole night without food and water, suffering in pain. In the morning she managed to reach her sister's house at Petasanigalla village where the village quacks declined to treat her, Suguna said.
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Manuscripts of Geetgovinda, Gita stolen Darbhanga, November 30 District Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar said that the manuscripts had been stolen by miscreants from Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University Library on late Friday night. Kumar said the police had launched a massive search operation to arrest the culprits and retrieve the stolen manuscripts. He said it was difficult to assess the loss in monetary terms as the manuscripts were invaluable.
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