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Manipur stir to be
intensified
Strobe Talbott to visit
India
Plan panel to meet
tomorrow
Pakistan gives up objection to
road link
Maoist hideout raided, arms
cache seized
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SC judgement on disinvestment a hurdle in FDI, say
experts
NBA: villages around Harsud
ignored
Tamil to be classical language soon: DMK chief
9 killed in Assam bus accident
Bar councils to appoint inspection teams for law
colleges
CID takes over MLC murder
probe
Shome to be the new Economic Adviser to FM
Airports on alert to foil
hijacking
Aishwarya finds place
in ‘House
of Wax’
Retired IFS officer commits
suicide
No breakthrough in
Cong-NCP talks
Cumulative rainfall 10 pc below normal
10 pc quota for women
Lawyers seek action against DM
Robbers stone train
Jaya donates three-month salary towards Annadhanam
Checking graft, MP style
Kamal Nath bereaved
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Manipur stir to be
intensified
Imphal, September 7 A spokesman of the Apunba Lup (roughly translated as United Association) said it would intensify the agitation because the security of people in Manipur was under threat under the present conditions. He did not explain how the people’s support would be sought afresh. He said the Apunba Lup would expose the ‘irresponsible nature’ and ‘indifferent attitude’ of O. Ibobi Singh government towards the people’s demands. He accused Ibobi Singh of ‘showing an irresponsible attitude’ as he had not been present at the meeting between representatives of the Apunba Lup and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Sunday. The Chief Minister, he stressed, should have attended the meeting since he was an elected representative of the state and could have expressed his views on the demand of the people before the Union Home Minister. The negative response from Mr Patil, he said, to the popular demand of the people has shown the Centre’s ‘utter negligence’ for the people of the state. Official sources clarified that the Chief Minister had kept away because he wanted a discussion between the Union Home Minister and representatives of the Apunba Lup to take place. The sources claimed the talks between Mr Patil and Apunba Lup had failed because the latter stuck to its demand for withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Mr Patil had said he came to Manipur to understand the situation and that he would look into the demands of the people. The Apunba Lup spokesman said the Union Minister’s reported comparison of recent incidents in Russia and in Iraq with that in Manipur was totally unrelated and inappropriate. He said such comparisons could be taken as a signal towards the continuation of the Act, which he claimed was “violation of the rights of the people in Manipur”. —
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Strobe Talbott to visit
India
New Delhi, September 7 Mr Talbott, who is now the President of the Brookings Institution, one of Washington’s oldest think tanks, is coming to India at the invitation of the Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation (ORF). Brookings and ORF were expected to finalise a partnership during Mr Talbott’s visit, Gen V. P. Malik, former Chief of Army Staff and head of the ORF Institute of Security Studies, told mediapersons here. Among other things, the two institutions are planning to jointly undertake a major American studies programme and also identify areas of macro-economic and energy policies in India in which they could work together. The ORF was planning to organise interactions between Mr Talbott and parliamentarians and other policy-makers, including key figures from the corporate world, in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, General Malik said. A highlight of Mr Talbott’s visit will be a discussion on September 27 in the Capital on the contents of his latest book, “Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb” in which Mr Jaswant Singh will also participate. The book had created a political storm in India recently because of the revelations about the frisking the then Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, twice at US airports. —
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Plan panel to meet
tomorrow
New Delhi, September 7 The meeting assumes significance in the backdrop of a rather delicate macro-economic situation where the inflation rate has continuing rise due to a host of factors including the volatility in international prices of crude oil. The UPA Government’s economic agenda, as outlined in the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP), will come under scrutiny with the fund allocation through GBS for various social sector objectives likely to be decided in the meeting of the Planning Commission. This apart, the precarious condition of state finances is another important issue that is expected to come under discussion during the meeting. The Deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, has already said that the commission will come out a mid-term appraisal of the Tenth Five Year Plan. A strategy paper to this effect is also expected to come up for discussion during the meeting. Ever since taking over as the Deputy Chairperson, Mr Ahluwalia has indicated at various fora that hard economic decisions would be required to achieve the targetted growth rate. The Tenth Five Year plan has set an annual average growth rate of eight per cent during the five year and doubling of the per capita income. Transfer of centrally sponsored schemes is another critical issue, which is expected to come up for discussion in the meeting of the Plan panel. A sub-committee of the National Development Council (NDC), which had gone into the details of such schemes, had recommended that 12 of these schemes be transfered to the states for better execution and targetting. The thinking within the UPA Government, however, appears to be to transfer all the schemes, barring a few strategic ones, to the states. The meeting will be attended by Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Minister of State for Planning, Mr M.V. Rajashekharan, the seven members, B.L. Mungekar, Mr Anwar-ul-Hoda, Mr Sayeda Hameed, Mr V.L. Chopra, Mr Kirit Parekh, Mr B. Yugandhar and Mr Abhijit Sen, and the six Cabinet ministers Mr Arjun Singh, Mr Lalu Yadav, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, Mr P. Chidambaram and Mr Sharad Pawar. |
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Pakistan gives up objection to
road link
New Delhi, September 7 In an interview to a TV channel, Mr Kasuri said Pakistan had certain objections on the mechanism for running the bus service. “We have now withdrawn our objections and we want the bus travel without any visa or passport,” he said. Asked if the technical level talks on the issue could be held within the next two months, he said they could be held much earlier. The decision to hold the talks on the bus service is likely to be announced in the joint statement to be issued by the two countries at the end of Mr Kasuri’s five-day India visit tomorrow. On Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Kasuri said it was a complex issue but given the political will on both the sides, it could be resolved to the satisfaction of India, Pakistan and Kashmiris. “It is a complex problem but that does not mean that we should accept defeat. We should make every effort to resolve it,” he added. The Pakistan Foreign Minister said the two countries had fought three wars but had found no solution to the vexed issue. “We should find a solution through talks because there is no alternative to a dialogue.” Common sense demanded that there should be progress on all issues between the two neighbours, including Jammu and Kashmir. “We are talking trade and issuance of tourist visas.” About increase in infiltration from across the border in the past few weeks, Mr Kasuri said he had done his homework and spoken to the ISI before coming to New Delhi. “Nobody told me about infiltration.” On whether Pakistan was prepared to act on the list of 25 terrorists given to it by New Delhi, Mr Kasuri said Islamabad had also given a similar list to New Delhi. “Let us give up this war of words. We have also given our to list to India.” Earlier, in an interview to CNBC, Mr Kasuri, asserting that progress had been achieved on all issues during his talks in India, said it was necessary to find a solution on Jammu and Kashmir that was acceptable to both India and Pakistan as well as the people of the state. “When we find this solution, we will feel that we have achieved progress,” he said, even as he confirmed that “we have set in motion certain processes and strengthened these processes” during two days of talks with External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh. Referring to India’s statements about General Pervez Musharrafs assurances that Pakistan territory would not be used for terrorism, Mr Kasuri said there had been certain movements in Kashmir that had nothing to do with Pakistan. He said the whole world had appreciated Pakistan’s efforts to stem terrorism, and both its President and Prime Minister had been victims of attacks for this effort. He also said that clearly “there are points of view from India that are contradictory” and referred to some leaders, whom he did not name, as having admitted that there had been reduction in terrorist activities even as the Indian Government kept blaming Pakistan. When the interviewer referred to the fact that both Mr Kasuri and Mr Singh had stated their differing points of view at the joint press meet yesterday, the Pakistan Foreign Minister said “the measure of understanding shows in what we said today. This is part of progress”. Asserting that Pakistan was not unifocal, he said he appreciated that the Kashmir problem was complex “but not intractable and I hope India will show a political will in solving the problem”. Mr Kasuri said in reply to a question that no deadline had been specified but a “reasonable time frame” had been fixed for resolving all issues. He said it was sometimes not right to spell these details out, and many things were often not revealed at such premature stages. He said when his country insisted that Kashmir was the central issue, it also understood that progress has to be made on all the eight points of the composite dialogue process, but “history teaches us that for durable peace, we have to find a mechanism acceptable to the people of India, Pakistan and Kashmir”. Asked if Pakistan had to make any compromises, he said there was “no other option on an issue as complex as Kashmir. But both parties have to show flexibility and not indulge in hair-splitting”, he said. In this connection, he said the media did a lot of harm at times, though he could understand their pressures. On a specific question about the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad train, he admitted that Pakistan had been hesitant when the proposal was first put in October last year, but said progress had been made on that as well. There had been progress for the first time on the issue of tourist visas in the talks today after 57 years of tension, he said, adding “we say travel, do not make political statements”. But he said there had been great stress on people-to-people contact, and what had been happening over the past few months like the cricket series and other visits proved this.
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Maoist hideout raided, arms
cache seized
Dehradun, September 7 The Maoists, including two women, were hiding in a hut and the group fled towards the forests of Nainital after they spotted the police, the police said. The police team raided the hideout on a tip-off. Besides the cache of arms which includes five rifles, ammunition and 12 high-tech detonators, the police seized olive green uniforms and Maoist literature. Important documents carrying information about their local network have also been seized. The police has been chasing the Maoist group for seven days now. Even as the Maoists managed to escape once again, the police sees the recovery as a major success in the ongoing combing operations along the border districts of Uttaranchal. The Maoists do not have arms now and this should make the task of the police easier, SSP Vijay Shankhre, who is coordinating the operation from Nainital, said. The combing operations, which began after reports of a Maoist training camp being run in Hanspur Kahta on the border in Udham Singh Nagar, were stepped up after a child from Pithoragarh was injured in Maoist firing from across the border on August 28. |
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SC judgement on disinvestment a hurdle in FDI, say
experts
New Delhi, September 7 Some legal experts have circulated a note among the UPA’s alliance partners, pointing out how last year’s Supreme Court judgement striking down the disinvestment proposal in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) disallowed changing of the character of a public sector company without the approval of Parliament as well as without share holders’ consent. After the note was circulated, the UPA alliance partners were understood to have questioned Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel’s prerogative to announce his plan about increasing the FDI in the airport sector and leasing out the Mumbai and Delhi airports to private companies in order to improve their quality. According to the note, the apex court judgement in the HPCL and BPCL case, pronounced by a Bench headed by former Chief Justice S. Rajendra Babu, had clearly defined in detail the steps to be taken by the Centre for the conversion of a government company into a private entity — whether it was born by an Act of Parliament or by an executive order. The note says that special interest groups through their media campaign had “spread wrong impression” about the apex court’s findings that only the companies set up by an Act of Parliament cannot be disinvested. “The Supreme Court has held that a new company can be set up only when the government decides to do so. The investment for setting it up is shown as a “new instrument for service” and exhibited separately in the demand for grant for the concerned ministry while presenting the annual Budget. Under Article 113(2) of the Constitution, estimates are presented to Parlaiment in the form of the demands for grants. This fulfils the technical requirement of parliamentary approval when a new company is set up,” the note says. Legal experts are of the view that the setting up of a new company is defined as “new instrument of service” for which approval of Parliament is required for expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of India and, therefore, an executive order regarding enhancing the FDI in any public sector company, which draws money from the consolidated fund has been ruled out by the court. In the final analysis of the judgement, the experts have come to the conclusion that (i) a government company cannot mortgage, sell lease or dispose of any property without the explicit consent of both Houses of Parlaiment. (ii) Every company has to prepare its annual report and the Central Government is obliged to place the same along with the comments and reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India before Parliament. (iii) That no government company set up by an Act of Parliament or an executive order can be so substantially divested so as to change its character from the government comapny to an ordinary company. (iv) The Supreme Court has prohibited the sale of shares by the Central Government on such a large scale so as to change the character of the public sector company. (v) And the Board of Directors of a public sector company cannot, except with the consent of share holders, sell lease or otherwise dispose of substantial properties of such company and each share holder has a right to express his assent or dissent. |
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NBA: villages around Harsud
ignored
Bhopal, September 7 Harsud town has hogged all attention while the residents of surrounding villages have received a raw deal at the hands of the authorities, it says. Mr Alok Agarwal and five other NBA activists said here yesterday that at the present height of 245 metres of the ISP dam, the water has entered 20 such villages that were not on the government list of the villages to be submerged. The residents of these villages had to flee to safer places, leaving everything behind and without any assistance from the authorities. In May, 2000, the Narmada Hydro-Power Corporation (NHPC) and the Government of Madhya Pradesh had formed a joint company under the name of Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation (NHDC). This joint company had undertaken to ensure rehabilitation of the affected villagers as per the norms set by the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT) and the subsequent directions of the Supreme Court. The NBA has charged the NHDC and the State government with showing “criminal negligence” in the matter. The NBA claims that the Indira Sagar dam will cause the largest impoundment in Asia. The dam will submerge 2.25 lakh acres of land and will irrigate only three lakh acres, including one lakh acres having prime deciduous forests. The detailed project report of the ISP, prepared in 1982, had noted that 75,000 acres of land, which was supposed to benefit from the project, was already irrigated. A later (1985) study by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, had concluded that almost 40 per cent of the command area would become waterlogged. |
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Tamil to be classical language soon: DMK chief
Chennai, September 7 Mr Karunanidhi said Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh had informed him that the official declaration would be coming soon, in a letter which he received yesterday. The DMK and its allies in the DPA, including the MDMK, PMK, CPI and CPM, had been demanding that Tamil be declared a classical language by the Centre and given the status of an official language. After the Congress-led UPA government included this demand in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP), President A P J Abdul Kalam announced during his address to a joint session of Parliament that Tamil would be made a classical language. —UNI
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9 killed in Assam bus accident
Guwahati, September 7 Additional Inspector-General (Law and Order) R.D. Baruah said eight of the victims died on the spot, while another succumbed to injuries on way to hospital. The injured were admitted to the Nalbari district hospital. Unofficial sources, however, said 13 persons died and the toll might rise as 16 persons were still trapped inside the bus. According to reports, the bus carrying 50 passengers was coming at high speed from Manikpur to Guwahati. It first hit the oil tanker and then fell into the pond. Local villagers rushed to the spot and helped in the rescue work. Senior administration and police officials rushed to the spot and efforts were on to take out the bus from the pond and extricate the bodies, if any, police added. —
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Bar councils to appoint inspection teams for law
colleges
New Delhi, September 7 The decision to this effect was taken by the BCI in its two-day meeting held here on September 4-5 to review the quality of legal education in the country. It may be recalled that no university could start any institution to impart legal education without the consent of the BCI. “This is a measure to improve the standard of legal education in the country,” BCI Chairman Jaganath Patnaik in a statement said. He said a direction has been issued by the BCI to the State Bar Councils to send inspection teams to every law institute being run in their jurisdiction and submit reports about their functioning to the apex body. After receiving the reports from the State Bar Councils, the BCI would also sent teams to examine the facilities in those law colleges, specially for those for which the reports were not found satisfactory, Mr Patnaik said. |
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CID takes over MLC murder
probe
Lucknow, September 7 Inspector-General (Lucknow Zone) Sulkhan Singh said here the guard Sanjay Dwivedi was attached with the police lines here soon after the crime. “He had admitted to firing during the birthday celebration of the deceased...after attaching him to the police lines, he has been sent to Unnao as part of the investigations,” he explained. Earlier, the police had claimed that the bodyguard had surrendered at an Unnao police station. The IG noted that it was difficult to say whether a bullet from the constable’s weapon had killed Mr Ajit Singh. “The investigations, now in the hands of the CID, would also try to ascertain about the role of the security if the MLC was killed in an attack,” he said. The MLC was killed during his 42nd birthday celebrations at a motel in Unnao on late Saturday night. Today, the state government handed over the inquiry of the case to the CB-CID and asked it to submit a detailed report within a month and form a special team for the investigation. An FIR was filed in Unnao against four persons, including Rae Bareli MLA Akhilesh Singh, in connection with the murder. Akhilesh had claimed he was innocent and had demanded a CBI probe into the incident. Eyewitnesses to the incident observed that the MLC could have possibly have been shot accidentally by his supporters since they were firing in the air to celebrate the occasion. —
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Shome to be the new Economic Adviser to FM New Delhi, September 7 The term of Mr Kelkar, whose appointment as Economic Adviser to the Finance Minister, was made during the NDA regime, had ended on August 31. Mr Shome’s appointment was cleared by the government on Sunday last and he would function in the rank of a secretary, sources said. He had earlier worked with the International Monetary Fund as director. |
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Airports on alert to foil
hijacking
New Delhi, September 7 Reports here suggested that the Maoist rebels may attempt to hijack an Indian aircraft, either the public sector or even one of the private airlines operating flights to Nepal. India has had a poor experience regarding security measures specially at the Kathmandu airport which had earlier been responsible for the Indian Airlines IC-814 flight being hijacked to Khandahar leading to release of some hardcore terrorists, including Maulana Masood Azhar. Sources said that the alert follows the input received by Central Industrial Security Force, manning security at the airport, from Bureau of Civil Aviation, they said. “The airports have been asked to streamline security to prevent any attempt to hijack a plane,” the sources said. CISF has also conveyed the intelligence input to various airlines operating in the India-Nepal circuit, they added. |
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Aishwarya finds place
in ‘House
of Wax’
Mumbai, September 7 Film industry sources here said yesterday that the decision was made when the UK distributors of ‘Bride and Prejudice’, directed by Gurinder Chaddha of ‘Bend It Like Beckham’, approached Madam Tussauds and the authorities agreed to the idea. The wax statue will be installed “very soon’’ and Aishwarya Rai will be present at the occasion. The former Miss World is making her presence felt globally through her first international venture ‘Bride And Prejudice’ and also has Hollywood projects like ‘Chaos’ in her kitty. Aishwarya has already appeared on the cover of various international magazines like ‘Time’ and ‘Hello’ and will soon be gracing ‘Harpers and Queen’ and ‘Night and Day’. —
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Retired IFS officer commits
suicide
New Delhi, September 7 The body, found by a watchman around 7.30 am, was sent for post-mortem examination. The report is expected later today. The police does not suspect any foul play as the 64-year-old 1FS officer has left behind a suicide note, DCP (East) Nuzhat
Hassan said. The three-page note was found by Mrs Shukla on a table in the drawing room along with a letter addressed to her when she returned to her Mayur Vihar flat around 7 pm on Sunday after shopping. In the note, Shukla apologised to her for taking such an extreme step as he could no longer bear the mental agony he had been undergoing. He also gave details of his bank accounts, locker and some other articles. In another letter addressed to the HSBC Bank authorities, he asked them to transfer the money and other valuables kept in his account and in his locker
to his wife. As soon as Mrs Shukla finished reading the note, she frantically searched for him in the neighbourhood and contacted those who knew him. Unable to find him, she lodged a missing person at with the Mayur Vihar police station around 11.30 pm the same night. During his illustrious career, Shukla had also served as India’s Ambassador to Denmark, Belarus and Qatar. His two daughters —Vatsala and Vaneeta — live abroad. While 36-year-old Vaneeta, who lives in Denmark, is married to a Danish national, 40-year-old Vatsala is unmarried. —
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No breakthrough in
Cong-NCP talks Mumbai, September 7 She, however, was hopeful about the two parties reaching an agreement soon. Earlier, leaders of the two parties met at Varsha, the official residence of Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, to solve the impasse. Sources say leaders of both parties stuck to their guns and refused to concede more seats to the other. Congress and NCP leaders say the two parties have agreed on sharing more than 200 of the 288 seats in the state legislature. According to sources, the 34 Assembly seats in Mumbai and a few other seats across the state are proving to be the major hurdle. While the Congress does not want to concede more than nine seats to the NCP, the latter is demanding more. The Congress-NCP alliance has fared well in Mumbai, bagging five of the six seats in the April-May Lok Sabha election. The Shiv Sena-BJP combine bagged just one seat. Party leaders now feel that the central leadership of the two parties may step in solve the impasse. Mr Shinde himself is pushing for a meeting between Congress President Sonia Gandhi and NCP leader Sharad Pawar. While the Congress wants to contest 25 of the 34 seats in Mumbai, the NCP is pitching for 14. The secular alliance did well in the last Lok Sabha poll. The secular alliance has the Congress, the NCP and various factions of the Republican Party of India. Left parties like the Janata Dal, the Peasants and Workers Party, and the Communist parties are not a part of the secular alliance though these comprise the Democratic Front ruling Maharashtra.
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Cumulative rainfall 10 pc below normal
New Delhi, September 7 The pattern of rainfall during the current year is similar to the one that prevailed in 1999, except for the break in Monsoon in July this year, the meeting of the Crop Weather Watch Group of the Agriculture Ministry held here yesterday noted. However, the number of districts, which received large excess or scanty rainfall, came down to 33 from 35 during the same period. The Crop Weather Watch Group felt that all arrangements should be made in advance. |
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10 pc quota for women
Jaipur, September 7 As the first step in this direction, 2800 new jobs would specially be opened for widows and separated women, he said. An ordinance to this effect would be issued soon, Mr Tiwari said. However, the recruitment drive for 25,000 posts of teacher, which was already on would not be affected by the decision, he said. As per exigencies, widows and separated women would be recruited for jobs as teachers, but they would have to do either B.Ed or STC within five years of their recruitment, Mr Tiwari said. A screening committee headed by the Education Department officers would be set up to work out the modalities of the recruitment drive, he said. Mr Tiwari said three new universities, including the Rajasthan University of Health Science and Rajasthan Technical Education University, would be set with a primary budget of Rs 1.5 crore each in the current financial year. A university in private sector would be allowed on government conditions in the state, he added. —
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Lawyers seek action against DM
Lucknow, September 7 The executive committee meeting decided to continue the battle by demanding an unconditional apology from the government for the police lathi charge on lawyers. It also demanded action against the erring administration officials, including the DM and the ADM, who could not control the lathi-charging policemen. The lawyers would stage a dharna on Thursday to press their demand. |
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Robbers stone train
Nashik, September 7 In the face of resistance from the passengers, the robbers pulled the chain and got off the train near the Anai-Fort area, about 5 km from Manmad. They then hurled stones at the train, damaging window panes. Angry passengers, alleging that the railway police personnel posted in the train were conspicuous by their absence when the incident occurred, then held up the train at the Manmad railway station for around two-and-a-half hours. When the Jhelum Express reached Manmad, the passengers disembarked from their compartment and complained about the security guards to the officers at the station. They began raising slogans against the railway authorities and the police. The agitators stated that they would not allow the train to continue its journey till their demands were looked into by the Chief Railway Officer and their complaint was taken seriously. Officials subsequently met the passengers in an effort to pacify them, but to no avail. The officials then contacted the Railway Divisional Officer at Bhusaval, who assured the passengers that they would be met at Bhusaval station. Following this assurance, the train left the Manmad station at around 2.30 am with additional security. Railway officials said despite all this, no passenger had come forward to register a complaint against the robbery. —
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Jaya donates three-month salary towards Annadhanam
Chennai, September 7 She handed over Rs 10,000 each to the Executive Officers of Sri Kallalagar Temple in Madurai district, Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple here and Veera Anjaneyaswamy Temple in Cuddalore district at the state Secretariat here, an official press note issued here said. Ms Jayalalithaa had been donating her salary to the Annadhanam scheme, introduced by her in select temples in the state, since March 2002. — UNI |
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Checking graft, MP style
Bhopal, September 7 This was announced by Mr Gaur at a conference on quality control in seeds, fertilisers and pesticides held here yesterday. This racket, he said, could not flourish without connivance of the government employees. |
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Kamal Nath bereaved
New Delhi, September 7 The cremation will be held at 11 am tomorrow at the Lodhi Road crematorium. Mr Kamal Nath, who is in Jakarta for an ASEAN meeting, is rushing back tonight. —
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