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Furore in Parliament over delay
Verdict has absolved Sikhs, says NCM
US interfering in gas project: CPM
Vote on account for Railways passed
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Stem rust can wilt
wheat: Borlaug
Task force to curb tiger poaching
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for PM
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Furore in Parliament over delay
New Delhi, March 17 Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in both the Houses, the BJP demanded the government to table the report, which had been submitted to the Home Minister last month. Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee, said the government was studying the report. He noted that the government was obliged to present such documents to the House along with the "action taken report" under the Commissions of Inquiry Act. Mr Mukherjee's explanation, however, did not satisfy the Opposition, who accused the government of double standards and noted that it had tabled the U.C. Banerjee report on the Godhra train fire that further led to the 2002 Gujarat riots. They alleged that the government did not want to table the Nanavati report because it had indicted several senior Congress leaders for involvement in the anti-Sikh riots. As Opposition were unrelenting despite an assurance from the government and trooped into the well of the House, Lok Sabha, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee adjourned the House for 15 minutes. In the Upper House, BJP member S. S. Ahluwalia, who raised the issue, was joined by several BJP and Akali Dal members who demanded an assurance from the government as to when the report would be tabled in the Rajya
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Musharraf’s mother walks down memory lane
New Delhi, March 17 Accompanied by her son Javed and grandson Bilal, she walked down the memory lane to recall, but with little success, the times she spent here and where President Musharraf was born. Surging crowds gathered round them as they made their way through the lanes of the congested neighbourhood of Daryaganj this morning. They spent close to 30 minutes inside the compound, interacting with the families that bought the Nehar Wali Haveli after the Musharrafs left for Pakistan post-Partition and have since made it their home. Mr Devinder Kumar Jain, who lives with his family in a portion of the haveli, was happy that he could interact with the guests in spite of the security personnel thronging the place. “I presented the lady with dress material and gave her grandson a shawl,” said Mr Jain, who was upset at not having had the privilege of hosting the guests over a cup of tea. The Jains, however, did cut a cake to celebrate a grandchild’s birthday in the presence of the esteemed guests. It was a birthday unlike any for a nine-year-old Aishwarya. The family of President Musharraf later visited Jama Masjid where they presented a memento to officials of the mosque. They admired the architecture and clicked photographs. Walking down the memory lane, the President’s mother could not resist remarking on the current thaw in the India-Pakistan ties: “Hawa achchi beh rahi hai … I hope issues will be resolved amicably.” The woman, who till last night was angry with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s family for not staying in touch, today had another complaint. Her endless wait to meet President’s mother Zarin and others came to a naught when they left without meeting her. This was in sharp contrast to 2001 when President Musharraf had referred to her as his mother. “I could not meet her. I tried waving my hand at the car window but she could neither see me nor could I cry out aloud,” said Anaro. |
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Verdict has absolved Sikhs, says NCM
New Delhi, March 17 NCM Chairperson and Rajya Sabha member Tarlochan Singh told TNS here on Thursday that the verdict of the Canadian Court was welcome. “It has absolved the Sikhs of the heinous offence. For 20 years, the Sikhs were defamed all over the world for the alleged complicity of the Sikhs in this case. I will raise the question in Parliament on Friday about how Sikhs were falsely accused of terrorist activities during the unrest in Punjab," he said. Mr Santhok Singh, president of the newly constituted Shiromani Akali Dal Panthak (Manjit Singh), told TNS that the agencies who falsely implicated Malik and Bagri, should be exposed. |
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US interfering in gas project: CPM
New Delhi, March 17 “The United States has no business to interfere in a decision between three sovereign countries — India, Iran and Pakistan — to cooperate on building a gas pipeline,” the CPI (M) Politburo said in a statement here. “The Bush administration has targeted Iran and is adopting the familiar pattern of raising false charges to isolate a country which does not bow to its dictates,” the party said. The CPI(M) hoped that both India and Pakistan would do well to “rebuff such arrogant interference and proceed with the project speedily which will be of benefit to all the three countries concerned.” |
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Vote on account for Railways passed
New Delhi, March 17 The vote on account
provides for the withdrawal of about Rs 15,778 crore from the consolidated fund for railway expenditure in the first two months of 2005-06. The NDA staged a walkout over the issue of “tainted” ministers in the UPA government. |
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Stem rust can wilt
wheat: Borlaug
New Delhi, March 17 Delivering a lecture on the occasion of the IARI centenary celebrations, he said, “Global collaborative research programme are necessary for integrated effort for disease screening.” Addressing the scientific community in the premier agricultural institute of the country after a gap of three decades, he said: “There are genes available which can be transferred to wheat to provide it protection against diseases like stem rust that can wipe out million of hectares.” The Nobel Laureate called upon young scientists to take out the gene out of rice and put it into wheat to provide it protection against diseases like stem rust for a long time. |
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Task force to curb tiger poaching New Delhi, March 17 There have been reports about the declining number of tigers in wildlife sanctuaries in the country. A gang of suspected poachers reportedly confessed to killing at least 10 tigers in Sariska in Rajasthan between 2001 and 2004, of which five were killed during the monsoon of 2004. After a meeting of the National Board for Wildlife today, convened after a gap of 17 months and chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forest Secretary, Dr Prodipto Ghosh, told mediapersons that officials from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, along with a special investigating team of the CBI, would visit Sariska to assess and probe the tiger crisis there.
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Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for PM
New Delhi, March 17 Former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh and the Prime Minister will receive awards for the year 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 respectively. |
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