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Bihar minister caught seeking favours for prisoner
Centre’s probe into phone tapping a cover-up: Mulayam
Another held in phone tapping case
Relief for ’84 riot-hit inadequate: Rajnath
With China in mind, Japan to woo India
Even DGP’s wife feels unsafe
Best Bakery trial extended
Model’s rapists suspected
of filming incident
Gudiya laid to rest
2 MPs caught in ‘cash for query’ scam move HC
Mahatma’s kin is Vice-Chairperson of Gandhi samiti
Swamy fined for charge against Jaya
Patil assures panel of talks with Bangladesh Government
Muslim forum supports common civil code
Envoy to Iran presents credentials
Media heads meet Dasmunshi
Prof Rao first recipient of India Science Award
SC confirms sale of Harshad Mehta’s commercial property
CSIR to be given greater autonomy
CBSE announces datesheets
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Environmentalists step up protest
New Delhi, January 3 It will be another two months before the ship docks in India. Greenpeace activists today demonstrated outside the French Embassy here “ to alert the international community to the flagrant violation of international law that France was indulging in.” Sources said the MoEF too held a high-level meeting to discuss the issue. An MoEF spokesperson, however, said no such a meeting had taken place, adding that the ministry would give a statement on the issue tomorrow. France has come in for criticism from the media and environmentalists who disbelieve its claim that most of the hazardous residues have been removed from the ship. But sending the ship to India makes a good business proposition for France, especially since the ship-for-scrap has already been rejected by Turkey and Greece. While the dismantling process would have cost France a £ 20 million anywhere else, in India it stands to get money for the scrap. A varied viewpoint on the issue says that for India, the ship-breaking industry was a regular and profitable industry, providing employment to lakhs of people. Environmentalists, on the other hand, say that if Clemenceau manages to the end up in the Indian dock, it will set a precedent for hundreds of other dying warships in the world. “The closer it gets to Indian coast, the greater will be the pressure on India to accept it,” says Greenpeace activist Namrata Chowdhary. Holding pictures of the unacceptable working conditions at the ship-breaking yard in Alang and a banner proclaiming “Clemenceau. Your waste. Your responsibility,” the activists said France was a signatory to the Basel Convention, which prohibits the transfer of wastes from OECD to non-OECD countries. Clemenceau set sail for India on December 31, 2005, for dismantling at Alang after a French court rejected a legal suit by a collective of four activist groups. With 27,000 tonnes of steel to be sold as scrap, it is also carrying 40 to 50 tonnes of hazardous asbestos used as insulation on the ship. Asbestos is a known carcenogenic and was used in the 1950s and1 1960s as an insulator on construction material and is now being phased out. However, while the French Government managed to convince the court that the ship was not hazardous waste till it was floating on the seas and hence not violating the Basel convention that bans trade in hazardous waste, including asbestos, Greenpeace activists claim that the ship was carrying much larger quantities of asbestos. As per Greenpeace activist Ramapati Kumar, France had not come clean as far as hazardous waste on Clemenceau was concerned. |
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No move to stop pension after
75 years of age
New Delhi, January 3 “The Government wishes to make it clear that there is no such move. The rumours and inferences are baseless and must be ignored,” an official statement said. “The government has for some time been receiving enquiries about a rumour moved on the part of the government to stop payment of pension after 75 years of age. Such apprehensions have arisen from fictionalised versions of some remarks attributed to the Finance Minister, carried in the newspaper Star of Mysore on July 2, 2005,” the statement added. The government was presently at loggerheads with Left parties over the proposed pension reforms. There are an estimated 35.4 lakh pensioners in India. Fifty per cent of them served in the armed forces, 24 per cent in Railways, 19 per cent in the civil sector, four per cent in the postal department and three per cent in the telecom sector. The Indian Government’s pension Bill for 2000-01, the last year for which reliable data was available, was over Rs 20,000 crore. For government employees who retire after 20 years of service, pension is calculated on the average of basic pay drawn in the last 10 months of service. For employees who retire after 33 years of service, pension is 50 per cent of the last basic pay drawn. Currently, the minimum pension is Rs 1,275 per month and the maximum Rs 15,000 per month. |
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Ramdev’s medicines have animal residue: Karat
New Delhi, January 3 Producing a letter, which she said had been written to her by the Joint Secretary in the Union Health Ministry, Ms Karat told a press conference here that analysis reports of the samples prima facie reveal a violation of licensing and labelling provisions of the Indian Drugs and Cosmetics Act by the Uttaranchal-based Divya Yog Pharmacy. “We
came to know in June-July last year that herbal Ayurvedic medicines
prepared by the pharmacy, owned by Ramdev, contained animal material and
human bones. We then handed over medicine samples to the Department of
AYUSH and now they had also confirmed our apprehensions, she said. Stressing
that a person using these medicines had every right to know what they
contained, she said the products did not mention what they were made of.
“ If a person is a vegetarian he must know what he is consuming in the
name of medicine. Thousands of vegetarians would have had their beliefs
violated. The people concerned deserve strictest punishment,” she told
reporters here. It may be mentioned that Baba Ramdev had vehemently denied charges leveled by Ms Karat, when she first raised them last year. Accusing
the spiritual leader of breech of trust, reposed in him by his
followers, she said the medicines were being manufactured in violation
of the licencing and labelling procedures of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act
and Labour laws. “The Act requires proper display of the contents of
the medicine on the label of the product,” she added. She urged Uttaranchal Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari to take strict action against the yoga guru and others associated with the pharmacy, saying that the pharmacy was indulging in illegal acts when it used animal residue in its Ayurvedic medicines. Coming
down heavily on Mr Tiwari for reportedly visiting the pharmacy for
inaugurating a new building there, she questioned that how could a
massive adulterated medicine racket flourish in the state. “The state
government has to come clean on the issue,” she said. Ms Karat said
even labour laws were being violated at the Hardwar manufacturing unit
of the pharmacy.” Workers, including women, who work for more than 10
to 12 hours at the unit are denied all facilities. They are not paid
well and when they agitate, they are fired,” she alleged. She
accused the renowned yoga guru of only being “interested in minting
money at the cost of the workers,” saying that he owed millions of his
followers, who buy the medicines, an explanation. “Using the
popularity of TV channels, he is selling drugs which are adulterated,”
she said. Ms Karat had lodged a complaint with the Health Ministry and
sent sealed samples of medicines on July 7 last year. “I had requested
that the medicines be tested for animal residue and parts of human
skull. Findings of most reputed laboratories have confirmed my
apprehensions,” she said.
Ramdev ready to face probe
Lucknow, January 3 Talking to mediapersons here, Ramdev asserted he was ready to face probe by any agency on the activities of his ayurvedic unit, Divya Yog Pharmacy, located in Uttaranchal. “I have specific information that Ms Karat had a meeting with the representatives of certain MNCs on December 29 after which she levelled the allegation at their behest,’’ Ramdev said. Announcing that any agency could inspect his unit, the famed yoga expert said the sample which was tested by the Union Health Ministry was provided by Ms Karat herself. ‘’It is possible that Ms Karat provided an adulterated sample to the lab after faking it as a product of my pharmacy,’’ he added.
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Bihar minister caught seeking favours for prisoner
Patna, January 3 A private television channel yesterday showed him reportedly conversing with Home Secretary
H.C. Sirohi, asking him to move Bhanu Pratap Varma, who was arrested on Saturday along with others in the Bihar Public Service Commission
(BPSC) scam, to a hospital and permit him to receive visitors. While opposition parties clamoured for his resignation for having abused his position, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar defended his Cabinet colleague, saying he had telephoned the official for extra care for the jailed person purely on humanitarian grounds and that did not smack of any foul play. Varma, an employee of the
BPSC, is handicapped. He was arrested by the state Vigilance Department along with seven others, including BPSC Chairman Ram Singhashan Singh, in connection with the irregularities committed in a departmental examination conducted by the
BPSC. “There is no fault in seeking special care for a sick person even if he is lodged in prison,” the Chief Minister added. The minister refused to quit, saying he had only requested the Home Commissioner for special care for Varma as he was a handicapped person. He accused LJP leader Ram Jatan Sinha of trying to “fish in troubled waters” out of jealousy for his status and position.
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Centre’s probe into phone tapping a cover-up: Mulayam
New Delhi, January 3 Sticking to his earlier charge that Congress President Sonia Gandhi was behind the tapping operation, Mr Yadav took exception to Home Minister Shivraj Patil’s communication to him in which he described the letters conveying orders for tapping as forged. Not agreeing to suggestions for a CBI probe into the case of tapping of phone of Mr Amar Singh, Mr Yadav advocated an inquiry by the state’s Special Task Force or by any of the Chief Ministers-Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (West Bengal), J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu) or Nitish Kumar (Bihar). Mr Yadav said his party would approach the President in the matter. He cautioned non-Congress leaders about “designs” of the Congress to “tarnish” their image. Mr Yadav alleged that 10, Janpath, and the Centre has ordered a private detective agency to be on trail of SP leaders. However, Mr Yadav parried a question as to whether he was contemplating withdrawing support to the UPA government in the wake of phone-tapping incident. Mr Yadav released two letters separately written by Principal Secretary (Home), Delhi Government, R. Narayanswami and Joint Commissioner, Delhi Police, Ranjit Narayan to a Nodal Officer regarding phone interception on the plea of public safety. Taking exception to the Home Ministry’s communication to him earlier that these letters were “forged,” Mr Yadav said the episode had raised questions about the security of the country as anybody could acquire sensitive information “on forged papers” about the country’s defence and matters related to foreign affairs. He said if phone of Samajwadi Party leaders could be tapped on forged letters, what was the guarantee that same process could not be applied to get sensitive information on defence and related matters. Countering Mr Yadav’s charges on phone-tapping, Information and Broadcasting Minister P.R. Dasmunsi said these were “baseless” and were borne out of “personal frustration”. |
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Another held in phone tapping case
New Delhi, January 3 Kuldeep Singh, an employee of Reliance Infocomm, was arrested yesterday, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnail Singh said here today. “He was arrested last evening. Earlier he had been called for questioning in connection with the tapping case,’’ he said. On whether the questioning had led the police to any progress in the case, he said he was still being interrogated. With the arrest of Kuldeep, the number of arrests in the reported phone tapping reached two. The arrest of
Bhupendra, owner of a private detective agency in South Delhi’s South Extension Part I, was made last week.
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Relief for ’84 riot-hit inadequate: Rajnath
New Delhi, January 3 “This Rs 715-crore package is just a drop in the ocean. It shows that the government is not as serious as it should have been towards the suffering of the 1984 riot victims,” the BJP chief told newspersons during a visit to Gurdwara Bangla Sahib here. “It was not a riot, but a massacre, the most unfortunate event in Indian history,” he said. His comments on the 1984 riots came in the wake of the Centre’s announcement of a Rs 715-crore package to the victims of the carnage that broke out after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. |
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With China in mind, Japan to woo India
New Delhi, January 3 The two countries are also going to work closely in non-proliferation efforts. Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Aso arrived here this evening and a Joint statement announcing the institutionalised mechanism of Indo-Japan strategic partnership and cooperation in non-proliferation efforts is expected to be issued tomorrow after his formal talks with Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed and National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan. The Japanese, great practitioners of the art of diplomatic symbolism, have conveyed several subtle messages with the visit of Taro. One, this is the third consecutive visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister to India in as many years without a single reciprocal visit from India to Japan and Tokyo has not bothered to be diplomatically fastidious. Taro’s predecessor, Ms Yoriko Kawaguchi, had visited India in January 2003 and August 2004. Second, Taro has come despite the fact that Tokyo was told that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who also holds the portfolio of External Affairs would not be available in the capital during the two-day official visit (January 3-4). The Prime Minister is on a tour of Hyderabad and the Andaman and Nicobar islands on these dates. In view of the importance of Japan to India, New Delhi has suggested that Taro calls on President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and the Foreign Minister is likely to call on the President tomorrow noon. Moreover, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to go on a bilateral visit to Japan in June or July this year to reciprocate Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s highly fruitful visit to India last year. Third, India is the first Asian country that Taro is visiting for bilateral consultations. Strategically speaking, Japan has sent feelers to India to engage India in a meaningful dialogue at the highest level and the two countries are going to have an institutionalised mechanism of annual summits, like India has with the European Union, Russia and the UK. Japan has already agreed to pump developmental assistance worth Rs 22,000 crore into India, exclusively aimed at upgrading India’s infrastructure. As Tokyo’s relations with Beijing turn frostier by the day, more and more Japanese aid and investment are getting diverted from China to India. With this visit and by formalising a strategic partnership with India, Japan wants to send a powerful message to Beijing that it does not consider China to be the only pole of power in Asia and looks at India as another important pole. Japan will also use the opportunity of Taro’s visit to convey to India that it is going to “de-hyphenate” its relationship with India and Pakistan. Taro is going to Pakistan from here tomorrow, like Ms Kawaguchi did last year. |
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Even DGP’s wife feels unsafe
Lucknow, January 3 Leaving the government red in the face, Gita Singh, wife of DGP Yashpal Singh and ruling Samajwadi Party MLA from Balrampur, has written an official letter, to the Home Secretary Alok Sinha complaining about a security threat to her life. In the letter she has also demanded additional security. Her perceived security threat is reportedly due to her failed attempt to grab the official bungalow of the PAC Commandant in Gonda. Subsequently, cross FIRs had been registered and a police inspector was suspended for having gone out of his way to help her capture the bungalow. In a one-of-its-kind situation, Mr Sinha in a letter to the DGP today asked to ensure the security of his wife Gita Singh. The Home Secretary has also asked DGP Yashpal Singh to take immediate action on her written complaint and send an action-taken report to the state government. Yesterday, speaking to mediapersons, the DGP had dodged embarrassing questions on his wife’s recent try to encroach upon the PAC bungalow in Gonda. He had also refused to comment on her subsequent attempts to raise alarm on the reported threat to her life. Ms Gita Singh, who is also the ex-officio President of the Police Welfare Association, has reportedly sought permission from the state government to file an FIR against the DG, of PAC, Mr Bua Singh, further widening the rift between the PAC and the state police. |
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Best Bakery trial extended
New Delhi, January 3 A Bench of Mr Justice Arijit Pasayat and Mr Justice H.K. Sema passed the order to this effect while hearing arguments on a inquiry report by former Supreme Court Registrar- General on the role of Best Bakery case key witness Zaheera Sheikh, and NGO activist Teesta Setalwad after they had traded charges against each other on various issues pertaining to the case. The retrial in the case was ordered after National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and NGO Citizen for Peace, run by Setalwad and others had moved the apex court alleging that the prosecution had failed to conduct the trial before the Vadodara fast track court properly, resulting in the acquittal of all the 21 accused in the Best Bakery carnage, in which 14 persons were burnt alive during the post-Godhra riots. Zaheera’s counsel D.K. Garg questioned the inquiry report of the Registrar- General on several counts, alleging that his client was not given opportunity to cross-examine Setalwad. He also questioned the locus standi of Setalwad, who once had come forward to protect Zaheera, alleging that she had not come to the court with “clean hands”. |
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Model’s rapists suspected
of filming incident
Mumbai, January 3 The police suspect the two men, who have been arrested for raping the woman, may have made an MMS of the incident and posted it on sex websites. According to a complaint filed by the woman, the two men who met her at a disco near the Mumbai airport, mixed a drug in her drink and took her to two hotels outside the city where she was assaulted. The police says the woman was known to one of the accused, Sunil Morpani alias Aditya, who was a model coordinator. Both the accused are now being probed for alleged involvement in sex film rackets. |
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Gudiya laid to rest
Meerut, January 3 Twentysix-year-old Gudiya died in Delhi yesterday of septicaema, blood poisoning caused by bacteria or their toxins. Wife of Lance Naik Mohammad
Arif, Gudiya, was laid to rest at her native village Mundali. Gudiya was admitted to the Army Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi on December 13 after she complained of frequent breakdowns after the trauma of delivering a still-born baby in October last year.
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2 MPs caught in ‘cash for query’ scam move HC
New Delhi, January 3 Mr Kushwaha, suspended by the BSP from the party along with Mr Raja Ram, who moved the Supreme Court yesterday, and Mr Manoj Kumar (RJD), filed petitions in the high court today. According to their counsel, the two MPs sought quashing of the expulsion order passed by the Lok Sabha and an interim stay on it, pending a final decision on their writ petitions. They described the action of the House, expelling them, as “unconstitutional, undemocratic, arbitrary and against the principles of natural justice”. Their counsel said the main ground raised by their clients in the writ petitions was that they were expelled by the Lok Sabha without giving them a chance to put forth their viewpoints in their defence, which was against the principle of natural justice. They also questioned the report of the Pawan Kumar Bansal Committee, set up by the Lok Sabha Speaker to probe the “expose” by undercover reporters in a sting operation showing 11 MPs taking money on camera for raising questions in Parliament. In all 10 MPs from the Lok Sabha — five belonging to the BJP, three to the BSP and one each to the Congress and the RJD — were expelled for their “misconduct” by the House in a resolution passed by it, while one BJP MP from the Rajya Sabha caught on camera in the sting operation named “Duryodhan” was expelled by the Ethics Committee of the Upper House. |
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Mahatma’s kin is Vice-Chairperson of Gandhi samiti
New Delhi, January 3 Ms Bhattacharjee, who will replace K.D. Gangrade, has travelled all over India to study Khadi at the grassroot level, the Samiti official said here today. Her appointment was made by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, who is the Chairman of the Samiti. Ms Bhattacharjee has taken the message and philosophy of the spinning wheel and khadi to Austria, Canada, France, Japan and Italy among other countries, it was pointed out. |
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Swamy fined for charge against Jaya
New Delhi, January 3 Mr Justice Pradeep Nandrajog said Mr Swamy had failed to establish that Jayalalithaa had received information and money from the banned LTTE for the assassination of Gandhi. “The defendant
(Swamy) had exceeded the limits of qualified privilege as his statement was quite unconnected with and irrelevant to the situation and suffers from redundancy of the expression,’’ said the order. The
M.C. Jain Commission of Inquiry was constituted on August 23, 1991 by the Centre to look into the circumstances leading to the assassination of Gandhi. Appearing before the commission, Mr Swamy had said Ms Jayalalithaa was tipped by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) about the assassination of Gandhi by its suicide bombers on April 17, 1991.
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Patil assures panel of talks with Bangladesh Government
Kolkata, January 3 It was reported to the Home Minister that over 2 lakh Indian nationals had been undergoing, extreme hardships at 387 small “chitmahals” inside Bangladesh and in the Indo-Bangladesh border areas in the Tinbigha corridor and Berubari, whom neither the Centre nor the Bangladesh Government had given any recognition. Similarly, several thousands of Bangladeshis, who are living inside their “chitmahals” in India, have been demanding for their repatriation. They want that the Indian Government should take appropriate steps for their safe return to Bangladesh. The Berubari Sangram Committee asked Mr Patil to make immediate arrangements for transferring the “chitmahals” to India from Bangladesh for the rehabilitation of a large number of Indian nationals living in the “no man’s lands”. The Home Minister, accompanied by senior officials and BSF personnel visited the Tinbigha corridor in Coochbehar and Berubari chitmahal in Jalpaiguri during his on the spot study of the problems in the Indo-Bangladesh border areas in the state. He also visited several border areas in Assam and looked into the problems of infiltration and various other criminal activities, including smuggling and the trafficking of women. Mr Patil asked BSF officials to ensure that the fencing of the entire Indo-Bangladesh border was completed within the next three months. Talking to mediapersons at the Bagdogra airport in Siliguri, Mr Patil said he would report to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, who is also the Foreign Minister, about his visit to the Indo-Bangladesh border areas, requesting him to initiate dialogue with Bangladesh for solving the problems that the people of both the countries in the border areas were now facing. |
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Muslim forum supports common civil code
Lucknow, January 3 Addressing a news conference here, AIMF President Nehaluddin said the code would iron out ostensible differences between various communities. However, he said the social and economic disparities should be weeded out before the government opted for the common civil code. “Else it will only breed social unrest and disharmony,” he warned. Lambasting the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Uttar Pradesh government, Mr Nehaluddin claimed that the Samajwadi Party had a tacit understanding with the BJP to rule the state. “Whenever the BJP gains in strength, the Muslim community votes en masse for the Samajwadi Party in fear. This way, both parties consolidate their traditional vote banks,” he alleged.
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Envoy to Iran presents credentials
New Delhi, January 3 President Ahmadi-Nejad welcomed Ambassador Singh to Iran and noted that India and Iran have historical ties, which are extensive and deep. —
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Media heads meet Dasmunshi
New Delhi, January 3 Maintaining that all Congressmen in West Bengal were united under the stewardship of Union Defence Minister and WBPCC chief Pranab Mukherjee, Mr Dasmunshi pointed out that Mr Mukherjee recently held talks with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on the formation of an anti-CPI (M) alliance. He disclosed that a meeting of the West Bengal Congress leaders was scheduled to be held in Kolkata on January 7 and “whatever is done will be under the
leadership of Pranabda.” Mr Mukherjee is expected to hold discussions in this regard with Congress President Sonia Gandhi. “Whatever we do in West Bengal should be to provide a progressive secular alternative to the Left Front,” Mr Dasmunshi added. Heads of the Indian media and entertainment sector met Mr Dasmunshi during the day and welcomed the revision to the downlinking policies undertaken recently. This is the Indian Media Group’s first meeting with the new Information and Broadcasting Minister who assumed charge of the portfolio from Mr S. Jaipal Reddy. The IMG backed the government’s downlinking policy, making it mandatory for foreign broadcasters to register in this country. This would bring their operations, including content, within the ambit of the Indian laws and enable the government to tax them on their revenues. Sources said the IMG demanded that the government expedite efforts in the formation of a Broadcast Regulatory Authority. |
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Prof Rao first recipient of India Science Award
Hyderabad, January 3 The India Science Award was instituted in 2003 by the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during the India Science Congress held in January 2003. The award was envisaged as being the highest and most prestigious national recognition for outstanding contribution to science. Born in Bangalore on June 30, 1934, Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, one of the world’s foremost solid state and materials chemists, is no stranger to awards. Currently, Linus Pauling Research Professor and honorary president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, Professor Rao was awarded Dan David Prize in 2005 by the Dan David Foundation, Tel Aviv University. The citation states that “Rao is the world’s foremost solid state and materials chemist.” Some of his other important achievements include the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society in 2000, the title Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by France, the highest civilian award given by the French Government. The former director of the Indian Institute of Science, who described the honour as “truly overwhelming” has made sustained contributions to the development of the field over five decades. His work on transition metal oxides has led to the basic understanding of novel phenomenon and the relationship between materials properties and the structural chemistry of these materials. |
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SC confirms sale of Harshad Mehta’s commercial property
New Delhi, January 3 Regarding the residential properties, a bench headed by Justice S B Sinha referred it back to special court in Mumbai to consider certain issues as observed in the judgement. The family members of Harshad Mehta had appealed against the order of the special court.
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CSIR to be given greater autonomy
Hyderabad, January 3 “This transformation will be completed in 2006,” the minister said while speaking at the 93rd Indian Science Congress here today. He also announced that an international cluster for developing linkages between industry and research would be set up in Chandigarh with a focus on nanobiology. Another step would be to install a one million litre per day plant for conversion of sea water into drinking water off the coast of Tamil Nadu by mid-2006. Another 10 million litre per day plant to help provide clean drinking water would be installed along the Indian coast by the end of this year. Mr Sibal said an Earth Commission and an Earth System Science Organisation would be formed to help provide to our rural folk inputs on climate and environment. The minister also proposed legislation to make IPR central in the functioning of research establishments. An autonomous board for science and engineering research would also be set up to create an initial pool of over 1,000 scientific positions available for young researchers. |
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CBSE announces datesheets
New Delhi, January 3 The Class X examinations will begin on March 2 and conclude on March 27. Students can access the datesheet on the CBSE’s website www.cbse.nic.in. |
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