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Iran vote: TDP, SP plan no-trust motion
SC registry rapped by RTI ombudsman
Violence toll nine, Sonia in Assam
Lillete wins best
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Malayali family pardons Pakistani on death row
Shiv Sainiks ransack script writer’s house
Doc writes to PM in blood for Tibet
Sainiks burn Valentine's Day cards
JMM leader’s daughter gangraped
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Iran vote: TDP, SP plan no-trust motion
Lucknow, February 11 Speaking to the media at Mr Mulayam Singh’s residence, the TDP leader said it had been decided that the Samajwadi Party would bring in a no-confidence motion during the budget session of Parliament and the TDP would extend its support. Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav said his party was bound by the promise he had given at a recent joint rally with the Left parties in Lucknow to take stern action if India voted against Iran under US pressure. “Even when we were a less powerful and prosperous nation we had an independent foreign policy and had enormous respect in the international area. “Today we stand alienated which has cost us our national prestige and the SP cannot accept this without protesting”, he said. While the TDP has five members in the Lok Sabha the SP has 38 MPs. Responding to a question, Mr Mulayam Singh did not rule out receiving support from the BJP on the issue. Party chief Rajnath Singh had indicated his party stand to take up the issue in Parliament. Mr Naidu’s main grudge is the misuse of Raj Bhavans under the Congress rule. He recounted the earlier incidents of dislodging of the NTR and Farooq Abdullah government’s during Rajiv Gandhi’s regime. Juxtaposing it with the recent Governor’s intervention in Jharkhand and Bihar, he declared that the “Congress culture was to make Raj Bhavans an extension of the PCC office.” The former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister demanded a national debate on the role of the Governor. Suggesting the abolition of the Governor’s office, he said at least a consensus should be arrived at so that the people occupying Raj Bhavans worked under a transparent code of conduct as suggested by the Sarkaria Commission. Criticising the trend to send active Congress members to Raj Bhavan, Mr Naidu said the Congress had lowered the prestige of the Governor’s office by bringing in two occupants from Raj Bhavan — Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde and Mr S.M. Krishna — straight to the Union Ministry. Admitted that both he and Mr Mulayam Singh had common problems against the Congress and had “long discussions” to work closer in the future not, for the “next election but for a shared vision of the country”. Declaring that as he was no longer part of the NDA, he felt that there was a bright prospect of working with Mr Mulayam Singh. |
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SC registry rapped by RTI ombudsman
New Delhi, February 11 Acting on an appeal filed by Delhi resident Subhash Chandra Agarwal, Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and Information Commissioner Padma Balasubramaniam overruled a decision of the apex court Registrar (Administration) turning down his plea for greater information relating to a case. While upholding an order of the Court Public Information Officer (CPIO), the Registrar had dismissed Mr Agarwal’s plea seeking more information on the status of a petition that he had filed before the Chief Justice of India. In an appeal before the Central Information Commission (CIC), Mr Agarwal said the information provided by the CPIO was “meaningless and evasive”' since he was merely told that his complaint was transferred to the jurisdiction of the high court. While he argued before the CIC that the CPIO had given him no “'actionable information”, the counsel for the CPIO said the case was transferred to the high court which was a separate public authority under the provisions of the RTI Act. In its ruling on Tuesday last, the CIC said though the little information that the CPIO gave the appellant met “'in narrow terms the requirement of Section 6(3)” of the RTI Act, relating to information held by “another public authority”, it did not mention when and under what reference the application was transferred to the high court. This makes it difficult for the appellant to find ways to seek further information, the CIC noted. “'It is therefore decided that the CPIO of the Supreme Court will now inform the applicant of the reference and date of the orders transferring the application to the high court to enable the applicant to make a suitable application to that public authority to access the information sought,” the CIC said. It chided the CPIO for having taken more than a month to reply to Mr Agarwal’s application while the law mandates that such information be furnished within five days. The CIC, however, stopped short of imposing any penalty on the CPIO since the appellant had not sought damages and the matter pertained to a period when the RTI Act had just come into force and the machinery for entertainment of applications under the Act was in its formative stage. — UNI
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Violence toll nine, Sonia in Assam
Guwahati, February 11 Three more bodies of victims of yesterday’s firing were recovered from the area this morning, District Superintendent of Police Debajit Hazarika said over the phone, adding that the curfew imposed since 7 pm last night continued in the areas under the Kakopathar, Makum, Doomdooma and Pengeri police stations. The situation was “under control”, he said adding that the protesters squatting on the national highways — 37 and 38 had been dispersed last night after curfew was clamped and the roads cleared for traffic. Eight persons were killed and several others injured as the police opened fire on an advancing mob of protesters from 92 villages who were demonstrating against the alleged killing of suspected ULFA linkman Ajit Mohanta in Army custody on Sunday. A CRPF jawan was stoned to death by the angry protesters. BARPETA: Ahead of the Assembly elections in Assam, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today assured the minority community that a new tribunal under the Foreigners Act would provide them the same protection they got under the repealed IMDT. The Centre had decided to set up a tribunal under the Foreigners Act to give an opportunity for hearing a person before declaring him or her a foreigner, she told a public rally in the minority-dominated Barpeta district, adding that no genuine Indian citizen would be allowed to be harassed by any force as suspected foreigners. Meanwhile, a 12-hour Assam bandh on February 14 was today called by the All Assam Students Union in protest against yesterday’s police firing. — PTI
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Lillete wins best director award
New Delhi, February 11 Lillete Dubey won the award for her play “Sammy” while Vikram Iyengar won the best director award in the emerging theatre category for his play, “Crossings,” last night. The best theatre production award went to Rangakarmee for “Sarhad Paar Maanta” in the established theatre category and to the CFD Production for “Translations” in the emerging theatre category. Joy Sengupta and Shahid Siddiqui shared the best actor award in the established theatre category for “Sammy” and “Witness for the Prosecution” respectively, while the best actress award in the category went to Nalini for her role in “Witness for the Prosecution”. Partap Sharma won the best original script award for “Sammy”. In the emerging theatre category, Satyajit Sharma won the best actor award for “Peele Scooterwala Aadmi” while the best actress awardee was Seema Agrawal for “Rabia”. Manav Kaul won the best original script award for “Peele Scooterwala Aadmi”. — UNI
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Malayali family pardons Pakistani on death row
Malappuram (Kerala),
February 11 The chances of 70-year-old Akhtar Hussein being spared of the punishment have brightened as the siblings of the youth he killed will soon be submitting the papers for pardon in the Sharia court in the UAE. Hussein was handed down the death sentence by the Sharia court in Al Ain in 1980 for murdering Murat of the Pothiyilthodi family of Thazhekode near here. Murat, then in the prime of youth, was murdered by Hussein while trying to foil a robbery bid by the Pakistani at a restaurant where the Keralite was working. Hussein had come to loot the hotel along with a compatriot, Mushtaq. Murat and a fellow worker overpowered Mushtaq and tied his hands. In a bid to help Mushtaq, Hussein, who was fleeing with the booty, returned and stabbed Murat fatally in the back. According to Murat’s brother P.C. Khalid, the family recently came to know that his borther’s killer was still languishing in prison. “We thought he would have undergone his fate. But only recently we came to know that he was still in prison. He has already suffered for long. We are not going to gain anything out of his death,” Khalid told PTI, when asked what prompted the family to take a merciful view of the case.
— PTI
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Shiv Sainiks ransack script writer’s house
Pune, February 11 Taking a cue from the recent editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, “Saamna” which justified the recent attack on Zee television channel’s Mumbai office for staging the skit on the Thackeray family feud at an award function organised by the media company on February 5, the Shiv Sena activists stormed into the house of Godbole here. When they tried to forcibly enter the house, Godbole’s mother shut the door on them, following which they indulged in ransacking.
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Doc writes to PM in blood for Tibet
Dehra Dun, February 11 Mr Yadav has written 3,000 letters to various leaders and organisations in the country and abroad and drawn 300 pictures of various personalities with his blood. Speaking at a function of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, he said it was high time that the world community should break its silence on the Tibet issue.
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Sainiks burn Valentine's Day cards
Jamshedpur, February 11 Hundreds of Shiv Sainks, led by Shashi Kumar Mishra, vice-president of the Jharkhand unit of the Shiv Sena, held a dharna on the roundabout. Later, they gathered hundreds of Valentine’s Day cards and set them on fire. Mr Mishra said Valentine’s Day celebrations in the country were vitiating decency in public places which should be strongly opposed. The occasion was just an excuse to encourage western culture and to misguide the youth, Mr Mishra said and warned that Shiv Sainiks would keep a vigil in all hotels, parks, cinema theatres on February 14.
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JMM leader’s daughter gangraped
Deltonganj, February 11 According to an FIR, more than four persons along with Vijay Yadav forcefully entered the house of the leader on Thursday night and gangraped the girl. Vijay was a
tenant of the leader. The police is trying to nab the accused.
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VHP burns Husain’s effigy
Ahmedabad, February 11 About 50 activists led by the VHP city unit secretary, Mr Ashwin Patel, shouted slogans and burnt the effigies of Husain this evening.
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