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Bureaucrat convicted of graft
Direct Karunanidhi to withdraw comments, BJP to President
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Govt help for poet Trilochan
Two held for dacoity
InfoXpression 2007 begins
Four killed as bus collides
with truck
Why overlook Tehelka’s sting op: Jaya Jaitley
Jains approach HC to quash FERA charges
US students meet slum kids
Eco-nationalism driving force behind freedom struggle: Habib
BVN celebrates annual day
Judgement copies to be delivered on sentencing: Supreme Court Music album in honour of Gandhi
Fresh warrant against Salem
UP police apologises
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Bureaucrat convicted of graft
New Delhi, September 27 “The court of special judge (CBI) in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, Wednesday convicted Vinay Prakash Upadhyay, deputy director of the Staff Selection Commission, Madhya Pradesh region, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for two years and six months and slapped a fine of Rs. 5,000,” the CBI said here in a press statement Thursday. “Upadhyay was convicted for nominating six individuals for appointment as telecom office assistants and lower division clerk even though these candidates did not appear for the examination and qualify for the these posts. The six candidates were also convicted,” it added. According to the CBI, two cases were registered against Upadhyay in 1995 and two cases against the six individuals - Naval Kishore, Anil Kumar, Bed Ram Singh, Mahesh Chand Gupta, Laksmichand and Rakesh Kumar - for paying and accepting bribes for the appointments.-IANS |
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Direct Karunanidhi to withdraw comments,
New Delhi, September 27 Speaking at a dharna at Rajghat organised by the Delhi Pradesh BJP, Raj Nath Singh said that Lord Ram had influenced the entire world. “In many Muslim countries people worship Lord Ram and Hanuman”. Ramleelas are organised in many countries of the world. He has asked if Lord Ram did not exist, why Mahatama Gandhi Ji used to sing ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram - Patit Pawan Sita Ram’. Even after being shot the last words uttered by Gandhiji were ‘He Ram’. “The anti-religious Central government is hatching a conspiracy to deny the existence of Maryada Purshottam Lord Ram,” he said. Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said that the hair of Prophet Mohammad is still preserved in Hazratbal, Kashmir. The faith of crores of Muslims is connected with the sacred hair. Crores of Muslims are following the path of the prophet. Jesus Christ was born from the womb of Virgin Mary. The entire Christian community of the world believes in it. The followers of all the religions trust their faith. The entire world recognises the existence of God. All religions believe in God although their methods of worships and religious rites may be different. Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra said that Lord Ram and Ramsetu have been described in the Kamban Ramayana of South India. One will find Kamban Ramayana in every family of South India. There was a detailed description about Lord Ram and incidents of his life and Ram-Ravana war in this Ramayana. A Chief Minister can not deny the invaluable book of belief by telling that Ram and Ramsetu were only myths. The human history is only 5500 years old whereas Lord Ram was born nine lakh years ago. Even children know and believe in such long history. In India the day starts with speaking Ram-Ram. “The ruler intoxicated with power may try to deny the existence of our ideal Lord Ram, but Lord Ram lives in the soul of India”, he said. BJP Delhi Pradesh president Harsh Vardhan said that the Central government and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi should not take the patience of Hindus as cowardice. The BJP was being patient in the interest of the country. Karunanidhi should withdraw the insulting words about Lord Ram. “I have travelled more than two dozen countries. I have seen the temples of Lord Ram in Washington, Brazil, Indonesia, Mauritius. In
Rio-De-Jeneiro of Brazil there is a grand statue of Mahatama Gandhi on which the last words of Gandhi ji ‘He Ram’ are written. In foreign countries the Ramcharitmanas and Ramleelas are staged with zeal. Now the modern management scientists are researching that how Bharat conducted the state affairs for 14 years by placing Ram’s wooden sandals on the thrown”, Harsh vardhan said. Besides, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vijay Goel, Om Prakash Kohli, Jagdish Mukhi, Ram Bhaj, S.S. Bajwa, Abdul Rasheed, Ramesh Bidhuri, Pawan Sharma, Shyam Lal Garg, Satya Joshi, Sahab Singh Chauhan, Surya Bhan Pandey, Subhash Arya, Vijender Gupta and many legislators, councillors and senior workers participated in the dharna today. |
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Govt help for poet Trilochan
New Delhi, September 27 An employee of the Hindi Academy has also been deputed at the hospital to facilitate the 90-year-old poet’s treatment. Shastri has been grappling with his prolonged bad health and has also lost his memory. The Hindi Academy had earlier given an aid of Rs.25, 000 to him. The Chief Minister visited his residence at Vaishali a few days ago to enquire about his health. Trilochan Shastri was awarded the Shalaka Samman of the Hindi Academy in 1989-90. He has also been a recipient of a number of other prestigious awards. |
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Two held for dacoity
New Delhi, September 27 One Prakash Goel was sleeping with his wife and brother-in-law on the first floor. His mother and daughter were sleeping in the adjoining room, when someone switched on the light of the room at around 2 at night. There were four muffled persons, out of which three were carrying daggers and one was carrying a pistol. The alleged criminals asked Prakash’s wife to hand over her ornaments. She was further taken to the next room and a sum of Rs 25,000 was taken out of the almirah. On receiving the compliant, the police deployed sources around the area and apprehended two persons, Sajay and Adesh from a liquor shop. Other three persons were also arrested on the instance of the arrested criminals. Police have recovered the goods. |
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InfoXpression 2007 begins
New Delhi, September 27‘InfoXpression-2007’, the eighth annual technical and cultural extravaganza of the University School of Information Technology (USIT), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), was inaugurated here on Thursday. The occasion also saw the launch of the Students’ Branch of Computer Society of India (CSI) on the university campus by the vice-chancellor, who is also the president of CSI.
M.P. Goel, regional vice-president, CSI, Prof. Nupur Prakash, dean, USIT and Prof Yogesh Singh, director, students welfare , were among those present. The first day witnessed an entire array of events like ‘Twisters’, a group dance competition in which Guru Tegh Bahadur Institutute of Technology bagged the first prize. Other events included ‘Cross Terrain’, where teams had to clear a patch of land using remote controlled robot, web programming and red chilly eating competition. Debates in Hindi and English were also conducted. The three-day festival also has a variety of cultural events like Treasure Hunt, Shootout at USIT along with fashion and rock shows. The students’ body of USIT, Society for Information Technology has organised the three-day fiesta. As many as 50 technical institutions are participating in the programme. Inaugurating the festival, Prof K. K. Aggarwal, vice-chancellor, GGSIPU, said, “We have been a knowledge society by nature. If the world has to advance we have to be an integral part in development of several technologies including IT.” Encouraging the students to participate in extra-curricular activities, he further added that, “It is important to do things outside classroom as much as inside, to foster creativity, confidence, innovativeness and vision.” |
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Four killed as bus collides
with truck
Ghaziabad, September 27 The accident occurred on the bypass in Hapur yesterday. Many of the injured, admitted to the district hospital in Ghaziabad, are in a serious condition. On Wednesday some 30 pilgrims in a minibus were returning to Ghaziabad after a dip in Ganga at Brij Ghat. At bypass, the minibus driver had accelerated the speed. Near Gram Sabli mode, a cow suddenly appeared in the middle of the road. As the driver swerved the bus, he lost control of the bus which jumped over the divider and hit a minitruck coming from Ghaziabad side. Bus driver Brijpal died on the spot. Police from Kotwali Dehat, Hapur, soon reached the spot and pulled the injured from the tangled wreckage of the vehicles. The injured were rushed to district hospital Ghaziabad, 38 km away. According to observers, the life of two passengers, Rampal and an unidentified person could have been saved if treatment had been available without loss of time, say at Hapur government hospital. |
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Why overlook Tehelka’s sting op: Jaya Jaitley
New Delhi, September 27 “Tehelka, like the ‘Live India’ incident, was based on pretension and fabrication. If the government can act against one sting operation then why not against the other which started it all,” she said at a press conference here today. Jaitley was caught on Tehelka camera talking to reporters posing as defence dealers in 2001 in which she purportedly mentioned some money to be given to a party functionary. “What I had been always warning about the implications of sting operations has come true. Government is forced to act. But why only in one case when both the sting operations were based on pretensions and fabrications,” she said. The information and broadcasting ministry had last week ordered ‘live india’ channel to go off air for a month for the telecast of a fabricated sting operation implicating a Delhi teacher.–PTI |
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Jains approach HC to quash FERA charges
New Delhi, September 27 The Jain brothers, who have been discharged in all the hawala cases, have sought quashing of the FERA cases against them, maintaining that they have not violated any of the provisions of the foreign exchange regulation act.The final arguments in the cases are slated to come up in the Delhi High Court on September 27. All 42 politicians, including LK Advani and VC Shukla, have also been discharged in the light of the Delhi High Court ruling that dairy entries were not admissible in court unless there is any corroboratory evidence. Making their submissions through their counsel, the Jains and their employee, JK Jain argued before justice Ravinder Bhatt at the last hearing that the cases filed against them had no substance and should be quashed at the outset. J K Jain has been charged for abetting the Jains for acquiring foreign exchange, and not surrendering it to the authorities and for selling the same illegally without obtaining permission from the RBI in violations of the provisions of sections 8(1), 8(2) and 14 of FERA, 1973. Mohammed Ameer Deen Habib and SSO Arif have been charged for purchasing foreign exchange and for failing to surrender the same. The initial investigations carried out by the CBI had revealed that JK Jain had been receiving money from various sources including Arif who was staying in Mumbai. The money was being received on behalf of the Jain brothers. The CBI revealed that the money was being received from one M/S gem traders in which Mohd Ameer Deen Habib alias Ameer Bhai and SSO Arif were partners. Ameer and Arif had left the country and were later arrested by the agency from Dubai. The CBI had identified the diaries seized from the office of JK Jain, which revealed the names of many politicians and bureaucrats in coded forms. The entries in the diaries from 1-26 relate to the FERA charges and the directorate of enforcement has filed the cases of foreign exchange violations against the four Jains, Ameer and SSO Arif. The entries in the diaries showed the name of the countries from where the transactions amounting to 2,26,50,000 dollars were carried out. The Jains have appealed to the Delhi High Court to quash the cases against them, as they have committed no violation of foreign exchange. Earlier they had approached the lower court for quashing the pending FERA cases against them, but the court had dismissed their petition.–UNI |
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US students meet slum kids
Noida, September 27 The visitors, under Dr Clarence Maloney, academic director, India Culture and Development, found their interaction with slum kid quite fascinating. It was a rewarding experience for them. The kids, dressed in the school uniforms, welcomed the visitors and sang songs, ‘Daya Karo Prabhu Hame Parhna Sikha Dena, Watan se Pyar Prabhu Hame Karana Sikha Dena’. The children also performed dances and street plays to show to the visitors from the USA what they had learnt in one year of this weekly class. The US students included Susan Taylor, Alexander Persand, Jacquelyn Phillips, Nancy Pinnell, Keyona Forbes, Sonia Desai, Vanel Ruchl and Melissa Salyk. They are part of 23 US students who came to India. Such student groups go to other countries for four months and get credit for this project work in their academics. They live with the local families and spend at least a week in the rural areas. There are 90 programmes on development projects going on in some 45 countries. In India, they have their headquarters in Jaipur where the students live with local families. The US students are basically interested in education, cluster (basti) development and world learning. Many US universities participate in this programme, Dr Clarence Maloney said. They try to learn the local language also as was clear when some of the students and Dr Maloney himself tried to address the slum kids in Hindi. The class is being conducted by Admiral (retd) HC Malhotra, Sunil Razdan, an entrepreneur, Sushma Verma, Gulista Rajput, teachers. The programme is liberally supported by morning walkers of Noida. Neera Misra, chairperson of the reputed Draupadi Trust, New Delhi, is also supporting the project. The mission, according to Admiral Malhotra, is one year old. And the effort of the group has met with tremendous success in transforming the beggar kids near the Mazher Durgah Hazrat Syed Pir into neat, clean and smart children who are keen to study further. |
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Eco-nationalism driving force behind freedom
New Delhi, September 27 Inaugurating the ‘ Freedom Week’ at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library here, the leftist historian said,’’ we have forgotten the ideas of national movement, we forgot 1857, this is the right time for us to think that are we loyal to the legacy of national movement?’’ On the occasion of revolutionary Bhagat Singh’s birth centenary and Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library is celebrating ‘Freedom Week’ from September 26 to October 3 in the Capital. Prof Habib, who had spent his early 15 years under the British rule, recalled that economic nationalism which was propounded by the grand old man of India Dadabhai Naoroji’ was the major driving force behind the national movement. “Britain through the policy of trade destroyed India, particularly the textile industry which was the backbone of the country’s economy at that time,” he said, adding that poverty in India was the creation of the British rule. Prof Habib told a gathering of scholars, journalists and students that after the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi in India the scenario of the national movement totally changed. While other national movement leaders had only spoken about uplifting poor, Gandhi translated this idea into action. Incidentally, the first two movements of Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Champaran agitation’ and ‘Kheda satyagraha’, were against the economic atrocities of the British rulers. “It was Gandhi who said that poor had a say in how India should be governed,” he said. Prof habib said that against the general perception that Gandhi and Bhagat Singh had major differences they have lot more in common. Although Bhagat Singh was called terrorist because of his association with revolutionary terrorist movement in India, he was a socialist by heart. “Bhagat Singh had initiated the idea that poor can only be served if there is socialism,” Prof Habib added. According to Prof Habib, Mahatma Gandhi was a devout Hindu and Bhagat Singh was an atheist, still both the leaders emphasised that a nation in order to be a notion must be secular. Summing up the lecture , Prof Habib pointed out that in the process of reinventing ‘’ourselves as a nation, we should not deviate from the ideas and concepts of our freedom legacy.’’
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BVN celebrates annual day
New Delhi, September 27 The chief guest at the function was CBSE chairman Dr Ashok Ganguly who praised the school for its brilliant results. He urged the students to keep up the good work for India to reign supreme at the global level. The school students presented a cultural programme on the occasion while principal Dr Anjali Sethi presented the school report for the year. The school vice-chairman R.N. Jaju was among the guests present on the occasion. |
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CM lauds youth power
New Delhi, September 27 Addressing a function organised by the Delhi Union of Journalist at Press Club today, Dikshit said that it was time to make use of competence and talent of the youth which could nurture tradition of harmony and brotherhood in the country. She also called upon young journalists to highlight various social issues. Rajya Sabha member Jai Prakash Agarwal, MLA Ramakant Goswami, president Press Club of India Rahul Jalali, general secretary Pushpendra Kulsrestha and other well-known journalists were also present. The CM also donated Rs 25 lakh for the renovation of the press club. President of the Delhi Journalist Union Dinanath Rai welcomed the gathering while Rahul Jalali delivered the vote of thanks. |
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Judgement copies to be delivered on
New Delhi, September 27 The observation came during the hearing, when one of the petitioners sought his release on bail on the ground that Bombay High Court had not delivered a reasoned judgement though his appeal was dismissed two months ago. He also said that his right to appeal against the High Court judgement had been taken away and the court had already granted interim bail to bollywood star Sanjay Dutt and other convicts in 1993 bomb blast case on the same ground. A bench comprising justices BN Agarwal, PP Naolekar and DK Jain cautioned Bombay High Court against such practice and observed “Bombay High Court is following the footsteps of Allahabad High Court which also took a long time to supply a copy of the judgement after pronouncing the judgement.’’ As per law the convict is entitled to get a copy of judgement of conviction and sentence immediately after the judgement is pronounced to enable him to challenge his conviction and sentence in a higher court. According to the Supreme Court ruling in state of Punjab vs Jagdev Singh Talwandi the detention of a person without giving him a copy of the judgement was not justified and his or her liberty cannot be curtailed till a copy of the judgement was supplied to the convicted person. The Supreme Court had already granted interim bail to over a dozen convicts including Sanjay Dutt, as the TADA court had not given them a copy of the judgement. The condition of bail was that all the convicts would have to surrender immediately after getting the copy of the detailed judgement.–UNI |
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Music album in honour of Gandhi
New Delhi, September 27 The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) announced in May that October 2 will also be observed as the International Day of Non-Violence. “Remembering Mahatma Gandhi is a delightful portrait of Bapu’s favourite bhajans and of songs associated with our national identity. We believe this music album will resonate with every Indian, young or old,” said, Mukul Kansal, general manager, Saregama India Ltd, India’s foremost music, who brought out the album. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan, who have sung and played sarod in the album, gave a mesmerizing performance at the launch of the album. Ganghiji’s favourite hymns like “Vaishnav Jan To”, “Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram”, and the national song “Vande Maataram” are featured in the album in present-day context. “I am really happy to get a chance to be associated with the symbol of peace and compassion—Mahatma Gandhi. This album is my tribute to him on the occasion of Non-Violence Day,” said Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.. The album represents an effort to bring Gandhi closer to the youth.—IANS |
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Fresh warrant against Salem
New Delhi, September 27 Chief metropolitan magistrate Sanjeev Jain directed the jail authorities in Mumbai to produce the extradited gangster before it on October 15. The special cell of Delhi Police had registered a case of extortion and criminal intimidation against Salem and his alleged accomplices Ishtiyaq Ahmed and Chander Prakash in 2002. The trio are accused of making extortion calls to a South Delhi businessman, Rajat Nagrath, demanding a ransom of Rs 1 crore. |
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UP police apologises
New Delhi, September 27 “ We are ashamed of what happened with the Japanese tourists here last week, said Vikram Singh, Uttar Pradesh Director General of police, inaugurating a tourist police station here that has come up within a record time of 24 hours after the incident.–UNI |
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