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India favours stable neighbourhood: Prez
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Delimitation Impact
Brutality against farmers
Thackeray, Lalu locked in war of words
Campaign Against North Indians
RTI
Rape charge against father
Sohrabuddin fake encounter case
Disinclination to cook no ground for divorce: HC
Gag order against Raj upheld
Quota for SC/ST in medical, dental courses
Justice Khanna passes away
Talbott surprised at opposition
to N-deal
AESA radar technology for LCA
MPs caught napping
LS, RS mourn Amte, Hillary’s death
Airport staff strike deferred till March 10
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India favours stable neighbourhood: Prez
New Delhi, February 25 India would prefer to see a peaceful, stable and liberal democratic Bangladesh. “It is our hope that the people of Bangladesh will be able to exercise their will through free and fair elections for restoration of full democracy,” the President said. On the unfortunate increase in violence in Sri lanka, Patil noted “We are clear that there can be no military solution to the ethnic issue. It is necessary to find a negotiated political settlement within the framework of a united Sri Lanka that is acceptable to all sections of society.” The President said “We will continue to help Afghanistan in whatever manner we can in its reconstruction and in building a pluralistic and prosperous society”. Patil hoped that Myanmar’s ongoing national reconciliation and political reform process and the recognition of the need to expedite the process will make it more inclusive so as to ensure peaceful and stable democratisation. She said India attached high importance to its bilateral relations with China with which “We have a strategic and cooperative partnership for peace and prosperity”. This partnership has been further enhanced and given a global dimension with the signing of a Shared Vision for the 21st Century during the visit of the Prime Minister to China last month. The government has achieved significant progress in the implementation of its “Look East Policy” through participation in the Asean-India and the East Asia summits in Singapore, in November last year. India continues to work with Japan to strengthen its partnership. India’s interactions with the Gulf region has enhanced considerably which is home to more than 4.5 million Indians. The government has been closely following events in Iraq and hopes that peace and stability would soon return to Iraq. The government has also supported a rejuvenated Israel-Palestinian dialogue and looks forward to a peaceful resolution of issues leading to an independent state of Palestine living at peace with its neighbours. Patil said her government also attached great importance to the achievements of the people of Indian origin in different parts of the world. Several initiatives have been taken up including the first People of Indian Origin University on the anvil.
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Rail Budget
New Delhi, February 25 On his part Yadav has alluded to presenting a populist budget by unfolding a slew of passenger amenities and further rationalising the revenue generating freight business along with giving an added push to projects with public-private partnership. It is being widely speculated that with barely 15 months remaining for the general elections and the prospects of a full fledged railway budget unlikely in the first quarter in 2009, Yadav might do the unthinkable by marginally reducing passenger fares. A tongue-in-cheek Yadav observed in his inimitable style that he will continue to surprise the people in a pleasant manner. He promised to unveil a budget which will be far more promising in all aspects, friendly to the ordinary passenger and beneficial to commerce and business. It is apparent populism will be the theme of the railway budget. At the same time Yadav will not like to fritter away the advantage of having turned around the gigantic Railway system. This assumes importance as the union finance minister has asked the railway ministry to earmark a whopping Rs 9,000 crore to meet the obligations arising from the Sixth Pay Commission. Sources say there can be reduction in AC I and AC II tier fares. There might be internet services on the Shatabdis and Rajdhanis. He had drawn attention to running Bharat Darshan trains and knitting the country together by touching far flung places. Feasibility studies might be undertaken for having high speed train routes. Those afflicted by the deadly HIV/AIDS might be offered a huge concessional fare. He might also announce a separate authority to supervise cleanliness in trains and platforms. The minister might again be partial to his home state of Bihar with regard to more new lines and trains. This has been the case with all of Yadav’s predecessors. The enlargement and upgradation plans have on most occasions been tilted in favour of the minister’s home state. The minister of state for railways R.Velu indicated that the budget will be “people friendly” having special provisions for upgrading passenger amenities. He said Yadav had scripted that railways turnaround without effecting any hike in passenger fares. “We hope to achieve all our targets for the current financial year,” he added.
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Rajya Sabha: Elections to 56 seats on March 26
While the lone seat from Himachal Pradesh has fallen vacant after BJP member Suresh Bhardwaj resigned after having been elected as a MLA in the state, in Haryana, Ram Prakash (Cong) and Harendra Singh Malik (INLD) are completing their tenure on April 9. From Himachal, former state Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Shanta Kumar is tipped to be nominated by the party in the ensuing elections. The Election Commission will issue the notification on March 8, the last date for nomination will be March 15, scrutiny of nominations will be done on March 17 and the last date for withdrawal of candidature will be March 19. While polling will take place between 9 am and 4 pm on March 26, counting of votes would be taken up the same day after 5 pm, an Election Commission statement said here. The election process will be completed by March 29. The largest number of seven members are retiring from Maharashtra followed by six each from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, five each from West Bengal and Bihar, four each from Orissa and Gujarat. Three members from Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Rajasthan, two each from Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and one each from Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh would retire in April. By-election to one seat from Bihar following the death of RJD member Motiur Rahman would also be held on March 26, EC said. The EC said elections to four seats in Karnataka would not be held following the dissolution of the state Assembly. Janardhan Poojary, Prema Cariappa, M.V. Rajashekaran and Vijay Wallya would be retiring in April. The Election Commission has also decided to hold biennial elections on March 26 to the Legislative Council of Maharashtra and Bihar to fill up nine seats each.
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Delimitation Impact
New Delhi, February 25 The BJP has identified 158 seats, excluding the 138 seats, where the party has sitting MPs and these appointed leaders would fan out to study the impact of delimitation and assess the political situation at the ground level. They would hold extensive discussion with local leaders from block, district to state level and also have direct interface with people and submit a detailed report to central leadership before March 20. The 158 seats being focused upon are those seats, where the saffron party has won from one to four times since 1989, which means that the BJP is a major player, BJP spokesperson and senior leader Sushma Swaraj told newspersons after a meeting of top leaders chaired by BJP president Rajnath Singh and attended among others by leader of the opposition L.K Advani. “This massive exercise is being undertaken by the party in the context of delimitation of constituencies and to assess the potentiality of victory,” Swaraj said. She pointed out that of the 158 seats in 43 Lok Sabha seats that the party had won once, in 48 seats won either twice or thrice and in 67 seats won either three or four times. Significantly, of these 158 seats 70 seats are in politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh. To ensure that there was no “prejudice” in reporting, leaders from outside the state would be sent for the exercise, she added. While Vijay Kumar Malhotra has been assigned to tour Jammu and Kashmir, Anil Jain will do the assessment in Himachal Pradesh, Thapir Gav in Chandigarh and Tanwar Chand Gehlot and Satyanarain Jatiya in Haryana. The 158 constituencies have been divided into 54 groups.
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Brutality against farmers
Lucknow, February 25 Charging the BSP government of being “anti-farmer and undemocratic” representatives from SP, BJP, Congress and Rashtriya Lok Dal finally staged a walkout when parliamentary affairs minister Lalji Verma refused to agree to any of their demands, including an all-party delegation making an on-the-spot visit to enquire into the reported brutality on peacefully protesting farmers. The farmers from Fatehpur, bordering Bundelkhand also experiencing similar drought-like situation, started a ‘Dera dalo, Haq mago’ (stay put, demand rights) satyagraha at the Fatehpur collectorate on February 19 demanding waiving off of loans and immediate relief on the lines of Bundelkhand to the farmers of the region. The district administration reportedly refused to accept their memorandum of demands, manhandled their leader Narsingh Patel, used water canon, lathi charge and firing causing injuries to more than 150 farmers. There is still no trace of two men and a woman who were part of the satyagraha, charged BJP MLA Premlata Katiyar, who visited Fatehpur as part of a BJP fact-finding team. Serious cases, including attempt to murder, damage to public property and more under the Gangster Act, had been registered against 30 persons, mostly old and some even disabled persons, who had since been put behind bars, pointed out Radhey Shyam Gupta MLA from the region. Answering to an adjournment motion Verma did not even agree to withdraw the reportedly false cases registered against the farmers the close to three dozen farmers put behind bars since February 20. Refusing to accept that his officials had resorted to lathi charge and firing Verma only acknowledged use of water canon to maintain law and order. Defending the stand of the district administration of forcing the farmers to lift their satyagraha Verma said it was done on the demand of the Secretary, Bar Council, who had charged that the farmers’ protest was disrupting their court work and also causing disturbance to students preparing for their annual examinations. The Opposition’s demand for compensation to the farmers for causing them injuries, ransacking their belongings and damaging their tractor trailers also did not get a positive response from the government. According to the sequence of events narrated by the members who have visited the place some 2,000 farmers, including a large number of women, from around 130 villages arrived on about 100 tractors at the district headquarters on February 19 to stage a satyagraha. In their 13-point memorandum they had demanded immediate relief for the 16-km stretch along the Yamuna suffering from drought like conditions similar to those in Bundelkhand. Neither the DM nor any other subordinate official accepted their memo or heard them out. Next day on their leader Narsingh Patel was manhandled by the district police that resorted to brutality when his supporters came to his rescue. Finally that night thousands of farmers were chased away from the compound. “Are we hardened criminals to be booked under the Gangster Act. Do we have no right to be heard,” said weeping farmers when I visited them in jail said Radhey Shyam Gupta MLA from Fatehpur. BJP leader Katiyar charged that among those arrested is the owner of the tent house from where the pandal had been hired and owner of the company from where the microphone had been hired.
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Thackeray, Lalu locked in war of words
Mumbai, February 25 This time, Thackeray kicked up a major controversy by hitting out at MLAs in the Bihar Assembly for heckling the state’s Governor R.S Gavai, who hails from Maharashtra. “Lalu brand MLAs humiliate R.S Gavai, a Marathi, and asked him to leave the state while he was delivering the Governor’s address,” Thackeray wrote. “But these are the people who fall at the feet of Sonia Gandhi and worship her,” the Shiv Sena supremo wrote in his piece in Saamna. The article went on to blast Lalu for his provocative speeches. Thackeray had only last week slammed Lalu for threatening to hold a ‘Chhat Puja’ in Mumbai. The heckling of Gavai, the newspaper said, was at the instigation of the railway minister. “What is Lalu’s relationship with Mumbai? You cannot question him on that. Lalu then talks of national integration. He even childishly asks our Marathi Governor to leave Bihar, the newspaper said. Lalu, however, retaliated by hinting that the Shiv Sena supremo was past his prime. “Just like old Muslims pray as they get older, Bal Thackeray should take Ram’s name and stop fighting,” Lalu said. Though Thackeray is not known for his love for Dalits and had asked his followers to physically take on the Republican Party of India, including Gavai’s faction in the past, today he was full of praise for the Bihar Governor. “Gavai is a balanced person who knows how to uphold the dignity of the post he holds. When he was appointed Governor of Bihar, he said he was a Bihari from that day,” Thackeray wrote. He went on to berate Bihari migrants in Mumbai for not assimilating into the local culture. Thackeray’s self-praise extended to the people of Maharashtra for not humiliating the state’s Governor S.M Krishna, who was a former Chief Minister of Karnataka. “Every Karnataka CM harasses the people of Belgaum, but when Krishna became Governor of Maharashtra he was not insulted,” Thackeray wrote. Incidentally, Saamna and Thackeray himself had threatened to humiliate Krishna when he took over as Governor of Maharashtra some years ago. But the threat of strict action by the state government against Shiv Sena activists prevented any such incident.
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Campaign Against North Indians
New Delhi, February 25 Given the ongoing slanging match between the parties on either side of the political divide, Wednesday’s debate is bound to be volatile. Although MNS leader Raj Thackeray kickstarted the campaign against “outsiders”, his fledgling party’s views will not heard in the debate as it has no representation in the Lok Sabha. Having been forced to adopt its bete noire’s agenda, the Shiv Sena can be expected to defend and justify the campaign for “Maharashtrian pride” in the face of all round condemnation from the other political parties. The debate will pitch the inimitable railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav against the Shiv Sena as the two have been engaged in a bitter slanging match over the past several days. In fact, the Shiv Sena will find it difficult to muster support from its ally, the BJP which has already come down heavily on Raj Thackeray and the Shiv Sena for their provocative utterances against “outsiders” in Maharashtra resulting in street violence which, in turn, has led to an exodus of North Indians from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh from the state. Faced with assembly elections in the Hindi heartland states this year, the BJP cannot afford to back the Shiv Sena as it will have serious ramifications outside Maharashtra. If the Shiv Sena will be at the receiving end for encouraging “divisive politics”, the Congress will also be under attack for the Maharashtra government’s failure in taking speedy action against Raj Thackeray. The Congress will have to face the charge that it actually in collusion with Raj Thackeray in its desperate bid to accentuate the differences between the MNS and the Shiv Sena and the Shiv Sena and the BJP.
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Husain’s paintings fetch record Rs 4 cr
New Delhi, February 25 In the auction organised by Kolkata’s Emami Chisel Art, a joint venture between the Akriti Art Gallery and the Emami Group, over 80 paintings went under the hammer. However, it was the “Tribute to Hashmi” that hogged the limelight despite Tyeb Mehta’s “Kali III” having a higher base price. Vikram Bachchawat of the Emami Chisel Art refused to say who the bidder was for the Husain, but said the auction was highly successful. However, he pointed out that it was the first time Husain crossed the $ 1 million mark at an auction. There were other records that were created at the country’s first ever art auction to be conducted simultaneously on line and from the floor. Among some highlights of the evening were Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Kali III’, which fetched Rs 4.4 crore. It had a base price of Rs 4 crore and was expected to fetch about Rs 5 crore. J. Swaminathan’s ‘Bird & Mountain’ fetched almost Rs 2 crore. And notwithstanding difficult market conditions, the evening saw sales touch a total of Rs 24 crore - an indicator that art is perhaps proving a better investment. Also noteworthy is the fact that 91 per cent of the lots, comprising 79 of the 89 lots, of 70 artists put under the hammer, were sold. According to reports, the enthusiastic response to newer talents being auction-listed for the very first time saw bidders battle to acquire works from these future maestros. Along with works from the likes of Nandalal Bose, Amrita Shergil, F.N. Souza and S.H. Raza the auction provided a fairly mixed bag with something for everyone. Incidentally, the ECA has contributed somewhat towards putting modern and contemporary Indian art on the world map. Bids were witnessed from all over the world and in fact three of the bids were won by bidders from Italy, Mauritius and the
USA.
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RTI
New Delhi, February 25 In a move clearly meant to deter the applicant, the department of posts has demanded Rs 1,29,390 towards manpower cost from Rakesh
Aggarwal, secretary of an NGO, Nyay Bhoomi. The department has also demanded Rs 25,028 as the cost of actual information, which, he says, is perfectly all right by him. In all, Aggarwal has been asked to pay Rs 1,54,311 for the information that he has sought. Regarding this demand for “labour charges”, he says apart from blatantly violating the RTI Act, the response of the department of posts shows there is a serious deficiency in service in the Speed Post service that they are trying to hide. “The demand for labour charges is totally illegal and a deliberate and blatant violation of the RTI Act. Government officers are trying to scare me by demanding a huge sum in order to hide their own failures,” says
Aggarwal. Aggarwal had asked for information about the delivery of all documents and articles booked under Speed Post service across the country on January 10, 2008, a date chosen by him at random, to assess the performance of the department. He had also asked for the proof of delivery in respect of all Speed Post bookings made at N Block, Connaught Place post office during December 2007 and January 2008. “We had noticed that several of our Speed Post articles were not being delivered at all. Many more were taking weeks to get delivered even within the same city. So we decided to fix accountability by filing an application under the RTI Act,” he says. The reply from the department is silent on the request for proof of delivery of three specific bookings, or on the question of compensation that it offers for delayed delivery, he claims.
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Rape charge against father
New Delhi, February 25 Disposing a review petition of Asha Ram, 80, a Bench of Justices H.K. Sema and P.P. Naolekar directed the sessions judge, Shimla, to proceed against his daughter under Sections 191, 192 and 193 of the IPC for giving false evidence, fabricating evidence and intentionally giving false statement in the court. The court found that the change of her statement after the judgement was not a sound reason to reverse its findings recorded on November 17, 2005. The examination of the evidence of the daughter given to the trial court gave that her statement was made with “full confidence”. The allegations of rape were made by the daughter against Asha Ram in 1988 when she was merely 14 years of age. But soon after the apex court judgement, the daughter, now 33, married to a man from Punjab and having two children, had filed an affidavit in the apex court stating that she had made the allegation against her father under “pressure” from her mother. Retracting the charge, she said the reason for false allegation of rape against the father was that her mother “compelling” her constantly to do so as she wanted to take revenge against him as their marriage was in the dock. At the instance of the 14-year-old girl, the police had registered an FIR against Asha Ram at Chota Shimla police station. At that time he was 61 and was living separately. His two daughters, who lived with the mother, often used to visit the father and it was on such a visit that the elder daughter had accused the father of raping her. The trial court had held him guilty and sentenced him to five-year imprisonment but the Himachal Pradesh High Court had acquitted him in July 1998. The apex court found many flaws in the high court verdict and reversed its ruling with the award of life sentence to him. Apparently, the apex court was of the view that her latest affidavit was an attempt by her desire to save her father from the life sentence.
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Sohrabuddin fake encounter case
New Delhi, February 25 A Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and P. Sathasivam issued notices to the Gujarat Government on the bail petitions of IPS officer Dinesh M.N. of Rajasthan police, holding the rank of SSP, and Narender K. Amin, DSP of Gujarat police. The Gujarat Government was directed to submit its reply by March 24 to enable the court to take up the hearing and dispose of the petitions. The Gujarat High Court had cancelled their bail more than a month ago after it was challenged by the state government amid constant pressure on it from the apex court asking for the probe in the Sohrabuddin encounter in right earnest. The apex court had been monitoring the probe on a petition of Rubabuddin, a brother of Sohrabuddin, an alleged inter-state gangster who was killed in a “fake encounter” in 2005. After his alleged killing by a joint team of Gujarat and Rajasthan police, his wife Kausar Bi was also eliminated to erase the evidence. Sohrabuddin was killed on the charge of hatching a conspiracy to assassinate Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Amid a hard fought legal battle and Sohrabuddin case becoming a focal point during Gujarat elections, there was constant pressure from the judiciary on the state government and, as a result, it had no option but to move the High Court for cancellation of the bail of the two police officers. Gujarat police DIG D.G. Vanzara, who was heading the team that allegedly was involved in the fake encounter, continues to be in judicial custody along with another SP rank officer of the state.
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Disinclination to cook no ground for divorce: HC
Madurai, February 25 Dismissing an appeal filed by a
Kanyakumari-based engineer, who had sought divorce from his wife, Justice G. Rajasuriya said "by no stretch of imagination, a wife's disinclination to cook could be a ground for divorce". The engineer, who got married in 1999, submitted that his wife refused to cook as she feared handling knives and it amounted to physical and mental cruelty, a ground for divorce. The judge said that though there was no harm if a husband expected his wife to cook food, it could not be the reason for granting divorce on the ground of physical or mental cruelty. A principal sub-judge in Nagercoil had granted him divorce in 2004, but a district judge reversed the order in 2006 on a petition by the woman expressing wish to live with him. The engineer filed the present appeal against this order. Judge Rajasuriya said that it was crystal clear that the "temperament" of the husband towards the wife was not proper. "He started looking at wife as though she had psychiatric problem and that she deliberately avoided cooking. His attitude is the root cause of the matrimonial rift." The engineer also contended that his wife was not cooperating in physical relations and her "repulsive
behaviour" had affected the calm at his house. To this, the judge said that the husband has chosen to use "harsh terms" against wife.
— PTI
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Mumbai, February 25 Additional sessions Judge S.N. Sardesai held that the same would remain in force and the state was at liberty to extend it by following the procedure in the CrPC. The gag order was issued by deputy commissioner of police Vijaysingh Jadhav on February 11 in the wake of Raj’s statements against north Indian migrants that had led to violence in the metropolis and parts of Maharashtra. The same was to expire today.Raj had challenged the order on the ground that it was an infringement on his fundamental rights and it was passed without giving him a hearing. The court, however, struck down the part of the order, which said it was to remain in force till February 25 or “till such time as such activities are stopped or got under control.” “A permanent order was passed which was never to end. That can’t be done,” the judge observed and added that it could not be for an indefinite period. — PTI
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Quota for SC/ST in medical, dental courses
New Delhi, February 25 The union health ministry has issued direction to the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) to implement 15 per cent reservation for Scheduled Castes and 7.5 per cent for Scheduled Tribes in the exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), a senior health ministry official told PTI. With the introduction of the quota, around 310 SC and 155 ST students will benefit this year. In 2007, the total number of MBBS/BDS seats were 2,075, which were filled up on the basis of merit exclusively. The decision was taken after the Supreme Court, hearing an application in this regard filed by the health ministry, left it to the Centre to take a policy decision on the matter. Seats in government medical and dental colleges across the country that are under the All-India quota are filled up on the basis of the All-India Entrance Examination. Earlier, the seats used to be filled up only on the basis of merit and without any reservation. The state governments, however, were adopting reservation for SC/ST candidates as per the state policy under their own quota.
— PTI
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Justice Khanna passes away
New Delhi, February 25 Justice Khanna, who served as the judge of the apex court from 1971 to 1977, is survived by three sons and a daughter. His cremation will take place at Lodhi crematorium tomorrow at 11.30 am.
— PTI
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Talbott surprised at opposition
to N-deal
New Delhi, February 25 Ironically, Talbott, currently the president of the leading US think tank, Brookings Institution, has been critical of the nuclear deal as India is yet to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. As the then number two man in the US state department, Talbott conducted a marathon two-year dialogue with then external affairs minister Jaswant Singh on nuclear and other issues from 1998. Currently on a visit to India, Talbott told NDTV: “This is a very good deal for India and I say that as someone who has reservations about the deal.” On the opposition to the deal in India, he said: “This is a very good case of putting a bullet in the gift horse’s forehead because if India does not implement this deal, I am not sure the next US administration will simply pick up from where the Bush administration has left.” Talbott said if the deal did not go through, then it will affect Indo-US ties that he termed as unfortunate. On Pakistan, he said the USA was worried about the post-poll scenario in that country without Pervez Musharraf.
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New Delhi, February 25 “We have offered to co-develop the active electronically scanned array e-copter radars with DRDO-LRDE,” CEO of the company Stefan Zoller told reporters here. “If India takes up the offer, it would mean a giant technology leap as US companies Raytheon and Northop Grumann, which pioneered the technology, are still awaiting Pentagon clearance on offering technology transfer on such radars,” he said. AESA radars that are fitted on board the US frontline fighters like F-16, F-5 and F-18/A give the ability to pilots to track threats and targets simultaneously in the air and ground. The radars can also track threats like cruise missile. They are also jam proof. The technology transfer of the radars is one of the key demands raised by India in Request For Proposals circulated to six major companies bidding for New Delhi multi-billion contract to purchase 126 multi-role combat aircraft. — PTI
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New Delhi, February 25 Amongst those seen nodding off as Patil addressed the joint session of Parliament, focussing on India’s successful growth story in a speech that lasted 45 minutes and covered 19 pages, were external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, former prime minister H.D Deve Gowda and heavy industries minister Santosh Mohan Deb - all were seated in the front row - and cmmunications minister A. Raja. And if they weren’t dozing, they were chatting. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs Maneka Gandhi and Manvendra Singh, seated at the back, could be seen deep in conversation, as could BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain and Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh. — IANS
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LS, RS mourn Amte, Hillary’s death
New Delhi, February 25 Mourning the death of Paranjpe, who represented Thane since 1996 and died on February 20 in Mumbai, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said the Shiv Sena leader was an active politician and a social worker. Reading out his condolence message on Edmund Hillary, the Speaker said, “Sir Edmund is a household name in India, respected for his mountaineering achievements, contributions to the welfare of the people of the Himalayas and conservation in the Himalayas.”
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Airport staff strike deferred till March 10 New Delhi, February 25 The Airport Authority Employees’ Union announced its decision to defer the strike till March 10 came following civil aviation minister Praful Patel requesting the workers to give him some more time for sorting out the matter, AAEU general secretary M.K. Ghoshal said. “We have come to this decision after taking into account the problems passengers may face in the wake of the strike. The Minister also requested for more time,” he claimed. CITU general secretary M.K. Pandhe said the minister had assured them that the tripartite (government, union and airport operators) meeting would be held to resolve the issues related to the employees of New Delhi and Mumbai airports before March 10. — PTI
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