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After the gold, the riches
No change in Chandigarh Airport’s name: Centre
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Cash-for-Votes
You owe it to people, Amartya tells politicians
Pak troops violate ceasefire yet again
Ethiopian Girls Escapade
Trapped pilgrims rescued
Rains throw life out of gear
Poll process for DAV students’ union begins
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After the gold, the riches
New Delhi, August 11 “Since the time he won gold medal at the World Championship (Zagreb) in 2006, Bindra was being seen as a strong contestant for a medal at the Olympics. The government had given full financial support, amounting Rs 35 lakh for his individual training in India and abroad under a dedicated coach. Earlier the Government had given him financial assistance of around Rs 60 lakh spread over a period of 4-5 years. The Ministry has also assured all required financial support to Bindra in future too”, a Ministry statement said. This will be in addition to the Rs 1 crore promised by Indian team sponsors Samsung for a gold medal winner. Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh declared a cash award of Rs 10 lakh. Railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announced free liftime AC 1st class travel, including Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains, to the champion shooter. The Haryana Government has announced Rs 25 lakh cash award while Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan announced Rs 5 lakh, Chattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Rs 1 lakh and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Rs 25 lakh. Badal announces Rs 1 crore
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today felicitated shooter Abhinav Bindra on winning a gold medal in the Olympic games. In a message, the Chief Minister said CM announces Rs 1 crore award for Abhinav's achievement in the 10-metre air rifle shooting segment would give a boost to Indian sport. "We in Punjab are proud of Abhinav Bindra's feat," said Badal. The Chief Minister said the Punjab government would honour him and also give Rs 1 crore as per state government's sports policy. The CM also called up Dr A.S. Bindra, father of the Olympian, and other family members for his achievement. SAD chief Sukhbir Badal also lauded his achievement. Karnataka: Rs 10 lakh
BANGALORE: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa today announced Rs 10 lakh to ace shooter Abhinav Bindra for winning gold in the ongoing Olympics in Beijing. Congratulating for the first ever Indian winning Gold since last 28 years, Yeddyurappa said “Let Bindra’s victory in 10m Air Rifle event be an eye opener for other Indian participants to perform better and win laurels for the country”. Tamil Nadu: Rs 5 lakh
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi today announced a cash award of Rs 5 lakh to young marksman Abhinav Bindra, who won the first Olympics individual gold for India in Beijing. The Chief Minister said Abhinav Bindra has created a new history by winning the individual gold and ended the 28-year-old medal drought after the Indian Hockey team won the gold way back in 1980 Moscow Olympics. Bihar: Rs 11 lakh
PATNA: Congratulating Abhinav Bindra for creating history to become India's first-ever individual Olympic gold medalist, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced a Rs 11 lakh reward for his feat in the ongoing games. “Bindra has created a history in Beijing by bagging gold medal in 10m air rifle event today. He has brought pride for the nation,” Kumar said. Pune MC: Rs 5 lakh
PUNE: City Mayor Rajlakshmi Bhosale today announced a cash reward of Rs five lakh and a grand reception from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for India’s first-ever Olympic individual gold medallist, Abhinav Bindra. At a function organised by the organising committee of the Commonwealth Youth Games at the Deccan Gymkhana here, the Mayor said Abhinav has done the country proud and hoped that many others would emulate him.
— Agencies
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No change in Chandigarh Airport’s name: Centre
New Delhi, August 11 Addressing a meeting of consultative committee of MPs attached with his ministry today, Patel specifically said the name of the airport would remain “Chandigarh Airport” and it would not be renamed as Mohali Airport. “While airports were normally named after cities that they belong to, in certain cases naming or renaming of airports was done after consultations with stakeholders and the final decision was taken by the Cabinet. However, the name of the Chandigarh Airport would remain the same and was not being renamed as Mohali Airport,” Patel informed the members. Led by the SAD-BJP combine, the Punjab government has been very vocal about renaming the airport after the legendary freedom fighter. Two days back, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda also said he had no problem if the airport was renamed after Bhagat Singh. Punjab, Haryana and the Union government are partners in the project. The new terminal of the airport is located in the revenue district of Mohali. While the terminal is located on Punjab land, the landing strip of the abutting IAF air base in Chandigarh will be used for the airport. Incidentally, Haryana did not want it to be renamed as Mohali airport. The necessity of a second airport in Delhi and as a specific case an airport at Jhajjar in Haryana was also discussed during the meeting. The minister said a Group of Ministers had been asked to look into the leg alities of setting up of a second airport in Delhi in view of agreements signed with developers of the IGI Airport, New Delhi. Meanwhile, the first meeting of the Prime Minister’s Committee constituted to examine and assess financial difficulties being faced by airlines operators in India is scheduled to take place on August 14 and the ministry is hopeful of a positive outcome. The civil aviation minister had raised the issue of rising cost of the aviation turbine fuel (ATF) with the Prime Minister, following which the Prime Minister constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Cabinet secretary to examine and assess financial difficulties being faced by the airlines operators in India and recommend measures for sustained growth and health of the aviation industry. The rising cost of the ATF was one of the main points of discussion at the meeting. The problem is that the base prices of the ATF in India is high primarily due to subsidy being provided to other petroleum products. Besides, high taxes are levied by state governments on the ATF compound resulting in high ATF prices across the country. This in turn was affecting the financial viability of airlines operating in India.
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Cash-for-Votes
New Delhi, August 11 The tapes, which have been submitted by the channel to the parliamentary committee probing the bribery allegations, show the MPs with a person named “Sanjeev”, who purportedly gives them Rs 1 crore, which is placed on a table. Earlier in the day CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai and five of his staff members, who conducted the sting operation, appeared before the panel here. They confirmed to the seven-member parliamentary committee that his TV channel did conduct the sting operation. The revelation was significant since the BJP, whose MPs brought cash into the Lok Sabha, had attacked Sardesai for not telecasting the sting operation. Later in the evening, the TV channel telecast the controversial footage. According to chairman of the panel Kishore Chandra Deo, Sardesai told the panel that he got the idea of conducting this sting operation after CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan announced that Rs 25 crore were being offered to MPs to switch sides and vote for the confidence vote. He disclosed that that he had also interviewed some political leaders on this. He submitted two other tapes to the panel, including the one carrying the interviews. Meanwhile, the panel has summoned Samajwadi Party MP from Allahabad Reoti Raman Singh on August 18.
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You owe it to people, Amartya tells politicians
New Delhi, August 11 Referring in particular to the appalling extent of child undernourishment, which is unparallelled in the world, lack of basic medical attention for the poor and comprehensive absence of opportunities for basic schooling, Sen warned the politicians of the consequences of neglecting social justice priorities. It was sheer coincidence that the acclaimed economist and author of “The Argumentative Indian” was making these points in Parliament on a day when UNICEF’s malnutrition consultants were revealing startling facts on malnutrition. “Eight million severely wasted children in India are at immediate risk of death; half of all child deaths are due to malnutrition,” UNICEF consultants today said, calling for a shift in policy to combat malnutrition, which is essentially a poverty-related injustice. Sen, while delivering the inaugural Hiren Mukherjee lecture in Parliament today, equally vehemently stressed the need to “identify overwhelming priorities that have to be confronted with total urgency”. While analysing the “Demands of Social Justice (title for today’s lecture), Sen warned against the neglect of persisting injustices in society. Amartya, for his part, just held out the mirror to the Prime Minister and others present for the lecture, including Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and L.K. Advani, among several jurists, intellectuals and special guests, including PM’s historian daughter Upinder Singh. “We have to ask what should keep us awake at night,” Sen said on departing note.
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Pak troops violate ceasefire yet again
Rajouri, August 11 Army sources said Pakistani troops fired eight mortar shells at Bara Char post at 2.30 pm this afternoon. There was no reports of casualties. Jammu-based defence spokesperson said he didn’t have any information about the incident.This is the sixth instance of ceasefire violation by Pakistani troops in the district in the past one month.
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Ethiopian
Girls Escapade
Chandigarh, August 11 The court held that the manner in which the judge-advocate had “called upon” the GCM to adopt a particular course of action while rendering advice, was improper. The court also took exception to the judge-advocate’s stance that the rulings of a high court were not applicable to court martial. No further proceedings are to be held by the GCM till a new judge-advocate is appointed. A division bench comprising Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice M.C. Garg today also issued instructions that the new incumbent would review afresh the proceedings and issues raised in the GCM so far. The GCM of Major Rajeev Sirohi had commenced at Delhi over a month ago. According to directives of the court, the entire issue pertaining to objection raised by the defence to the charge of the accused possessing an unlicenced weapon is to be reconsidered. If required, the objection raised by the defence against the jurisdiction of the court to try the accused would also be reconsidered. The defence had contended that according to Section 45 of the Arms Act and relevant provisions of Regulations for the Army, an Army officer is legally permitted to possess one pistol or revolver without license and such possession is not an offence. The defence had raised objection to the charge in the court earlier, but the GCM had overruled it. The defence had also alleged that the judge-advocate was not acting in an impartial manner. A petition raising these issues was also sent to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, who is the GCM’s convening authority.
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Trapped pilgrims rescued
Kota, August 11 State home department sources said the rescued included 35 women and 36 children. Two students, identified as Arvind and Deepak, died in the temple tragedy. One injured person was still undergoing treatment at a hospital. A total of 30 steps of the serpentine stairway over river Chambal collapsed yesterday after a landslide, stranding nearly 135 pilgrims. Army jawans used three heavy cranes and five fire tenders to rescue them.
— PTI
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Rains throw life out of gear Mumbai, August 11 In Pune, around 1,500 people living on the banks of Mutha river have been evacuated as the river breached its banks, informed officials. Heavy rains in the Western Ghats have caused floods in downstream areas of Sindhudurg and Goa. Train services between the two cities have also been suspended after heavy rains caused landslides on the tracks, officials said. According to the Central Railways, only long distance trains are being run in this sector. Flights to and from Mumbai airport have also been hit after heavy rains damaged the main runway.
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Poll process for DAV students’ union begins
Dehra Dun, August 11 The nomination forms for the most aspiring union elections would be available from August 12-14. After the polling on August 21, the counting would be done on August 22 along with the announcement of the final results. Devna Sharma, chief election officer, Lingdoh Committee, DAV (PG) College, said the election committee would strictly follow the code of conduct. "Various irregularities are seen during the time of elections and most of the candidates violate the code of conduct. Therefore, the committee has decided to keep a regular check on the candidates and their promotional campaigns," she said.
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