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Social networking sites not cooperating: Sibal
Deal for 126 fighter jets by year-end
Beni Prasad sparks row over price rise remark
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Cong plays safe on SC/ST quota in promotions
Tribune exclusive
Drought in K’taka does not deter legislators from foreign trips
Bank strike on Wed, Thursday
BJP top guns accuse Centre of anti-farmer policies
Mewat weak link in fight against polio
Scare subsides, displaced N-E people head back
Slain boys didn’t know it was special train to N-E
Gogoi says no to more special trains
Central team to visit Assam today
Row in Faridkot judicial circles as 100-yr-old ‘painting’ goes missing
Karuna flays recurring attacks on TN fishermen
Thackeray cousins try to upstage each other over Mumbai violence North India may face power cut as 3 plants temporarily closed
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Social networking sites not cooperating: Sibal
Facebook refused to share with the Government the registration details and access logs of persons uploading objectionable content on web pages saying it was not under India's jurisdiction. About 20 objectionable sites of Twitter have been located but India has no technology to block them. "We have blocked the rest of the web pages using international gateway. There is no such gateway in case of Twitter of which there are 20 sites with inflammatory content," Sibal said adding that the Government had till today blocked 245 sites invoking section 69 A of the Information Technology Act 2000, on the request of Home Ministry. Of these, 76 web pages were blocked on August 18, 80 on August 19 and the rest today. With Twitter not responding to Government requests of blockage and Facebook citing lack of jurisdiction to deny crucial information, Sibal said the Ministry would soon again open a dialogue with these sites to "put in place an institutional mechanisms to deal with such issues in future." The first round of such a dialogue was held after objectionable material concerning political leaders was found on web pages. That didn't yield much of result. In the current case of cyber attack targetting the north eastern people, the Department of Electronics and IT had on August 17 issued an advisory to all intermediaries including national and international social networking sites asking them to disable inflammatory content on their websites on priority. No cooperation came. The Department then called a meeting of the representatives of these sites based in India, asking them to cooperate. Inflammatory content however continued to appear. IT Ministry said all international social networking sites were asked to provide registration details and access logs of up-loaders of hateful content. "Facebook responded saying up-loaders were outside the jurisdiction of India, implying they were not obliged to take constructive steps to deal with the content," Ministry officials said. The Government has also found that proxy servers and Virtual Private Network services which hide user identity operating from a number of countries have been used for uploading the hate content.
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Deal for 126 fighter jets by year-end
New Delhi, August 20 Known by its acronym MMRCA, Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft, the deal will be one of the biggest global defence equipment tender at $10.4 billion (approx Rs 57,000 crore at today’s dollar-rupee exchange value). Sources told The Tribune that the deal was expected to be finalised by the end of the year and the first payment could be made by the end of this fiscal - March 31, 2013. “There are lobbies trying to scuttle the deal. If the MMRCA does not come through, it will cause a huge gap in IAF capabilities in 3-4 years from now when the MiG 21 is slated to be phased out”, said an official. In July, the Indian Air Force has asked the MoD for an additional allocation of Rs 10,000 crore in the budget as the MMRCA deal was expected to be finalised. The MoD has agreed, sources said, adding that the matter once cleared will go to the Cabinet Committee on Security. French company Dassault Aviation which produces the fighter ‘Rafale’ had emerged as the winner
in January this year following a close contest with European consortium Eurofighter’s plane ‘Typhoon’. Defence Minister AK Antony in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on August 8 said: “The proposal for procurement of the MMRCA is currently at the stage of commercial discussions. The proposal will be considered further after the Contract Negotiations Committee (CNC) concludes its deliberations and submits its report”. The Tribune in its edition dated July 11 had reported that the MoD had ordered that the entire process would be looked afresh after the CNC completes its task. The MoD’s Finance wing will go through the entire process to check if Dassault Aviation was correctly declared as the lowest bidder in the multi-billion dollar contract. Earlier, independent monitors submitted a report that the IAF/government followed the procedure in identifying French ‘Rafale’ as L1 (lowest bidder). Initially there were six companies in the fray, including American F-16 and F-18, Russian MiG 35, Swedish Saab Gripen along with Eurofighter and Dassault Rafale were in the race. In April 2011, the Defence Ministry shortlisted Dassault and
Eurofighter. $10.4-billion deal The deal will be one of the biggest global defence equipment tender at $10.4 billion (approx Rs 57,000 crore at today's dollar-rupee exchange value)
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Beni Prasad sparks row over price rise remark
"Dal, atta, rice and vegetables have become expensive. The more the prices, the better it is for farmers. I am happy with this inflation," the Union Steel Minister told reporters on the sidelines of a function here. He said the media was making a hue and cry of increasing prices. "Media kehti hai ki khane ki thali mehngi ho gayi hai...Isse fayada kisano ka hai, aur sarkar kisano ke fayda ki pachdhar hai" (Media says that cost of food plate has increased but it is benefiting farmers...and the government is in favour of farmers profit)," he said. Lashing out at his rationale, the BJP accused the Congress of turning a blind eye to the common man being hit by inflation. "The Congress leaders are not affected by inflation at all. They are not seeing the plight of the people as a result of rising prices. It clearly shows their mentality," BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain said in Delhi. Today, the farmers are hit by high cost of fertilisers and power. "Then how are they going to benefit by rising prices," he said. "The Congress talks about aam aadmi but it has drifted a long way away from them," he said. Attacking Verma, SP leader Mohan Singh said the minister is not fit to continue in the Government, which has got the full support of the Samajwadi Party. "His remarks on price rise are highly irresponsible. It clearly shows that he is not in touch with ground realities. The farmers are not getting remunerative prices, be it for vegetables or other products," Singh said. Shivanand Tiwari of the JD(U) said instead of finding ways to effectively tackle inflation, corruption, poverty and unemployment, the senior minister was justifying rising prices. Asked about Verma's remarks, Law Minister Salman Khurshid said it should be viewed in the right context. "If the farmer gets a good price for his yield, then it is inevitable that market prices will also go up," he said, adding that Prime Minister's economic advisers as also the Planning Commission are there to deal with such issues and keep a check on inflation. If the recent steps taken by the Government, including cut in interest rates, are viewed holistically, then one will understand the context in which the minister made his remarks, Khurshid said. Deprecating the Government, BJP's Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said doesn't it know that farmers, like everyone else, are also equally affected by overall rise in prices. "The Government has become protector of mafias who manipulate prices. The aam aadmi is reeling under mounting inflation and this Government is happy about it," he said. Reacting sharply to Verma's remarks, BJP state president Lakshmi Kant Bajpai said the Congress should issue a statement disowning them. "It is unfortunate that a Union minister is making such remarks. How can he be ignorant about the problems being faced by the common man due to price rise", he said asking the Congress to clarify its stand on it. SP leader Azam Khan said that the Congress leader Sonia Gandhi should take note of Verma's remarks.
— PTI
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Cong plays safe on SC/ST quota in promotions
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened an all-party meeting tomorrow to forge a consensus on the sensitive issue even as political opponents, the SP and the BSP, are pulling the ruling coalition in different directions. Tomorrow’s meeting is being held in the backdrop of BSP chief Mayawati’s strong pitch for amending the Constitution to provide for quota in promotions to SC/ST employees. She had first initiated the policy in Uttar Pradesh, but it was quashed by the high court and the Supreme Court. Her arch political rival Samajwadi Party, however, is opposed to such an amendment as it will have serious implications for the OBCs, the main support base of the SP. SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav said his party was opposed to the amendment as it felt the lacunae in the policy would create an upheaval in the bureaucracy. The Congress-led UPA government is in a bind. With both the SP and the BSP extending outside support to the ruling combine, it can hardly afford to alienate either of them. “When the SP and the BSP are at loggerheads, it creates problems for us,” admitted a senior Cabinet minister. Playing safe on the issue Law Minister Salman Khurshid said, “The government has said it will amend the Constitution on the basis of a consensus at the all-party meeting. Let’s see what emerges tomorrow.” Besides balancing the demands of two supporting parties, the government has to take a hard look at the political and legal implications of the proposal. Admitting the party cannot afford to oppose quotas in reservations, Congress leaders also confessed it would open a Pandora’s box. It could drive away the upper castes and OBCs and alienate the bureaucracy. A senior AICC functionary said the party could face the consequences in the upcoming Himachal Pradesh elections where bureaucrats play a key role in determining election results. The party is also mindful that its experiment to provide 4.5 per cent quota for backward minorities before the UP elections failed to have the desired effect. The Muslims dismissed it as an election-eve sop, while the OBCs were upset that their quota being reduced. While supporters and opponents of the policy are set to take to the streets, the Congress is drawing solace from the fact the BJP is also in a dilemma on the issue.
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Tribune exclusive
New Delhi, August 20 This advice comes from Dr Janak Raj Jai (82), who once worked on the personal staff of first PM Jawahar Lal Nehru and Indira Gandhi when she was the Information and Broadcasting Minister in the Lal Bahadur Shastri government. “Indecisiveness can affect Rahul’s political career and may give an unwanted twist to his and the Congress’ destiny,” Jai said, observing that “the young man must learn from Indira Gandhi’s life - she used to take quick decisions, one of which had chartered her political career.” A Supreme Court advocate, Jai told The Tribune that Indira Gandhi, after her father’s death on May 27, 1964, had rebuked the then PM Lal Bahadur Shastri for inviting her to join his Cabinet. “I am in grief,” she told him in anger, but according to Jai, she changed her mind within hours and went to meet Shastri to say that she was ready to join his Cabinet. PM Manmohan Singh had recently said Rahul was welcome to join the Cabinet. Last month, Rahul himself said he would play a more proactive role in the Congress and the government, the timing of which would be decided by his two bosses - Congress chief and mother Sonia Gandhi and the PM. The Tribune has procured the first copy of Jai’s yet-to-be released autobiography - Strokes on Law and Democracy in India: An Eyewitness - in which he has revealed how Indira Gandhi became a minister in the Shastri regime. The 612-page book contains many historical anecdotes since the day he shifted to Delhi from his native place Ramdas (in Amritsar district) after Partition. “I had observed from close quarters the functioning of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary in its true colours,” Jai said. Jai writes that after returning from Allahabad, where Nehru’s ashes were immersed at the Ganga-Jamuna ‘sangam,’ Shastri asked Indira Gandhi at the New Delhi Railway Station to join his Cabinet, as he felt that one person from the Nehru family must be in his government. “Indira Gandhi rebuked Shastri. He felt embarrassed. I was standing within their earshot. As she left, Shastri muttered to himself a bit loudly, ‘I will now have to ask Mrs Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Nehru’s sister),’ Jai disclosed. “As my loyalty was with Indira Gandhi,” Jai says, “I alerted her by sending a note through her personal attendant Nathu, explaining Shastri’s intentions. She immediately called me to fix a meeting with Shastri. I accompanied her to Shastri’s residence. After some time, she came out smiling and told me that she had told Shastriji that she would be too glad to join his Cabinet, but has asked him to give her a lighter portfolio.” Indira Gandhi was inducted in Shastri’s cabinet as the I&B Minister. “This is how destiny favoured Indira Gandhi to join the government and ultimately she was destined to become the PM,” said Jai commenting that “one does not know what would have been the destiny of Indira Gandhi if, instead of her, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit would have joined Shastri’s Cabinet.” Jai joined the Congress and started practicing as an advocate in the Supreme Court after quitting the government job in 1969 at the age of 37. Interestingly, he was arrested during the Emergency as, he said, “I had dared to oppose its imposition by Indira Gandhi.” Jai began his career as a clerk in the office of the Director-General of Post and Telegraphs on December 22, 1948. Later, he learnt shorthand and passed the UPSC test. He got a doctorate degree from Delhi University in 1990. In 1956, with the help of Yashpal Kapoor (cousin of Congress MP RK Dhawan, who was Indira Gandhi’s powerful personal assistant), Jai got a posting in the PMO at a monthly salary of Rs 257 and began sitting in the room adjoining Nehru’s office. Those days, the influential Kapoor was working as a personal assistant in the PMO and “unofficially” working with Indira Gandhi. The most powerful man in the PM’s Secretariat then was MO Mathai, whom Nehru trusted too much, Jai felt. “Mathai was a bachelor and used to drink in the PM’s house at Teen Murti, where Nehru had allowed him to stay. Mathai had developed nearness with Indira Gandhi, who was staying with her father while her husband Feroze Gandhi had declined to live there. Nehru once deputed Mathai to mediate and narrow down Indira’s differences with Feroze. Mathai was not sincere in his efforts and never wanted that both should patch up and live together,” Jai pointed out.
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Drought in K’taka does not deter legislators from foreign trips
Bangalore, August 20 The state government has already given the green signal for the foreign trips to these five legislative committees -- Petitions Committee, House Committee, Estimates Committee, Assurance Committee and Committee on Public Sector Undertakings. Each committee has 20 members and all of them are eligible to travel. Each team will be accompanied three officials also. Each trip will last 17 days. According to sources, the total expense for the travel, including lodging and daily allowances, could exceed Rs 15
crore. The foreign trips are being planned at a time when the state is facing drought situation for which the state government has sought over Rs 11,000 crore of Central assistance. Even though there was good rain in the state last week, it was not enough. “All the districts of the state have not got enough rain. There is still deficiency,” said a Met Department official. Those who have objected to the junket include people who belong to two extreme ends of the political spectrum. BJP leader and former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has said it is not necessary for the legislators to go abroad at a time when the state is “reeling under drought”. KPCC chief G Parameswara has said Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar should cancel the foreign tour by the legislators consisting of both MLAs and
MLCs. A person has also filed a PIL in the court seeking cancellation of the foreign trip by the legislators. The absence of the legislators can adversely affect drought relief works as MLAs are ex-officio chairmen of the
taluk-level task force that oversees the works. The Wanderlust
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Bank strike on Wed, Thursday
Mumbai, August 20 According to the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), the umbrella organisation of different bank unions, over 10 lakh bank employees and officers from 27 government-owned banks, 12 private banks and eight foreign banks will participate in the strike that has been called to protest the proposed banking reforms. The bank employees will hold a rally at the Azad Maidan in Mumbai to highlight their demands, the UFBU said in its statement here today. The unions say they are opposed to the recommendations of the Khandelwal Committee which mooted changes in the Human Resource policies of the banks. According to the unions, the existing practice of common wages and service conditions across the banks would make way for bank-specific wage structure based on profitability, productivity and other criteria. The concept of fixed and variable pay mooted by the committee has also run into opposition by the unions. "This is impracticable in the banking sector," the statement said.
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BJP top guns accuse Centre of anti-farmer policies
New Delhi, August 20 Led by BJP Kisan Morcha president Om Prakash Dhankad, hundreds of farmers from several states pushed for a relief of Rs 10,000 per acre to each farmers affected by drought and flood. The farmers demanded a roll-back of price hike in fertilisers and that the subsidies on fertilisers be directly routed to them through bank accounts. The rally was addressed by national party president Nitin Gadkari, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, former BJP president Rajnath Singh along with Delhi unit chief Vijender Gupta. “The government cannot give justice to farmers and they will continue to commit suicide until the government is there. We will continue the protest both outside and within the Parliament,” said Gadkari.
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Mewat weak link in fight against polio
Routine immunisation is very low in Muslim-majority Mewat where the community accounts for 70.9 per cent of the total population, of which 74.3 per cent live in rural areas. There is resistance among the Meo Muslims, as the community is referred to in the district, to immunisation as well as oral polio vaccine administration. As against the overall national immunisation rate of 65 per cent, Mewat has a low of about 40 per cent. The state average for Haryana is close to 60 per cent. Experts say the Ministry of Health must use the community to improve routine immunisation coverage of children to ensure no vulnerabilities are allowed to develop. This, they say, is vital, considering India is working to achieve WHO’s polio eradication certificate. Earlier this year, the WHO took India off the list of polio-endemic nations, leaving only Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan on it. But top public health experts feel this is no time to relax because the complete polio eradication certificate requires a country to sustain a three year polio-free period beginning after its removal from the list of polio-endemic nations. Speaking to The Tribune recently on the sidelines of a health seminar conducted by Global Health Strategies at Surajkund, Dr NK Arora, member of the National Certification Committee for Polio Eradication and the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, said, “Routine immunisation is so low in Mewat that it is certainly a vulnerable spot for rapid transmission and spread of polio if a virus gets imported into the area from outside. Due to travel and migration being common these days, that is possible and extra attention needs to be paid to improve routine immunisation and oral polio vaccine administration in Mewat.” Arora said the area has a tough history as far as polio infection is concerned. He said a strategy similar to the one adopted in UP and Bihar needs to be now implemented in Mewat. “We need to use local people to get the message across. There is resistance in the community in Mewat to routine immunisation as well as oral polio vaccine administration,” Arora said. Institutional delivery rate and literacy rate in Mewat is among the lowest in the country. The government had recently launched the Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram for improved institutional deliveries from Mewat. Mewat was carved out as an independent district after dividing Gurgaon and Faridabad on April 4, 2005. It continues to remain among the most backward Indian districts and among the high focus areas for the National Rural Health Mission.
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Scare subsides, displaced N-E people head back Guwahati/Bangalore, Aug 20 A spokesman for the Northeast Frontier Railway Nripen Bhattacharya said in Guwahati that three special trains had left for Bangalore yesterday taking back in a phased manner those who had fled from the capital of Karnataka fearing attacks on them sparked by rumours in the wake of violence in Assam The official, however, could not give the exact number of people returning to Bangalore. Government officials said it would take two to three days before all of them returned to Bangalore and other cities like Pune and Chennai. Meanwhile, with the recovery of two more bodies, the toll in violence on board the Guwahati-bound special train carrying northeast people has risen to four. "While two bodies were recovered from a place between Belakoba and Raninagar stations, another two were found at a place near Halakata, close to New Jalpaiguri station. Both places are in West Bengal," said an official source. The Northeast Frontier Railway authorities are yet not sure of the cause of the fight inside the Special Train No. 3 that led to the deaths, besides injury to nine others. It is also still not clear if the four were among those fleeing the Karnataka capital fearing a backlash after the Assam violence as the police and railway authorities here remained tight-lipped pending an investigation. Dr Bani Prasanna Misra, retired professor and Director of Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, Siliguri, met the other boys who were undergoing treatment at the Siliguri Medical College Hospital. "These boys did not know its was a special train carrying North-East people from southern states. They were going home to Hailakandi district of Assam for Eid," said Misra over the phone from Siliguri.
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Slain boys didn’t know it was special train to N-E Bangalore, August 20 Dr Bani Prasanna Misra, retired professor and Director of Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, Siliguri, yesterday evening met the Muslim boys who were undergoing treatment at the Siliguri Medical College Hospital. “These boys could not anticipate that they could be attacked in the train. They were going home to Hailakandi district of Assam for Eid. Since the special train was going to Guwahati, they boarded it. From Guwahati, they would have gone to Hailakandi by a bus,” said Misra. “I met five boys in the hospital. Two of them were in bad shape. I learnt that three others were in another room. From the conversation of the cops there, I could figure out that four bodies were found on the track,” said Misra over the phone from Siliguri. “I could briefly talk to those who were in a position to talk. They said there were about 15 of them hailing from around the same area in Hailakandi district of Assam. Initially, the North-Eastern people did not show any interest in them. However, once the train crossed Howrah station, they started asking the Muslim boys about their antecedents. The boys answered that they were Muslims going home for Eid,” said Misra. A mob of about 50 persons severely beat up the Muslim boys, some of whom jumped down from the train to escape the violence, while others were pushed out, the boys told Misra.
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Gogoi says no to more special trains
Some of the people who have come here are now willing to go back after realising that they were victims of
rumour-mongers. Assam CM Tarun Gogoi said, “We have asked the Railways to stop running special trains. Most of the people who have come home now want to go back, especially after knowing that their jobs are still intact in the southern states. I am sure they will be able to go back within a couple of weeks.” Gogoi today asked the ruling Congress legislators and ministers to fan out to various parts of the state, including their own constituencies, to meet people and students who have returned to the state and try persuading them to go back as soon as possible in the view of improving atmosphere in the southern states. The four ministers from Assam, who were sent to Bangalore and Chennai to take stock of the situation, have sent messages that the local administration in the states have assured protection of the North-Eastern people residing there.
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Central team to visit Assam today New Delhi, August 20 The inter-ministerial delegation of Joint Secretaries will visit Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Chirang and Baksa districts and see the steps being taken for relief and rehabilitation of those affected during the recent violence between Bodos and immigrant minorities. — PTI
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Row in Faridkot judicial circles as 100-yr-old ‘painting’ goes missing
Faridkot, August 20 For years, this work of art had been lying forgotten, stashed behind a wardrobe, in an uninhabited area of a building in Faridkot. A few days back, when a senior judge got information about it having gone missing under mysterious circumstances, an accusing finger was raised at a retired judge. As a result, its popularity quotient as a treasure trove rose. This hand-coloured photograph of Maharaja Balbir Singh of Faridkot estate was prepared in 1895, 11 years before his death. For many decades, this photograph was lying in an abandoned room of a building. A part of this building is being used as an accommodation for the serving judicial officers in Faridkot. Some days back, when a senior judge in Faridkot got a tip-off that the photograph was missing, he suspected a retired judge of having stolen it. The retired judge used this building as his official residence in Faridkot before his transfer about five years back. To assess the value of the work, the inquiring judge summoned a noted historian in Punjab. Two Nazars, custodians of the court property, were also summoned to provide information about the official record concerned. While there were allegations that the retired judge had sold the art work with the help of one of his relatives in London for Rs 35 lakh, in his statement before the inquiring judge, historian Subhash Parihar claimed the art work was not of much value in the antiques market as it was a hand-coloured photograph (colour had been manually added to a black-and-white photograph). The retired judge gave a representation in the High Court last month. “Before any action is taken against me on the complaint of the serving senior judge in Faridkot, I should also be given a chance to give my version,” the retired judge said. The retired judge has even filed an RTI application with the District Judge Faridkot, demanding information about the history pertaining to the art work, when it became court property and when and by whom it was last seen. A few days back, the retired judge reached Faridkot, addressed Bar Association Members and alleged he was being implicated in a fake case owing to his unfriendly terms with a serving judge.
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Karuna flays recurring attacks on TN fishermen
Chennai, August 20 The 88-year-old DMK patriarch, whose party is a key constituent of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition, recalled that the DMK backed TESO (Tamil Eelam Supporters' Organisation) conference here last week had demanded retrieving Katchatheevu, an islet ceded by New Delhi to Sri Lanka in 1974, as a solution for the long-drawn issue. — PTI
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Thackeray cousins try to upstage each other over Mumbai violence Mumbai, August 20 Both have hit out against Maharashtra’s Home Minister RR Patil and Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik. Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, in a write-up in the party’s mouthpiece ‘Saamna’, accused the duo of demoralising Mumbai Police. “When anti-social elements were attacking policemen and molesting lady police constables, Arup Patnaik was shouting at his men for cracking down on the criminals,” wrote Thackeray. Shiv Sena has also organised a function to “purify” a memorial to slain heroes of the 1857 mutiny near Azad Maidan that was damaged by vandals. Meanwhile, the MNS has announced that it would mobilise its party cadres for a huge rally.
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North India may face power cut as 3 plants temporarily closed New Delhi, August 20 The 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri, 1,000 MW Karcham-Wangtoo and 300 MW Chamera II hydro-power projects have been shut temporarily due to high silt levels in water, sources said. Electricity generated in these three hydro-power plants is fed to Northern Grid, that caters to 28 per cent of the country’s population. A Power Grid Corp official said there is shortfall of around 3,000 MW supply to the Northern Grid due to non-generation by the three hydro projects. According to him, supply shortage in the grid was noticed at around 10 am, when the demand was about 33,000 MW. — PTI
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