PM's adviser says move to allow foreign universities is 'stupidity'!14 crore migrant labourers in India: Govt,Twelve US institutions interested in tie-ups with Indian varsities!Balance-sheets of IPL franchisees in order so far: Govt
Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time - THREE HUNDRED Fifty SIX
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On March 15, when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati was presented a garland of cash worth Rs 21 lakh (according to the Congress) to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Congress slammed her. AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh, who is incharge of UP, had described Mayawati thus: She is no longer `Dalit ki beti' (daughter of dalits) but daulat ki beti (daughter of wealth).
Balance-sheets of IPL franchisees in order so far: Govt
TRS talks of civil war over Telangana statehood!
Thus. GUILLOTINED We are and Finance Bill Gets Through, IPL Scam Manged and Now Madhuri Gate Wide Open for Fresh Diversion, Mind Control! Disham Guru Cut to Size!The case of spying by an Indian woman diplomat at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad was a 'serious issue', External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said in Thimpu on Wednesday.Energy major Reliance Industries has discovered more oil on India's western coast, raising the potential of the exploratory blocks it has been drilling, the company said.IPL Scam is Overlapped by Captain Dhoni`s latest Roamnce with Gajani Girl AASIN! Lalit Mdi Modified by BCCI and RSS as well as UPA Icons including the DON Power and Mfia involve gets BAIL without any precondition. Modi has all the time of the heaven to expose the Hegemony Naked, Hence, he has not to be touched. Rather, it proved Excellent Ploy to handle Cut Motion Challenge as the Public was so much Indulged in Cricket Entertainment and Sexy Scandal equivalent to Blue Films! Parliamentary Realty Show had not to showcase the Guillotine Supreme!The pivotal role played by Mayawati, a self-proclaimed leader of the "untouchables", in ensuring India's Congress-led government's victory in parliament highlighted the importance of smaller parties and a rough road ahead for reforms.Who would save the Black Untouchables judging the Role of SC, ST, OBC and Minority Co Opted Representatives thanks to Poona Pact, the role of Mayawati, Lalu, Mulayam and Shibu Soren and the Regional leaders like Chandra Babu Naidu and Biju Patnaik who joind hands despite Hostile Electoral Equations against one another.he pivotal role played by Mayawati, a self-proclaimed leader of the "untouchables", in ensuring India's Congress-led government's victory in parliament highlighted the importance of smaller parties and a rough road ahead for reforms, the Economic Ethnic Cleansing under national Security Corporate war of Chidambaram, India Incs, RAW, ISI, CIA and Mossad!
Congress today dropped enough hints that it is not averse to forming an alternative government in Jharkhand in the wake of BJP withdrawing support to the JMM-led coalition but preferred not to take any decision in haste. While a senior leader, who declined to be identified, told that all options on government formation were open before the party, AICC spokesman Manish Tewari said "the situation in Jharkhand is an evolving one.
The government today said there are 14 crore migrant labourers in the country based on the 2001 census emphasising that the question was not of the numbers but welfare. Replying to a half-an-hour discussion on migration of workers, Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said the government endorsed the views of the members about migrant workers.
Chirayu Amin presented the full face of the bat to journalists on Tuesday, a day after taking over as the interim chief of the Indian Premier League (IPL).Put off by the vociferous protests in the Lok Sabha by AIADMK members over 2G Spectrum allocation issue, an agitated Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday found it "disgusting" that some members were derailing the House.Do not Mourn! The Show ABHI BAAKI hai! As Parliament was on Wednesday rocked by issues like 2G Spectrum allocation, telephone tapping and IPL controversy, the Government assured the Lok Sabha that it will come before the House in these matters after the passage of the Finance Bill.
No-frills IPL? League to lose its starry nights!Sorry!Wonder, who would entertain the Sport loving Masses without the Cheergirls, Brand ambassadors and Film Stars as Projected Franchise!
What an Amusement!Inflation is the most worrisome feature in the Indian economy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told parliament on Wednesday.Annual wholesale price inflation in March touched a 17-month-high of 9.90 percent, prompting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to raise rates in April, its second such move in as many months.On the other hand, in a new dimension to the sensational case of an Indian woman diplomat who was arrested on a charge of spying for Pakistan, a high-ranking army officer and an officer of an external intelligence agency are being watched by security agencies.
I never do understand what all about the Parliamentary Expectation of Relief is! While Three Hundred Millionaires have to decide our Fate in the Loksabha and the Majority in the Rajyasabha is also Multi Millionaire!Why the Manusmriti Hegemony should do any favour to the Enslaved, Ignorant, Semi Literate or Illiterate, Unorganised, Bonded majority Mass consisting of BPL and Have Nots!
BJP's four-month honeymoon with Shibu Soren ended abruptly on Wednesday with the party withdrawing support to the JMM-led government, a day after the Jharkhand Chief Minister sided with the UPA in the Lok Sabha.Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray has equated nephew Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena with a carbon copy of the outfit he founded in 1966.The four-month-old JMM-led government in Jharkand was reduced to a minority on Wednesday after alliance partner BJP withdrew support retaliating strongly to Chief Minister Shibu Soren voting for the UPA in Lok Sabha.A meeting of the BJP top brass, headed by party chief Nitin Gadkari, decided to withdraw support immediately giving indications that the new experiment in Ranchi has floundered.
Amid a controversy over finances of the Twenty20 cricket body IPL, the government on Monday said the Registrar of Companies has not found anything wrong with the balance-sheets of IPL franchisees and no company has given sweat equity to anyone.
"Prima-facie as far as balance-sheets are concerned we can say there is nothing of unnatural... No sweat equity issues have been found either," Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said after a meeting with regional RoCs, who were earlier asked to look into the ownership pattern of each IPL team.
Khurshid also said some franchisees have not been up-to-date in terms of filing of balance-sheets and RoCs have issued notices to them to do so by May three, or face proceedings under the Companies Act.
"We have checked with the RoCs. In some cases, they (IPL franchisees) are up-to-date with filings and in some cases they are not. Wherever they are not up-to-date we have issued notices and given time up to May 3," he said.
"We will initiate proceeding as per the Companies Act," he said when asked what will be the action if these companies do not file balance-sheets by the stipulated time.
Asked which franchise has not filed annual returns, he said: "I don't remember the name but companies like Chennai franchise (promoted by India Cement), Mumbai Indians' owner Reliance Industries have filed."
He added that as and when more information is collected and if some irregularities are found, the matter will be investigated.
The third edition of IPL was embroiled in controversies, including allegations about the union ministers influencing the auction of IPL franchisees.
Shashi Tharoor resigned as Union Minister of State for External Affairs over allegations that he influenced award of sweat equity to his friend Sunanda Pushkar in the Kochi team.
The authorities have since launched probe to trace the finances of the cricket body and its franchisees.
As Parliament was on Wednesday rocked by issues like 2G Spectrum allocation, telephone tapping and IPL controversy, the Government assured the Lok Sabha that it will come before the House in these matters after the passage of the Finance Bill.
"On all these issues we will have the opportunity of discussing with various political parties. Either the Prime Minister or I will come to the House. But this will be done after the Finance Bill is passed," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in the Lok Sabha.
As opposition members, particularly those from AIADMK, trooped into the well demanding an assurance from the Government on the Spectrum issue, Mukherjee said, "I am not running away from the House. The session is there till May 7, there is time."
Mukherjee told the AIADMK members that he will inform them about whether a discussion would be held on the Spectrum allocation issue by tomorrow.
"I cannot give any assurance now. Let me consider it. Let me examine the paper and consult my colleagues and tomorrow I will tell you. Let me look into it," he said.
Assuring opposition support in the passage of the Finance Bill, Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj said, "We will pass the Finance Bill by tomorrow. Opposition will not stall the Finance Bill. The passage is not only the responsibility of the Government, but also of a responsible opposition."
Swaraj, however, said the opposition had been assured that there would be a discussion. "But the Prime Minister said 'no' (to JPC) outside the House. You have to say inside the House not outside," she said.
"We have moved a privilege motion against the Prime Minister because when Parliament is in session, he has to speak inside Parliament," she said.
"Will the PM come to the House and reply? Our question is that," she said.
Earlier, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha wanted to know whether the Government planned a discussion on the issue in the House.
"This is a serious issue. We revert to the original demand that there should be a JPC. This is also linked to the IPL," he said.
Woman spy in India's Pak mission arrestedHindustan Times - 2 hours ago In a new dimension to the sensational case of an Indian woman diplomat arrested on charge of spying for Pakistan, a high-ranking Army officer and an external intelligence agency official have come under the scanner of security agencies. ... Pak spy Madhuri was looking for military infoIBNLive.com - 4 hours ago New Delhi: Madhuri Gupta, the Indian High Commission staffer accused of selling secrets to Pakistan's spy agency ISI was recruited by her handlers either in Baghdad or Kuala Lumpur. Madhuri was bold, brash and fearless. ... Woman spy case: Senior army officer, RAW agent being watchedDaily News & Analysis - 4 hours ago PTI New Delhi: In a new dimension to the sensational case of an Indian woman diplomat who was arrested on a charge of spying for Pakistan, a high-ranking army officer and an officer of an external intelligence agency are being watched by security ... Spy Madhuri Gupta was hoping for a London or Washington postingDaily News & Analysis - 7 hours ago PTI ISLAMABAD: Madhuri Gupta, the 53-year-old second secretary at the Indian high commission in Islamabad, who has been arrested on charges of allegedly spying for Pakistan, was hoping for a plum diplomatic posting in either London or Washington. ... Madhuri Gupta's trail: More facts emergeTimes Now.tv - 5 hours ago TIMES NOW on Wednesday (April 28) learnt that Madhuri had a Godfather in the Ministry of External Affairs. According to Government sources, it's believed that the god father was sympathetic to Madhuri Gupta. Sources also add that this could be the ... Women who were spies: The infamous storiesNDTV.com - 3 hours ago Female spies have been working under mysterious garbs since the World Wars. They have been leading lives full of intrigue and glamour. While some have posed as actors, others have dawned the garb of exotic dancers. The recent arrest of Madhuri Gupta, ... India promises thorough 'spy' investigationSify - 6 hours ago India's foreign minister said on Wednesday a thorough investigation would reveal why and how a diplomat posted in Islamabad had spied for Pakistan. Junior diplomat Madhuri Gupta, who worked in the information service of the Indian embassy, was arrested ... Indian diplomat 'spied for Pakistan'Times Online - - 19 hours ago A junior diplomat at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Pakistan, shortly before a planned meeting between the two countries' Prime Ministers. Madhuri Gupta, a second secretary in the mission, ... Madhuri Gupta Links With An Army Officer Being Probedwww.newsworms.com - 4 hours ago The interrogation of Madhuri Gupta, an Indian woman diplomat, who was arrested on the charges of working for ISI has revealed that a high-ranking Army officer and a R&AW official were also involved in the spy racket. After the 53-year-old Madhuri ... Indian diplomat held for 'spying'The Hindu - 20 hours ago NEW DELHI: A junior diplomat in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad has been arrested by the special cell of the Delhi police on the charge of leaking sensitive national secrets to Pakistani intelligence agencies. The official, Madhuri Gupta, ... | Timeline of articles Number of sources covering this story
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TRS talks of civil war over Telangana statehood!
On the occasion of its ninth anniversary Wednesday, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) warned of a war-like situation in Telangana was not made a separate state soon.
TRS ideologue K. Jayashankar said war-like situation would be inevitable if the Srikrishna committee fails to give a report in line with the aspirations of Telangana people.
Addressing the anniversary celebrations of the party here, he said the panel formed by the central government to look into the issue was the last hope for people demanding a separate state of Telangana.
'If Telangana state is not formed even after the Srikrishna Committee submits its report, struggle will be the only option before the people. We can't say what will be the shape of this movement,' said the former vice chancellor of Kakatiya University.
'People will decide the nature of the movement. They have no options as despite an announcement by the central government in parliament their dream of a separate state has not been fulfilled,' he said.
The five-member committee formed by the central government in February is currently holding consultations with all stake holders. The panel headed by former Supreme Court Justice B.N. Srikrishna has been given time till Dec 31 to submit its report.
TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao had Tuesday reiterated that 'civil war would be inevitable' if separate Telangana state was not formed even after the Srikrishna Committee's report.
The TRS is celebrating its formation day at a time when the Srikrishna Committee is engaged in consultations over Telangana issue. The party conclave, attended by delegates from all 10 districts of the region, including Hyderabad, also reviewed the developments of last six months.
It was Chandrasekhara Rao's fast-unto-death in November-December last year which intensified the movement for Telangana state. Rao called off his fast after 11 days on Dec 9 when the central government announced that the process for formation of Telangana state would be initiated.
However, the statement by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram plunged Andhra Pradesh into crisis with massive protests in Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. Mass resignations by public representatives and street protests forced the central government to backtrack and it decided to hold consultations with all the stakeholders.
All 10 state legislators of TRS resigned en masse after the central government made a second statement on Dec 23. However, legislators from other parties refused to follow the TRS line.
TRS, which initially opposed formation of the Srikrishna Committee, later submitted a memorandum to it and also put forward its arguments in favour of a separate Telangana state.
It was on this day in 2001 that Chandrasekhara Rao had quit Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and floated TRS to revive the three-decade old movement for a separate Telangana state.
Over 300 people were killed in police firing during violent protests for Telangana in early 1970s.
Mayawati proves key for govt! As Reuter reports:
The pivotal role played by Mayawati, a self-proclaimed leader of the "untouchables", in ensuring India's Congress-led government's victory in parliament highlighted the importance of smaller parties and a rough road ahead for reforms.
Last-moment support from Mayawati, chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party that champions lower castes, helped the ruling coalition trounce by a wide margin an opposition sponsored vote of confidence on Tuesday over a hike in fuel and fertiliser prices.
But the fickleness of the allies who supported Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government underscores the difficulties he and his reformist aides would face in their efforts to further open up the economy and cut down subsidies.
Bills include those to allow more foreign stakes in pension and insurance sectors, and to permit foreign universities to set up local campuses, are all on hold due to political opposition.
"When it comes for foreign investment or opening up products to market forces, like in the case of petroleum, reforms become a major issue. They can't go to the (smaller parties) for support," D.H. Pai Panandikar, head of think-tank RPG Foundation, said.
While few expected the government to lose the vote over high inflation, disputes over a women's bill and a cricket scandal had seen many allies of the coalition either withdraw their support or waver in their support.
Enter Mayawati, who goes by one name and who was touted as a possible prime minister before she performed worst than expected in last year's general election.
This year, her million-dollar spending on statues of herself and parks in Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest states, has raised a storm of criticism. But despite this, her 21 lawmakers proved crucial in giving Congress a stable majority.
Congress has 207 members in the 545-member lower house of parliament. On Tuesday, the government had the support of 289 members, just 16 over the half-way mark, a pointer on how close a vote can go if the opposition effectively unites.
While Mayawati charged Singh's government of policies that caused hardships to people, she appeared keener this time to court government favour and deflect criticism as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state.
"While we should have normally voted against the government, we do not want communal forces to return to power in the garb of these issues," the former school teacher told a news conference.
Singh's government was also brought home safely by a thinning of the anti-government alliance, when the 27 members of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) walked out on the vote, just weeks after they had demanding it.
Like Mayawati, they blamed the Congress for high inflation and other woes, but cited as reason for their shift a reluctance to vote alongside 'communal forces,' shorthand for main Hindu-nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
MAYAWATI, OTHERS, SEEN FICKLE
The 54-year old Mayawati is no friend of the Congress. Both parties are locked in a bitter struggle to control Uttar Pradesh, the state which sends the most number of lawmakers to parliament.
The party, which has tried to spread its wings beyond Uttar Pradesh with limited success, has earlier aligned with both the Congress and the BJP, guided by its founding agenda of being in power and using the government to benefit its lower caste voters.
"She has saved the government, but where do we go from here? In the future she will not maintain this position," said Sudha Pai, a professor at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and an author of a book on the party.
Pai said Mayawati's decision came on expectation the Congress would pipe down its criticism of issues like using government funds to build colossal states of herself.
Analysts say the Congress looked set to rule till its five-year term ends 2014, but would have to wheel out its dealmakers each time crucial legislation is up for approval, further complicating the rocky road to freeing up the economy.
"I think it is a somewhat stable equilibrium," Abheek Barua, chief economist at HDFC bank, said. "There is a symbiotic relationship between the Congress and the smaller parties."
(Editing by Alistair Scrutton)
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We are keeping an eye on everything". "We do not take any political decision in a haste," Tewari told reporters.
Asked whether Shibu Soren is with UPA, he said, "The meaning that comes out of his step of opposing the cut motion is very clear." The four-month-old Soren government was reduced to a minority after BJP withdrew support for his action to vote against the party''s cut motion in Lok Sabha yesterday.
At the same time, the AICC seems to be giving the impression that the party was not in a hurry and watching the political situation in the state to play out fully. Speaking separately, AICC in-charge for Jharkhand K Keshava Rao said "there is nobody untouchable in politics".
"Never averse to it. After all we contested the election there to form a government" was his refrain when asked if Congress is not averse to forming a government in the state.
On whether the party sticks to its stand that it will not form any alliance government in the state with Soren as the head, Rao said, "In politics there is no last word." Another senior leader, however, made it clear the JVM chief Babulal Marandi, with whose party it contested the last Assembly election in the state, will not be dumped.
"No question of dumping Babulal. He, too, has to be taken on board," the leader said.
He also said that it was Soren''s stand on Naxalism that had come in the way of formation of a Congress-JMM government last time but was quick to add, "there has been an evolution in his position on the issue since then." At the AICC briefing, Tewari almost stopped short of welcoming Soren''s step of voting against the cut motion yesterday saying, "If somebody has kept in mind the larger picture that the country need not be plunged into uncertainty and exercised that step, all right-minded persons should appreciate that.
" On asked about a possible deal behind Soren supporting the UPA government as money had changed hands when the JMM had bailed out the P V Narasimha Rao government, Tewari brushed aside the question saying "political decisions are taken in political perspectives." .
"There are 14 crore migrant labourers in the country as per the 2001 census.
The real issue is not the numbers but the welfare of the labourers," he said.
Initiating the discussion, Rajiv Pratap Rudy (BJP) wanted to know whether it was correct that 2 crore people migrate from Maharashtra to work in other states. He also wanted to know the number of illegal Chinese and Bangaladeshi migrants in the country.
The BJP member also pointed out the migration from Kashmir and wanted to know the exact numbers and their condition of living. R C Khuntia (Congress) wanted the protection of migrant labourers saying that six lakh such workers are engaged in constructions related to Commonwealth Games and Metro.
Mohammed Amin (CPI-M) gave the example of West Bengal saying that wherever land reforms have taken place, migration is minimised. Kharge said the figures of 14 crore was based on the 2001 census and the figures of 2 crore for Maharashtra included inter-district and intra-district migration along with migration to cities and foreign countries.
He said a tripartite group was formed comprising representatives from migrant labourers, employees'' and those from the government to look into the issue. "The group has submitted its report.
Government will examine it and has already initiated action," he said.
PM's adviser says move to allow foreign universities is 'stupidity'!Health and wellness clubs will be started in schools to sensitise children on good health and sanitation, HRD minister Kapil Sibal today announced.Twelve US institutions interested in tie-ups with Indian varsities!
"The move is a mere stupidity," Rao, chairman of the prime minister's scientific advisory council, said yesterday. "You cannot expect Oxford or Cambridge to open shop here. Education can never be treated as a commodity."
Speaking at the launch of the National School Sanitation Initiative, being undertaken jointly by the HRD and Urban Development ministries, CBSE and GTZ, Sibal emphasised on partnership with children in the sanitation drive.He exhorted the children to take the lead and inspire everybody towards high standards of sanitation.
With a law on the anvil to allow operation of foreign education providers in India, a top consortium of research institutions from the US has evinced interest in collaborating with Indian universities.
A delegation of Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), which represents America's top universities, visited India this week and met HRD minister Kapil Sibal to discuss areas of collaboration and institutional linkages.
The CIC is a consortium comprising universities of Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State University, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Pennsylvania State, Purdue and Wisconsin-Madison.
"We have come for discussion on collaboration on research and academic programmes. We are a consortium of research universities and we are together for over 50 years. We do lots of things together and we can collaborate with Indian institutions," Associate Director, Technology Collaboration for CIC, Keren Partlow told PTI.
She said the delegation was on a fact-finding mission to explore the areas of collaboration. This was the first meeting of the CIC delegation with Sibal.
"The minister is open to hear specific ideas like what sort of engagement we would like to have in India. We will prepare a detailed plan in this direction and come again," Partlow, who led the delegation, said.
The CIC is known for quality research and its advanced research laboratories. Through collaboration, the CIC members increase teaching, learning and research opportunities.
These universities conduct funded research of $6.4 billion every year while the funded research of Ivy League universities and the University of California are pegged at $3.27 billion and $4.38 billion respectively.
India is interested in institutional linkages between CIC institutions and universities here. This will help Indian universities take advantage of the high quality research facilities of CIC member institutions, a HRD ministry official said.
The CIC universities enrol nearly three lakh under-graduate and 76,000 post-graduate students every year and deliver doctoral programmes in 147 areas of study.
University of Illinois, a member of CIC, had earlier helped India set up IIT Kharagpur and GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology.
The visit of CIC comes at a time when the government is likely to introduce the Foreign Educational Institution(Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010 in Parliament this month.
The Cabinet approved the bill which lays down norms for allowing entry and operation of foreign education providers in India.
Nearly 50 foreign institutions, including Boston, Yale and Duke University, have evinced interest in either setting up campuses or collaborate on research and academic programmes.
The CIC delegation also met representatives of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and discussed facilitating more research students.
The delegation evinced interest in sending students for pursuing studies in Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and other Indian languages.
The delegation comprised Wolfgang Schloer from University Illinois, Will Glover from University Michigan, Molly Portz from University of Minnessota, Ken Shapiro and Aseem Ansari from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Terry Webb from Madison Area Technical College and Partlow.
The Knowledge Economy Adovocate kapil Sibal said the main objective of the initiative will be awareness generation and behavioural change among the children who have a significant role in the sanitation programmes.
The programme will touch upon personal hygiene, safe sanitation, clean toilet habits, safe drinking water, disposal of waste water, human excreta disposal, waterless urinals, waste segregation and composting food hygiene, conservation of green spaces.
Minister for urban development Jaipal Reddy said sensitisation of people was required on issues of sanitation, energy efficiency and conservation of natural resources.
He talked about the National Urban Sanitation Policy and how this new initiative could play a large role in improving sanitation levels in the country.
On the occasion, Sibal released a School Sanitation Manual which will be part of the CBSE curriculum. Reddy also launched a Bio-dynamic Waste Segregation Programme which seeks to educate children about use of waste as a resource.
Minister of state for HRD D Purandeswari released the School Sanitation Report and actor Aamir Khan was declared the brand ambassador for the initiative.
The initiative assumes significance as 30.66 million urban households in India suffer inadequate access to sanitation facilities and either defecate in the open or use shared and community lavatories.
Besides, being an issue of human dignity, this practice results in unsafe disposal of human excreta which has a severe impact on environmental and health outcomes.
Rao, who earlier accepted the chair of nanoscience and nanotechnology at the Mahatma Gandhi University here, said academic collaboration with foreign universities would improve the future of students but favoured control in opening up higher education.
There should be a regulatory mechanism, he said.
The role of universities is to impart quality education to students. "Unfortunately, our universities are suffering from local politics," Rao said.
The country has to compete with developed countries in all sectors within the next 20 years, he said, adding that a thorough overhaul of higher education was required.
Rao said real development was required in young people, 60% of whom live in rural areas.
Teachers should be trained properly, he said. This, in turn, would help to promote quality education. He underlined that several good engineers and doctors have been trained in "ordinary
colleges".
Kottayam: Slamming the move to open up higher education in India to foreign universities as "mere stupidity", CNR Rao, scientific adviser to prime minister Manmohan Singh, has said education can never be treated as a commodity.
The diplomat, Madhuri Gupta, 53, continued to be grilled in detention today about information she is suspected to have passed on to Pakistani intelligence agencies.
She was arrested here six days ago after being called back from
Islamabad, where she was posted as second secretary, on the pretext of discussing the Saarc summit that is now on in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Following Gupta's interrogation and earlier surveillance, the security agencies have zeroed in on a couple residing in Rajouri district of Jammu & Kashmir, who were in regular touch through email and telephone with the arrested diplomat in Islamabad.
The Rajouri-based woman had gone to Pakistan several times.
A highly placed source said the senior army officer used to visit the Rajouri couple when he was posted in the region. He is related to the couple, but his frequent visits to them aroused the suspicion of security agencies, the source said.
Some of the emails exchanged between Gupta and the Rajouri woman are part of the documents being held as evidence against the diplomat, who is in the custody of the special cell of the Delhi police.
The role of the external intelligence agency officer is also being investigated. Gupta may have been taking information from him, the source said.
But it was not immediately clear whether he knew the woman's real designs. He could be questioned by the security agencies, the source said.
Gupta, who belongs to the Indian Foreign Service, B category, is the first IFS official to have been arrested as a Pakistani spy.
Gupta is said to have been under surveillance by Indian security agencies for about four months before a decision was made to arrest her.
Security agencies briefed senior external affairs ministry officials about Gupta's alleged activities in Pakistan, which included supplying sensitive and classified documents related to Indian interests in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the source said.
Gupta has been extensively questioned by sleuths of the Intelligence Bureau and officers of the Delhi police. She reportedly claimed that she used to obtain sensitive information within the Indian high commission in Islamabad.
A source said the woman had been passing information related to policy matters and movement of Indian officials to a Pakistani intelligence man identified only as Rana.
A promotee officer of the external affairs ministry, Gupta was working in the mission in Islamabad for nearly three years andreportedly told investigators she had been passing information since 2008.
She was well versed in Urdu and her services were used for translation and interpretation.
Earlier, she had been posted in the Indian mission in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, and worked with India Perspective, a magazine of the external publicity wing of the ministry.
India to get direct access to Headley
India seems to be close to getting direct access to Pakistani American terror suspect David Coleman Headley, key plotter in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack with US agreeing to take 'suitable steps' to bring it about.
Modalities were discussed at a meeting Tuesday between India's Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium and US Attorney General Eric Holder. Indian Ambassador Meera Shankar and other US Justice Department officials joined the talks.
'The two partners agreed to take suitable steps to bring about direct access by Indian authorities to David Headley as soon as possible,' the Indian embassy said. There was no comment from the US side.
'The partnership between India and the United States recognizes the high priority to be accorded to each country's national security,' Indian officals said adding, 'Both countries recognised the need for the investigations to reach a fruitful and successful outcome.
''The discussions have resulted in a mutual commitment that there would be the best possible cooperation in our common fight against terrorism,' they said.
Subramanium's visit to work out the modalities followed President Barack Obama's assurances to Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh that India will get access to Headley, who has confessed to his role in the Mumbai assault in a bid to avoid the death penalty.
Obama had told Manmohan Singh during a meeting on the sidelines of the nuclear security summit earlier this month that he was aware of the legal issues, but India will get access to Headley, who has admitted to helping Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) by scouting targets for the Mumbai attacks.
India's National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon had then discussed the issue in detail with his US counterpart Gen James Jones.
Only last week US Ambassador to India, Timothy J. Roemer, told reporters in New Delhi that the 'US is working at the highest level to provide direct access to Headley. Our government has put this as the highest priority in counter-terror cooperation.'
'We recognise the sensitivity of this issue to India and the people of India,' stressed Roemer, a former member of the 9/11 commission.'We want to ensure justice is brought to these blood-thirsty terrorist attackers, whether they kill thousands of people in New York or scores of them in Mumbai,' he said.
Disham Guru Hung!
"The BJP Parliamentary Board has decided to withdraw support immediately to the Shibu Soren government. He (Soren) has behaved in a very dubious manner and voted with the government during the cut motion. BJP has taken very serious note of this betrayal and dubious conduct," senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar told reporters here.
New equations in Jharkhand appeared to be in the offing with AICC in-charge of the state K Keshav Rao saying, "There is nobody untouchable in politics....(We were) never averse to it (forming a government with JMM). After all we contested the election there to form a government. In politics there is no last word."
BJP leader and Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister Raghubar Das will submit a letter to the state governor withdrawing support to the JMM-led government later in the day.
"The Deputy Chief Minister and all BJP ministers in the Jharkhand government will also submit their resignations to the governor," Kumar said.
Kumar, who along with former party president Rajnath Singh was part of the negotiations with Soren just four months ago to form a government, refused to comment on whether BJP's coalition experiment has failed in the state.
With elections to the state legislature throwing up a hung assembly, BJP had formed a coalition government with Soren.
In the 82-member Jharkhand Assembly, BJP and JMM have 18 seats each, Congress 14, RJD 5, JVM 11, ASJU 5, JD(U) 2, CPI(ML) 1 and others and independents six. One member is nominated.
"A lot of duplicates have come up...maybe with my blessings. They copy whatever I say. That is their agenda. They look like carbon copy of Shiv Sena before people," Thackeray said, without naming MNS or Raj Thackeray.
"I had said in my speech at the first public meeting of Sena on October 22, 1966 that there should be a permit system to stop the hordes of migrants to Mumbai," Thackeray said, in an interview published in party mouthpiece 'Saamana' today.
Thackeray said Marathi people should not refer to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus as CST.
"Call the station by its full name," he said. Mumbai belongs to Marathi people and will continue to remain a part of Maharashtra, the Sena Chief said.
Thackeray flayed late Morarji Desai for ordering firing on agitators demanding a samyukta (united) Maharashtra. It was Gandhiji's fortune that he did not meet Desai, or else he would have committed suicide before Godse killed him, Thackeray said.
The list of Indian officials and spying cases
Diplomat Madhuri Gupta, arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan, joins a list of several top Indian officials accused of leaking sensitive information or falling into honey trap in the past few decades. The last such case is that of Navy officer Commodore Sukhjinder Singh, now being probed for his alleged liaison with a Russian woman between 2005 and 2007 -- when he was posted in Russia as the head of Indian team overseeing the refit of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.
A board of inquiry, set up against Singh after his objectionable photographs with the unidentified woman surfaced, is now probing whether his "loose moral conduct" and indiscretions have any connections with the Gorshkov deal which has been signed after a lot of negotiations due to the cost hike of the carrier. In May 2008, a senior Indian Embassy official in Beijing was called back to New Delhi for falling to the charms of a Chinese honey trap.
Manmohan Sharma, a senior Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer, was alleged to be in a romantic affair with his Chinese language teacher. Indian authorities suspected the woman could be an informant of the Chinese government and gathered information about India''s moves and counter-moves on the border talks.
In October 2007, a 1975 batch Research and Analysis Service (RAS) officer Ravi Nair was called back from Hong Kong for his ''friendship'' with a girl believed to be working for a Chinese spy agency. However, within a brief time Nair was again given a foreign posting in Colombo where the woman also came and allegedly started staying with him, raising suspicion.
The officials of other departments, posted at the Indian High Commission, sent reports about Nair to their respective departments paving way for his recall. Like any other snooping agency, India''s external Intelligence agency RAW has also a history of officials switching their loyalties to foreign agencies.
The most infamous case which shook RAW out of reverie was that of Rabinder Singh who became a mole of American intelligence agency CIA and flew to the US despite being under RAW surveillance. Singh initially worked with the Indian Army and held a very senior position with RAW handling Southeast Asia.
By the time the agency sensed his affiliations, Singh escaped to the US through Nepal in 2004. The second blow came in 2006 with the discovery of another alleged CIA mole in India''s National Security Council Secretariat, which is part of the Prime Minister''s Office.
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BJP withdraws support to JMM, Congress weighs optionsIndia Talkies - 12 minutes ago New Delhi/Ranchi, April 28 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday withdrew support to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) government in Jharkhand, reducing it to a minority, but the Congress said it was in no hurry to put together a new coalition in ... BJP withdraws support to JMMDeccan Herald - 34 minutes ago The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday withdrew its support to the four month-old Shibu Soren government, plunging the state into yet another bout of political uncertainty. The development came a day after Chief Minister Shibu Soren, ... Friends, foes helped Cong stave off cut motions challengeZee News - 1 hour ago New Delhi: The Congress-led coalition managed to stave off the challenge posed by opposition in cut motions in the Lok Sabha yesterday thanks to the help from a number of friends as well as foes. The JD(U), which is part of the BJP-led NDA, ... Not averse to doing business with JMM, hints CongressPress Trust of India - 11 minutes ago New Delhi, Apr 28 (PTI) Congress today dropped enough hints that it is not averse to forming an alternative government in Jharkhand in the wake of BJP withdrawing support to the JMM-led coalition but preferred not to take any decision in haste. ... JMM extends olive branch, says Soren ready to resignPress Trust of India - 1 hour ago Ranchi, Apr 28 (PTI) In a last-ditch effort to salvage its government in Jharkhand, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha tonight extended an olive branch to BJP, which withdrew support reducing it to a minority, saying chief minister Shibu Soren was ready to resign ... BJP's bid to do a Gamang on Cong boomerangedPress Trust of India - 1 hour ago New Delhi, Apr 28 (PTI) BJP wanted to do a Gamang on Congress but ended up with egg on its face when Jharkhand Chief Minister and ally Shibu Soren voted against its cut motion in the Lok Sabha. Though BJP-led NDA was not sure about the passage of the ... BJP withdraws support to Shibu Soren's Govt in JharkhandHindustan Times - 5 hours ago PTI The four-month-old JMM-led government in Jharkand was reduced to a minority on Wednesday after alliance partner BJP withdrew support retaliating strongly to Chief Minister Shibu Soren voting for the UPA in Lok Sabha. Jharkand appeared headed for ... | Timeline of articles Number of sources covering this story
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CBI has registered a case against four government employees, including a senior IAS officer, and Daman-based six distilleries for allegedly causing a loss of Rs 340 crore to the exchequer. According to CBI, a case under different Sections of IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against O Ravi, Joint Secretary(Disaster Management), Ministry of Home Affairs and two excise inspectors - Ramesh Mahyavanshi and Vijay Halpati - and against sub-inspector Suresh Dhodi.
The case was also registered against the directors of six distilleries -- Khemani Distilleries, Royal Distilleries, Jupiter Distilleries, Krimpy Distilleries, Silver Star Distilleries and Dharmesh Distilleries and other unknown persons for fraud. "It has been alleged that in order to evade excise duty and VAT, the distilleries of Daman in connivance with officials of the excise department resorted to under reporting of production by preparing fake documents," a CBI spokesperson said.
CBI has conducted searches at 36 places of accused persons at Daman, Mumbai and New Delhi. Ravi, a 1983-batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer, allegedly took a bribe of Rs 25 lakh to get Daman administrator transferred, he said.
Sources said Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to suspend Ravi. The suspension orders are likely to be issued late night or tomorrow, they said.
No-frills IPL? League to lose its starry nights
Addressing a barrage of questions on the muck surrounding the cash-rich tournament, the 62-year-old administrator insisted that the controversy had not damaged the image of the IPL or of cricket in India. "The brand image of IPL is very strong and no one can touch it. There is a little storm, but we can survive.
My job as chairman is to clean up the IPL," Amin said.
The difference in the personalities of Amin and his predecessor, the high-flying suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi, was evident as the low-profile Baroda Cricket Association president faced the media for 16 minutes.
Amin, however, downplayed his unassuming personality saying, "It is not necessary to be flamboyant to be IPL chief. I have my own working style which will evolve.
The focus should be the interest of the cricket fans in the country." He said he had not expected the job, but will fulfill his responsibilities diligently. "I have never asked for anything, but the BCCI has given me the responsibility. I didn't expect to be put in the hot seat," he said.
Amin promised a bigger, better and more transparent IPL next year. "The show will go on. IPL-4 will be on schedule and it would be bigger and better.
The cleaning up is already happening," he said. But the new chairman wants to tone down the glitz and glamour associated with the tournament. "I don't know about the cheerleaders, but the IPL nights will be stopped," he said.
Amin minced no words while talking about Modi and made it clear that if found guilty, he will be punished.
When asked about Modi's tweet on Monday - I am still the IPL commissioner - Amin hastily added, "But suspended." On allegations that Modi has a stake in Rajasthan Royals, Amin said, "We have just started the inquiry. Once we are through with it, I will discuss everything with the governing council and then take a decision."
He said allegations of financial irregularity, match-fixing and the rigging of bids are being probed. "Government agencies have been asking for various details. Series of documents have gone missing, but we will co-operate with the agencies and unearth it. And to have a smooth (investigation), we have kept Modi away from all this," he said.
SAARC is glass half empty, region needs empowerment: PM
Thimphu, April 28 (IANS) The 25-year experience of SAARC has been like a glass half empty, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday, warning South Asian leaders that the region housing a fourth of the human race could face 'marginalisation and stagnation' if not empowered and better connected.
'In looking back at these two-and-a-half decades (of SAARC), we can claim the glass is half full and compliment ourselves, or we can admit the glass is half empty and challenge ourselves,' Manmohan Singh said in his address at the 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit.
'I believe we should challenge ourselves by acknowledging that the glass of regional cooperation, regional development and regional integration is half empty,' the prime minister said at the summit attended by the leaders of India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Pitching for greater regional cooperation, Manmohan Singh shared the 'vision of inclusive growth in South Asia both within our countries and for the region of South Asia as a whole'.
The region, he said, should enable freer movement of people, of goods, of services and of ideas. 'If we do not, we run the risk of marginalisation and stagnation.'
Noting that SAARC member countries were able to cooperate individually as members in various international forums, he said it was 'unfortunate that, together, the people of South Asia do not have the voice they should and could have in the global polity'.
'The 21st century cannot be an Asian century unless South Asia marches together,' he said.
The two-day summit began Wednesday afternoon in this idyllic capital city of Bhutan at its Tashicho Dzong, the main secretariat building, which houses the National Assembly Hall, the office of the king and the throne room.
Manmohan Singh said intra-regional trade flows in the region have grown and transport and telecommunication links have expanded. 'But the share of intra-regional trade and investment flows in total trade and investment flows in South Asia is far below what we see in East and Southeast Asia. It is also well below the potential.'
'We have created institutions for regional cooperation, but we have not yet empowered them adequately to enable them to be more proactive,' the Indian prime minister said.
He said the challenge before the grouping was to 'translate institutions into activities, conventions into programmes, official statements into popular sentiments'.
According to Manmohan Singh, declarations at summits and official level meetings don't mean cooperation. 'Regional cooperation should enable freer movement of people, of goods, of services and of ideas. It should help us re-discover our shared heritage and build our common future.'
He said abhorrence of extremism, radicalism and terrorism were part of South Asian civilisational heritage.
'Let us pledge to revive the South Asia of our dreams that is once again a source of new ideas, new knowledge and new opportunities.'
FACTBOX - Factors to watch as Israel, Palestinians near talks
REUTERS - Prodded by U.S. President Barack Obama, the slumbering Middle East peace process is showing signs of reawakening. Here are factors to watch in the coming two weeks:
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has moved to delay any leadership challenge from the far right in his Likud party that could upset Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The Likud's 2,500-strong Central Committee votes on Thursday on a proposal backed by Netanyahu to amend the party's constitution so that elections to its institutions, due this year, can be delayed for up to another two years.
* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to ask Arab states to support a decision by the Palestinians to resume indirect negotiations with Israel, at a meeting of the Arab League follow-up committee on Mideast peace in Cairo on Saturday to be attended by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.
* Obama's envoy George Mitchell evidently managed to open a crack in the impasse during a visit here last week, despite media reports of "no progress". He is expected back in Jerusalem again sometime next week. Netanyahu says he knows that Abbas plans to relaunch "proximity" talks and hopes word on that will come next week. An Israeli cabinet minister believes the stalled process could rumble back into life in the next two weeks.
* The formula that appears to have made this possible is one vulnerable to unplanned upsets, including unauthorised announcements and protests that might turn violent. Abbas had insisted that Israel totally freeze Jewish settlement building before talks resume, including in East Jerusalem. He has received no such commitment, but apparently feels he would not lose face by agreeing to resume indirect talks provided Netanyahu quietly delays implementing housing projects in and around East Jerusalem. Palestinian sources say Mitchell in turn has pledged that Washington would assign blame publicly to any party that takes actions which compromise the negotiations.
* Netanyahu on Monday will meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a key figure in the process as leader of the first Arab country to make peace with Israel. Abbas aides decline to confirm or deny that he has been invited to see Obama in Washington in May. Netanyahu aides say they know of no plan for a three-way White House meeting next month.
* Israel says it would much prefer direct talks with the Palestinians without going via U.S. mediation, and that it wants the proximity negotiations to progress quickly to the direct stage. But how soon that next phase might begin is anyone's guess. Some pundits say Netanyahu will not really want to get down to crunch decisions on the price of peace -- meaning sharing Jerusalem -- until he sees how Obama's Democrats have dome in the mid-term U.S. congressional elections in November.
* In the medium-term, Israel hopes that hardhitting international sanctions led by the United States will be imposed on Iran sometime next month to compel it to open its nuclear project to inspection and prove it is not trying to develop atomic weapons. Any serious setback to the progress of a diplomatic solution would ramp up talk of the need for military intervention, which could sideline Middle East peace efforts.
* The militant Islamist movements Hezbollah and Hamas, in Lebanon and Gaza, are Iranian-backed and could be enlisted as proxies by Tehran in the event of a conflict. For the moment, both fronts are quiet, although the United States and Israel say Hezbollah has been getting increasingly powerful missiles from Syria to bolster an already considerable arsenal of short-range rockets of the kind that crippled northern Israel in a 2006 war.
(Writing by Douglas Hamilton; editing by Diana Abdallah)
Will Rajiv Gandhi's vision for SAARC be achieved at Thimphu?(Article)
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New Delhi, Apr 28 (ANI) The first summit of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation in 1985 saw the enthusiastic participation of Rajiv Gandhi, who had just become the Prime Minister of India the previous year following the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
Elected by a massive majority in Parliament of India, young Rajiv Gandhi was hopeful of ushering India into the twenty-first century, promoting harmonious relations within the country as also in the neighbourhood and also developing the subcontinent into a homogeneous entity.
Within the country, he had entered into the landmark Punjab and Assam Accords, and in the subcontinent extended his hand of friendship to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with whom India had many misunderstandings.
India's relations with Bangladesh had soured following the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Pakistan continued to entertain hostility inspite of the Shimla Accord. The Sri Lankan Government had a festering sore with the uprising of Tamils in northern part of the country, led by the LTTE.
Rajiv Gandhi initiated steps to reach an accord with Sri Lanka to ensure peace in the northern part of the country, and ensure that the refugees in Tamil Nadu could return to their homeland and the LTTE would lay down its arms.
For Rajiv Gandhi, the promotion of South Asia as a region of peace was an act of faith. After agreeing to have the summit in Bangladesh, even though India was the senior member, he agreed to hold the next summit in India.
I had the privilege of being associated with the first few summits as Principal Information Officer of the Government of India between 1985 and 1992. And also witnessed how the Association was unable to take off in spite of sincere efforts, mainly because of the mistrust between member countries.
The second summit, held in Bangalore (now Bengaluru) focused mainly on the conclusion of the India Sri Lanka Accord. President Jayawardene of Sri Lanka was the focus of attention and to ensure that the Sri Lankan delegation felt at home, the summit was held in Bangalore instead of New Delhi with opposition Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde being the host. There were back channel negotiations with Prabhakaran of the LTTE, with the DMK extending a helping hand.
Simultaneously, Rajiv Gandhi promoted the idea of promoting friendship among the countries of the subcontinent. He hoped that travel between the countries would be easy and there would be increased trade among the countries.
India continued to have problems in traveling from West Bengal to Assam and the eastern States through Bangladesh. Sri Lanka continued to trade with the West even though the markets in Colombo and Jafffna were full of smuggled goods from Tamil Nadu.
Prime Minister M.K. Junejo of Pakistan, who had come to Bangalore, did mark his attendance, but nothing moved as President Zia-ul Haq had his own vision of promoting problems in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
The relationship with Nepal also remained uneasy.
The second summit ended on a high note, but soon the Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka, started facing problems and Rajiv Gandhi's vision of promoting a South Asian community was a still-born child.
I remember attending the SAARC summits in Male in 1990 and Colombo in 1992. Vishwanath Pratap Singh attended the summit at Male and Narasimha Rao went to Colombo. The atmosphere on both occasions remained tense following the return from Sri Lanka of the Indian Peacekeeping Force and the escalation of violence in the northern parts of the island nation.
On the positive side, many steps have been taken since then to create institutions that have the ability to promote regional cooperation. They include the SAARC Development Fund, the Food Bank, the South Asian Free Trade Agreement and the South Asian University. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken the leading role in taking up these initiatives.
But these institutions have not taken off. There is more of smuggling among the countries of the region than 'Free Trade'. The movement between the countries of the region is marked by illegal immigration.
India and Pakistan continue to be wary of each other. Terrorist attacks and infiltration across the Line of Control and the International Border continues. Pakistan continues to claim that its soil would not be used against India but more than 40 terrorist training camps exist in that country.
Relations with Bangladesh has improved with Sheikh Hasina having taken over the Premiership, but she also has to proceed carefully. Sri Lanka has been able to subjugate the Tamil rebels, but the uneasy situation continues in the northern areas of the country.
Nepal is yet to promulgate a new Constitution for the country, and the Maoists are wary of promoting cordial relations with India.
Afghanistan, the most recent member, is also going through a state of flux and one hopes that it would settle down to be an active member of the SAARC.
It is fitting that the 25th session of the SAARC summit is being held in Thimphu in Bhutan. One hopes that the Himalayas surrounding the city would help elevate the mood of the participants to a higher level and take the association a step forward in the direction conceived by the late Rajiv Gandhi.
I.Ramamohan Rao, former Principal Information Officer, Government of India. email. raoramamohan @hotmail.com. By I. Ramamohan Rao (ANI)
Forces hold joint exercise off Andhra coast
Hyderabad, Apr 28 (PTI) A three-day joint coastal security exercise conducted by the Coast Guard along with the Indian Navy and Marine Police began off the Andhra coast in Visakhapatnam today, officials said. Officers from the Coast Guard, Eastern Naval Command, Andhra Pradesh Marine Police, Customs department, State Police ports and private ports are taking part in the exercise, they said.
"During the three-day joint exercise various mock drills and situations would be created to test the effectiveness of the security forces against enemies spread over the sea," Coast Guard Deputy Inspector General M D Talha told PTI. "The exercise would enable the agencies in learning about the flaws during the operation if any and on how to overcome them," the senior official said. DIG (Marine Police) Chandra Mouli said the exercise was basically to test security along the Andhra coast and preparedness of security forces to thwart attempts of enemies coming from sea routes.
"The exercise would test the efficacy of all the agencies involved in ensuring coastal security and the level of coordination among them," he said, adding interceptor and patrolling boats besides helicopters and navy ships will be used by the forces, he said. The exercise will also help in testing the effectiveness of communication, patrolling and combat skills of the Central and state marine forces, the official said.
Betrayed BJP makes Soren pay for his mistake
New Delhi/Jharkhand: A wounded on Wednesday BJP decided to punish JMM chief Shibu Soren for his act of betrayal. At a parliamentary board meeting in New Delhi, the saffron party decided to pull the plug on its coalition partner in Jharkhand.
Shibu Soren's son & JMM MP Hemant Soren on Wednesday claimed that the voting happened by "mistake" and made it clear there was no move to form a government in Jharkhand with Congress backing. REUTERS
Soren's vote an act of betrayal, says BJP
Calling Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren's action of voting with the government in Lok Sabha an "act of betrayal", BJP on Wednesday convened a parliamentary board meeting to discuss the future of ties with JMM in Jharkhand where the two parties run a coalition government.
Senior party leaders said that BJP has taken very serious note of Soren's action and is not buying the explanation given by Soren's son Hemant that it has happened by mistake even as the Chief Minister wondered "what difference will it (his vote) make".
"The voting in favour of UPA by Soren is an act of betrayal. The manner in which he has voted is a betrayal of coalition dharma. We have taken it very seriously. Senior party leaders will take a call on it," senior BJP leader Prakash Javdekar said.
Another party leader Venkaiah Naidu echoed similar views saying "it's a clear betrayal". "You can't be heading a government with the support of BJP, be in opposition and at the same time, support the ruling party at the Centre. It is not acceptable. On what to do the party will meet and discuss. It is a serious issue," he said.
Naidu also refused to buy the explanation given by Hemant Soren on the issue that his father voted for UPA in a mistake. Senior party leader from Jharkhand Yashwant Sinha said, "He (Soren) is there (on the Chief Minister's chair) in Jharkhand with our support. Therefore, the least that was expected of him that he would not go to this stage. He could have stayed neutral."
Asked whether the BJP would take any action into the matter, Sinha said, "We will sit down and take stock of the situation." Sinha said Soren's action showed "perhaps, he has some plans up his sleeve."
Sources said that after Soren sprung a surprise yesterday by voting with the government on the cut motions moved by BJP and the Left, the BJP top brass was livid and held discussions with the JMM chief.
Soren had a meeting with BJP president Nitin Gadkari last night where his decision not to vote with the BJP came up for discussion. Gadkari has called a meeting of the BJP parliamentary board, the highest decision making body of the party, to deliberate on the issue.
With Soren voting along with the UPA government, speculation is rife that he may have struck a deal with the Congress-led government. Sources said he may bargain for a berth in the Union Cabinet and make his son Hemant the deputy chief minister in Jharkhand.
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik Chief Babulal Marandi may then become the Chief Minister in a coalition government of the Congress, JMM and JVN. In the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly, Congress has 14 MLAs, JMM has 18 and JVM(P) has 11 MLAs.
Asked about JMM's sudden support on the cut motions, Hemant Soren, today claimed that it happened by "mistake" and made it clear there was no move to form a government in Jharkhand with Congress backing.
"You can't be heading a government with the support of BJP, be in opposition and at the same time, support the ruling party at the Centre. It is not acceptable," said senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu. REUTERS
Soren's deal with Cong: Making son deputy CM?
Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren voted for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in the cut motion on Tuesday. It has set off speculation that there may be new power equation in the state and alter his relation with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), his coalition partner.
A shocked BJP said after the vote that it has taken note of Soren's act in the Parliament. Soren, still a member of the Lok Sabha, made a rare appearance to spring a surprise on the BJP.
"We have taken note of it," a senior BJP leader said outside the Parliament, indicating that Soren could face trouble in the state.
"Soren has clearly ditched us. Now we are going to review our stand to support the government led by him," said BJP's state unit spokesperson Sanjay Seth.
BJP sources said Soren may have struck a deal with the Congress under which he may move to the Centre and make his son Hemant the Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand.
Senior party leader from Jharkhand Yashwant Sinha said, "He (Soren) is there (on the Chief Minister's chair) in Jharkhand with our support. Therefore, the least that was expected of him that he would not go to this stage. He could have stayed neutral." REUTERS
JMM says voting in cut motion a 'mistake'
In a damage control exercise after BJP's ally JMM supported the government in the cut motions in Lok Sabha, its MP Hemant Soren on Wednesday claimed that it happened by "mistake" and made it clear there was no move to form a government in Jharkhand with Congress backing.
"It has happened by mistake. It is a human error which happens due to confusion during voting. We met BJP President Nitin Gadkari last night and explained to him the real position," Hemant, Rajya Sabha MP and son of Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren said.
JMM's sudden support to the UPA on the cut motions had yesterday set off speculation that new power equations may emerge in the tribal state and alter the party's ties with coalition partner BJP.
A shocked BJP had said after the vote that it has taken note of Shibu Soren's act in Lok Sabha of "ditching" the coalition partner. Soren, still a member of the House, had made a rare appearance to spring the surprise on BJP.
Dismissing the speculation that there was any move to form a government in Jharkhand with Congress support, Hemant said, "It is all rumour. There is no truth in it."
BJP had earlier claimed that Soren and another JMM MP Kameshwar Baitha would vote with the NDA. Baitha, who is in jail, did not turn up.
Hemant Soren, Rajya Sabha MP and son of Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren said, that they had met BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday night and "explained to him the real position". REUTERS
For BJP, Soren gave them the unkindest cut
New Delhi: With Mayawati's support and helped by the SP-RJD walkout, the UPA breezed through the trial of strength in the Lok Sabha today but what added insult to the BJP's injury was the fact that Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren, propped up by the NDA, voted for the UPA.
Having served as Chief Minister of Jharkhand for around four months now, Soren technically continues to be a member of Lok Sabha.
The BJP was incensed. "He (Soren) has clearly ditched us. Now we are going to review our stand to support the government led by him," said BJP's state unit spokesperson Sanjay Seth.
After having serious differences with Soren on ways to tackle Maoists, the CM's decision today could lead to eventual parting of ways of two uneasy allies in the state, said a senior BJP leader.
Party leaders were not willing to say much on record, though. Most of them said the party had "taken note of the development" and "some action would definitely be taken against Soren".
Soren, who quietly slipped out of Parliament after the vote, made vague statements on his decision. "Jo kiya, so kiya (whatever had to be done, was done)," he said.
Soren's act, in a way, became the highlight of an evening when the vote on the cut motion got reduced to an academic exercise after the BSP, SP and the RJD didn't join the Opposition.
A cut motion moved by CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta was defeated by a margin of 88 votes (201-289), while another cut motion moved by Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj was defeated by a 162-246 division.
Soren, next to Trinamool's Sudeep Bandopadhyay and DMK's TKS Elangovan, had earlier hit the red button when the first motion was put to vote implying he was opposing the BJP's motion.
BJP Deputy Leader Gopinath Munde walked up to him to check if something was amiss but Soren was again seen filling up the red slip, supporting the UPA.
JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey asked Soren about his support to UPA and Dubey was then seen apprising senior leaders Advani, Sushma and Yashwant Sinha about Soren's vote.
A senior BJP leader, requesting anonymity, reflected the wider mood in the party, and said that most MPs "were uniformly incensed" by Soren's action and many had called for "withdrawal of party support" to the Soren-led government. Some BJP leaders felt Soren "may have cut a deal with the Congress, with a key role for his son Hemant Soren and Babulal Marandi in the state".
A visibly happy Hemant, however, refused to comment, when contacted by The Indian Express, at Parliament House premises.
BJP general secretary and former Jharkhand BJP chief Arjun Munda told The Indian Express that "the party would each a definitive decision in a day or two, even when they had taken the issue very seriously".
A BJP leader also claimed that Soren's action was a "result of CBI pressure on Soren". On Monday, however, the BJP Parliamentary Party spokesperson had said that Soren, as also another JMM MP, Kameshwar Baitha (who's in jail), "would vote along with the NDA and the non-Congress bloc" on cut motions.
The Congress sought to downplay Soren's vote maintaining that the JMM continued to be with the UPA at the Centre notwithstanding its alliance with the BJP in the state. Congress sources said the "party was still open to the idea of forming a Congress-JMM government in Jharkhand if, "at any point of time, Shibu gives up his claim for the CM's post".
AICC in-charge of Jharkhand K Keshava Rao told The Indian Express that he was "constantly in touch" with the JMM chief to "ensure" that he supported the UPA government when it came to cut motions.
"He (Soren) is with the UPA. His support to the government at the Centre and his alliance with the BJP in the state are entirely different issues. I did ask him that he must vote for the government in Parliament. Frankly, we are not taking his vote that seriously."
Asked about the party's stance if Soren were to seek Congress's support in future to form the government in the state, Rao said, "It is true that we did not want him as Chief Minister. There is not much to talk about it right now."
Soren's move comes at a time when he has failed to persuade any one of his party's 18 MLAs -- including his son Hemant and daughter-in-law Sita -- to quit an Assembly seat to help him win before June 30 to stay in power.
Also, on July 20, the apex court is slated to hear the kidnapping and murder case of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha dating back to 1994. Jha's brother Vijaynath, daughter Preeti and friend and co-petitioner Mukesh Baba had appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get them justice.
His allies suspect that Soren, who lost the Tamar bypoll only to quit as the CM leading to imposition of President's rule in Jharkhand on January 19 last year, may not contest polls and, instead, enter into a bargain with the UPA partners to instal son Hemant as CM.
Said Deepak Kumar, JD(U)'s district unit secretary: "Everybody knows Guruji (Soren) does not do anything without weighing its pros and cons."
The JMM in the state declined to comment but its senor leader Suraj Mandal sought to play it down: "As far as I know, he voted for the UPA by sheer mistake...he pressed the wrong button."
BJP Deputy Leader Gopinath Munde walked up to him to check if something was amiss but Soren was again seen filling up the red slip, supporting the UPA. REUTERS
For BJP, Soren gave them the unkindest cut
New Delhi: With Mayawati's support and helped by the SP-RJD walkout, the UPA breezed through the trial of strength in the Lok Sabha today but what added insult to the BJP's injury was the fact that Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren, propped up by the NDA, voted for the UPA.
Having served as Chief Minister of Jharkhand for around four months now, Soren technically continues to be a member of Lok Sabha.
The BJP was incensed. "He (Soren) has clearly ditched us. Now we are going to review our stand to support the government led by him," said BJP's state unit spokesperson Sanjay Seth.
After having serious differences with Soren on ways to tackle Maoists, the CM's decision today could lead to eventual parting of ways of two uneasy allies in the state, said a senior BJP leader.
Party leaders were not willing to say much on record, though. Most of them said the party had "taken note of the development" and "some action would definitely be taken against Soren".
Soren, who quietly slipped out of Parliament after the vote, made vague statements on his decision. "Jo kiya, so kiya (whatever had to be done, was done)," he said.
Soren's act, in a way, became the highlight of an evening when the vote on the cut motion got reduced to an academic exercise after the BSP, SP and the RJD didn't join the Opposition.
A cut motion moved by CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta was defeated by a margin of 88 votes (201-289), while another cut motion moved by Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj was defeated by a 162-246 division.
Soren, next to Trinamool's Sudeep Bandopadhyay and DMK's TKS Elangovan, had earlier hit the red button when the first motion was put to vote implying he was opposing the BJP's motion.
BJP Deputy Leader Gopinath Munde walked up to him to check if something was amiss but Soren was again seen filling up the red slip, supporting the UPA.
With Mayawati's support and helped by the SP-RJD walkout, the UPA breezed through the cut motions on Tuesday. A cut motion moved by the Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj was defeated by a 162-246 division. REUTERS
JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey asked Soren about his support to UPA and Dubey was then seen apprising senior leaders Advani, Sushma and Yashwant Sinha about Soren's vote.
A senior BJP leader, requesting anonymity, reflected the wider mood in the party, and said that most MPs "were uniformly incensed" by Soren's action and many had called for "withdrawal of party support" to the Soren-led government. Some BJP leaders felt Soren "may have cut a deal with the Congress, with a key role for his son Hemant Soren and Babulal Marandi in the state".
A visibly happy Hemant, however, refused to comment, when contacted by The Indian Express, at Parliament House premises.
BJP general secretary and former Jharkhand BJP chief Arjun Munda told The Indian Express that "the party would each a definitive decision in a day or two, even when they had taken the issue very seriously".
A BJP leader also claimed that Soren's action was a "result of CBI pressure on Soren". On Monday, however, the BJP Parliamentary Party spokesperson had said that Soren, as also another JMM MP, Kameshwar Baitha (who's in jail), "would vote along with the NDA and the non-Congress bloc" on cut motions.
The Congress sought to downplay Soren's vote maintaining that the JMM continued to be with the UPA at the Centre notwithstanding its alliance with the BJP in the state. Congress sources said the "party was still open to the idea of forming a Congress-JMM government in Jharkhand if, "at any point of time, Shibu gives up his claim for the CM's post".
AICC in-charge of Jharkhand K Keshava Rao told The Indian Express that he was "constantly in touch" with the JMM chief to "ensure" that he supported the UPA government when it came to cut motions.
JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey asked Soren about his support to UPA and Dubey was then seen apprising senior leaders Advani, Sushma and Yashwant Sinha about Soren's vote. REUTERS
"He (Soren) is with the UPA. His support to the government at the Centre and his alliance with the BJP in the state are entirely different issues. I did ask him that he must vote for the government in Parliament. Frankly, we are not taking his vote that seriously."
Asked about the party's stance if Soren were to seek Congress's support in future to form the government in the state, Rao said, "It is true that we did not want him as Chief Minister. There is not much to talk about it right now."
Soren's move comes at a time when he has failed to persuade any one of his party's 18 MLAs -- including his son Hemant and daughter-in-law Sita -- to quit an Assembly seat to help him win before June 30 to stay in power.
Also, on July 20, the apex court is slated to hear the kidnapping and murder case of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha dating back to 1994. Jha's brother Vijaynath, daughter Preeti and friend and co-petitioner Mukesh Baba had appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get them justice.
A senior BJP leader, requesting anonymity, reflected the wider mood in the party, and said that most MPs "were uniformly incensed" by Soren's action and many had called for "withdrawal of party support" to the Soren-led government. REUTERS
His allies suspect that Soren, who lost the Tamar bypoll only to quit as the CM leading to imposition of President's rule in Jharkhand on January 19 last year, may not contest polls and, instead, enter into a bargain with the UPA partners to instal son Hemant as CM.
Said Deepak Kumar, JD(U)'s district unit secretary: "Everybody knows Guruji (Soren) does not do anything without weighing its pros and cons."
The JMM in the state declined to comment but its senor leader Suraj Mandal sought to play it down: "As far as I know, he voted for the UPA by sheer mistake...he pressed the wrong button."
Source: The Indian Express
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- India offers strong support to Afghan president, 2nd Ld-Writethru, AS AP - Mon, Apr 26
NEW DELHI (AP) India offered its unambiguous support to Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday as the embattled Afghan leader comes under increasing international pressure over his plan to include some Taliban leaders in reconciliation talks to end the nearly nine-year-old war in Afghanistan.
- Afghan president in India to strengthen ties, AS AP - Mon, Apr 26
NEW DELHI (AP) Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with Indian President Pratibha Patil on Monday, part of a daylong visit to New Delhi aimed at strengthening ties between the two countries.
- India's Catholic bishops consider new abuse rules, AS AP - Sun, Apr 25
NEW DELHI (AP) Roman Catholic archbishops in India are likely to set final guidelines to be followed in cases of sexual abuse complaints against priests, church officials said Sunday.
- Emirates flight drops suddenly over India; 12 hurt, AS AP - Sun, Apr 25
NEW DELHI (AP) An Emirates plane hit an air pocket and dropped suddenly over India, and 12 passengers were hurt.
- Anti-army protesters march in Indian Kashmir, AS AP - Sat, Apr 24
SRINAGAR, India (AP) Thousands of villagers angry over the fatal shooting of a civilian rallied in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday, burning two army vehicles, officials said.
- ICICI Bank says quarterly profit up 35 percent, AS AP - Sat, Apr 24
MUMBAI, India (AP) ICICI Bank Ltd., India's largest private bank, said Saturday its quarterly profit rose by more than a third, missing expectations, as it continued to retrench its deposit base and cut back on risky consumer loans.
- Reliance Industries quarterly profit up 30 percent, AS AP - Fri, Apr 23
MUMBAI, India (AP) Indian energy giant Reliance Industries Ltd. reported a 30 percent increase in quarterly profit Friday, breaking $1 billion for the first time on high refining and gas output, despite low refining margins.
- India police clash with Kashmir protest, 7 injured, 1st Ld-Writethru, AS AP - Fri, Apr 23
SRINAGAR, India (AP) Hundreds of Kashmiris hurled stones at police in the capital of Indian Kashmir on Friday, defying restrictions during a strike called by separatists to protest death sentences given to three men convicted in a 1996 bombing in New Delhi.
- Indian Kashmir strikes in protest at sentencing, AS AP - Fri, Apr 23
SRINAGAR, India (AP) Shops, businesses and government offices stayed shut in India's portion of Kashmir on Friday after separatists called for a strike to protest death sentences for three men convicted in a 1996 bomb attack in the Indian capital.
- Wipro quarterly profit up 21 pct, attrition rises, AS AP - Fri, Apr 23
MUMBAI, India (AP) Indian software services firm Wipro Ltd. said quarterly profit jumped 21 percent to 12.1 billion rupees ($269 million), as rising global demand for outsourcing spread from financial services to lagging sectors like technology and telecommunications.
- Afghan president to visit India to strengthen ties, AS AP - Thu, Apr 22
NEW DELHI (AP) Afghan President Hamid Karzai will travel to India early next week for talks aimed at strengthening ties between the two countries, India's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
- 3 Kashmiris sentenced to death for India bomb, AS AP - Thu, Apr 22
NEW DELHI (AP) A New Delhi court sentenced three members of Kashmir militant group to death on Thursday for their role in the 1996 bombing of a busy market in the Indian capital that killed 13, news reports said.
- US Embassy issues travel alert for Indian capital, AS AP - Wed, Apr 21
NEW DELHI (AP) The U.S. Embassy has warned Americans of "increased indications" that terrorists are planning attacks in the Indian capital.
- Police arrest rights activist in Indian Kashmir, AS AP - Wed, Apr 21
SRINAGAR, India (AP) Police on Wednesday arrested a rights activist for inviting Pakistan-based leaders of Islamic insurgent groups to address by telephone a conference in the Indian portion of Kashmir.
National News
The lost glory of Shahjahanabad
HT - 02:40 PMThe latest official statistics have just confirmed what heritage lovers were fearing. Shahjahanabad ? home to more than two dozen important heritage monuments and at least 500 heritage structures and havelis, not to mention signature shopping haunts and eating out experiences, is getting fewer visitors than ever.
- Mundka fire to road mishaps, Delhi Metro happy to help HT - 02:40 PM
April 19: A car carrying three African students rams into a truck carrying steel rods. Workers from a nearby Metro construction site provide cutters to sever the rods that had pierced two students.
- Confusion set to take off from Terminal 3 HT - 02:40 PM
Starting July domestic fliers might face some confusing times at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA).
- Mayapuri radiation patient shifted out of Apollo hospital HT - 02:40 PM
Deepak Jain, 31, one of the eight radiation exposure victims in the Capital, will be shifted to Army Research and Referral (R&R) hospital near Delhi Cantt on Wednesday morning.
- Law graduates will have to pass test for black robe HT - 02:40 PM
Come September, having a law degree may not be enough for aspiring lawyers to be able to don the black robe.
- 'Let people know about radiation' HT - 02:40 PM
The Cobalt-60 radiation leak episode in Mayapuri scrap yard has claimed one life. Scientists now say the authorities need to work hard to avoid such mishaps in future.
- The good times are back HT - 02:40 PM
Gaurav Srivastava is smiling again. This former project manager at an MNC IT major, who lost his job during the worst of the slowdown last year, has found himself another job ? after a gap of eight months ? in a leading Bangalore-based Indian IT major.
- New train simulator for DMRC trainees HT - 02:40 PM
Technical faults that stalled a couple of new Bombardier trains within a few days of their commissioning have found their way into the learning modules of engineers and train operators joining the Delhi Metro.
- Politics of Maya's U-turn HT - 02:40 PM
Mayawati threw her weight behind the UPA on Tuesday, making her 21 MPs oppose the cut motions moved by the BJP and Left in the Lok Sabha.
- Father-son deal behind Soren support for UPA? HT - 02:40 PM
Shibu Soren stunned the BJP when he voted for the UPA against the cut motions moved by the Opposition.
- Dalai Lama to open Buddha Memorial Park in Patna on May 22 HT - 02:15 PM
The formal inauguration of the Buddha Smriti Park in Patna by the Dalai Lama on May 27 will be a gala international event attended by delegations from at least four predominantly Buddhist countries.
- Manmohan leaves for Bhutan HT - 02:10 PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday left for Bhutan to attend the SAARC Summit during which he may meet his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani.
- J&K to conduct survey on those affected by militancy HT - 02:10 PM
The Jammu & Kashmir government will conduct a survey of militancy-affected people to ascertain the exact number of widows and orphans in the state. A special rehabilitation programme for the victims will also be launched after the survey results are compiled.
- CP's air cleaner than before HT - 02:10 PM
The air around Connaught Place is said to be cleaner now after an air-purifier station installed there by a private firm cleaned 99 per cent of the toxic air pollutants over a period of 35 days.
- 'Govt misusing CBI' HT - 02:10 PM
On a day when the Opposition?s cut-motion to the government?s taxation proposals in the Budget dissipated with the RJD, the Samajwadi Party and the BSP backing out in the House, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley accused the government of using the CBI as an instrument for political survival.
- Kerala tops spurious drugs list, says minister HT - 02:10 PM
Drugs worth Rs 17.1 crore have been seized in raids between 2007 and 2009 by state licencing authorities.
- Teacher's family deny friendship HT - 02:10 PM
The family of Deepshikha Arora (24), a schoolteacher whose bloody body was discovered dumped in a WagonR car on Monday night, rubbished the police claim that she knew 26-year-old Varun Mehta.
- SC reserves order against Bhushan HT - 02:10 PM
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on the plea of advocate Prashant Bhushan that the contempt proceedings against him are not in accordance with the apex court rules.
- Haryana scraps duty on golf clubs HT - 02:10 PM
Golf lovers and children have a reason to feel happy as the Haryana government has scrapped entertainment duty from golf clubs offering level-playing field at par with New Delhi and Noida where clubs are already exempted from this duty.
- YMCA fined for pool death HT - 02:10 PM
The New Delhi Young Men?s Christian Association (YMCA) has been directed to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of a man, who died in its swimming pool in 1998.
Politics News
'Shibu Soren ready to resign and support BJP'
IANS - 10:13 PMRanchi, April 28 (IANS) Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren's son Hemant Wednesday said his father would step down if the Bharatiya Janata Party wanted to form the government in the state.
- Opposition stalls Parliament, demands JPC probe into phone-tapping case ANI - 09:55 PM
New Delhi, April 28 (ANI): The phone-tapping of political leaders allegedly by the Government agencies brought the Parliament to a standstill once again here on Wednesday.
- CPI-M rules out any rethink on BJP IANS - 08:57 PM
Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Biman Bose Wednesday ruled out any rethink of the party on its political equations with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying the saffron outfit would never shed its communal agenda.
- TRS warns of civil war over Telangana statehood IANS - 08:54 PM
Hyderabad, April 28 (IANS) On the occasion of its ninth anniversary Wednesday, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) once again warned of civil war if Telangana was not made a separate state soon.
- Doors still open for BJP: JMM IANS - 08:53 PM
Ranchi, April 28 (IANS) The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Wednesday said the option of reconciliation with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was still open even as the latter announced withdrawal of support to the Shibu Soren government in the state.
- BJP withdraws support to JMM, Congress weighs options IANS - 08:53 PM
New Delhi/Ranchi, April 28 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday withdrew support to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) government in Jharkhand, reducing it to a minority, but the Congress said it was in no hurry to put together a new coalition in the state.
- Congress flays Advani over Gujarat phone tapping IANS - 08:53 PM
Gandhinagar, April 28 (IANS) The opposition Congress in Gujarat Wednesday lashed out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani for being a mute spectator on the issue of phone tapping in Gujarat while not allowing parliament to function on the same issue in Delhi.
- Supreme Court: Khushboo free to opine on pre-marital sex Reuters - 08:49 PM
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed 22 criminal cases against actress Khushboo for her remarks on pre-marital sex, which had drawn angry protests in the conservative country.
- Greek aid decision seen soon, package may grow Reuters - 08:44 PM
The international bailout of Greece is likely to total up to 120 billion euros, a German lawmaker said on Wednesday after International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn held talks in Berlin.
- After parliament vote win, govt to move on nuclear bill Reuters - 08:35 PM
The government is planning to introduce a delayed nuclear liability bill in parliament, officials said on Wednesday, a move that will allow entry of U.S. firms into the country's $150 billion sector.
- Bombay High Court stays Shivaji Park beautification IANS - 08:18 PM
Mumbai, April 28 (IANS) The Bombay High Court Wednesday stayed the proposed beautification of the historic Shivaji Park at Dadar in central Mumbai.
- Congress not to use party symbol for Haryana civic polls IANS - 08:08 PM
Chandigarh, April 28 (IANS) The ruling Congress in Haryana will not contest next month's elections to various municipal agencies across the state on the party's election symbol, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced Wednesday.
- Greek bailout package to rise, IMF tells lawmakers Reuters - 08:04 PM
Greece will receive much more aid than initially expected, German lawmakers said on Wednesday after a briefing with the International Monetary Fund, reviving markets that had been spooked by fears of a Greek debt default.
- Phone tapping again rears its head in parliament IANS - 08:01 PM
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Phone tapping, this time involving conversations between a high-profile lobbyist and Communications Minister A. Raja on the allocation of 2G Spectrum, again reared its head in parliament Wednesday leading to demands for the minister's resignation and disrupting the proceedings in both houses.
- LDF ally Kerala Congress-J headed for a split IANS - 07:59 PM
Thiruvananthapuram, April 28 (IANS) A minister's absence from Kerala's weekly cabinet meeting Wednesday triggered speculation here that the Kerala Congress-Joseph, an ally of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), may be headed for a split with a breakaway faction likely to join the Congress-led alliance.
- New partners, new alliances? What next in Jharkhand IANS - 07:58 PM
Ranchi, April 28 (IANS) With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announcing the withdrawal of support to the Shibu Soren government in Jharkhand, political calculations are on to cobble up another coalition in the state as no party has the numbers to pass the simple majority mark.
- Soren's vote a calculated move to stay in power? IANS - 07:52 PM
Ranchi, April 28 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren's vote against the cut motion in the Lok Sabha, even at the peril of putting his coalition government in danger, could be a calculated move to stay in power in the state and boost his son's fortunes, political observers say.
- BJP pulls out of Soren government in Jharkhand IANS - 02:07 PM
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday withdrew support to the Jharkhand government on grounds that Chief Minister Shibu Soren had 'betrayed' it by voting against the cut motion in the Lok Sabha.
- Pressure grows on Germany to back Greek bailout Reuters - 07:41 PM
* German politicians say IMF expects big package for Greece
* News revives markets spooked by fear of Greek default - Mayawati proves key for govt Reuters - 06:41 PM
The pivotal role played by Mayawati, a self-proclaimed leader of the "untouchables", in ensuring India's Congress-led government's victory in parliament highlighted the importance of smaller parties and a rough road ahead for reforms.
Business News
GE CEO sees return to 'good, solid' profit growth
General Electric Co expects to experience "good, solid" profit growth through the rest of this year, carrying into 2011 and 2012, Chief Executive Jeff Immelt told shareholders on Wednesday.
- EU fumbling leaves euro zone seeking credibility Reuters - 10:22 PM
- U.S. Senate plans third vote on banking reform Reuters - 10:19 PM
- AOL reports profit, but ad revenue still weak Reuters - 10:15 PM
- S&P cuts Spain's rating one notch on economic view Reuters - 10:10 PM
- Debt woes may push ECB to dig into toolbox Reuters - 10:07 PM
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General
- Infotech finalises master agreement with WestinghousePTI - 08:39 PM
Hyderabad, Apr 28 (PTI) Technology and GIS solutions provider Infotech Enterprises today said it has finalised an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba, for providing engineering services in India.
- 14mt fertilisers to be importedPTI - 08:32 PM
New Delhi, Apr 28 (PTI) The government today said fertiliser companies have contracted to import nearly 14 million tonne of DAP, MOP and complexes to meet demand.
- Sensex investors lose Rs 41,000cr in a dayPTI - 08:23 PM
Mumbai, Apr 28 (PTI) Investors in the shares of the Sensex companies lost a whopping Rs 41,000 crore in just one session today with the benchmark index tumbling 310 points on concerns of the deepening of financial crisis in Greece.
- Congress steers clear of 2G spectrum sale issuePTI - 08:20 PM
New Delhi, Apr 28 (PTI) Congress today steered clear of the alleged multi-crore scam in allocation of 2G spectrum over which opposition members demanded resignation of Telecom Minister A Raja.
- Yahoo likes location services, mum on FoursquareReuters - 08:19 PM
Web company Yahoo said services that allow consumers to find local information based on the location of their mobile phone were "very interesting" but would not comment on reports it may buy industry player Foursquare.
India
- 3G auction: Pan-India licence price nears Rs.9,000 cr levelIANS - 08:53 PM
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) India Wednesday concluded 94 rounds of an auction to award spectrum for third generation (3G) telecom services in the country, with the provisional winning price for a nationwide licence nearing the Rs.9,000 crore level.
- Infotech inks pact with n-energy firm WestinghouseIANS - 08:52 PM
Hyderabad, April 28 (IANS) Infotech Enterprises Limited, a leading technology solutions provider, has signed an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company, the world's pioneering nuclear energy company, for providing engineering services in India.
- Time to give strategic cast to India-Africa ties: ExpertsIANS - 08:51 PM
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) With a growing global interest in India's engagement with Africa and China's surge in the region, experts and officials Wednesday pitched for imparting a strategic vision to the burgeoning economic and diplomatic ties between New Delhi and the resource-rich African continent.
- Honda cautious as rivalry heats up; SAIC Q1 a recordReuters - 08:30 PM
Honda Motor Co forecast a smaller-than-expected 10 percent rise in full-year operating profit on Wednesday, warning tough competition would dent gains from improving sales in the United States and China.
- Coal India forms JV with NTPC to acquire assetsIANS - 08:16 PM
Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) The country's largest coal producer, Coal India Limited (CIL), has formed a joint venture with power generator NTPC to acquire coal assets in the country and abroad.
International
- US launches global initiative to help Muslim entrepreneursIANS - 08:07 PM
Washington, April 28 (IANS) Citing Indian entrepreneur Shaheen Mistri's project to provide tutoring to slum children as an example, the US has launched a programme to provide concrete support to new entrepreneurs in Muslim-majority communities before expanding worldwide.
- Azim Premji discusses joint ventures in UAEIANS - 04:23 PM
Ajman, April 28 (IANS/WAM) Indian industrialist Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, one of India's largest IT companies, discussed establishment of joint ventures with the ruler of Ajman, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
- How to build a committed workforce?ANI - 04:15 PM
Washington, April 28 (ANI): Asking workers to reflect on their organisation's history can help build a committed workforce, according to a new American research.
- Goldman CEO denies wrongdoing in crisisIE - 04:00 PM
A Senate showdown has put Goldman Sachs' defense of its conduct in the run-up to the financial crisis on display before indignant lawmakers and a national audience.
- 'Kill off N-capability, slay diseases'IE - 03:00 PM
An editorial published in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, has claimed that the 11 nuclear power states (United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran, and possibly Syria) can eliminate neglected infections, which account for up to 50 percent of the global disease burden, if they were to invest less than 1/10,000th of the cost needed
Personal-Finance
- Indian markets end on flat noteIANS - Mon, Apr 26
Mumbai, April 26 (IANS) Indian equities markets Monday ended trade on a dull note even as blue chip stocks Sterlite and HDFC registered handsome gains.
- Indian markets end on dull noteIANS - Mon, Apr 26
Mumbai, April 26 (IANS) Indian equities markets Monday ended trade on a dull note even as blue chip stocks Sterlite and HDFC registered handsome gains.
- Sensex ends 120 points up, ICICI gainsIANS - Fri, Apr 23
Mumbai, April 23 (IANS) A benchmark index for Indian equities Friday ended 130 points higher than its previous close with gains for stocks from the banking and capital goods space.
- Sensex ends 101 points up; SBI, RIL main gainersIANS - Thu, Apr 22
Mumbai, April 22 (IANS) A benchmark index for Indian equities Thursday closed 101 points higher than its previous close, after paring intra-day gains, as State Bank of India and Reliance Industries made strong gains.
- Sensex ends flat, broader markets gainIANS - Wed, Apr 21
Mumbai, April 21 (IANS) A benchmark index for Indian equities Wednesday gave up its intra-day gains to end trade on a flat note, though buying took place in midcap and small scrips.
Markets
- Restaurant dealmaking hits two-year highReuters - 10:03 PM
Restaurant dealmaking is heating up again with the start of a consumer spending recovery and greater access to capital that has whetted private equity firms' appetite after a two-year fast.
- Big banks, Shell blast CFTC position limit planReuters - 09:59 PM
The biggest Wall Street energy traders and top producers filed fierce last-minute objections to a proposed plan to limit speculative positions in U.S. oil and gas futures, hoping to halt a crackdown that has been lauded by consumers but decried by market participants.
- TIMELINE - Greece's debt crisisReuters - 09:52 PM
Reuters - Here is a timeline of economic events in Greece in 2010.Jan. 2010 - Greece unveils a stability programme on Jan. 14 saying it will aim to cut its budget gap to 2.8 percent of GDP in 2012 from 12.7 percent in 2009. Unions protesting against the austerity plan announce strikes for February.
- POLL - Economists see 30 pct chance of Greek debt restructuringReuters - 09:46 PM
Financial analysts see a roughly one in three chance of Greece restructuring its debt sometime in the next five years, and an approximately one in ten chance of it leaving the euro zone, a Reuters poll showed.
- Money market tensions recall credit crunch warningsReuters - 09:41 PM
Money markets tensed up on Wednesday -- a warning sign when the financial crisis erupted two years ago -- with some banks finding access to funding harder as fallout from the euro zone debt crisis spread.
World News
Egyptian court convicts 26 men of Hezbollah links
Reuters - 10:21 PMEgypt on Wednesday convicted 26 men it linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah of planning attacks inside the country, in a case that has underscored Sunni Arab concerns about the rising influence of the Iranian-backed group.
- Israeli troops kill Gaza border protester - medics Reuters - 10:19 PM
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian who approached the Gaza Strip border on Wednesday to demonstrate against a no-go buffer zone imposed there by Israel, witnesses and hospital officials said.
- Killings of journalists rising in 2010, group says Reuters - 09:24 PM
At least 42 journalists around the world have been killed so far this year and governments should take action to protect reporters and bring their killers to justice, a global media protection body said on Wednesday.
- UK's Brown calls voter "bigoted", apologises Reuters - 06:56 PM
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was caught on tape describing a voter as "a bigoted woman" on Wednesday after she confronted him on immigration and the economy in an election campaign walkabout in northern England.
- Iranian president may attend NPT review conference Reuters - 08:53 PM
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may attend the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference that opens at the United Nations next week, diplomats said on Wednesday.
- Greek aid decision seen soon, package may grow Reuters - 08:44 PM
The international bailout of Greece is likely to total up to 120 billion euros, a German lawmaker said on Wednesday after International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn held talks in Berlin.
- FEATURE - Russian boy's rejection threatens U.S. adoptions Reuters - 08:18 PM
The news that an American woman rejected her adopted son and sent him back to Russia alone is just a new twist on a familiar tragedy for adoptive parent Svetlana Shashina: she has seen it happen before.
- Plea deal possible for Canadian at Guantanamo Reuters - 06:20 PM
Prosecutors and defence lawyers in the Guantanamo tribunals have been trying to negotiate a deal that would let Canadian captive Omar Khadr plead guilty to reduced charges in exchange for leniency, a defence attorney said.
- Greek bailout package to rise, IMF tells lawmakers Reuters - 08:03 PM
Greece will receive much more aid than initially expected, German lawmakers said on Wednesday after a briefing with the International Monetary Fund, reviving markets that had been spooked by fears of a Greek debt default.
- Palestinian Authority to stop use of Israeli mobiles Reuters - 08:02 PM
The Palestinian Authority is trying to stop Palestinians using Israeli mobile phone cards sold illegally in the West Bank, a practice which it says robs domestic operators of $100 million annually.
- Pakistani, Indian prime ministers to meet in Bhutan Reuters - 02:45 PM
The prime ministers of nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India will meet in Bhutan on Thursday, Pakistan's foreign ministry said.
- SPECIAL REPORT - Rapid growth of U.S. militias feeds off politics Reuters - 07:14 PM
Three times a week, Mike Lackomar climbs into his truck and drives the same delivery route through the suburbs of Detroit.
- Pressure grows on Germany to back Greek bailout Reuters - 07:10 PM
German politicians came under pressure on Wednesday to cast aside their doubts over a bailout for Greece, with markets increasingly alarmed that Athens may default on its debt and trigger a meltdown elsewhere in Europe.
- U.N. chief pushes energy efficiency and access Reuters - 06:31 PM
United Nations chief Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday urged member countries to make a commitment to boosting energy efficiency and providing universal access to electricity and other energy services.
- FACTBOX - Canadian alleges U.S. tortured him Reuters - 06:28 PM
REUTERS - A war crimes tribunal is scheduled to convene on Wednesday at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba to decide what evidence can be used in the July trial of Canadian captive Omar Khadr.
- FACTBOX - Factors to watch as Israel, Palestinians near talks Reuters - 06:16 PM
REUTERS - Prodded by U.S. President Barack Obama, the slumbering Middle East peace process is showing signs of reawakening.
- U.S. immigration fight puts both parties at risk Reuters - 05:56 PM
From the Arizona border to the halls of Congress, the sudden reemergence of the divisive issue of U.S. immigration reform poses significant risks for both parties heading into November's congressional elections.
- UK premier calls voter "bigoted woman" on poll visit Reuters - 05:54 PM
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was caught on tape describing a voter as "bigoted" after she confronted him on the economy and immigration during an election campaign walkabout in northern England.
- Controversial SW China dam sparks new showdown Reuters - 05:24 PM
Chinese police have seized a farmer who doused himself in gasoline and threatened to blow himself up to stop the demolition of his house, in the latest showdown over a controversial hydropower project.
- Hamas warned: fear may give way to revolt in Gaza Reuters - 05:23 PM
Security forces of the Islamist group Hamas detained Palestinian political activists overnight for distributing leaflets urging them to ease up on the people of Gaza or face a possibly explosive revolt.
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Video: Satluj Jal hopes to break IPO jinx NDTV Profit Government treads cautiously on SJVN's IPO Moneylife Personal Finance Magazine Moneycontrol.com - Business Standard - Economic Times Email this storyAfter parliament vote win, India to move on nuclear billReuters - - 2 hours ago NEW DELHI, April 28 (Reuters) - India's government is planning to introduce a delayed nuclear liability bill in parliament, officials said on Wednesday, a move that will allow entry of US firms into the country's $150 billion sector. NTPC-NPCIL sign JV agreement The Hindu India Talkies - Economic Times - Moneycontrol.com Email this storyExide Industries confident of volume growth in FY11Moneycontrol.com - 5 hours ago Battery major Exide Industries announced its fourth quarter results. The company's Q4 net profit was up at Rs 134.5 crore versus Rs 68.2 crore year-on-year. Exide Ind net jumps nearly two-fold in Q4 Hindu Business Line Marico Q4 net up 15% to Rs 51cr Business Standard Equity Bulls - Myiris.com - RTT News Email this storyUPDATE 1-LIC Housing aims 40 pct loan growth in FY11Reuters India - 3 hours ago MUMBAI, April 28 (Reuters) - Mortgage lender LIC Housing Finance (LICH.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to borrow 200 billion rupees to meet its disbursement target of 40 percent in 2010/11, a top official said on Wednesday. LIC Housing Finance Q4 net up 36 per cent Deccan Herald LIC Housing Q4 net up 35.51 pc to Rs 213.51 cr Economic Times Hindu Business Line - Moneycontrol.com - Equity Bulls Email this storySubscribe to Jaypee Infratech IPO: Mehta EquitiesMoneycontrol.com - 5 hours ago Mehta Equities has come out with a research report on Jaypee Infratech's IPO. The broking firm has recommended subscribing to the issue. Jaypee Infra IPO NAV works out to be Rs 115/sh:Sharekhan Economic Times Times of India - Moneylife Personal Finance Magazine - Business Standard - Financial Express Email this storyNo discrepancy in information shared by IPL teams: KhurshidSify - 2 hours ago The Registrar of Companies (ROC) has found no discrepancy in the information provided to it by the franchises of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Wednesday. IPL franchisees failed to file annual reports Economic Times Press Trust of India - Financial Express - samay live - Times Now.tv Email this storyReliance Natural up on court case speculationReuters India - - 4 hours ago MUMBAI (Reuters) - Shares in Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL), controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, jumped 6.3 percent on Wednesday on market hopes the company would receive a favourable verdict in a gas dispute. 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Email this storyWoman spy in India's Pak mission arrestedHindustan Times - 2 hours ago In a new dimension to the sensational case of an Indian woman diplomat arrested on charge of spying for Pakistan, a high-ranking Army officer and an external intelligence agency official have come under the scanner of security agencies. Video: Indian diplomat turns spy NDTV.comPak spy Madhuri was looking for military info IBNLive.com Who is Khushboo? NDTV.com - 10 hours ago Till her views on pre-marital sex became controversial and effigies were burnt, Khushboo had been best known for, well, being wildly popular. I believe in what I said: Khushboo Hindustan Times Supreme Court: Khushboo free to opine on pre-marital sex Reuters India Apex court censures two Gujarat public prosecutorsSify - 1 hour ago The Supreme Court Wednesday censured two special public prosecutors of Gujarat for going public with their allegations that the two special judges trying Gujarat riots cases in Ahmedabad were biased against the victims. SC says it is deviating from main issue in Gujarat riots cases Hindustan Times SC disapproves unwarranted developments in Gujarat riot cases Business Standard Sohrabuddin killing: CBI arrests Ahmedabad copExpress Buzz - 9 minutes ago GANDHINAGAR: An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer posted in Ahmedabad was Wednesday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh killing in faked shootout, taking the number of cops held in the case to 15. dailynews365 - Times Now.tv - NetIndian - Press Trust of India Email this storyRamesh for joint action on hazardous waste managementThe Hindu - 3 hours ago PTI Concerned over recent radiation exposure incident in the capital, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to the Finance Ministry on a joint mechanism to sensitise customs department to ensure that no hazardous material is dumped in the ... Govt rules out blanket ban on use of plastic bags Press Trust of India Six extradition requests pending with the US: Govt to RSZee News - 26 minutes ago New Delhi: Government has sought extradition of David Coleman Headley from the US or direct access to question him regarding the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, even as six other requests to extradite wanted persons to India are pending with them, ... 'India to get access to Headley soon' IBNLive.com Opposition stalls Parliament, demands JPC probe into phone-tapping caseOneindia - 33 minutes ago New Delhi, April 28 (ANI): The phone-tapping of political leaders allegedly by the Government agencies brought the Parliament to a standstill once again here on Wednesday. Private talk? Don't use a wireless phone IBNLive.com Sajjan Kumar terms '84 riots cases against him as unconstitutionalDaily News & Analysis - 3 hours ago PTI New Delhi: Congress leader Sajjan Kumar today told a Delhi court that the registration of an FIR by the CBI against him in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases was violative of Constitutional provisions as those had already been probed by the Delhi ... Video: Court accepts CBI report on Jagdish Tytler NewsXNY Sikh body to appeal against Tytler indiablooms Heat wave claims crocodiles in Chhattisgarh zooTimes of India - 2 hours ago RAIPUR: A pair of crocodiles were victims of a heat wave at a zoo in Chhattisgarh where the maximum temperature has touched 45 degrees Celsius, officials said on Wednesday. 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Express Buzz SINDH TODAY - Press Trust of India - Central Chronicle - The Hindu Email this storyIndian Air Force lost 28 pilots in four years: AntonyTimes of India - 4 hours ago NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force lost 28 pilots in 61 aircraft and helicopter accidents in the last four years, parliament was informed on Wednesday. IAF to get 10 C -17s from Boeing Financial Express Directorate Of Education Announces Open Admission Test 2010 Resultsindia-server.com - 8 hours ago Directorate of education Delhi has announced the results of Open Admission Test 2010. Candidates can visit the official website to check the results. Directorate of Education Delhi Result 2010 Announced Daily News (blog) For Directorate of Education Delhi Open Admission Test Result 2010: Click Here Forestlaneshul (blog) Nationwide bandh against price rise hits normal lifeThe Hindu - - 21 hours ago The Hindu Deserted look of EM By-Pass during office hours on Tuesday. 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