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‘Presidential election NEW DELHI, Nov 11: Chief Election Commissioner Manohar Singh Gill is of the view that if there.....more 90 films to be MUMBAI, Nov 11: Widely acclaimed films focussing on the voice of women would.......more
NCP will not merge PUNE, Nov 11: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader P A Sangma today ruled....more |
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Pathak, Bhatt
plead innocence, to abide by leadership decision NEW DELHI, Nov 11: Pleading innocence, Union Minister of State for Defence Harin Pathak and Gujarat Health Minister Ashok ....more Centre clears ban on JAGDALPUR, Nov 11: The Centre has cleared the proposal of Madhya Pradesh Government for...more RANCHI, Nov 11: AICC joint secretary and in-charge of the party’s Jharkhand affairs, Pratap Bhanu.....more Illegal LPG cylinder NEW DELHI, Nov 11: The Enforcement Department of Delhi Government today unearthed an illegal....more BJP to decide on AHMEDABAD, Nov 11: BJP’s Parliamentary Board would decide in a week the issue of the....more |
‘Presidential
election in US still being held NEW DELHI, Nov 11: Chief Election Commissioner Manohar Singh Gill is of the view that if there was a centralised authority to conduct and supervise the American Presidential elections. The controversy whether it was conducted in a fair manner or not could have been avoided. In a TV interview, Dr Gill said Presidential election in the United States of America is still being held under an "archaic" system over the last 200 years. Each state has it own law to conduct the election. There is no direct election by the voters, and the President is elected by an electoral college. Americans should change the system, Dr Gill opined. In India, the Election Commission conducts, supervises and superintends elections to the offices of President and Vice President, Parliament, State Legislative Assemblies and State Legislative Councils. It on its own could decide about recount of ballot papers and order repoll, if necessary, Dr Gill said. (UNI) |
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90 films to be screened at intl film festival MUMBAI, Nov 11: Widely acclaimed films focussing on the voice of women would dominate the package of 90 films to be screened at the third international film festival to be held here from November 23. The seven-day carnival, organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) would be jointly inaugurated by Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and the celebrated film maker, Kamal Hassan, at Shankmukhananda hall with the screening of cannes award-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee. Nine films on the theme "Voice of Women", including Mehboob’s "Aurat", Bimal Roy’s "Bandini", Vijay Anand’s "Guide", Mahesh Bhatt’s "Arth", Shyam Benegal’s "Bhoomika", Kalpana Lajmi’s "Rudali" and Prakash Jha’s "Mrityudand", would be screened at the week-long festival, according to Kiran Shantaram, Secretary MAMI. Japanese films "Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t", "Shall we dance" by Suo Masayuki "Nabbie’s love" (Yuki Nakae), "The Geisha’s house", "Wild life" (Aoyama Shinji) would be another highlight of the festival, according to film maker Amit Khanna. The festival was an eclectic mix of films drawn from countries conventionally known for them and from those little heard of, including Estonia’s "The highway crossing" and Nepal’s ‘Mask of desire’ by Tsering Rinhtar Sherpa. Lifetime achievement awards would be given to film-maker G P Sippy and actress Jaya Bachchan for their contribution to cinema in the past 25 years, he said. The festival would close with the much-publicised film of M F Hussain, "Gaj Gamini". (PTI) |
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NCP will not merge with Cong
even if PUNE, Nov 11: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader P A Sangma today ruled out any possibility of NCP merging with the Congress in case the Congress leader Sonia Gandhi gets defeated in the party presidential poll. "NCP will not join with the Congress even if Jitendra Prasada wins the election, because Congress now has become a party of the past. It only believes in basking in the glory of old history. It has nothing to offer for the present or the future. What the country needs is a party which has vision of the future", Sangma told reporters here. Terming the ongoing tussle between Sonia and Prasada as "internal matter" of Congress, Sangma said "what is clear is that there is only one type of democracy in the Congress where only one person dictates". He predicted that the National Democratic Alliance Government at the Centre will last only for about an year and after that there will be a realignment of all political forces and "that is when the NCP will play a crucial role". Asked whether NCP will think of siding with any specific parties, Sangma said "first we will talk among ourselves". Stating that both the Congress and the BJP were sinking, he said what the country needed now was an alternative national party which can give stability. "This is the gap which the NCP will seek to fill", he said adding that it was no doubt a difficult task. (PTI) |
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Pathak, Bhatt plead innocence,
to abide NEW DELHI, Nov 11: Pleading innocence, Union Minister of State for Defence Harin Pathak and Gujarat Health Minister Ashok Bhatt, whose resignation have been demanded in the wake of their being chargesheeted in a murder case, today said they would abide by BJP leadership’s decision on their continuance in office. A day after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had sought Law Minister Arun Jaitley’s opinion on the issue, they met Home Minister L K Advani to present their case and talked to Jaitley over phone. The question is not about our resignation but of our being totally innocent of the charges being framed against us. We were not at the spot when the incident took place, Pathak and Bhatt told reporters on their first comments on the charges framed by an Ahmedabad court earlier this week. The two have been accused of inciting a mob which resulted in the killing of a Police Constable during the anti-reservation agitation in 1985. Congress and other opposition parties have demanded their resignation. They have sought time from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and party president Bangaru Laxman to apprise them of the full facts of the case. We will abide by the decision of our leadership after putting full facts before them, they said. Pathak and Bhatt said they have been falsely implicated in the April 1985 FIR since they had moved the high court against serious police atrocities against the agitationists. They claimed that the clinching evidence of court commissioner’s report of April 16 and 17, 1985, had still not been produced in court. We have been able to procure excerpts of the report which bears out that we were not present on the spot of the incident of the killing of policeman and we would put this report before the high command. On opposition onslaught against them, the two leaders claimed last three days opposition buildup has been as we have killed the policeman. We went to court of law not on streets against police vindictiveness and high handedness. If we are to be suspended by public life for this. No leader in future would dare raise his voice against police atrocities, they said. Asserting that they will accept the judicial verdict on the case, they said it was to the credit of Gujarat Government that it had not interfered in the course of law. (PTI) |
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BJP to decide on ministers’
future in AHMEDABAD, Nov 11: BJP’s Parliamentary Board would decide in a week the issue of the involvement of the two party ministers, Harin Pathak and Ashok Bhatt, who were chargesheeted in a 1985 anti-reservation riot case in Ahmedabad, party vice president Jana Krishnamurthy said. Krishnamurthy, who is in-charge of Gujarat party affairs, told reporters here today that the issue of two ministers —Union Minister of State for Defence Harin Pathak and Gujarat Health Minister Ashok Bhatt— would be discussed at the parliamentary board in the next few days and appropriate decision would be taken. He said quoting newspaper reports that the Prime Minister A B Vajpayee had sought legal opinion in this matter from the Law Ministry. The decision if any on the two ministers who were allegedly implicated in the criminal case during anti-reservation riots in Ahmedabad in 1985 would be ultimately decided by the board after going through merits of the matter, Krishnamurthy said. Stating that the case was 15 years old and the charges against the party leaders were framed by the police "in heat of the moment", Krishnamurthy said he was told that both the leaders were not present at the scene of violence. Pathak, Bhatt and nine others have been charged in the anti-riot case in 1985 in which a policeman was killed. (PTI) |
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