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Naxalite violence soars in AP, CM’s factory blasted HYDERABAD, Nov 30: In a major spurt in Naxalite violence in Andhra Pradesh, ultras of outlawed People’s War Group (PWG) blasted the....more ‘Jantar
Mantars’ are NEW DELHI, Nov 30: The 18th century "Jantar Mantar" observatories built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur . ...more Lagaan
to groom INDORE, Nov 30: After wowing the Indian as well as the international audience with its cinematic brilliance, Aamir Khan’s Lagaan will now teach a few lessons in human .....more Netaji’s
blame crash GORAKHPUR, Nov 30: The Netaji Vichar Manch has said that several letters ..more |
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Our resolve is to enact NEW DELHI, Nov 30: BJP-led Government has resolved to enact stringent laws to wipe out terrorists and their organisations,....more Cong flayed for disrupting parliamentary proceedings VIJAYAWADA, Nov 30: Samata Party president V V Krishna Rao has criticised the opposition, particularly the Congress for disrupting the . .....more SC:
All members of NEW DELHI, Nov 30: The Supreme Court has held that each member of an unlawful Assembly would be held vicariously liable for the crime committed ......more BARIPADA (ORISSA), Nov 30: Hectic prepatrations are on to catch the Royal Bengal Tiger (RBT) by its trail inside the Simlipal Tiger Reserve (STR) .....more |
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Naxalite violence soars in AP, CM’s factory blasted HYDERABAD, Nov 30: In a major spurt in Naxalite violence in Andhra Pradesh, ultras of outlawed People’s War Group (PWG) blasted the factories owned by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s family, Union Minister U Krishnam Raju and a unit of TATA coffee besides snatching away a weapon from the residence of a retired Air Chief Marshall late last night. The Naxals blasted the Pileru unit of heritage foods ltd. In Chittoor district by placing gelatine sticks around the plant and evacuating the staff at gun point, police said. Naidu’s wife N Bhuvaneshwari Devi is the Executive Director of Heritage Foods and the family owns about 27 per cent stock. Pileru is the first unit of heritage foods. In Medak district, armed ultras entered Gopikrishna Granites, in which film star and Union Minister of State for Defence U Krishnam Raju is a partner, and blowed it up after frocing the lean night staff out, district police told PTI. The ultras also swooped on Tata Coffee factory at Brahmanpalli in the same district and exploded the machinery unit besides setting ablaze two vehicles parked in factory premises. ‘They also snatched away a 0.9 mm pistol from the house of former Air Chief Marshal(retd) L A Fountanine who resides next to the factory’, police said. (PTI) |
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‘Jantar Mantars’ are inaccurate, claims German scholar NEW DELHI, Nov 30: The 18th century "Jantar Mantar" observatories built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur was an attempt at asserting age-old Indian beliefs on the universe and to establish his earthly powers over his subjects rather than for astronomical purposes, according to German scholar Dr Andreas Volwahsen. Dr Volwahsen, who prepared the first complete survey of all the instruments in the observatories, illustrated his claim through a slide show during the launch of his book on "cosmic architecture in India" here recently. The venue was the Jantar Mantar observatory itself. He said Maharaja Jai Singh (1699-1743), wanted to revive ancient Indian beliefs on the solar system at a time when diverse views from Islamic scholars and Christian missionaries were emerging. He roped in many ‘stapatis’ (Hindu priest-architects) and mystics and adopted the ancient indian mandala theory to construct an unique array of cosmic architectural edifices and labelled them as Jantar Mantars. He also used these towering structures to re-establish his waning hold over the kingdom after subjugating his powers to the Mughal throne. "Though the Maharaja wanted to give everyone who felt inclined to study the stars the opportunity to do so by building these observatories, its close study reveals that more than that, it was a case of a headstrong monarch looking to construct huge and extravagant monuments for himself", Dr Volwahsen said. The Yantras (instruments) in these observatories were totally useless for any accurate study of the universe. However, from the available evidence, it appeared that the Maharaja’s greatest ambition was to create an up-to-date portrayal of the solar system, a representation of the geometric relationships between the earth, sun, stars and the planets, he said. "By doing so, he would not only have been able to demonstrate his knowledge but also the power, which according to ancient teachings, the Maharajas exercised over their fellow human beings through their superior knowledge," he said. The Maharaja constructed five obervatories—at Delhi, Varanasi, Ujjain, Mathura and Jaipur—and even planned to build more such edifices. (UNI) |
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Lagaan to groom future managers? INDORE, Nov 30: After wowing the Indian as well as the international audience with its cinematic brilliance, Aamir Khan’s Lagaan will now teach a few lessons in human management to prospective managers. Lagaan, which has earned the distinction of being India’s nomination for the best foreign film category at this year’s Oscar Awards, has now attracted the attention of the IIM management for its brilliant depiction of human behavioural aspects and managerial skills of its protagonist Bhuvan. Consequently, it is being included as a case study in the curriculum of the Indore-based Indian Institute of Management (IIM). The novel initiative has been taken to develop indigenous models from our own society, said Prof Biswajeet Patanayak of the institute who deals with the subject of human behaviour at work. While the film, prescribed as a case study in the IIM’s first year’s educational curriculum, is being screened and taught to management students and their mentors, it has also evoked keen interest in few other institutes and corporate entities, Prof Patanayak said. Defence College, Hyderabad has even urged Prof Pattanayak to develop curriculum for its personnel and explain this lagaan theory of management to its faculty members. Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has also asked to explain the management concept through the movie Lagaan to its top executives. Besides, Prof Pattanayak has been invited to college of ordnance factory, Nagpur for a lecture on his case study relating to Lagaan with the management theory. Prof Patanayak said that hitherto Indian managers were educated using western models, which nowhere related to the circumstances prevailing in the country. Their culture, people and organisational dynamics were totally different from India, he added. "That is why I was motivated to use indigenous model lagaan as case study instead of lifting case studies of slogan school of management, Harvard business review and the case studies published on foreign industry experiences and foreign movies" he said. According to Prof Patanayak, Lagaan was on the line to be taken up a model, as unlike most of the bollywood movies, it did not show larger-than-life images. He said there was nothing in the film, which could be termed as unusual. The film has honestly depicted issues pertaining to human behaviour like teaching a lesson on how to built up a team. Prof Patanayak said a Manager-in-the-making could learn so many qualities from Bhuvan, the lead character, the single man who proved the theory of "one plus one is equal to 11" by forming a cricket team from the same villagers who were first opposing him. The prospective managers could emulate a lot of Bhuvan’s qualities - his leadership qualities, his capacity to spot and groom raw talent, strong ethical fibre, proactiveness, motivational attitude, self confidence and overall caliber to dream in such odd circumstances, he said. Besides Bhuvan, other characters were also inspirational, he said. Bhuvan’s girl friend Gauri also made a positive impact silently by her supportive nature towards the active members. Based on the case study, a question appeared in this year’s exam ‘list and describe the process variables associated with effective team performance. Explain in reference to the movie Lagaan’. Prof Patanayak said this case study had got both the things that mobilise the Indian crowd, Hindi cinema and cricket. He said Bhuvan’s and the British cricket teams in Lagaan were synonymous with the international industrial scenario. While the British cricket team was like the multinational companies- well equipped and resourceful- Bhuvan’s team was like the domestic companies- less equipped, resourceless and backward. Through the character of Bhuvan, Prof Patanayak wanted to teach as to how a single person could bring about an attitudinal change and influence a whole organisation irrespective of his shortcomings. (UNI) |
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SC: All members of unlawful Assembly liable for offence NEW DELHI, Nov 30: The Supreme Court has held that each member of an unlawful Assembly would be held vicariously liable for the crime committed by any member of such Assembly if it was proved that the offence was committed pursuance to a common object. "Once, it is established that the unlawful Assembly had common object, it is not necessary that all persons forming the Assembly must be shown to have committed some overt act for the purpose of incurring the vicarious liability for an offence committed by a member of such unlawful Assembly," a bench of Justice R P Sethi and Justice Y K Sabharwal said. Justice Sethi, writing the judgement for the bench, said under Section 149 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) the liability of other members of the unlawful assembly for the offence committed during the continuance of the occurrence, rests upon the fact whether the other members knew before hand that the offence actually committed was likely to be committed in prosecution of the common objective. However, the bench said that if the offence was committed by a few members of the unlawful Assembly on certain provocation at the scene of the crime, members who did not participate in committing the crime would not be liable vicariously. The bench said "there is no question of common intention in Section 149 of the code. Where no injury is inflicted pursuant to the common object to kill the deceased, but caused only when provoked by one of the witnesses, the members of the unlawful Assembly cannot be held guilty for the Commission of the offence of the murder." This ruling came in a case where a few person went to a field belonging to another and started ploughing there forcibly. On being objected to their act, some of them assaulted the owner of the field, Sardari Raut, resulting in his death. The trial court held that they had formed an unlawful assembly with a common intention and convicted them along with the assaailants under Section 302 and other sections of Indian Penal Code and sentenced them to life imprisonment. Apart from the main assailants, others had appealed unsuccessfully in the High Court leading to filing of the appeal in the apex court. Allowing their appeals, Justice Sethi said there was no sufficient evidence produced by the prosecution which could prove beyond reasonable doubt that all the appellants had common objective of committing the crime of murder. "The attending circumstances at the time of commission of the offence do not indicate that all the accused had the common object of committing the murder of sardari raut," he said. However, conviction of the person, who had instigated the assailants to commit the crime, was upheld by the court. (PTI) |
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BARIPADA (ORISSA), Nov 30: Hectic prepatrations are on to catch the Royal Bengal Tiger (RBT) by its trail inside the Simlipal Tiger Reserve (STR) for the biennial census of the majestic great cat. The census, 17th of its kind in the Simlipal Park, encompassing a total area of 2750 sq km, would begin from January 31 and continue up to February five, according to STR Field Director S S Srivastav. He said the laying of Pug-Impression-Pads (PIP) on the 1400 km track route followed by the tigers and panthers would begin prior to the commencement of the census operation. The head counts from pug marks would start from January 31 for which the park would be closed to visitors for nine days from January 28 so as not to disturb the great cat, he said. The pug mark process, an innovative idea of late S R Choudhary, the first field director of STR, has been carried out in Simlipal since 1970 for head counting of tigers and panthers through a simple equipment called ‘tiger tracer’. Mr Srivastav said the entire modalities of the census and the placement of the census units had been suitably standardised since 1989 for the core area and the buffer zone of the Simlipal sanctuary. Each census unit, he said would be headed by a trained official of the STR, a forest guard assisted by two to three trackers. The data from the field work would be analysed with the help of computers before estimating the tiger and panther population. According to the 16th biennial census held last year, Simlipal had as many as 99 RBT and 119 panthers. This accounted for nearly 51 per cent of the total tiger population in Orissa’s forest. As per the May 1998 census the total tiger population in Orissa stood at 194. Official sources said out of the total 442 leopards recorded in Orissa, Simlipal alone accounted for 119 leopards, nearly 27 per cent of the total population in the state. (UNI) |
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