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Gulshan Kumar case MUMBAI, Feb 6: The case involving murder of audio king Gulshan Kumar was today adjourned by a Sessions Court to March......more
Jadeja to play BHUJ, Feb 6 : Cricketer Ajay Jadeja wants to play "Santa Claus" for the kids of Bhuj, orphaned by the devastating earthquake. "I would like to do something for the children who have been orphaned in the quake," Jadeja, who came with a bag full of Chocolates and other items for the kids, told PTI.....more Police firing on Sikhs NEW DELHI, Feb 6: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Jagdev Singh Talwandi....more |
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conference on bio-pesticides today CHANDIGARH, Feb 6: Keeping in view that the growing awareness regarding environmental hazards of .....more Bailable arrest SHILLONG, Feb 6: A bailable arrest warrant has been issued against Assam Transport Minister Pradip......more
Gehlot urges Centre JAIPUR, Feb 6: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today urged the Centre not to pay forget the drought-hit......more ‘PMK’s decision HYDERABAD, Feb 6: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) today said the PMK’s decision to part ways with .....more NEW DELHI, Feb 6: Former Union Minister Vithal N Gadgil, a gentleman politician considered the most....more |
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Kumar case adjourned: court to frame MUMBAI, Feb 6: The case involving murder of audio king Gulshan Kumar was today adjourned by a Sessions Court to March 2 for framing of charges against 19 accused even as the prosecution sought time to file supplementary chargesheet before commencement of the trial. Additional Sessions Judge M L Tahilyani directed the prosecution to file supplementary chargesheet by February 22 in view of the recent arrest of alleged Gulshan Kumar killer Abdul Rauf Daud Merchant. Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam submitted that investigations in regard to Abdul Rauf’s involvement had not yet concluded. A weapon had yet to be recovered at his instance and also a cell phone and four pagers used in the crime were to be traced. Abdul Rauf, who was arrested last month from Kolkata, has been remanded to police custody till February 12 by a Magistrate here. After the filing of additional chargesheet he will be produced before the trial court along with other accused. Eighteen accused, including Ramesh Taurani, Managing Director of Tips Cassettes Industries Pvt Ltd, were present before the court to face the trial. Faiyaz Ahmed Chougale, accused of helping conspirators by arranging their talks with the prime accused in Dubai from his communication centre, informed the court that he was taken to hospital where doctors told him that he was suffering from liver cancer. His lawyer Majeed Memon urged the court to direct the investigating agency to provide necessary treatment and admit him to hospital if it was necessary. The court has directed police to produce him on February 9 along with medical papers, health status report and a brief note of a doctor. The prosecution, on January 25, had opened its case against each of the 18 accused facing the trial. Besides them, one has turned approver and eight others, including prime conspirator and music composer, Nadeem Akhtar Saifee, are shown in the prosecution record as absconding. Of the 18 accused facing trial, seven are on bail. They include Taurani. Among the absconding accused are Abu Salem and Qayoom Chacha. Gulshan Kumar was shot dead on August 12, 1997, outside a temple here and there is evidence on record to show that the assailants were Mohammed Rauf alias Raja, Anil Sharma (now dead) and Abdul Rauf Daud Merchant. Ramesh Taurani and Nadeem had allegedly handed over Rs 25 lakh to some of the accused. (PTI) |
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Jadeja to play Santa Claus for kids of Bhuj BHUJ, Feb 6 : Cricketer Ajay Jadeja wants to play "Santa Claus" for the kids of Bhuj, orphaned by the devastating earthquake. "I would like to do something for the children who have been orphaned in the quake," Jadeja, who came with a bag full of Chocolates and other items for the kids, told PTI. "I want to start when others have stopped," he said on arrival here to join his uncle and former ruler of Kutch Shatru Saliasji. Jadeja, who was contemplating an event to raise funds for the relief work, said " I know a lot of industrialists, musicians and cricketers who will come here when an event will be organised keeping in mind the devastation". Jadeja’s ancestral palace in Jamnagar was also badly damaged in the quake. " We cannot live there anymore," Jadeja, whose father Daulat Singh Jadeja was former member of Parliament, said. After staying with his uncle for a few days to work in Bhuj and contribute whatever he could for relief, he plans to go to Jamnagar. Jadeja said the cricket community which was a class apart, was not forthcoming in providing relief aid as desired. On the cancellation of the Sharjah tri-nation series planned to mobilise funds for quake victims, he said " Why go to Sharjah, we have enough grounds and facilities here to play the match to raise funds." (PTI) |
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Police firing on Sikhs NEW DELHI, Feb 6: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Jagdev Singh Talwandi today lodged a strong protest with Home Minister L K Advani against yesterday’s police firing on agitated Sikhs in Jammu, in which two people were killed and several others injured. Mr Talwandi met Mr Advani here this morning and conveyed to him that police firing on the protesters, who were demonstrating against Saturday’s massacre of Sikhs in Srinagar, was a ‘heinous crime, equivalent to the mowing down of six Sikhs in Saturday’s incident’. "If one goes by the police action in Jammu it looks like the Sikhs have no right to express their anger even against the Srinagar type of massacre", Mr Talwandi pointed out and asked, "should not the Sikhs demonstrate against the failure of the Government to provide them protection of their life and property in the Valley". The SGPC chief, who came here yesterday to meet Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, a meeting scheduled for this evening, said the Sikhs, spread all over the Kashmir Valley, "are too terrified to live in Jammu and Kashmir and want to migrate" as the Srinagar violence was the third incident in the Valley in which the minority community was targetted. Earlier, as many as 38 Sikhs were shot dead at point-blank range by unidentified gunmen at Chittisinghpora village in March-end last year. This was followed by selective killings of Sikh truckers two months ago. If the Government failed to ensure their protection, the Sikhs would migrate from the Valley which would have an adverse impact on the pluralistic democratic polity of the country, Mr Talwandi said. The SGPC chief, who had an half an hour-long meeting with Mr Advani, was accompanied by Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Vice Chairman Tirlochan Singh. Mr Tirlochan Singh sought that the Government should take some effective steps to assuage the ruffled feelings of the agitated Sikhs and assure them adequate protection so as to dissuade the community from migrating from the Valley. (UNI) |
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National conference on bio-pesticides today CHANDIGARH, Feb 6: Keeping in view that the growing awareness regarding environmental hazards of conventional chemical control had necessitated exploration for alternative means of pest control, more than 300 experts from all over the globe will discuss emerging trends of biopesticides in a three-day national conference beginning here tomorrow. The conference is being organised by the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCSR) in association with the Union Department of Bio-technology, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), National Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Society of Biopesticides Sciences and Indian Ecological Society. The Vice Chancellor of Punjab Agriculture University (Ludhiana), Dr G S Kalkat will inaugurate the conference, the PSCST Director (Biotech) S S Marwah here today said. The objectives of the conference is to discuss new approaches established in bio-pesticides research and identify potential bio-control agents for the commercial exploration, he added. Dr S Kannaiyan, Vice Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (Coimbatore) would also address the conference while Dr Gary W Elzen(US),a world renowned authority on entamopathogenic nematodes,Dr Itamer Glazer from Agriculture Research Organisation (Israel) and Dr Nadia Z Dimetry from National Research Centre(Egypt) are prominent among about 12 internationally acclaimed experts from abroad who would attend the conference. (UNI) |
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NEW DELHI, Feb 6: Former Union Minister Vithal N Gadgil, a gentleman politician considered the most outstanding spokesperson of any political party in recent years, was the son of Narhar Vishnu Gadgil and Anandibai. He was born on September 22, 1928 at Pune, the constituency he represented in the Lok Sabha from 1980 to 1991. Mr Gadgil was Rajya Sabha member from 1971 to 1980 and then from 1994 to 2000. He served as Minister of State for Defence Production (1975-77), Communications (1983-84) and Information and Broadcasting (1985-86). An advocate by profession, Mr Gadgil married Sunita on October 16, 1955 - the couple had a son and a daughter. His suggestions for a new-look Congress stressed the urgency of modernising, redefining and remodelling party ideology in the backdrop of changed public perceptions regarding secularism and Hindutva. Mr Gadgil had called for a change in the Congress’ view of the Bharatiya Janata Party. "The political reality is that Hindutva does appeal to a large number of hindus," he argued. His BSc (Economics) and Bar-at-law were earned in London. A senior advocate of the Supreme Court, he was also consulting editor, Marathi Encyclopaedia president of the Vidyarthi Griha and Delhi Maharashtra Educational Society. Mr Gadgil took special interest in history, has to his credit three marathi works - trials of great men, Indian judicial system and public international law, and liked reading, classical music and theatre. (UNI) |
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