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KOZHIKODE, May 9: An election advertisement of the Kerala unit of the BJP has sparked a controversy with the Election Commission...more 18-month
PG programme AHMEDABAD, May 9: The city-based school of planning would launch an 18-month post-graduate programme in infrastructure.....more
Krishna
foresees BANGALORE, May 9: Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna today said he foresaw realignment of ...more
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P Singh deposes before NEW DELHI, May 9: Deposing before the special judge in the ST Kitts forgery case for the first time .....more |
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Ranjan consensus choice to replace Rabri: Paswan PATNA, May 9: Union Communication Minister and Lok Janshakti president Ramvilas Paswan today said that expelled RJD leader Ranjan Prasad Yadav was a consensus choice among the NDA allies to ‘rid the people of the state of the corrupt and ineffective Laloo-Rabri regime’.........more Starvation
deaths: NEW DELHI, May 9: Taking note of starvation deaths in the country despite godowns of Food.....more V
P Singh deposes NEW DELHI, May 9: Deposing before the special judge in the ST Kitts forgery case for the first time, former Prime Minister V P Singh today denied.......more Fill
judges vacancy for LUCKNOW, May 9: The Sunni Central Board of Waqf, plaintiff in the title dispute of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi property, has described the .....more |
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KOZHIKODE, May 9: An election advertisement of the Kerala unit of the BJP has sparked a controversy with the Election Commission banning the newspaper advertisement which alleged that "no compromise is too big for the Congress and the communists to grab the votes of minorities, even if it means ignoring the growing RDX-network of ISI." The Election Commission has served a show cause notice to the BJP after the advertisement appeared in newspapers on Sunday last. BJP state spokesman and vice-president P S Sreedharan Pillai said here today that the action by the EC was "not correct." He confirmed the receipt of the notice of the EC, and said a detailed reply would be given. However, the advertisement had not not been withdrawn and it was published even in a newspaper today, he added. Mr Pillai also defended the advertisement saying that the Congress had the support of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) whose supremo Abdul Nazir Madhani was arrested and charged for anti-national activities while the CPI(M) had tied up with the Indian National League (INL). (UNI) |
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18-month PG programme in
infrastructure AHMEDABAD, May 9: The city-based school of planning would launch an 18-month post-graduate programme in infrastructure planning from the next academic year. Talking to UNI, the Assistant Professor in the School of Planning, Mr Saswat Bandyopadhyay said here today that the ‘All India Council for Technical Education’ (AICTE) had completed its audit and was expected to give their nod soon. The course has been structured covering all aspects of planning and infrastructure such as basics, technical, economics, managerial and environmental education. He said only University of Stuttgut, Germany, and Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, offered such a course at present and it would be the first of its kind in India. The school has sought help of experts from various US universities to help in the infrastructure education. It has also asked the World Bank to provide a panel of experts who could help educate the Indian students about the overall aspect of the infrastructure development and management. (UNI) |
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Krishna foresees political
realignment BANGALORE, May 9: Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna today said he foresaw realignment of political forces at the national level after the Assembly elections in four States and a Union Territory. Krishna, however, declined to forecast whether the political developments that would unfold in the post-election scenario would force yet another snap Lok Sabha election on the nation, saying "we have to wait and watch". Krishna told reporters that the result of any election has a message to people across the country and political parties, regardless of the opinion the leaders would have. He was apparently referring to statement by BJP leaders, particularly, Prime Minister, A B Vajpayee that the verdict of the Assembly polls was not referendum on NDA Government. "The result would certainly be a pointer to the shape of things to emerge", Krishna said but did not say whether the polls could be considered a referendum on the Vajpayee Government. Krishna who returned here after campaigning for the Congress and its alliances in two states—Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry, said "the mood and perception of voters is favouring Congress". He said the BJP was not a "relevant force" in the states that go to polls. He said he was optimistic that Congress and allies in Kerala, Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu would capture power. (PTI) |
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V P Singh deposes before court in ST Kitts case NEW DELHI, May 9: Deposing before the special judge in the ST Kitts forgery case for the first time, former Prime Minister V P Singh today denied that his son Ajeya Singh had ever opened an account in the first trust corporation of ST Kitts Islands and termed the case as a conspiracy to damage their reputation and wrongfully implicate him in a court case. Appearing before special judge R L Chugh, Mr Singh denied that his son Ajeya Singh had ever opened an account in the first trust corporation of ST Kitts Islands in September 1986 and deposited 21 million dollars. "My son never opened an account in ST Kitts Islands and there is no question of I being the beneficiary," he said. He also said the signatures purportedly signed as V P Singh and Ajey Singh did not belong to him or his son. "I can identify my signature as I recognise my face. I can also identify the signature of my son Ajey," he testified to a query of senior counsel Rajinder Singh appearing for accused Chandraswami and his associate Kailash Nath Agarwal alias Mamaji. Chandraswami, K N Agarwal and two of his US-based disciples Larry J Kolb and George D McLean were accused of forging documents to show that his son had deposited 21 million dollars in the bank. Mr V P Singh said former Union Minister Arif Mohammed Khan had told him that Ajeya had an account in a bank in ST Kitts and Chandraswami had the documents. "Arif also gave me a piece of paper and suggested to meet him or else it would be publicised." "It is totally false and if Chandraswami wishes he may announce it on TV," Mr Singh told Arif in mid 1989. Counsel N K Sharma appearing for CBI asked Mr Singh when did he meet Chandraswami for the first time? he met him for the first time in 1977. At the instance of Mr Yashal Kapoor, he went to his Ashram and met him. He was not impressed by the activities in the Ashram, Mr Singh said. In the year 1980, he refused to meet Chandraswami despite two of his disciples persuading him for quite some time. "I told them go and tell Chandraswami when Indiraji was out of power he left for abroad. And now she has won and he is back. I do not want to meet such a person." The investigating agency had alleged that the documents were fabricated by Chandraswami and his aide Agarwal with an intention to tarnish the image of Mr V P Singh. Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao and former Minister of State for External Affairs K K Tewary were also accused of being involved in the conspiracy. But special Judge Ajit Bharihoke had discharged Rao and Tewary in 1996 from the case at the time of framing of charges on the ground that the prosecution (CBI) had failed to produce sufficient evidence against them. The court, however, had framed charges against controversial Chandraswami, K N Agarwal and two of his US-based disciples Larry J Kolb and George D McLean in the case after finding prima facie evidence for their trial. Even the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of Mr Rao and Mr Tewary in the ST Kitts forgery case. (UNI) |
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Fill judges vacancy for
speedy trial of Ayodhya LUCKNOW, May 9: The Sunni Central Board of Waqf, plaintiff in the title dispute of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi property, has described the Uttar Pradesh Government’s move of urging special bench for a speedy trial of cases as with ‘malafide intention." In a counter affidavit filed before the three-judges bench of the Allahabad High Court, Mohamamd Hashim on behalf of the plaintiff says that the State Government move was "with malafide intention and motive to give the impression that as the BJP was serious in getting the (title) suits decided expeditiously whereas the Central Government, led by the same party, has done nothing to enable this." Declaring that they had "no objection even if the hearing of the suits is conducted on day-to-day basis even with the present strength of judges in court," the Waqf Board however demanded that "if the BJP Government is really interested in getting the hearing of suits expedited, the Vajpayee Government should immediately fill up the vacancies in the Allahabad High Court, enabling the Chief Justice to spare three judges especially for the hearing of these suits to expedite the trial." Referring to the Uttar Pradesh Government prayer that "it would be expedient in the interest of justice that the trial of the suits may go on from day-to-day so that there is no break in the recording of the evidence of witnesss as the break in between leads to more lengthy cross-examination", Mohammad Hashim in his counter affidavit says that "the plaintiff have been demanding since long that the trial of the suits may go on from day-to-day and as such the plaintiff shall welcome the same." Moving one step forward, he demanded that ‘’the unnecessary and uncalled for lengthy cross-examination can also be curtailed by fixing some time limit for each counsel as was done by the Supreme Court during the course of hearing of the reference number 1 of 1993". The plaintiff however opposed State Government’s plea of recording evidence through a single judge, saying "the application for recording of evidence by a single judge of the High Court has already been rejected by the Chief Justice on December 17, 1991 while disposing of civil miscellaneous application number 32 (O) of 1991 and "the same prayer cannot now be entertained again". On the matter of recording of evidence at the place of residence of the witness was concerned, the plaintiff said that "...The cross examination of Shri Mahant Ramchandra Das was concluded speedily simple because counsels representing the Muslim parties had confined to relevant questions only and had not wasted the court time by putting unnecessary or irrelevant questions". The matter is partly heard by the special bench comprising Mr Justice D K Trivedi, Mr Justice Syed Rafat Alam and Mr Justice Bhanwar Singh. (UNI) |
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