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Chronology of major * Year 1997 -: Seven Kashmiri Pandits killed in Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir. : A series of low-intensity, chemical blasts rocked the national capital. The hazy figure of ....more Parliament should apologise for Operation Blue Star: Cong NEW DELHI, May 14: The Lok Sabha witnessed a curious spectacle today when the Congress joined Akali Dal (Amritsar) MP Simranjit Singh Mann in ....more HC
stays Bofors trial NEW DELHI, May 14: Trial proceedings in the Bofors payoff case was today stayed till May 28 by Delhi High Court ..more NDA constituents vie for lone Rajya Sabha seat RANCHI, May 14: The ruling coalition in Jharkhand is vying for the lone Rajya Sabha ...more |
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Corporatisation of CPI-M gains momentum in Kerala THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, May 14: The Communist Party of India (Marxist), giving the green signal to certain fresh business proposals like...more Bangkok meet ‘positive’: Naga Hoho KOHIMA, May 14: Naga Hoho president M Vero today said the meeting between the NSCN (IM) and the Naga leaders in Bangkok recently was a ....more Mother
Teresa’s KOLKATA, May 14: Mother Teresa is likely to be ‘beatified’ this year as the second major step on her way to sainthood and the fact that the local....more SOS
to set up homes RAJPURA (PUNJAB), May 14: SOS Children’s Villages would set up temporary homes to take care of children orphaned in the Gujarat riots. ....more |
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Chronology of major terrorist attacks in country since 1997 * Year 1997 - : Seven Kashmiri Pandits killed in Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir. : A series of low-intensity, chemical blasts rocked the national capital. The hazy figure of Pakistan-trained Abdul Karim ‘Toonda’ said to be behind the explosions. * Year 1998 - : 27 Hindus killed in
Prankote in Udhampur in Jammu region. * Year 1999 - : 20 killed by militants in three separate incidents- 4 Hindus killed in Moraputta in Rajouri, 9 in Bariyara in Udhampur and 7 in Bilala in Rajouri. : 15 Hindu labourers killed in Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. : 15 Hindus killed in Layata in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. * Year 2000 - : 5 Hindu drivers killed near Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir. : 35 Sikh killed in Chattisinghpora in Jammu and Kashmir. : 31 people including Amarnath Yatris killed at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir. : 27 labourers gunned down in Qazigund and Acchabal in Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir. : 7 family members killed in Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir. : 11 Hindus killed in Doda district of Jammu. : Symbolic terrorism. Three Lashkar-e-Tayyaba millitants targeted the Red Fort signaling a subtle change in the militants’ tactics, from targeting individuals and the public, to attacking symbols. * Year 2001 - : 48 persons were hurt when militants made an abortive bid to blow up the central telegraph office in Srinagar. : 15 persons were massacred by militants in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. : Atleast 29 persons were killed and 63 injured in a suicide attack by Jaish-e-Mohammad when the militant outfit stormed the heavily-fortified Jammu and Kashmir Assembly complex. : Heavily armed militants storm the Parliament House on December 13. The attempt was foiled by security personnel who reacted quickly. * Year 2002 - : 4 policemen were killed and 23 others injured when militants attacked the American centre building situated in the heart of Kolkata on January 22. : In a major terrorist strike, heavily armed militants today shot dead 34 people, including 22 armymen and their family members, after storming a military camp and firing indiscriminately on a passenger bus from Himachal Pradesh near Kaluchak in Jammu region. Atleast 39 others were also injured, some of them critically, in the attack. (PTI) |
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Parliament should apologise for Operation Blue Star: Cong NEW DELHI, May 14: The Lok Sabha witnessed a curious spectacle today when the Congress joined Akali Dal (Amritsar) MP Simranjit Singh Mann in demanding that Parliament apologise to the Sikh community for desecrating the Golden Temple during Operation Blue Star, but the ruling party members opposed the move saying it was already done during Indira Gandhi’s regime. The issue figured during zero hour when Congress member Jagmit Singh Brar supported Mr Mann’s demand that Parliament express apology for Operation Blue Star and for the 1984 riots in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Several BJP members were on their feet questioning the Congress’s motive behind the demand saying the whole episode was perpetrated during its regime. Union Minister Vijay Goel said the Congress has two faces — that of an organiser of something and that of someone demanding apology later for what it did. He demanded that the Congress sack some of its leaders who were indicted by judicial commissions for their involvement in the 1984 riots. Samajwadi party member Mulayam Singh Yadav countered Mr Goel’s charge saying if the Congress has two faces, then the BJP has ten faces from the Sangh Parivar — the RSS, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and a host of others. The house witnessed procedural wrangles over whether a minister could speak on behalf of the Government alone or for the party he belongs to as well. The issue was raised by Congress member S Jaipal Reddy through a point of order. Speaker Manohar Joshi, however, overruled Mr Reddy’s objection and said there is precedence in the house that ministers could speak on behalf of their parties. Mr Reddy’s colleague, Mr Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, however, took exception to Mr Goel’s intervention on another ground. He said the minister is party to the setting up of the Nanavati Commission to probe afresh into the 1984 riots. When the Commission is in the middle of its work, the minister had no business to say that Congress leaders were behind the riots, he said. He could also say that the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh had a major role in the riots, he added. Earlier, raising the issue Mr Mann said Parliament should apologies to the Sikh community for the desecration of the Golden Temple citing several instances where Governments have done so to assuage the feelings of the affected people. He said the Americans have apologised to the Japanese for the Second World War excesses, the japanese to the South Koreans for their soldiers’ misbehaviour towards women and Germans to the jews for the holocaust during the Second World War. He said the Indian Army committed excesses during Operation Blue Star and stole artifacts from the temple premises. Speaking about the war clouds in the India-Pakistan border, Mr Mann urged the defence establishments of both the countries not to bomb Sikh holy cities of Amritsar and lahore. He cited the instance of how the allied forces desisted from attacking the Vatican City during the Second World War. (UNI) |
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HC stays Bofors trial till May 28, seeks CVC reply NEW DELHI, May 14: Trial proceedings in the Bofors payoff case was today stayed till May 28 by Delhi High Court awaiting the reply of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to a petition filed by Hinduja brothers seeking quashing of the chargesheet against them on the ground that the same was filed by CBI without getting clearance from CVC. Justice R S Sodhi stayed proceedings before the trial court after counsel for Hinduja brothers, senior advocate and former Law Minister Ram Jethmalani, submitted that non-staying of the proceedings would embarass the trial judge. He did not elaborate as to why the trial judge would be put to embarassment. Significantly, the trial of the 12-year-old case was proceeded day to day on a directive of the Supreme Court. Justice Sodhi inquired from CBI counsel N Natarajan whether he had informed the trial court about the petition filed by the Hindujas in the high court and the counsel replied in the affirmative. Meanwhile, solicitor general Garish Salve, appearing for CBI, sought adjournment of the case saying he was not aware whether notice had been served on CVC and added that he would seek instruction from CVC regarding the next course of action. The Hinduja brothers had sought quashing of the CBI chargesheet against them in the bofors case saying it was illegal and unconstitutional because it did not have the prior approval of the commission. (PTI) |
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Mother Teresa’s beatification likely this year KOLKATA, May 14: Mother Teresa is likely to be ‘beatified’ this year as the second major step on her way to sainthood and the fact that the local archbishop had a prayer for excorsim said for mother during her illness in 1996 would not come in the way. Preparation of the ‘positio,’ a comprehensive biography and presentation of how the mother lived the Christian life, was in an advanced stage and would be submitted soon to the assembly of cardinals and bishops at the Vatican, church sources told PTI. Pointing out that one miracle through her intercession had been recorded by the diocesan inquiry team which concluded its probe on August 15 last year, the sources said that if approved by the Assembly, it would make her beatification even easier. "With mother’s positive characteristics far outweighing claims of negative ones, her beatification should not take long once the positio is submitted. As far as we can see, it can be done within this year," the sources said. According to the sources, the fact that local archbishop Henry D’Souza had a prayer for excorcism said for mother during her illness in 1996 would not hinder the beatification. "When there is evidence that someone is being attacked by the devil, it indicates that the person has a special holiness." Rules of the Roman catholic church stipulate that after studying the positio, a commission of theologians and the assembly of bishops and cardinals would report their vote to the pope for his final judgement on the basis of a favourable evaluation of the positio by two-thirds of the members, each of the commission and the Assembly. If the pope decrees that she lived a heroic Christian life, she will be called the venerable servant of god, mother teresa of Kolkata. So decreed, a miracle by her intercession must be approved for beatification and a subsequent one for cannonisation. Pope John Paul-II, an admirer of mother’s christian virtues, had already put her sainthood process in the fast track by waiving the mandatory five-year waiting period for starting the process. While he does not want to bypass rules, he is anxious to see the process completed in his lifetime, against centuries taken for persons to be declared saints, the sources said. Bishops congregating in Rome last year for their world synod had also been reported to have appealed to the pope for an early sainthood for mother. Sister Nirmala, mother’s successor as superior-general of the Missionaries of Charity had also gone on record as having said that she prayed that mother’s sainthood would be ‘faster’. (PTI) |
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SOS to set up homes for orphaned children in Gujarat RAJPURA (PUNJAB), May 14: SOS Children’s Villages would set up temporary homes to take care of children orphaned in the Gujarat riots. "We are in discussion with the Gujarat Government and waiting for their green signal. SOS Children’s Villages is ready with men and material to provide temporary homes and shelter for the children orphaned in the riot-affected state," the organisation’s president J N Kaul said here today. We are also planning to set up a permanent village at Bhuj as the state has no SOS Villages at present, Kaul, who was here in connection with a ‘Bal Mitra Utsav’ organised by SOS Village Rajpura, said.(PTI) Elaborating on the future plans of the village, Kaul said that besides taking care of destitute children, SOS would diversify and look after families living Below the Poverty Line. Starting from villages like Rajpura, we will look for families which are living Below the Poverty Line and identify 50-75 children who do not go to schools or don’t get enough to eat, he said adding the idea is to bring these children in the fold of our village and give them some basic education. The village has already started such a programme at Greenfields, Faridabad in April this year. He said SOS also plans to take care of mentally challenged children. "We want to create a band of well-trained professionals who will help set up a permanent village for these children," he said adding a large number of mentally challenged children are slow learners who could be cured if they were handled by professionals. Speaking on the occasion, National Director of SOS Children’s Villages in India, Pradeep Singh, said that the organisation aimed at creating sensitivity among people about children in distress. He also said that SOS, India, would be opening villages at Hyderabad and Rourkela by the year end.(PTI) |
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