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defers hearing on Laloo, Mishra’s bail pleas
NEW DELHI, Dec 4:
The Supreme
Court today deferred hearing on bail pleas of former
Bihar Chief Ministers Laloo Prasad Yadav and Jagannath
Mishra till December 18 ...more
CHENNAI, Dec 4: The AIADMK today assailed the Tamil Nadu
Government for ‘indiscriminately’ arresting
members of a particular community and searching their
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Dikshit seeks
Centre’s help to improve law, order in Capital NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit today sought Centre’s cooperation in arresting the deteriorating law and order problem in the Capital. Dikshit, who met Home Minister L K Advani for the first time after being elected to the office, also discussed ways and..more. UP Govt orders
high
NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Kalyan Singh has explained to the Centre that a
high level committee was constituted on November 25 to
find out who were responsible for entering the ancestral
house of Maulana Ali Miyan in Takiyakala village of Rae
Bareilly district in U.P. on.....more Inquiry demanded into
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SC defers hearing on Laloo, Mishra’s bail pleas NEW DELHI, Dec 4: The Supreme Court today deferred hearing on bail pleas of former Bihar Chief Ministers Laloo Prasad Yadav and Jagannath Mishra till December 18 and directed CBI to file all relevant documents pertaining to Rs 950 crore fodder scam cases against them in trial court. A three-judge bench comprising Justice G T Nanavati, Justice S P Kurdukar and Justice K T Thomas adjourned hearing inthe case saying without the documents the seriousness of the allegations levelled against Laloo and Mishra could not be legally appreciated. CBI was directed to file these documents numbering around 70,000 pages before the trial court on or before December 17. The bench also adjourned hearing till December 18 on a petition seeking court’s intervention in the alleged preferential treatment being given to Yadav and Mishra at Beur Central Jail, where they along with other fodder scam accused were lodged at present. Yadav, Mishra, former Bihar Ministers Chandradeo Prasad Verma and Vidya Sagar Nishad, Rashtriya Janata Dal MLA R K Rana, and former Animal Husbandry Department (AHD) Director Ram Raj Ram had approached Supreme Court challenging the November 10 order of the Patna High Court refusing them bail in certain conspiracy cases related to fodder scam. (UNI) |
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AIADMK lambastes Govt for ‘indiscriminate’ arrests CHENNAI, Dec 4: The AIADMK today assailed the Tamil Nadu Government for ‘indiscriminately’ arresting members of a particular community and searching their homes in the name of pre-empting any breach of peace on December six, the sixth anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition. Several innocent people were being ‘harassed’ in the name of flushing out extremist elements, the AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha said in a statement here. The Karunanidhi Government has failed to isolate extremist, terrorist and anti-social elements from the law-abiding citizen, who goes about his or her chores peacefully, she said and assailed the Government for ‘sowing seeds of bitterness within a community by its indiscriminate police action which has only resulted in public antipathy’. The former Chief Minister said it was strange that Karunanidhi Government did not realise that subjecting innocent youths to such interrogation wonly generate their antipathy and would lead to incalculable harm in future. Under the excuse of trying to identify ISI extremists, even purdah-clad women are being harassed. This is severely condemnable, she said. Jayalalitha said it was improper to subject ardent believers of a particular faith to intention without differentiating between them and hard-core fundamentalist elements. ‘Having failed to identify over the last two—, years the extremist elements who, in the name of religion, took to violent activities, the Karunanidhi Government is today hounding innocent people in Tamil Nadu. This is unacceptable, she said. The former Chief Minister saw no point in the Government issuing ‘scary’ statements every now and then under the guise of forewarning the people. ‘In fact, this will only serve to frighten the people and prove to be counter-productive,’ she said. Jayalalitha appealed to the people of all communities to preserve peace at all costs. Police sources said they had taken into preventive custody nearly 6,000 people in different parts of the state till yesterday. (PTI) Dikshit seeks Centre’s help to improve law, order in Capital NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit today sought Centre’s cooperation in arresting the deteriorating law and order problem in the Capital. Dikshit, who met Home Minister L K Advani for the first time after being elected to the office, also discussed ways and means to resolve the administrative duplicity in the national capital and to streamline governance. Describing her 25-minute meeting as a courtesy call, she told mediapersons outside Advani’s North block office that the issue of full statehood for Delhi was not discussed. However, duplicity in authority and administration and how to streamline it was taken up for discussion. The attitude is that we need to ave a more simple, smooth and uncomplicated system of governance, Dikshit said. The Chief Minister said she sought cooperation (of the Centre) in tackling the situation together and added that the Home Minister also expressed concern over the rising crime graph. (PTI) UP Govt orders high level inquiry NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh has explained to the Centre that a high level committee was constituted on November 25 to find out who were responsible for entering the ancestral house of Maulana Ali Miyan in Takiyakala village of Rae Bareilly district in U.P. on November 2. The final report is expected on December 8, the Chief Minister said in a letter addressed to Home Minister L K Advani today. A copy of the letter was sent to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Madan Lal Khurana who released it to the press. Mr Kalyan Singh was prompted to explain the situation to the Centre following allegations by the opposition in Parliament for the past two days on this issue. The Chief Minister said the District Administration had informed the Government that as per their knowledge, "no investigating agency was asked for this search (at Ali Miyan residence)." The high level committee, headed by AIG, Police (Crime) A K Saran and AIG (Law and Order ) Ajayraj Sharma and AIG Himanshu Kumar as member, were to submit their report within ten days of the constitution of the Committee. The Committee had inspected the site and also met Ali Miyan and taken his evidence. The Committee has again been directed to submit its report by December 8. Mr Kalyan Singh has assured the Centre that State Government was Committed to "ensure" full protection and "dignity" to all important persons belonging to all sections of the society. (UNI) |
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Inquiry demanded into atrocities on minorities NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Manmohan Singh today regretted BJP’s alleged attempt to tacitly justify reported atrocities on minorities, particularly Christians, and demanded the Centre institute an inquiry into such heinous crimes. Singh’s comment came after BJP member Prafull Goradia alleged there were more resistance now to alleged efforts of Christian missionaries to convert people and that the incidents of violence should not be seen in isolation. The issue was raised through a special mention by C O Poulouse and Nilotpal Basu (both CPI-M) who charged BJP and some of the front organisations of the Sangh Parivar with making systematic attempts to commit atrocities on minorities, especially the Cristains. Noting that the atrocities on Christians have increased considerably since BJP came to power at the Centre, the members demanded the Government come out with a white paper on the atrocities perpetrated on minorities. They quoted statistics to say that atrocities on Christians were on the increase because of the alleged militancy of the protagonists of Hindutva, particularly the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. (PTI) |
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Naidu for high-bandwith connectivity within state NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said work on the state’s wide area network will be completed within two months while the hi-tech city will be completed in 15 months. Mr Naidu said work is on for high-bandwith connectivity within the state. "Hyderabad, Secunderabad and now Cyberabad are going to play a global role." Delivering the keynote address at the it World ’98 Comdex India here late last night, Mr Naidu called upon the private sector to promote communications and information technology and make it cheap and effective in the country. Citing the example of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Naidu said the use of it has pervaded all quarters of the State Departments. "Land certificates which used to take a huge amount of time is now delivered within hours." Now there is no need to assess the land, the area or costs. All this is simply updated in the computers and is given out in an instant. The it revolution that Mr Naidu has triggered off increased competition among other states to introduce the latest technology. However, the Andhra Chief Minister who was recently nominated as the first Indian to be chosen for the World Economic Forum’s "dream cabinet" said India is unable to create a climate for the proliferation of information technology. He said even in Bangladesh the concept of grameen phones are being encouraged where the poor can avail of the cell phone facility. Andhra Pradesh will soon have digital libraries, virtual universities which will be connected to major educational centres across the globe and the IITs in India. "This promoting of virtual but distance education will be the first of its kind in the country," Mr Naidu said. The commercial taxes, police, state road transport etc are all working with the help of information technology in the state, Mr Naidu said. By 2010 the next wave of it will hit the country where width of circuit lines in chips could shrink to just 50 nano meters. "This is when you can even put your laptop inside the pocket," Mr Naidu said. (UNI) |
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