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AIADMK leader hits CHENNAI, Oct 2: AIADMK general secretary Jayalalitha today hit out at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi saying history would not forgive him for making Cauvery delta a parched land....more
NEW DELHI, Oct 2: Home Minister L K Advani today defended Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh ......more BJP using Cauvery dispute BANGALORE, Oct 2: Former Karnataka Chief Minister M Veerappa....more |
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PM releases CD on NEW DELHI, Oct 2: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee......more Advanced remote PUNE, Oct 2: The Indian Space Research Organisation was.....more 2 jawans killed, two IMPHAL, Oct 2: Activists of the United National Liberation Front.....more Noted Bengali filmaker CALCUTTA, Oct 2: Noted Bengali filmmaker Salil Sen died at...more 2 more killed in Pak KARACHI, Oct 2: Gunmen shot dead two Shi’ite Muslims in...more |
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AIADMK leader hits out at Karunanidhi CHENNAI, Oct 2: AIADMK general secretary Jayalalitha today hit out at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi saying history would not forgive him for making Cauvery delta a parched land. Karunanidhi owes an open apology to farmers of Cauvery delta for betraying them. He must arrange for proper succour and relief to farmers, she said in a statement here. If Karunanidhi continued to betray the farmers, AIADMK would release as an open book full statistics and figures of how the farmers had been hoodwinked, Jayalalitha said. She alleged the Chief Minister was still deceiving people by claiming to have achieved the impossible. He did not have the political decency to admit his failure in resolving the Cauvery problem, she charged. By reposing faith in Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, the Chief Minister had worked against the interest of farmers, she said. Jayalalitha said it was painful to note that Karunanidhi was still deceiving the people by saying the Cauvery River Water Authority (CRWA) headed by Vajpayee was in a position of authority to bind the states. If CRWA was really in a position to arrange for timely release of water to save withering crops in the state, why had he not taken the necessary steps?, she asked. (PTI) |
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NEW DELHI, Oct 2: Home Minister L K Advani today defended Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh saying that his performace was good. The only difficulty in his functioning was that he did not have clear majority in the Assembly, he pointed out. Addressing a press conference here, Mr Advani said local anti-incumbency factor might have affected the BJP’s prospects at some places, but in Uttar Pradesh, the party will improve its tally, he asserted. According to him, the anti-incumbency factor did not affect as far as the Centre was concerned. Replying to another question, the Home Minister said Pakistan’s humiliating defeat in Kargil was the main reason for her to promote proxy war in some places in the country, including Jammu and Kashmir. (UNI) |
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BJP using Cauvery dispute for political gains: Moily BANGALORE, Oct 2: Former Karnataka Chief Minister M Veerappa Moily today accused the BJP-led Government at the Centre of using the Cauvery river dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to meet its political ends. "This is a single outstanding example of an assault on federal framework and gross political interference in a matter of inter state river", he said here in a statement. As apprehended earlier, the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) had proved to be a highly politicised body. The much publicised slogan of creating harmony between the two states after 100 years of chequered history of dispute was only an illusion, he said. Referring to the monitoring committee decision seeking Karnataka to release nine TMC ft of water to Tamil Nadu, Mr Moily said the Karnataka Government should tell the Prime Minister that CRA was handicapped from taking any decision to release water without the basis of scientific data or ground situation. He said even the expert team sent by the Prime Minister was consistent with the stand taken by the monitoring committee and thus Karnataka could not expect any justice from CRA presided over by Prime Minister A B Vajpayee. Mr Moily alleged that the CRA had failed to establish any organisation for collecting data, conducting relevant studies and assisting the authority in the implementation of its decisions/directions. It had not even framed any rules and regulations for the conduct of its business. Further, the authority was solely dependent on the data provided by Tamil Nadu.The CRA had not not even set up a hydrometeorological network in the basin. It had also failed to establish modern communication system transfer data, he said. The monitoring committee had overstepped its jurisdiction while recommending release of nine tmc ft of water, he said. "While the datas are disputed by both the states and the contentious pleas to consider Biligundlu and Mettur levels for measurement of flow are not resolved, the recommendations of the monitoring committee are baseless", Mr Moily added. Referring to the Cauvery water disputes tribunal’s interim order, which provided for a situation of distress in the event of reduced supply of water, he said it was surprising that neither the State Government nor the Union Government had taken note of the distress situation prevailing in the state. The State Government had also failed in discharging its responsibility of approaching the tribunal for seeking relief under the distress formula, Mr Moily said. (UNI) |
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PM releases CD on Mahatma Gandhi NEW DELHI, Oct 2: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today released a multimedia Compact Disc (CD) on the Father of the Nation asserting that the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi on Satyagraha, non-violence and compassion were relevant even more today. Ekam Gandhi Dwitiya Naasti (there is ony one Gandhi and there cannot be another Gandhi, the Prime Minister told a galaxy of audience, including RSS chief Rajju Bhaiya, Home Minister L K Advani, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Pramod Mahajan and others at a glittering function at the Vigyan Bhavan here today. Citing the observations of black leader Martin Luther that Gandhi belonged to ages, Vajpayee said that the directions shown by Gandhi were still relevant for the people to follow at present and in the future. Selected speeches of Gandhi and the tributes paid by world leaders were played on the occasion which reverbrated in the hall to enable the audience to have a feel of the freedom movement. The electronic book contained 50,000 pages of collected works of Mahatma Gandhi, 550 photographs, 30 minutes of film footage and 15 minutes of Gandhi’s voice. Lauding the role of Information and Broadcasting Ministry in bringing out the CD, the Prime Minister said that advancement in the information technology had enabled India to undertake such a venture. Stating that advanced countries have also recognised India as a super power in the information technology, Vajpayee said that efforts should be made to bring out such CD in Hindi and other Indian languages. In a lighter vein, he said that the price of the CD could be reduced for the benefit of large number of people. The CD would be of equal interest to the academic scholar and the common user, he added. Eulogising Gandhi for his contribution in freeing the country from the British yoke, Mahajan said though the freedom struggle had started earlier, it was Gandhi who took the freedom struggle from classes to the masses. He said that over 40 landmark events from Gandhi’s life covered in the CD would enable a person to have a feel of a virtual walkthrough of Sabarmati Ashram even without going to the Ashram or anything about Ashimsa, Satyagraha and other peaceful methods adopted by Gandhiji by pressing a button. (PTI) |
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Noted Bengali filmaker passes away CALCUTTA, Oct 2: Noted Bengali filmmaker Salil Sen died at his South Calcutta residence yesterday. He was 74 and a bachelor. Mr Sen, who started his career as a dramatist with the play "Mouchor", had directed films like "Chinnamul", "Manihar", "Ajana Sapath", "Mon Niye", "Chutir Phande", "Har mana har", "Rajkumari", "Sansar", "Aparna" and others. He was also involved in the movement for popularising and developing the Bengali film industry along with late matinee idol Uttam Kumar. (UNI) |
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2 more killed in Pak sectarian bloodshed KARACHI, Oct 2: Gunmen shot dead two Shi’ite Muslims in an early morning attack in Pakistan’s Punjab province today, raising the death toll in a two-day wave of sectarian violence to 20, police said. The shooting coincided with heightened security in Karachi to prevent possible violence after a major Shi’ite party called for a strike to protest against the brutal killing of nine Shi’ite worshippers at a mosque yesterday. Prime Minister discusses violence Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also chaired a special three-hour meeting in Islamabad yesterday with top administrators of all four provinces to discuss ways to stem the bloodshed. The reason for the sudden increase in tensions between the Sunni majority and Shi’ite minority after a six-month period of relative calm was not immediately clear. Today’s incident occured 135 km North of Multan where two men on a motorcycle attacked the owner of a cotton factory, killing him and a colleague on the spot. The victims were activists of the Shi’ite Tehrik-e-Jafria party. In overnight incidents, four Sunni Muslims were gunned down outside a religious school in Central Karachi while a former Shi’ite provincial legislator was shot and killed in Bhakkar in Punjab province, police said. Earlier yesterday, gunmen attacked the clinic of a Shi’ite doctor in Lahore, killing him, one of his assistants and a patient. The doctor was the vice-president of the Pakistan Medical Association in Punjab province and the association has called for a doctors strike in Lahore. Sunni militants deny blame A Tehrik-e-Jafria leader, Allama Hasan Turabi, yesterday blamed Sipaha-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), a militant Sunni group, for the bloodshed and threatened violent reaction from his party’s younger activists if the Government failed to arrest the attackers. The SSP denies any involvement. Police sources said 97 people were arrested in Punjab province on Friday, mostly members of the militant Sunni group, while officials said Maulana Azam Tariq, a top leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba, was taken into protective custody in Lahore. Sunni militants accuse Shi’ite-majority Iran of aiding Shi’ite groups in pakistan. Shi’ites say Saudi Arabia helps their Sunni rivals. Iran and Saudi Arabia deny the charges. Shi’ites form 15 per cent of Pakistan’s more than 134 million Sunni-dominated population. (REUTERS) |
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