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Treat Shankaracharya well,
Manmohan tells Tamil Nadu 

What is India News Service,  Friday, 26 November 2004, 1700 hrs IST

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said investigation in the case involving Sri Jayendra Saraswati should be conducted with “extreme care and consideration” and asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha to take “all such measures” to ensure his physical well being.

In a letter to Jayalalitha, the prime minister observed that “an investigation involving a person of his eminence needs to be conducted with extreme care and consideration”. He requested the Tamil Nadu government to “take all such measures as appropriate to ensure the physical well being” of Swami Jayendra Saraswathi

No reverse gear applied, says Natwar Singh: The proposed Khokrapar-Munabao rail link between India and Pakistan will be inaugurated on October 2 next, the External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh, announced at a press conference Thursday. This followed a meeting between the Railway Ministers of India and Pakistan on Tuesday. 

Sindh-Rajasthan train by Oct 2005: The rail link was one of the confidence building measures initiated by New Delhi to improve people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan.

BJP seeks total ban on cow slaughter: The party demanded that the bill on cow slaughter, drafted during the Vajpayee rule, be moved in the Parliament without any modification. 

Court permits night viewing of Taj: The Supreme Court today permitted the Uttar Pradesh Government and the Archaeological Survey of India to allow the visitors to view the Taj Mahal on five moonlit nights a month.


 

States

Kannada film industry protest turns violent: Rajkumar said the non-Kannada film sector should develop an attitude of ‘live and let live’ and not try to dominate an ‘alien place’.

First AP Naxal violence in 6 months: The tenuous peace process between the Government and the Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh has received a major blow with the extremists allegedly opening fire and seriously injured the son of a sarpanch in Mahbubnagar district.

Uttaranchal farmers protest against south Indian company: Following the complaint the government has seized the cold storage of the company and put the wife of the prime accused under house arrest.

‘Bathelenchip’ creates tension in North-East: Tripura’s highest peak has a history of communal tension which began with the Reang Revolt of 1946, when the rebels sought shelter here.

After big one, Goa to get small fests: Post-International film festival of India (IFFI), the Directorate of Film Festivals plans to hold small festivals in Goa.

 
Neighbours

Tension prevails in Lanka as Tigers honour 17,800 war dead: Tension gripped Sri Lanka's embattled northern and eastern regions on Friday as Tamil Tiger guerrillas honoured nearly 17,800 rebels killed fighting government forces.


View from abroad

Indian gets rights award: The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions(COHRE) on Wednesday awarded a leading Indian campaigner, Rajeev John George, for his work to find shelter for lakhs of slum dwellers in Indore and Hyderabad.

Old India hand sees new economic powerhouse: Even as India and Russia prepare to celebrate 50 years of Jawaharlal Nehru's historic visit to Moscow in 1955, Russia is deeply aware that the India it needs to deal with now is very different from Nehru's India or even Indira's.



Overall

PM told Jaya to treat acharya well: Manmohan Singh wants the Tamil Nadu government to ensure the physical well-being of the arrested Sri Jayendra Saraswati. 

Natwar Singh talks moved forward: The foreign minister said the government had not moved backwards during its talks with Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

Tension gripped Lanka: The separatist LTTE held a memorial for thousands of cadres killed in action.