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India, Bangladesh will
inspect
disputed areas along Assam
What is India News Service,
Tuesday, 14 December 2004, 1400 hrs IST
India and Bangladesh have decided to hold a fresh inspection of the disputed areas along the international border in Assam very soon. The inspection would be followed by home secretary-level meetings between the two countries to resolve the four-decade-old border dispute, that has so far eluded a settlement.
The Centre has asked the Karimganj district administration in lower Assam to submit a report on the disputed portions of the India-Bangladesh border in the Lathitilla-Dumabari sector of the district. "Top officials of the district administration and the Border Security Force inspected the site last week and the report will soon be submitted," said JC Goswami, deputy commissioner of Karimganj. Official sources said that around 364 bighas of land in the Lathitilla-Dumabari sector is in the illegal possession of Bangladesh since 1971.
Trains
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Jalandhar-Pathankot diesel multiple unit (DMU) collided near Hoshiarpur on
Tuesday killing at least 37 people and injuring over 70, police said.
SC
orders review of IAF promotions: The
Supreme Court today ordered the Indian Air Force to re-evaluate the promotions
of six officers, including those of four quashed by the Delhi High Court
recently.
Advani
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Over 50 per cent of the Lok Sabha members,
including Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani, Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Charanjit Singh Atwal and Union Ministers Laloo Prasad and Sunil Dutt are yet to
furnish information regarding their assets and liabilities to the Lok Sabha
Secretariat.
Centre
denies starvation deaths: Reports made over the years on starvation deaths
are just allegations by media. The Government does not acknowledge starvation
deaths in the country.
Uma
Bharti may soon be taken back: The suspended Bharatiya Janata Party leader,
Uma Bharti, may soon be back in her job as the party general secretary.
Nation
remembers Dec 13 martyrs: The
nation on Monday remembered the nine people who laid down their lives to save
the top political leadership of the country three years ago.
Dawood threats
to Best Bakery accused: Defence lawyers of the 17 persons accused in the
Best Bakery retrial case being heard in Mumbai have raised the issue of their
lives being under threat.
Great
betrayal, says BJP: The BJP on Monday sharply attacked the UPA
Government for failing to bring a legislation guaranteeing 100 days employment
for one member in every household below the poverty line.
Villagers say wounded asked to check IED:
Thousands of villagers blocked the Srinagar-Baramulla National Highway today in protest against a Rashtriya Rifles unit having allegedly asked one of them to check an IED which went off, leaving the 30-year-old critically wounded.
Centre
may take up Kultaran murder case with Iranian envoy:
The Union Ministry of External Affairs may
take up the case of Mr Kultaran Singh Anand, an Indian businessman, who was
murdered in Teheran on August 7 last year, at the diplomatic level to ensure
justice to the bereaved family.
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SC
notice on Hindu Succession Act:
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Union Government on a petition
challenging the constitutional validity of Section 23 of the Hindu Succession
Act, which deprived a woman the right to seek partition of her ancestral
property if the owner died without making a will.
\91Tainted\92 pumps face final squeeze:
The curtain went up today on the last legal act of the petrol pump scandal that rocked the erstwhile BJP-led government with the Supreme Court asking the petroleum ministry why 297 \93tainted\94 outlets should not be shut down.
Call
for fresh approach to internal security: Congress and the Left party members
today advised the United Progressive Alliance Government to evolve a
comprehensive approach to the security situation.
Rao's
condition improves: The condition of the former Prime Minister, P.V.
Narasimha Rao, who is undergoing treatment for heart problem in Delhi, has shown
considerable improvement.
No
need for Modi to quit': The former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
said today there was no need for the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, to
quit. He sought to put at rest the unsavoury episode over the new party entrant,
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Spotlight
Kanchi Shankaracharya case
More than a month after his arrest by Tamil Nadu Police in the
Sankararaman murder case, Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati on
Monday filed
a petition in the Supreme Court seeking bail.
Advocate Krishna Jumar, who had obtained the Seer's thumb impression on
a document authorising him approach the apex Court, said a petition was
today filed in the apex Court by the Sankaracharya challenging the
Madras High Court order of December 8 refusing bail to him.
Politics of bail plea for seer:
A Minister from Uttar Pradesh,
Hari Shankar Tiwari, is said to be behind the filing of a bail petition
on behalf of Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayandra Sarswati in the Supreme
Court, which ran into controversy with the seer\92s counsel submitting
that no other lawyer had been authorised to move any petition.
NDA
team to leave for Kanchi Mutt: A delegation of Members of Parliament
from the National Democratic Alliance is to leave for Chennai tomorrow
evening to visit the Kanchi Mutt.
The
Brahmin and the Hindu:
As Swami Jayendra Saraswati stoically braves the onslaught
of secular oppression unleashed by an unholy alliance of Government and
media, it is clear that his tormentors have no case, have failed
hopelessly in their nation-wide fishing expedition, but are nonetheless
determined to keep him incarcerated. Nothing the judiciary has done so
far gives ground for hope, so Swamigal's devotees may well prepare for a
long eclipse of justice.
Hindu
American Foundation protests against NYT coverage: The Hindu
American Foundation has written to the New York Times protesting against
the insinuations in its report Religious
Leader's Arrest in Killing Incites Holy Men and Hindu Nationalists
Across India (NYT, December 05, 2004). The foundation says the
article asserts that the protests against the manner in which the Hindu
seer was arrested are somehow a tactic by "Hindu Nationalists"
to gain ground lost in the May 2004 elections. "This is clearly not
the case," it says, as the current Sikh Prime Minister of India, in
addition to numerous Christian, Muslim, Sikh and other Hindu groups have
expressed concern over the callous treatment the spiritual leader has
received.
In a press
note, the Hindu American Foundation has also expressed "great
distress over the arrest of one of the most widely admired and respected
Hindu spiritual leaders, the Sankaracharya of Kanchi, Pujya Shri
Jayendra Saraswati".
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Prohibitory
orders in 2 Meghalaya districts:
Prohibitory orders have been clamped in two
districts of Meghalaya ahead of the 20-hour bandh tomorrow called by the Khasi
Students Union (KSU) to protest against the government\92s alleged failure to
fulfil its various demands, including review of reservation policy and tackling
influx.
Delhi
Govt relief for co-op flat buyers: In a major relief to the General
Power of Attorney (GPA) holders of Co-operative Housing Society flats, the Delhi
Government on Monday did away with the penalty clause which amounted to seven
years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50,000.
Basu
wakes up to party corruption after 26 yrs:
Elections in West Bengal are a good year-and-a-half away, time
enough for Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu to feign a red-face at the growing
corruption in the rank and file.
NTR\92s
wife booked on cheating charge:
The city police yesterday registered a case of cheating against Ms Lakshmi
Parvathi, wife of former Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, following a directive
from a local court.
Cell
calls' details sought: The Patna High Court directed a top prison official
to submit before it computer printouts of the calls made and received on the
mobile phones seized from the RJD MP, Pappu Yadav, and others.
Armed
guards deployed in 2 Mumbai hospitals:
After attacks on doctors by angry patients and their relatives, the authorities
have deployed guards armed with fully-loaded revolvers in KEM and Rajawadi
Hospitals here.
Neighbours
Pak says India \91paranoid\92 on F-16 deal, no impact on talks:
Pakistan on Monday accused India of being \91\91paranoid\92\92 over its efforts to secure F-16 fighter aircraft and other weaponry from US but said this would not have any bearing on nuclear and conventional confidence building measure talks between the two neighbours beginning
Tuesday.
\91No
CIA bases in Pak hunting for Osama\92:
Pakistan on monday denied a newspaper report that the CIA has set up covert
bases in the country's remote tribal regions to hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Sri Lanka vows to punish bombers:
Sri Lanka today vowed to punish those responsible for a bomb blast at Shah Rukh Khan\92s mega concert here even as the main Buddhist group which had initially opposed the event denied any involvement in the attack.
View from abroad
Live in
America, love Mother India
: For Indians settled in the US who are serious about doing something for
the country they left behind, but are clueless about how to go about it, there
is finally a solution at hand -- the CII Council of Indian Americans.
Indian in
Dubai commits suicide: A 25-year old Indian worker allegedly committed
suicide after his company refused to pay him money even for getting medical
treatment, police said.
Overall
India, Bangladesh decided to inspect border: They will take a fresh
look at the disputed area along Assam, and then sit for talks.
Kanchi seer filed for bail in Supreme Court: A month after his arrest,
he has decided to approach the apex court.
Pakistan said India was paranoid about F-16s: That country wants the
planes, but it said that doesn't mean it wants peace talks off.
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