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SWETA GOSWAMI n NEW DELHI
Putting an end to the sus-pense surrounding thechoice of the chief ministerialcandidate for the DelhiAssembly elections, slated to beheld on February 7, the BJP onMonday named super copKiran Bedi as its choice for thetop job.
The announcement by theBJP top brass will help quell alldissent that had been brewingin the State unit for the last fewdays ever since Bedi joined thesaffron party. Bedi will take onSK Bagga of the AAP andCongress' Bansi Lal fromKrishna Nagar.
The party also announcedcandidates for 62 seats and thelist has as many as six womencandidates, apart from 13 Dalitnominees and more than 20young faces.
Youth leader and formerpresident of DUSU NupurSharma will take on AAP chiefArvind Kejriwal in New Delhi.The party did not field DelhiBJP chief Satish Upadhyay forthe elections saying that theState unit chief should lead thepoll process.
New entrants to the partyhad a field day as formerUnion Minister Krishna
Tirath, who joined the BJP onMonday, was given a ticketfrom Patel Nagar. FormerSpeaker and AAP leader MSDhir, who too joined the BJPa few months ago, will contestagainst Congress candidateTalwinder Singh Marwah andAAP's Praveen Deshmukhfrom Jangpura. AAP rebelVinod Kumar Binny will takeon the second-in-command ofthe AAP, Manish Sisodia, in
Patparganj. Senior BJP leaderJagdish Mukhi, who was at onetime being considered for theChief Minister's post, is beingfielded again from Janakpuri,where he will face his son-in-law Suresh Kumar, who is theCongress candidate.
The party has pittedPravin Jain against Congressheavyweight Ajay Maken, whowas recently appointed asCongress Campaign
Committee chairman, fromSadar Bazaar.
Former Delhi BJP chiefVijender Gupta, who had con-tested against Kejriwal in NewDelhi earlier, will be contest-ing from Rohini. He will takeon Congress Sukhbir Sharmaand AAPs Charanji Lal Gupta.
Perhaps the strongestnominee among all con-tenders, the newly-inductedBedi, who also has the dis-tinction of being the firstwoman IPS officer, would becontesting from the KrishnaNagar seat in the February 7Assembly polls which is theBJPs stronghold and fromwhere Union Minister HarshVardhan fought until the lastelections.
Continued on Page 6
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE nNEW DELHI
Speaking his mind for the firsttime over the issue ofParliament stand-offs, PresidentPranab Mukherjee has said anoisy Minority cannot beallowed to gag a patientMajority. He also cautioned theGovernment against resortingto Ordinance route frequentlyand expressed that convening ajoint session of Parliament tomake up for numbers to enactlaws is not a practical solution.
Addressing faculty and stu-dents of Central universitiesand research institutionsthrough video conferencing,the President said theGovernment and theOpposition parties should puttheir heads together and findout a workable solution toavoid a situation for frequentOrdinances. While saying leg-islation is the exclusive domainof Parliament and Assemblies,the President said that gettinga Bill passed is always the eas-ier part but the harder part is
the negotiations for reconcilingthe interests of different groupsfor the legislation.
A legislature is effectiveonly if it is able to address thedifferences among stakeholdersand succeeds in building aconsensus for the law to beenacted and enforced. WhenParliament fails in dischargingits law-making role or enactslaw without discussion, itbreaches the trust reposed in itby the people. This is neithergood for the democracy, norfor the policies anchored inthose laws, President said.
The Presidents commentshave come against the backdropof a series of Ordinances pushedby the NDA Government. So farthe Modi Government hasbrought in eight Ordinances.
The speed and numbers ofthese have surprised even thePresident, prompting him toreportedly raise questions overthe urgency of the Ordinancerelating to acquisition of landbefore signing on it.
Ordinance route cannot betaken, should not be taken fornormal legislation, he saidreplying to a question whetherfrequent Ordinance follows thespirit of Constitution. He under-lined that the Constitution pro-vided for promulgation ofOrdinance in extraordinary sit-uation but this route cannot andshould not be taken for normallegislation. I ask the politicalestablishment to engage in a dia-logue and resolve their differ-ences, he said.
Continued on Page 6
PRAMOD KUMAR SINGH nNEW DELHI
Aunit of 24 sniffer dogs thatare part of the securitywing of US President BarackObama will be housed in thefortified Five-Star Shangri LaHotel. Authorities have booked24 rooms for these canines andtheir handlers.
These highly trained pedi-gree dogs which have mili-tary ranks and are duly salut-ed by junior officers arebeing flown to the nationalCapital as part of the AdvancedSecurity Liaison Team (ASLT)of the US President. The dogsare addressed by their namesand ranks and cautioning themwithout their ranks and namesis proscribed.
The squad will be pressed
into service to sanitise areasscheduled in Obamas visit.The US Dog Squad will beassisted by the 30-member dogsquad of the Indo-TibetanBorder Police (ITBP).
The US Dog Squad willsupplement US secret service incarrying out anti-sabotage drillduring the stay of PresidentObama in Delhi. Sources saidthat these dogs cannot behoused at Delhi Police lines as it is quite far from theLutyens Zone.
It has been learnt that theUS ASLT has informed theirIndian counterparts about theirvisit and the security set-uprequired for them.
Sources said that the USsecret service has conveyed to the Indian authorities aboutthe Dog Unit of the
Presidents security. There are Intelligence
inputs that international terrorgroups are itching to target USPresident Obama and Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The dog squad will be assist-
ed by highly trained dogs of theIndian Army, Border SecurityForce, Special Protection Group,
National Security Guards (NSG)and the Central IndustrialSecurity Force (CISF).
It may be recalled thatITBP had issued a statement
after its especially trained dogsquad was sent to Delhi for pro-viding anti-sabotage cover forthe high profile visit. Thethreat is from sophisticatedremotely operated improvisedexplosive devices at sensitivelocations during the RepublicDay celebrations and in hotelswhere the US President and hisentourage would stay.Radicalised lone-wolf opera-tives chats with their bossesfrom across the border or sleep-er cells have been intercepted byour Intelligence agencies andcorroborated by the USIntelligence, a statement said.
The ITBP dog squad hasbeen kept at ITBP station in theCapital for sanitising thesprawling Rajpath, India Gatelawns and the entire route ofPresident Obama.
PNS n NEW DELHI
Prime Minister NarendraModi has called for a radi-cal shift in the global approachtowards climate change andsaid the focus should not onlyremain on emission cuts but it
should move to efforts madefor clean energy generationand conservation.
The Prime Minister (PM)was clearly trying to highlightmeasures taken by India to pro-duce cleaner energy in themidst of mounting pressure bydeveloped nations to bringdown emissions.
Asking the internation-al community to shift fromcarbon credit towardsgreen credit, Modi singledout solar energy, saying itneeds to be integrated with ahybrid system of energy tomake it useful.
Continued on Page 6
BJP to bask in Kirans glow
PNS n NEW DELHI
Former Union Minister andCongress MP ShashiTharoor was grilledby the SpecialInvestigation Team(SIT) of South dis-trict in connectionwith the murder ofhis wife SunandaPushkar.
Sources said that Tharoorwas confronted in the light offresh details that had emergedin the SIT probe after it regis-tered a case of murder atSarojini Nagar police station.
The SIT asked Tharoorabout his relationship withSunanda and whether therewere any differences betweenthem over Pakistani journalistMehar Tarar and his biogra-
pher Katherine or Katy asmentioned by Tharoors ser-vant Narayan Singh duringhis deposition.
Tharoor arrived atVasant Vihars Auto-Theft Squad (ATS)office for questioning.He was grilled by theSIT, headed South dis-trict DCP Prem Nathand Additional DCP
Pramod Kushwah. South-east-ern range Joint CP Vivek toowas present.
Earlier in the day, DelhiPolice Commissioner BhimSain Bassi had hinted thatTharoors grilling was immi-nent as he has already beenserved summons underSection 160 of CriminalProcedure Code (CrPC) by theInvestigating Officer.
Tharoor grilled about tensions
with Sunanda over Tarar, Katy
STAFF REPORTER n NEW DELHI
Eyebrows were raisedwithin the BJP camp onMonday after the partyinducted former UPAMinister and a lightweight,Krishna Tirath, into theparty. Her joining BJP comesamidst the partys efforts towoo Dalit voters of the cap-ital to boost its prospects inthe February 7 polls. Delhihas 12 reserved seats ofwhich a majority was won bythe AAP in the last assemblypolls in 2013. BJP won onlytwo while Congress got one.Some felt that induction ofTirath could send in awrong signal and it mightseem that the party was get-ting somewhat desperate.
Fifty-nine year old Dalitleader, Tirath was welcomedin the BJP by party presidentAmit Shah with a bouquet offlowers.
The former women andchild development minister inthe Manmohan Singh-ledUPA Government wasaccompanied by BJPs in-charge of Delhi affairs PrabhatJha and partys state unit chiefSatish Upadhyay. Strangely,senior Congress leaders werenot aware about Tiraths planto resign from the party.
Krishna Tirath
shifts loyalty to
BJP, quits Cong
Modi seeks shiftin global views onclimate change
Pranab says Govtand Opp shouldwork out issuesto avoid need forjoint session ofParliament
PTI
A legislature is effective only if it isable to address the differences
among stakeholders andsucceeds in building a
consensus for the law to beenacted and enforced.
When Parliament fails indischarging its law-makingrole or enacts law without
discussion, it breaches thetrust reposed in it by the
people. This is neithergood for the democracy,
nor for the policiesanchored in those laws
PRANAB MUKHERJEE
Not just emissioncuts, focus shouldalso be on solarenergy generation,conservation: PM
q Chairing the first meeting of the reconstituted Prime MinistersCouncil on Climate Change here, Modi called for a carefulevaluation of all the initiatives taken by India in solar energy, windenergy, biomass energy and transportation projects that havereduced distances or travel times
q Modi called for setting up of a consortium of nations withpotential in solar energy and said they could join hands with India ininnovation and cutting-edge research that would reduce the cost ofsolar energy, making it more accessible to the people
q He also directed ministries to prepare a concept note onuncovered areas like health, urban waste management, coastalareas and wind energy, while dealing with climate change as theseare not covered under the ongoing missions
Prez raps noisy Opp, butagainst Ordinance route
THINKING GREEN
These highly trained pedigree dogs which have military ranks and are duly saluted byjunior officers are being flown to the national Capital as part of the Advanced SecurityLiaison Team of the US President. The canines are addressed by their names and ranksand cautioning them without their ranks and names is proscribed
4-legged US squad to ensure terror hasnt a dogs chance
(Left to Right) BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley during partysparliamentary board meeting in New Delhi on Monday PTI
CM candidateBedi to fightelection from Krishna Nagar
The decision to make Kiran Bedithe partys chief ministerial
candidate for Delhi was supportedby all membersThere is no
discord among the party members,it was only media speculation
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UP seeks `6,500 cr for police modernisationPNS n LUCKNOW
Uttar Pradesh demanded`6,500 crore from theCentre for modernisation of itspolice force and also called forimproved road network, at the20th meeting of the CentralZonal Council held here onMonday.
The meeting, chaired byUnion Home Minister RajnathSingh, aimed to end problemsrelated to infrastructure devel-opment, Left-wing extremism,hike in the Central share, policemodernisation and better roadnetwork.
Besides, it was also decid-ed to review the existing forestand environment laws as theyare creating a roadblock indevelopment.
The members agreed tohave more interactions andimplement the Food SecurityAct from April next year. Themeeting was held after a gap offive years.
Home Minister RajnathSingh admitted that more than50 per cent of the issues raisedin the meeting had beenresolved through interaction.He said the meeting was suc-cessful.
Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Shivraj SinghChauhan, Chhattisgarh ChiefMinister Raman Singh,Uttarakhand Chief MinisterHarish Rawat and UttarPradesh Chief Minister
Class 6-8 schoolsto reopen today
Lucknow: With furtherimprovement in weather, thedistrict administration hasordered reopening of classesfrom Nursery to 5th standardfrom 11 am from Wednesdayonwards. Class 6 to 8 schoolswill, however, reopen from 11am to 2:30 pm from Tuesday.
District Magistrate RajShekhar said classes fromNursery to 5th standard wouldremain closed on Tuesday butfrom January 21 onwards, theywould resume from 11 am to2.30 pm. Class 6 to 8 schoolswill, however, reopen from 11am to 2:30 pm from Tuesday,he added. Classes from 9th to12th will be held daily from 10am to 2:30 pm as usual.
If there is a sudden changein the weather in the comingsdays, decision will be taken onchanging the school timingaccordingly, the DM said. PNS
Akhilesh Yadav attended themeeting along with senior offi-cials of the four states.
Briefing media personsafter the meeting, ChiefSecretary Alok Ranjan, saidthe UP Government hadsought `6,500 crore for policemodernisation in the stateover the next three years.
The four chief ministersattending the meetingdemanded more roads in theirstates, particularly in Naxalite-affected Chhattisgarh, to
counter backwardness,Ranjan said.
Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh has assuredthem that he would raise theissue with Union SurfaceTransport Ministry in thisregard.
UP and Uttarakhand chiefministers also decided toresolve their assett-relateddisputes and set up a ChiefSecretary-level committee tolook into the matter besidesagreeing to jointly seting up a
hydro-power project in thehill state.
Ranjan said that theChhattisgarh Chief Ministerdemanded that the Centre-State ratio in all developmen-tal works should be 90:10 andthat the Centre bear full costof deploying Central forces inNaxalite-infected districts.
The four chief ministersdemanded amendments to for-est and environment law toprovide relaxation in develop-ment works.
The states also demandedmodernisation of jails whilestressing the need for com-mencing exams in primarysections to improve the educa-tion standard.
Secretary of Central ZonalCouncil, SK Das, said therewas a good response from thefour states during the meetingand he hoped that anothermeeting could be held in UPlater this year.
Chhattisgarh is scheduledto hold the meet in 2016.
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PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
Ajoint team of the Anti-Terror Squad andLucknow police had abig catch when they nabbedTariq Parveen, a close aide ofunderworld don DawoodIbrahim on Monday after sev-eral days camping in Mumbai.
Apart from the exhaustivedossiers of crime cases againsthim, Tariq was wanted inrecovery of AK-47 in the year1999 from Hazratganj policestation. He is said to be a
sharp-shooter of the D-compa-ny. His name surfaced whenthe Special Task Force nabbedtwo terrorists from LaxmiLawn Guest house Azizuddin aka Abdul Aziz andAquil Ahmad in Hazratganjand they disclosed the name ofTariq and his involvement inproviding them the assaultrifles. Confirming the arrest,SSP Yashasvi Yadav said Tariqwas a notorious criminal andhe would look after the finan-cial affairs of Dawood Ibrahim.
He was presently assistingDawoods sister in Mumbai instreamlining the scattered busi-ness of D-company in Mumbaiand other states, the SSP said.
Tariq was deported from
Dubai to Mumbai and arrest-ed by the police. He was want-ed in connection with an ille-gal shopping complex case insouth Mumbai involvingDawoods younger brotherIqbal Kaskar, who had beendeported earlier.
Therafter, Tariq hadexpressed desire to Dubaiauthorities to return to Indiaand face legal consequences forhis crimes he committed beforefleeing to the Gulf country.
Tariq had been grantedbail by a sessions court in anassault case. He was accused ofassaulting the driver of formerdon Karim Lalas nephew GuduPathan at Dongri in SouthMumbai last month.
He was granted bail with
the condition that he would nottamper with the evidenceagainst him. He was also askedto appear before police author-ities every Monday till furtherorders. Tariq was also accusedof having sent his men to stabwatchman-cum-driver KhalidShaikh, who was working at aprivate company located onMohammed Ali Road in SouthMumbai, on June 28.
Lucknow crime branchhad arrested Tariq and fourmore accused in this case, all ofwhom were granted bail by thecourt later, but Tariqs bail wasrejected after prosecutionopposed his plea on thegrounds that his release wouldadversely affect the investigation.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
1he pre-bid conference ofthe rolling stock and sig-nalling tender of the LucknowMetro Rail Corporation will beheld at the North EasternRailway Office here onTuesday. A senior LMRC offi-cial while talking to ThePioneer on Monday said that18 global companies would betaking part in the pre-bid con-ference for this tender.
The tender has been float-ed by the Lucknow Metro RailCorporation for the design,manufacture, supply, testingand commissioning of 80coaches, including a TrainControl, Signalling andTelecommunication System forthe North-South Corridor ofthe Lucknow Metro Project.
The official said that the
pre-bid conference would beattended by all the senior offi-cials of the Lucknow Metro RailCorporation, including theManaging Director and thetwo Directors. The pre-bidconference provides an inter-face between the company andthe Corporation and helps thecompanies to put forth their
queries regarding the tenderand the Corporation officials toput forth their expectationsregarding it, said the seniorofficial.
He said that they had gonein for the combined tender ina bid to save time. This is ajoint tender for the coaches andthe signalling system. The com-
pany will be providing 80coaches which will be in 20rakes with each rake havingover four coaches. Thesecoaches will be here byOctober-November 2016 andwill be prototype tested. Bycombing the tender we will besaving time, he said. In case ofthe signalling system theCorporation is going for theCBTC (Communication-basedTrain technology. This com-munication-based technologyis being used in the country byus for the first time, he said.The tenders will be submittedand opened on March 3. Thetechnical bids will be firstopened followed by the finan-cial ones as is the normal pro-cedure with the lowest bidderbagging the tender, he said.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
Taking a suo motu cog-nizance of death toll asappeared in media reports inMalihabad hooch tragedy, theNational Human RightsCommission issued notices tothe Chief Secretary, InspectorGeneral of Police, LucknowRange and District Magistrate,Lucknow, calling for reportswithin two weeks.
The Commission observedthat the contents of the pressreports, if true, raises a seriousissue of violation of humanrights of the victims. Reportedly,till January 13, the death toll had
climbed to 32 even as 18 morewere in critical condition in var-ious hospitals. The number ofcasualties was, however morethan the official claim. Pushedon the backfoot, the stateGovernment had ordered amagisterial enquiry and sus-pended 20 erring officials dur-ing a crackdown. Police had reg-istered four cases and arrestedmain accused Jugnu responsiblefor selling the spurious liquor.On Monday, police arrestedtwo more named miscreants - Phoolchand aka Bhurey andBhupendra aka Bablu, both ofMalihabad. Hundreds of vil-lagers of Datli and neighbouringvillage of Malihabad, Banthraand from Unnao district com-plained of vomiting and dizzi-
ness. They later were admittedto different hospitals. By the timethey could get treatment, thedeath toll started rising and atleast 48 persons were reported-ly died by January 15. Policerecovered 50 litre of hooch froma manufacturing unit at Jugnushouse. Police were looking outfor Jugnus aides Jagdish,Phoolchanda, Buhupendra andPushpa in this connection.
KILLEDA man, identified as Amber
Saroj, died after the bike he wasriding hit against a road dividernear Alambagh bus station onMonday. He was returninghome when he met with theaccident. The commutersrushed him to Trauma Centre
of KGMU in a critical statewhere he later died.
BODY RECOVEREDThe body of Shashi Verma
(30) of Dariyapur village inGossainganj locality was recov-ered from near the railwaytracks on Monday. After theidentity was ascertained, herbrother Ashutosh of Unnaowas informed. Ashutosh allegedthat Shashis husband AlokVerma and her in-laws hadkilled her and had dumped thebody beside the railway tracksto hide the evidence. He allegedthat his sister was beingharassed for dowry since hermarriage. Shashi was married toAlok in 2012. Police registereda case in this connection.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
Two days after the broaddaylight Rs 1.35 crore heistoutside an ATM booth inKaiserbagh on Saturday, theSarojini Nagar police recoveredempty safe box in which thecash was kept by the bank staffon Monday.
According to policespokesman, the box was spot-ted lying abandoned on theground inside the Chillawnmarket. The box was lyingsome 20 feet inside the mainroad and was spotted by localresidents on Monday morning,the spokesman said. He wasapparently at the loss of wordsto explain whether the miscre-ants had dumped the emptybox to mislead police or toavoid being identified.
Barring the recovery ofthe empty safe box, policefailed to get any other clueabout the miscreants so far.Several police teams had beenconstituted to crack the case.The cops are also questioningpersons engaged in the cashdispensing/transaction workby the bank, sources said.They added the recovery of theempty box belied polices claimthat the box was not there inthe vehicle when it reached out-side the ATM booth. Thepolice was also suspecting the
credentials of the employees.But the cops failed to extractanything substantial from themas of now. On the other hand,the recovery of the box from adistant location also exposedthat the robbery was commit-ted by some professionalgroup, the sources said.
They added in the light ofthese findings, it seemed thatthe miscreants had picked upthe safe box containing the cashand fled by some four-wheel-er to avoid being identified. It
is certain that the crime wasexecuted by some profession-al gang and not by conmenwho used to dupe people ofsmall cash or jewellery, theysaid. Unidentified miscreantshad made off with the safe boxcontaining Rs 1.35 crore froma vehicle engaged in dispensingcash at an ATM booth underKaiserbagh police station areaon Saturday afternoon. Afterthe incident, police detainedcash dispensing staffHimanshu, Anurag, security
guard Gyanendra and driver ofthe vehicle Pyarelal for ques-tioning.
BOY INJURED AS GUN GOES OFF
Firing during a bhandaracaused firearm injuries to a 15-year-old boy in Gossaiganj.Police, however, maintainedthat the mishap took placewhen a double barrel gun felldown and the bullet went offaccidentally. According toreports, villagers organised abhandara (a function in whichfood stuff is distributed topeople attending the function)in Karim Nagar village.
Around 4.30 pm onMonday, two persons namedSurendra of Gossaiganj and RajBahadur of Nagram reachedthe venue. Both were carryinghandguns with them. Thepolice spokesman said, whileattending the function, RajBahadurs gun fell down. Dueto a jerk, it went off and the bul-let hit a 15-year-old boy, thespokesman said. He said theinjured suffered minor injuryin his throat and was taken toa hospital. Nobody came topolice to lodge a complaint, thespokesman added. He clarifiedthat the incident was purelyaccidental and not deliberate ordue to ignorance of some person.
Prized catch for ATS, Lko police
Dawoods closeaide Tariq Parveennabbed in Mumbai
NHRC notice to top officials
Hooch tragedy
Vidhan Bhawan fencing and gates being painted anew ahead of Republic Day, in Lucknow on Monday Pioneer
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
The UP Congress will sooncome into active mode as adecision has been taken on thedirective of party high com-mand to expose the wrongdo-ings of both Bharatiya JanataParty-led Government at theCentre and the SamajwadiParty Government in the state.
There are several burningissues which need to be raisedby us so we have decided tolaunch a series of agitationsagainst both the governmentsand a strategy of our agitationis being chalked out, disclosedUP Congress president NirmalKhatri here.
We will start the agitationsoon after drawing finalisingthe strategy by mid February,Khatri announced while talk-ing to reporters soon after ameeting of the party core groupcomprising about 40 seniorleaders.
Khatri said the Congresswould soon switch over to agi-tational mode on several issues,prominent among them beingamendment to LandAcquisition Act by Central
Government. The decision for the agita-
tion was taken in the meetingof senior party leaders chairedby Congress general secretaryMadhusudan Mistry.
Around 36 senior leadersof the party, including RashidAlvi, Sriprakash Jaiswal, Sanjay
Singh, Pradeep Jain Aditya,PL Punia, Mohsina Kidwai,participated in the meet.
It was also decided to sendthese senior leaders to dis-tricts to get feedback from theground level, as per the direc-tion of party president SoniaGandhi.
Each leader will beassigned one or two district oftheir choice and asked to givetheir report on the basis of thefeedback by the first week ofFebruary, Khatri said.
Sonia Gandhi has askedthe UP Congress Committee toget feedback from the groundlevel regarding issues, strategiesand other issues, so that theparty may include them beforedrawing the future course ofaction for revival of the party.
WOMAN ACTIVIST STAGES PROTEST
A senior Congress womanactivist staged protest outsidethe meeting hall at UPCCheadquarters here as she wasnot happy with the announce-ment of the committee of thePradesh Congress.
I was secretary of womenswing in the All-India CongressCommittee but to my surprise,the senior leaders overlookedmy seniority as well as hardwork of many woman leadersand included those who havedone nothing for the party andonly have the blessings of somesenior leaders, said the womanactivist, disclosing her identi-ty as Shabnam Khandelwal.
Interestingly, ShabnamKhandelwal tried to air hergrievances before Khatri justoutside the meeting hall but heasked her to come to his officeand register her grievance as itwas party related matter andcould not be discussed publicly.
It may be mentioned herethat some other senior leaderswere also unhappy with theconstitution of the state com-mittee and resigned in protestagainst not being given posts asper their seniority or hardwork.
Sources said that Khatrihas tried to convince all theseleaders as well as others whohave not been included in thecommittee and assured them aright place in future.
UP Cong gearing up for stir
against Central, state govts
Lucknow (PNS): UnionMinorities Welfare MinisterNajma Heptullah said thatPrime Minister Narendra Modiwanted every child of theMuslim community to have apen or some tool in the handand not firearm.
Our Prime Minister wantsevery child of the Muslimcommunity to get proper edu-cation and technical training sothat they do not take dreadedfirearms in their hands,Heptullah said while address-ing a function in Bareilly.
She said the CentralGovernment was doing every-
thing to provide good educa-tion facilities for the minorities.
The Union Minister, how-ever, criticised the UttarPradesh Government for thebad condition of roads.
The roads have only pot-holes and nothing else, shesaid.
On the occasion, Heptullahannounced that the Centrewould provide scholarships to10 million students of theminorities. She even assuredfinancial support from theGovernment to minorities stu-dents going abroad for higherstudies.
Modis stress on education
of Muslims, says Najma
18 global firms to take part
in pre-bid conference
Rolling stock & signalling tender of LMRC
ATM heist: Police recover empty safe box
Lucknow (PNS): A driver stole Rs 3.25 lakh in cash fromthe car of his employer in Chowk on Sunday night. He was laternabbed and Rs 2.94 lakh in cash was recovered from a housein Thakurganj. Complainant Pradeep Jaiswal of Bahraich dis-trict said he had visited Lucknow on Sunday for some businesswork and checked in Hotel Raj Awadh in Chowk. He had comein his car and his driver Rupesh Kumar of Bahraich was withhim. He added that Rupesh left in the car around 11 pm afterhe checked into the hotel room. Around 6.30 am, he called upRupesh but he did not respond to the call. In apprehension, Icame out of the hotel and found Rupesh fell asleep in the carbut the cash was missing, he told. The police doubted Rupeshcredentials and interrogated him. He later owned up that he hadhidden the cash at a house of his acquaintance in Thakurganj.Police raided the place and recovered the cash. Police, howev-er, had no clue about the remaining sum.
`3.25 lakh stolen
from car in Chowk
Nirmal Khatri
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PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
The Samajwadi Party has ques-tioned Prime Minister NarendraModis silence on the statements ofRashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh andVishwa Hindu Parishad leadersasking Hindu women to bear 5 to10 children to protect Hindu religion.
The VHP and RSS leaders arevocal in asking Hindu women tobear 10 children. This is against thethinking of the Prime Ministerwho speaks about Sabka SaathSabka Vikas. The Prime Minister
should clarify whether he ascribesto such statements, SP spokesmanRajendra Chowdhary told reportershere on Monday.
He said the Prime Ministerssilence on this issue had createdconfusion and if Modi really want-ed development of all sections ofsociety, he should ask these leadersto keep quiet.
And if he cannot do so, it isclear that what the RSS, the VHPand the Bajrang Dal activists are say-ing in public speeches is the actualline of Bharatiya Janata Partysthinking, the SP state spokesman
said. BJP MP from Unnao, SakshiMaharaj, has stirred a controversyby asking Hindu women to bearfour kids. He has even asked Hinduwomen to give one child to SantSamaj for propagation of Hindutava.
Another BJP leader in Burdwanhas also asked Hindus to adopt 5-child norm while now VHP leadersand a saint have said that the Hinduwomen should bear 10 children.
Such statements are real threatto the unity and integrity of thecountry. The BJP leaders shouldtake action against such people,Chowdhary said.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
Fulfilling its promise to pro-vide jobs to the youth ofthe state, the Akhilesh YadavGovernment has started theprocess to appoint over 75,000teachers in primary schools tobridge the gap between stu-dents and teachers.
Basic Education MinisterRam Gobind Chaudhary toldThe Pioneer here on Mondaythat overcoming initial hic-cups, the Government hasstarted the process to appointprimary teachers.
In the first go, around15,000 teachers will be givenjobs. By the start of the nextacademic session, theGovernment will appoint75,000 teachers in all, theminister said.
It is the first initiative ofthe state Government to pro-vide over 1.50 lakh jobs by theend of this year. TheGovernment has also startedthe recruitment process inthe health and social sectors,Panchayati Raj and policeforce, including traffic police.
There is a huge shortageof teachers in the BasicEducation Department. Wetried to overcome this by
appointing shiksha mitras butthe Government did not getthe desired result so we decid-ed that BTC pass youth shouldbe appointed. In some caseswe have relaxed the rules to fillthe vacancies, Chaudharysaid.
The minister said thatafter filling 15,000 posts ofassistant teachers, counsellingfor filling 30,000 vacancies ofscience and maths teachers ingovernment schools wouldbegin.
Besides, a decision hasbeen taken to fill up 29,334posts of assistant teachers ofscience and mathematics inthe schools being run byurban local bodies by March31.
The State SelectionCommission is likely to adver-tise more than one lakhvacancies in various depart-ments. These include over30,000 ministerial posts. Theprocess to fill them will beginsoon. More than 10,000vacancies in the Employmentand Training and RevenueDepartments will also befilled.
The Chief Ministers officehas already asked variousmajor departments to provide
it information about the totalnumber of vacancies, the postsadvertised or to be adver-tised along with the last datefor submission of applica-tions.
We are collecting infor-mation from major depart-ments about the steps taken tofill up the vacancies. It is dif-ficult to ascertain the actualnumber of posts, said a seniorofficer.
The state Government hasalso asked the Panchayat RajDepartment to begin theprocess for filling up 26,000posts of village panchayatofficers. At the same time, thestate Revenue Departmenthas been asked to fill up near-ly 6,000 posts of lekhpalsoon.
Various public sectorundertakings (PSUs) are alsoin the process of filling up thevacant posts on the lines of therecruitment drive beinglaunched by various depart-ments. Sources said the UttarPradesh Power CorporationLimited ( UPPCL), UttarPradesh State Road TransportCorporation (UPSRTC) andsome other PSUs are in thefinal phases of launching asimilar recruitment drive.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
Awoman set herself and herthree children on fire inJahanabad police station area ofAzamgarh on Monday.
Reports said while the 28-year-old woman, Sunita ofBabura village and her two kidsAnshika (1) and Aditya (3) diedon the spot, the third childKshitij (5) sustained seriousburns and was admitted to thedistrict hospital. Sunitas hus-band works and lives in Delhi.The reason behind the extremestep is yet to be ascertained.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
US President BarackObama will get a glimpseof the seventh century monu-ment Taj Mahal in Agra onJanuary 27. SeniorSuperintendent of Police inAgra. Rajesh D Rao, onMonday confirmed the visit ofthe US President and his fam-ily members to Agra. He, how-ever, said Obama and his fam-ily would be visiting the Taj on
January 27 but the actualschedule would be finalised inthe coming days.
The state authorities andUS security personnel areholding meetings to finalisethe programme, he added.
In the meeting held so far,several decisions have beentaken, including closing allroads leading to the Taj on theday of Obamas visit and mon-itoring the hotels, guest hous-es and other places five days
prior to the visit . AgraDivisional CommissionerPradeep Bhatnagar also con-firmed the visit of the USPresident but refused to dis-close the details. He said forsecurity reasons, the detailscould not be disclosed to themedia.
Earlier, there were specu-lations whether the USPresident would visit Agra ornot during his busy scheduleat New Delhi.
Meanwhile, ahead ofObamas proposed visit toAgra, an advance Americanteam on Monday held talkswith the district administra-tion and police on the agendaand security-related issues.
The district officials heremaintained that theAmericans have proposed athree-tier security ring apartfrom their own Secret Servicecover for Obama and closureof business establishments
near the sites that the USPresident would visit .American Secret Service per-sonnel, who have landed inAgra, have already conducteda preliminary survey of theroutes to be taken by the USPresident to reach the TajMahal.
A multiple-layer securityring will be thrown aroundObama with the elite SpecialProtection Group and Secret
Services personnel form-
ing a part of the close proxim-ity ring, official sources said,adding a radar had been exclu-sively kept for monitoring airspace. Last month, a 40-mem-ber team had visited Agra tochalk out the initial pro-gramme of the US President.
According to the schedule,the US President is scheduledto visit Agra on January 27 foran hour during which he willspend around 20 minutesinside the monument.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh said thatIndia had been a pio-neer country in cosmologicalcalculations and scientificresearch from the Vedic eraitself. Singh added that therewas no need to look at a USobservatory to seek informa-tion on lunar and solar eclipsepredictions, as it would be eas-ily available with a pundit.
Senior BJP leader and for-mer lecturer of Physics, RajnathSingh was addressing the con-vocation of LucknowUniversity on Monday.
Emphasising the contri-butions of ancient Indianknowledge, he said: Our saintshad said that Earth existed1.96 arab (196 crore) years ago.
Earlier, science did notaccept this, but later it had to.What they tell is run by ourchannels. They should haveasked pundits.
He underlined the need forspiritual development of stu-dents and inculcating tradition-al values in them. He appealedto the masses, specially youths,to stick to Indian traditions andcultural values. Quality educa-tion with cultural values canwork wonders. For comprehen-sive development of the studentproper attention should bepaid on their materialistic andspiritual development, hepointed out. Objecting to hiand bye culture, the ministerasked students not to indulgein it and instead follow tradi-tions and touch feet of theirparents and elders.
When knowledge is cut-
off from traditional values, itbecomes disastrous.Civilisations which get cut-offfrom their traditions and val-ues do not survive for long. Itwas India which showed a bigheart and gave message ofVasudhaiva Kutumbakam (theworld is one family), he said. Remembering SwamiVivekananda, Singh said thathe was a true global Indianyouth who spread the idea ofVasudhaiva Kutumbakam andappealed to religious leaders inChicago not to bring competi-tion among the religions.
He also mentioned thatthe terrorism was spreading itstentacles and the menace couldbe dealt with quality and moraleducation.
Governor Ram Naik con-gratulated students and said
that they should strive hard toachieve their goals. The stu-dents will have to face chal-lenges with all their courageand intellect. They will have toremain positive even in oddtimes, he said.
He also expressed his dis-satisfaction that not even a sin-gle university from India waslisted in the top 200 universi-ties of the world. He hoped thatLucknow University wouldmake all efforts to get a place
in the top 200 global universi-ties in few years to come.
The Governor conferredLLD (honoris causa) on ChiefJustice of the Allahabad HighCourt Dr Dhananjaya YashvantChandrachud. Chandrachuddedicated the honour to hisparents and said that the degreeconferred on him would beserved in its real terms if hesucceeded in providing justiceto the poor people.
He added that citizens inIndia would have to go beyondthe gender and caste discrim-ination for the countrysprogress.
No country can grow untilits citizens are treated equally.Violence against women is aserious cause of concern andshould be stopped right away.Everyone will have to con-
tribute towards the develop-ment of the nation, he point-ed out. Exhorting young stu-dents, Chandrachud said: Thefuture lies in your hand. Comeforward and form a platformfrom where India can growfaster than any country could.We are citizens of a free soci-ety and this freedom has to bezealously protected. Keep thelight to prosper in you burningbright, he added.
Lucknow University Vice-Chancellor SB Nimse congrat-ulated students on the occa-sion. He tabled the progressreport and achievements ofthe university in the pro-gramme. He said that the uni-versity was committed to excel-lence in higher studies andhoped to get an A certificate inNAAC evaluation this year.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
The exuberance of successoverwhelmed students whowere awarded gold medals inthe convocation programme ofLucknow University onMonday.
Kratima Thakur baggedthree gold medals, includingthe coveted Chancellors GoldMedal. Student of MSc(Chemistry), Kratima was elat-ed over her success. She attend-ed the convocation programmealong with her parents, broth-er and uncle. It is like a dreamcome true for me to get theChancellors Gold Medal. Ialways craved for it. I wantedto pursue a career in academics.Now I would go for researchand pursue PhD in OrganicChemistry, she said.
Kratima was also declaredtopper in her stream. Besidesthe Chancellors Gold Medal,she also got the RR KhannaGold Medal and Mac MohanGold Medal.
Swati Singh, who bagged11 Gold Medals, was on cloudnine. She celebrated her successwith parents, friends and teach-ers. Her friends named herGoldmine of LU because of 11gold medals she got.
Speaking about her successmantra, she said: Regular andrigorous studies brought suc-cess to me. Besides my hardwork, the blessings of God, par-ents and teachers were also thedriving force behind my suc-cess.
Swatis father Ved PrakashSingh is a review officer in UPSecretariat. Swati also revealed
her wish to pursue PhD inMathematics.
Rashi Bakshi, who wasawarded the Chancellors SilverMedal revealed her wish tomake a career in the bankingsector. Student of MBE, Rashiwas awarded the medal foremerging as the best student inall the faculties in post-gradu-ate classes.
Another achiever VanditaSrivastava bagged four goldmedals was in a rapturousmood. Student of MA(Economics), Vandita says: Iabide by the advice of myteachers to perform well instudies. Teachers helped me alot to sail through the crisiswhenever I faced any difficul-ty. The students should focusmore on qualitative studyinstead of quantitative study toensure success. Vandita dis-closed that she wanted to joinCivil Services. She added thatshe had got a job asProbationary Officer in StateBank of India in Ahmedabad.
Rajnath eulogises Indias contribution to science
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Governor Ram Naik during LU convocation on Monday. (Right) Students posing with their degrees and medals Pioneer
Governor refused to confer the controversial ChakravartyGold Medal in the programme He refused to talk about the controversy created overChakravarty Gold Medal Chakravarty Gold Medal is likely be given later As many as 32 students out of 190 were given away goldmedals in the convocation programme. Rest of the studentswill be awarded medals on Tuesday at Malviya Hall Students who were not given medals on the convocationday looked extremely disappointed and annoyed with the uni-versity administration. They termed it humiliating Vice-Chancellor SB Nimse announces to upgrade the aca-demic curriculum in tunes with national demand
AT A GLANCE
Surge of exultation sweeps
through achievers
US President Obama to visit Taj Mahal on January 27
SP Govt set to appoint over 75,000 teachers
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
As was expected, the UP Congresson Monday announced its supportto the ruling Samajwadi Party candi-dates in the biennial elections to 12seats of State Legislative Council,polling for which will be held onJanuary 23.
There are 13 candidates in the fray eight of the Samajwadi Party, threeof Bahujan Samaj Party and two ofBharatiya Janata Party.
UP Congress president NirmalKhatri said here on Monday afternoonthat the party had decided to supportsecular forces in the Council polls torestrict the communal BJP.
Khatri also alleged that the BJPwas indulging in horse-trading of theMLAs to manage additional votes forthe victory of its second candidate.
BJP requires 21 additional votesfor the victory of its second candidate.
Meanwhile, Congress LegislatureParty leader Pradeep Mathur toldreporters here on Monday afternoonthat the party had issued a whip forthe MLAs to vote in favour of the SPcandidates.
We have issued a whip and adirection has been given to all the 28(party) MLAs to be present in the statecapital on January 22 when they willbe given direction of the party highcommand, Mathur said.
Giving reason for supporting the
SP candidates, Mathur said, It is a giveand take situation. As the SP had sup-ported two Congressmen in the RajyaSabha polls in the past, this time weare giving them our support.Congress has 28 members in theAssembly and the party could havewon a seat by managing three addi-tional votes. But it did not field anycandidate and instead announced tosupport the SP.
SP require just eight additionalvotes for its eighth candidate.
Mathur said, We have directed allthe MLAs of the party to vote in favourof the SP candidates and none elseeven if the candidates get more thanthe vote required.
However, Khatri maintained thatsupporting the SP in the UP Councilpolls did not mean that the Congresswould have truck with the party infuture. All the three political partiesin UP SP, BSP and BJP are ene-mies of the Congress and we will haveno relationship with any of them infuture, Khatri announced.
He said the Council electionswere exceptional as the party had tochoose between secular and commu-nal forces, hence it decided to supportthe SP candidates.
In the past, two Rajya Sabhamembers of the Congress PramodTiwari and PL Punia have beenelected unopposed from UP with thesupport of the SP.
Congress backs SP
in Council polls
Woman burns
self, two kids
to death
SP questions Modis silence
on leaders of RSS, VHP
Kratima Thakur got
3 gold medals,
including the
coveted
Chancellors Gold
Medal. A student of
MSc (Chemistry),
Kratima attended
convocation along
with her parents,
brother and uncle
GOVERNMENT OF INDIAMINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE
(NURSING DIVISION) Event: National Florence Nightingale Nurses Awards - 2015
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare announces theNational Florence Nightingale Nurses Awards for theyear 2015. Nursing Personnel working in the State,Central, Autonomous Institution, Private, Missionary andVoluntary Organizations are eligible to apply for theaward. The Award ceremony will be held on 12th May2015 The application form and guidelines in this regardcan. be downloaded from www.mohfw.nic.in www.indi-annursingcouncil.org andwww.nursingandmidwifery.gov.in
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SCHOOLSCAN
CITYBRIEFS
CMS student selected
in top US universities
Sanjana Gautam, a studentof City Montessori School,Gomti Nagar (Campus I),secured selection in top 3 uni-versities of the USA. She hasbeen selected for admission inthe University of Cincinnati forEnvironmental Engineering;Illinois Institute of Technologyfor Computer Science andSeton Hall University forComputer Science. Sanjanaattributed her success to herparents, teachers and peacefulatmosphere of CMS.
Dhairya Bansalwins
Mr Star Maker title
Dhairya Bansal, a studentof class II of City MontessoriSchool, Rajendra Nagar(Campus II), won the title ofMr Star Maker of Lucknow.Dhairya participated in theKids Carnival organised byStar Maker Foundation,Lucknow, and performed excel-lently in all activities. Dhairyadisplayed his talents in dancingand singing, modelling, creativeart and other cultural activitiesat the Kids Carnival.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n
LUCKNOW
Afive-day internship pro-gramme, Inspire-2015was inaugurated at AmityUniversity on Monday. Theinternship was organised asjoint venture of AmityUniversity and the depart-ment of Science andTechnology.
The chief guest on theoccasion was Nusrat Husain,director of RML Institute,along with KK Ohri, Pro Vice-Chancellor of AmityUniversity, and others.
Addressing the students,Nuzrat Husain emphasisedthe role of science in the mod-ern age and said innovationsled the society towards betterfuture. There is no need to dobig to be innovative, littlethings can also change thehuman life. We must encour-age the young minds tobecome scientists. Students
should keep questioning andfocussed to find out theiranswers, he said.
Talking about the impor-tance of research works,Husain said there was no com-petition because every innov-
ative mind had lots of originalideas.
More than 200 meritori-ous students of schools willinteract with renowned scien-tists during this five-dayinternship.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n
LUCKNOW
Aseven-day training onadvances in sugarcane pro-duction technology started atIndian Institute of SugarcaneResearch in Lucknow onMonday. The training wasinaugurated by IISR directorOK Sinha.
In his inaugural lecture,Sinha elaborated on the sugar-cane scenario in India andremarked that information andknowledge provided throughthis training might be helpfulfor trainee students in terms ofin-depth knowledge in sugar-cane crop and sugarcane pro-duction technology.
This knowledge would beof great help for students, espe-
cially in making career in sug-arcane research, sugar industryand input manufacturers com-pany, he added.
A total of 20 students ofBSc (Agriculture), SHIATS
(Formerly AllahabadAgricultural University), areparticipating in this residentialtraining.
According to trainingincharge and principal scientistAK Sah, during the trainingprogramme, lecture sessions oncane varieties, planting meth-ods, seed cane production,crop diversification, nutrientmanagement, micro-propaga-tion, sugarcane diseases andpests, post-harvest manage-ment, communication strategywill be organised.
At the same time, learn-ing-by-seeing sessions on sugarcane production technol-ogy and sugarcane machineswill be organised to providepractical exposure to thetrainees.
Sun brings relief
The state capital continued to reel under cold day conditionswith the city recording a maximum temperature of 17 degreeCelsius, which was five notches below normal. However, the sunappearing in the afternoon brought some relief. The forecast forLucknow is that there would be fog till the forenoon and clearsky thereafter. The maximum and minimum temperatures areexpected to be around 18 degree Celsius and 8 degree Celsius,respectively. The forecast for state is that the weather would be dry with dense to very dense fog occurring at isolated places. Cold day conditions would prevail at a few places in thestate.Baby giraffe critical
The condition of baby giraffe continues to be extremely crit-ical at the Lucknow Zoological Gardens. The newborn is not tak-ing feed from mother Sujata. Zoo director Anupam Gupta saidthe condition of baby giraffe was very critical as it is not able tohave milk. Doctors and keepers gave it goat milk early Mondaymorning and it had very little milk in the evening. The newbornis in an almost unconscious state.Ban Demanded
Lucknow Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee has demand-ed a ban on Baba Ram Rahims film Messenger of God. The deci-sion was taken in a meeting at Naka Hindola Gurudwara onMonday. The meeting was presided over by Rajendra Singh Bagga.Those who attended the meeting said there were multiple chargesof rape, attempt to murder and other allegations against RamRahim. World Wetlands Day
On the occasion of World Wetlands Day, which is observedon February 2 every year, Centre for Environment EducationNorthern Regional Cell (CEE North) is organising a poster-mak-ing competition at Regional Science City. The event will be fol-lowed by a prize distribution ceremony. Around 200 students from10 schools of Lucknow will be expressing their thoughts onWetlands our future.Self-Defence
In a bid to empower women of the state and to check casesof harassment, chairperson of the State Commission for WomenZarina Usmani has decided to ensure self-defence training to thestudents of Rajkiya Balika Inter College. A self-defence work-shop will be inaugurated at the Vikasnagar and Indiranagarbranches.Programme
Uttar Pradesh Panchayati Raj Grameen Safai KarmachariSangh under the aegis of Vikas Bhawan organised Swachh Bharatprogramme on Monday. Camp
To solve power issues in slum areas, Jann samasya NivaranShivir will be organised at Azad Park (Thakurganj) on January23 and at Lohia Park (Chowk) on January 28. This informationwas given by District Magistrate Raj Shekhar.Meeting
The management committee of Lucknow CharteredAccountants Society elected new office bearers for 2015-16. CAShanker Mishra was elected the president, Dhurv Seth vice-pres-ident, Aswani Kumar secretary, Alok Narayan treasurer, RajeevSharma, Reena Bhargava and Piyush Mishra members of theSociety. The Lucknow Chartered Accountants Society was estab-lished in 1998 with the aim to better equip chartered accoun-tants so that they can discharge their statutory functions, col-lect statistics and statistical data on matters relating to finance,industry and commerce.
PNS n LUCKNOW
Lucknow DevelopmentAuthority will be high-lighting the developments ofLuckow and London Eye atJaneshwar Mishra Park in itstableau in the January 26parade.
A senior official ofLucknow DevelopmentAuthority, which is nodaldepartment for the parade,said there were over 16tableaux.
The tableau of LDA willbe highlighting the develop-ment of Lucknow from the oldto the new. The London Eye,that will be a part of Janeshwar
Mishra Park, will be high-lighted in the tableau, the offi-cial said.
The Forest departmentstableau will be the foremostamong those of other govern-ment departments.
The tableau of Forestdepartment will be followed bythose of City MontessoriSchool, Rashtriya NirmanNigam, Power Corporation,State Election Commission,Information department, Sugar Federration, LPS, Kiran Education, Tourism,Samaj Kalyan, LucknowDevelopment Authority,Horticulture, Aminabad InterCollege and UP Police.
SHARMILA KRISHNA n LUCKNOW
The Archaeological Survey of Indiawill be inaugurating its new muse-um at Kapilvastu in February. TheSuperintending Archaeologist,Archaeological Survey of India, PraveenMishra, while talking to The Pioneerhere on Monday said that this museumwould attract the internationalBuddhist tourists in a big way becauseit was directly associated with the lifeof Gautam Buddha. It would showcase150 objects from the 4th century BC tothe 3rd century AD, he said.
While highlighting the importanceof the museum, Mishra said, This willget the international tourists in theBuddhist Circuit in a big way. The sitesof Piprahawa and Ganwaria close to themuseum have been attracting a largenumber of tourists from Korea,Thailand and other countries as well asthe native people and the domestictourists. There is a great potential forthis new museum at Kapilvastu, espe-cially for the Buddhist tourists, he said.
The Superintending Archaeologistsaid that there would be two galleries
at the new museum. There will be two galleries inau-
gurated which will showcase the exca-vations from the sites of Piprahawa andGanwaria that lie close to the museum.The galleries will showcase the objectsrelated to Lord Buddha, terracottaitems and the replicas of the relics ofBuddha, he said. The SuperintendingArchaeologist said that the museumbuilding was handed over to theArchaeological Survey of India in 2009by the state government.
There was a major demand fromthe local people to develop the muse-um to highlight the excavations at thesites of Kapilvastu. The ASI has beenworking on the museum for the pastseveral years and the cost incurred onit has been somewhere between Rs 20-30 lakh.
The ancient site of Kapilvastu wasBuddhas native town and the capital ofhis father, Shuddhodan, the chief of theSakya clan, who were priestly warriors,wealthy knights and land owners.
Regarding the earlier excavationscarried out, the SuperintendingArchaeologist, Praveen Mishra,
informed that in the year 1898 a colo-nial zamindar of Birdpur, WilliamClaxton Peppe, opened a large brickstupa situated in Piprahwa village nearthe Indo-Nepal border. From the top ofthe mound and 24 feet under the earthhe encountered a covered slab-a mas-sive sandstone coffer that weighed 697kilograms and the weight of the lidalone was 185 kilograms. The coffercontained the objects, including asteatite vase, an inscribed casket , a lota-shaped steatite vase and a crystal vase,polished to perfection. In addition tothe above, there were wooden and sil-ver vessels . The vases were very richin their contents, the number of whichwas several hundred. Apart from thepieces of bone they contained goldleaves impressed with various symbols.After the discovery of the inscribed cas-ket by WC Peppe in 1898 the ancientsite of Piprahwa caught the attention ofthe indologists for the first time.
In the year 1899 Babu PC Mukherjiof the Archaeological Survey of Indiawas assigned the task of undertakingexplorations and excavations in theNepalese terai. In 1962 Debala Mitra
of the Archaeological Survey of Indiaconducted explorations and excavationsin the places famous as a part of theancient country of Kapilvastu andremarked that the inscription on thereliquary found within the main stupaat Piprahwa coupled with Piprahwascorrespondence with Fa-hiens bearingand distance of Kapilvastu in relationto Lurnbini raises a strong presumptionfor Piprahwa and its surrounding vil-lages like Ganwaria being the site ofKapilvastu.
In the seventies (1971-76) theArchaeological Survey of India in thedirection of Krishna Mohan Srivastavaconducted an extensive excavation atPiprahwa and Ganwaria which revealeda stupa, various viharas and residentialcomplexes and terracotta sealingsinscribed with Kapilavastu term final-ly established this place as the ancientsite of Kapilvastu. The ArchaeologicalSurvey of India started the excavationin the year 1971 at Piprahwa under thedirection of KM Srivastava. The pri-mary objective of the excavation was tolocate the lost town of ancientKapilvastu.
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW
The district administration has iden-tified a plot of land on Bijnor Roadfor the state Governments pro-posed Theme Park project
Soon, a proposal in this regard willbe sent to the state Government.
The state Government had directed
the district administration to identifysuitable land for development of the pro-posed Theme Park, an ambitious project.
The proposed Theme Park is meantfor the rehabilitation of old-aged personsand orphaned children.
In this connection, the ChiefDevelopment Officer (CDO) of Lucknow,Yogesh Kumar, visited three different sites
on Tuesday along with AdditionalMunicipal Commissioner VishalBhardwaj, and the District ProbationOfficer Yogesh Saxena.
Out of the three alternative sites, theone on Bijnor Road has been shortlist-ed. As per the land records, Plot No. 457is usar land. It is a government land witharea measuring nearly 3.5 acres with a
wide road-facing margin of 300 feet anda breadth of 450 feet approximately, saidthe CDO, Yogesh Kumar.
Informing about the reasons for its selection of the land was its proxim-ity to Shaheed Path for better connec-tivity in the case of medical facilities to be given to the elderly citizens com-pared to SGPGI which is four kilometres
away. In case of orphaned children, its bet-
ter for school connectivity, interestinglyone primary school is located within
50 metres named Jai Kishan InterCollege.
The tehsildar of Lucknow MunicipalCorporation, Desh Deepak Singh, hasbeen asked to prepare the draft propos-
al to be submitted to the DistrictMagistrate, said the CDO.
In the theme park residential facili-ties for orphaned children and elderly cit-izens will be constructed with basicamenities. Both the facilities will accom-modate about 100 persons.
The minimum land required wasabout one acre.
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After issuing an ultimatumto the newly-appointedmutawallis to hand over chargewithin a week the Chairman ofthe UP Shia Central WaqfBoard,Waseem Rizvi, had writ-ten a letter to the local policeto register a case against a for-mer mutawalli. The Board willtake a decision on MaulanaKalbe Jawwads case onTuesday.
It may be recalled that theChairman, UP Shia CentralWaqf Board, last week had
issued a week-long ultima-tum to the three removedmutawallis, including the Shiacleric, Maulana Kalbe Jawwad,Nawab Kazim Ali Khan andSyed Faizi, to hand over chargeto the new mutawallis or elsean FIR would be lodgedagainst them.
Even after being issuedrepeated notices, the threeremoved mutawallis have nothanded over the charge to thenew ones. If they continue itwill be taken as illegal occu-pation of the waqf property.We have sent a letter to thepolice to register a case against
Syed Faizi as he had not hand-ed over the charge, said theChairman of UPSCWB,Waseem Rizvi.
When asked aboutMaulana Kalbe Jawwad andKazim Ali Khan, he said thatthe Board members wouldmeet on Tuesday during whicha decision would be taken onMaulana Kalbe Jawwad, whoalso had not handed overcharge to the new mutawalli.But as Nawab Kazim Ali Khanwas out of station we wouldwait for his return and knowabout his stand on the orders,he added.
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Putting an end to the 17-year-old encroachment ona Lucknow MunicipalCorporations building byKaushal Seth situated on WalaQadar Road, it had served anotice on him asking him topay nearly ` 6.5 lakh and vacateit.
The house No 2 of LMCsituated on Wala Qadar Roadwas allotted to the formerspokesperson of DAV College,KN Seth, during his serviceperiod. But after his death hisson, Kaushal Seth, illegallyoccupied the house in the year1997 after which a notice wasserved on him to pay `4,86,000as user and occupationalcharges, said the MunicipalCommissioner, Uday RajSingh, in the notice issued on
Monday. Even after the notice was
sent neither the user nor theoccupational charge was paidnor was the property handedover to the LMC.
Despite notices being sentin the past no response wasgiven. Now the user and occu-pational charge will be`6,55,340, at the rate of `500per mensem. After the demiseof KN Seth the official allot-ment also ended so keeping theproperty was considered as anencroachment, said theMunicipal Commissioner.
The Lucknow MunicipalCorporation has issued awarning that if the presentoccupant failed to pay the userand occupational charge andhand over the said property,which actually belonged to theLMC, stern action will be takenagainst him.
Lucknow (PNS): The artistic fiesta of Lucknow University, KalaMela, organised at the Arts College, won the hearts of the vis-itors on the second day on Monday too. Art enthusiasts reg-istered their presence on the second day of the Mela with thesame enthusiasm. Installation art based on current issues dis-played at the Kala Mela was the centre of attraction for theart lovers.
The young artists presented their art works at the Mela. KritiKumar and her team said that they had tried to present thewomens issues through their art work with women achieverslike Mary Kom, Mother Teresa and Kiran Bedi, who had setan example for the society. Second installation art DestroyNature made up of thermacol and wood was another attrac-tion at the Kala Mela. The third installation art which projectedthat medicine may prove as a boon, a life saver but its addic-tion can prove to be a curse. The artefact showcased a sand bot-tle with syringes all around. The young mind behind this instal-lation art, Amit Singh, said that there was a need to spreadawareness so that medicines were not misused.
The other works displayed during the Kala Mela includedHercules which turned out to be the art lovers favourite as itsucceeded in drawing the maximum eyeballs. Hercules wascompletely made up of grass.
District administration identifies land for proposed Theme Park
SCWF to decide Kalbe
Jawwads case today
Muslims keen to go on Haj filling forms at UP Haj House in Lucknow on Monday Pioneer
LDA tableau to highlight development, London Eye
ASIs Kapilvastu museum to be inaugurated next month
LMC issues `6.50-lakh notice to encroacher
5-day internship at Amity
Chief Nusrat Husain inaugurating Inspire-2015 at Amity University on Monday
Training on cane production
technology begins
IISR director OK Sinha deliveringlecture , on the sugarcane scenario inIndia
LUs Kala Mela winshearts of visitors
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The BSF has ramped upsecurity along theInternational Border (IB) inJammu & Kashmir, deploying12 additional companies (1,200personnel) to thwart any infil-tration bids by Pakistan-basedterror groups in view of USPresident Barack Obamas visitto India for participation in theRepublic Day celebrations here.
In the recent weeks, theparamilitary has recorded asurge in infiltration bids alongthe IB in Jammu & Kashmirand some recent interceptsindicate that Pakistan-basedterror group Lashkar-e-Taiba isplanning to orchestrate anattack in the State if they man-age to sneak in.
The security at the IB hasbeen stepped up in the wake ofUS President Barack Obamasvisit to the country next week.As many as 12 BSF companieshave been deployed to reinforcethe existing deployments, thesources said.
One operational BSF com-pany comprises 100 personnelin strength.
Minister of State for HomeKiren Rijiju said whenever aHead of State visits the coun-try, security is stepped up.This is part of the standardprotocol, the Minister added.
Infiltration attempts fromacross the border are occurringon a daily basis and dense fogand winter chill is posing amajor challenge to the securi-
ty forces deployed in this area.Some intercepts a few days
back indicated that LeT is plan-ning some major strike in thecountry leading to the addition-al deployment and heightenedsurveillance along this border.
The additional troops arepart of the special combat teamsof the BSF which are placed atstrategic locations to keep acheck on any illegal crossingsduring the day or night.
Elaborate security arrange-ments are being made in thenational Capital and other placesalso across the country in thebackdrop of the US Presidentsvisit, who will be the chief guestduring the Republic Day paradehere on January 26. This is thefirst time that a US President willattend the function as chiefguest. Obama is also the first USPresident to be visiting thecountry twice during his stint as
head of State of that country. A seven-layer security ring
will be put in place around theVVIP enclosure at Rajpath forthe parade to be witnessed bythe US President, his entourageand other dignitaries.
PNS n NEW DELHI
The West Bengal Government andthe party in power TrinamoolCongress on Monday approachedSupreme Court for a court-monitoringof the Saradha chit fund scam beinginvestigated by the CBI as it alleged thatthe Centre was using the InvestigatingAgency as a tool to target prominentleaders of the party and destabilise theMamata Banerjee Government.
The two separate applications arelikely to be heard by the court this weekafter it was mentioned before a Benchheaded by Justice TS Thakur. Senioradvocates Kapil Sibal and Vivek Tankhaappeared for West Bengal and TMCrespectively before the Bench seekingan urgent hearing of the application onThursday. The applications were filedin a disposed matter where court onMay 9, 2014 directed CBI to probe all
chit fund scams, figuring over 500,in Odisha and West Bengal. TheBench assured the counsels that thematter will be heard this week.
The State in its application evensought curbs on media reporting of thecase as it accused the CBI of deliberateleaks to the media and a media trialbased on unfounded allegations. On therole of agency, the State Governmentpointed out that the agency was lax incompleting investigation into theSaradha chit fund cases which aided theaccused to be enlarged on bail. The State
demanded a direction for CBI to expe-dite investigation of Saradha case andequally focus on non-Saradha cases.
The other application by TMCsaid, It appears that CBI is now
merely acting as an instrument inthe hands of the ruling
Government at the Centreand seems to be conductingthe investigation to strategi-cally target prominent lead-
ers of one political party(being TMC) so as to destabilisethe State Government and try
to leave the party bereft of leaders at thehelm; in line with the political agendaof the ruling Government at Centre.
Blaming CBI of conducting unfairand partial probe, it pointed out thatmembers of BJP and CentralGovernment have prior information ofsteps to be taken by CBI. It pointed outseveral instances to highlight this fact.
Security on alert ahead of Obamas R-Day visit
Saradha scam: TMC moves SC,alleges Centre misusing CBI
DNA proofingBill likely to beintroduced inBudget Session
HRD clears decks for
pro-VC at varsity
PM MODI TO TRAVEL TOGERMANY IN APRILNew Delhi: Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will travel toGermany in April when India willbe the partner country at theHannover Fair. Conveying this toGerman Finance MinisterWolfgang Schuble who calledon him here, Modi said he waslooking forward to the visit tomeet Chancellor Angela Merkelwhom he had first met inAustralia on the sidelines of G-20Summit in October last year.
DHOWAN ON FOUR-DAYMAURITIUS TOURNew Delhi: Navy Chief AdmiralRK Dhowan on Monday left on afour-day visit to Mauritius toconsolidate the ties and toexplore new avenues of defencecooperation. The Admiral, jointlywith his counterpart, Commis-sioner of Police, will inauguratethe data flow of the informationexchange on white shipping(merchant marine) for greatermaritime domain awareness tothe mutual benefit of both thecountries. He will also meetgovernment and defence officialsduring his stay in Mauritius, anofficial statement said.
RLYS 12.23% JUMP INFREIGHT EARNINGS New Delhi: Indian Railways hasposted over 12 per cent growthin earnings from freight trafficbetween April and December,2014. While it had earned`67,705.11 crore from freighttraffic during April-December2013, it collected `75,986.04crore in the correspondingperiod last year the increasein revenue standing at 12.23 percent, the Government said in astatement here.
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With Vice-Chancellor ofV i s w a - B h a r a t iShantiniketan Prof SushantaDatta Gupta embroiled in aslew of controversies, the HRDMinistry has cleared the decksfor the appointment of a pro-V-C at the university, a moveseen to clip the wings of theincumbent V-C.
While sources said that theDatta Gupta is likely to proceedon leave at the backdrop of sev-eral enquiries pending againsthim at the HRD Ministry andvigilance levels, Prof ChakradharTripathi will now be the inter-im V-C designated as the pro-V-C of Viswa-Bharati.
Tripathis name has beencleared and sent for approval tothe Visitor (president). A Hinditeacher specialising in Medievaland Modern Hindi poetry atthe university, Tripathi hadcalled on HRD Minister SmritiIrani last week.
While the HRD Ministry isalready enquiring into severalcomplaints against the V-Cincluding his alleged misap-propriation of funds, vigilanceenquiries are also pendingagainst him at the CentralVigilance Commission. Besidesseveral other complaints ofirregularities in appointmentsmatters, Datta Gupta has alsobeen accused of claiming pen-sions as a pensioner fromJawaharlal Nehru University.
Datta Gupta was foundguilty of sexual harassment ofa woman colleague in 2005 by
a Ministerial Committee set upby the Centre. He was asked tostep down immediately.
Thereafter, he allegedlyharassed another womanemployee in the university whois working as a museum guide.The employee concerned madea complaint to the National andState Womens Commissionand the matter is also underinvestigation.
The UPA Government hadalso selected him for a Padmaaward but his name cameunder controversy after theNational Commission forWomen (NCW) had written tothe then Prime MinisterManmohan Singh seeking thedecision to be overturned.
NCW alleged Datta Guptawas found guilty of sexualharassment by a ministerialcommittee set up by the min-ister of science and technolo-gy in 2005. The Centre did notgo ahead with conferring theaward to him as a result.
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Rising non-communicablediseases (NCDs) has begunto ring alarm bells particular-ly for India with a WHO reportreleased on Monday statingthat the probability of dyingfrom the disease among peoplein the 30 to 70-year age grouphas increased to 26.2 per centin 2012 from 26.1 per cent in2010 in the country.
It is worst than almost thewhole of sub-Saharan Africaand South Asia. As per theWHO, the four main NCDs arecardiovascular diseases, cancer,diabetes or chronic respirato-ry diseases which haveemerged as the leading cause offatalities globally.
Switzerland fares the bestwith a 9.2 per cent chance andTajikistan the worse with a
whopping 40.8 per cent chanceof a premature NCD death.Out of the world's 56 milliondeaths, NCDs were responsiblefor 68 per cent 38 milliondeaths in 2012 making it theleading cause of death global-ly, the report said.
India, in this report, hasbeen categorised as a low-mid-dle income country. ShanthiMendes, lead author of the
report said, India has theresources. It needs to strength-en its primary health care systemin an integrated way not with avertical approach and workingon universal health care cover-age. India has reached the spaceage but what about its people?
The report states that mostpremature NCD deaths arepreventable. Of the 38 millionlives lost to NCDs in 2012, 16
million or 42 per cent were pre-mature and avoidable upfrom 14.6 million in 2000.
The report has called formore action to be taken to curbthe epidemic, particularly inlow-and middle-income coun-tries, where deaths due to NCDsare overtaking those from infec-tious diseases. Almost threequarters of all NCD deaths (28million), and 82 per cent of the16 million premature deaths,occur in low-and-middle-income countries.
The nine targets includereduction in harmful use ofalcohol, insufficient physicalactivity, salt/sodium intake,tobacco use and hypertension,halt the rise in diabetes and ofobesity, and improve coverageof treatment for prevention ofheart attacks and strokes, as perthe report.
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The Bill that will pave the way forDNA profiling to identify unclaimeddead bodies will be introduced in thecoming Budget Session of Parliament,the Centre informed the Supreme Courton Monday.
Dealing with a PIL filed by NGOLokniti, the court had asked the Centreto explore if DNA profiling of dead bod-ies can be done as a step to ascertaintheir identities. Additional SolicitorGeneral (ASG) Neeraj Kishan Kaulinformed the Court that this will bemade possible through a bill titled TheHuman DNA Profiling Bill likely to beintroduced in the comingBudget Session subject toapproval by Cabinet.
Initially, the bill didnot incorporate this pro-vision but was later intro-duced after an ExpertCommittee headed byProfessor TS Rao recom-mended the same. TheBill provides for a DNAdatabank of several categories of personsfor purpose of crime detection andinvestigation of unidentified bodies fig-uring close to over 40,000.
While this will require a minimumof 400 DNA examiners and a cost of over`80 crore each year, at present, India hasonly 30-40 DNA technical examiners inits forensic laboratories. To profile 1.2billion population, an estimated 1,000DNA examiners will be needed.
Based on the statement of ASG, thebench headed by Justice Dipak Misraadjourned the PIL filed by NGO LoknitiFoundation to April, hoping the Bill tobe tabled in Parliament by then.
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With an aim to improve allaspects related to Railways,the Ministry of Railways hasinvited suggestions from thegeneral public to increase its rev-enue and reduce expenditure.Suggestions have also beensought to reduce purchase costof fuel and finding new avenuestreams for the Railways.
A senior Railways officialsaid that the aim of such anengagement is to help theRailways come closer to citizensand better understand chal-lenges that they experience andensure that most important areasfrom a citizens perspective findplace in the Railways priorities.The written suggestion can beposted on its official website innot more than 1,000 words.
Cash-strapped Railwaysrequire ` 1.18 lakh crore for 359ongoing projects. RailwayMinister Suresh Prabhu hasalready held deliberations withindustry bodies and chambersin the run up to the RailwayBudget which is expected to bepresented in the last week ofFebruary. Prabhu earlier thismonth invited suggestions fromthe public to make the forth-coming Budget citizen-oriented.
Suggestions have also beeninvited on introduction of newtrains, extension of trains, aug-mentation of trains, frequency oftrains, pantry cars and catering,railway lines, road over andunder bridges, crime prevention,safe running of trains, disastermanagement among others.
Railways seekssuggestions toraise revenues
Probability of NCD death on rise: WHO
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India does not need to adopta hawkish foreign policystance but has to be firm,responsible and strong in itsresolve to deal with its neigh-bours, Minister of State forHome, Kiren Rijiju, said hereon Monday.
Idea ofIndia is as asymbol ofpeace. Thereis no need toadopt hawk-ish (foreign)policy. We arenaturally a softpower. But
soft does not mean weak. Wehave to be firm, responsible andstrong in our resolve, he said atthe NIA Day function.
Terming that Indias basicbehaviour is soft, the Ministersaid, We must not agree to aposture of war but have to befirm and responsible, besidesbeing a stable power.
Meanwhile, lauding theNIA, he said, There have beenapprehensions among theStates about organisations likeNIA and NCTC. But the NIAhas proved that the apprehen-sions were ill-founded.
Earlier, delivering the sec-ond RV Raju memorial lectureon Pakistan andNeighbourhood: A HawkishAgenda, senior journalistShekhar Gupta underscoredvarious aspects of Indias influ-ence, including its democracy,on the neighbouring countries.
We can have good influ-ence on our neighbours, we canhave bad influence on ourneighbours. Neighbours alwayslook upon usEvery timeGovernment change (happens)in India peacefully, it tells all itsneighbours that this is what acountry should do, Gupta said.
Late RV Raju was the firstDG of NIA.
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The worlds largest borderguarding force, BSF, will getthe privilege of showcasing themaximum of five marching con-tingents, including two oncamels and one on motorcycles,at the Republic Day parade thisyear where US President BarackObama is the chief guest.
All other paramilitary forceslike CRPF and ITBP besides theArmy, Navy and the Air Forcewill have two squads (marchingand band) each on Rajpath.
BSF was scheduled to havefour contingents this time, a reg-ular feature every year, but thefifth squad of daredevil bike-borne Janbaaz was given a spe-cial entry, instead of the sched-uled Army team, on the requestof the Union Home Ministry asthe force is celebrating its 50th
anniversary of raising this year,official sources said.
The bike-borne devils per-form their stunts on RepublicDay alternatively in the BSFand Army teams. This time itwas the Armys turn but a spe-cial case was made for BSF inview of its golden jubilee.
The bullet motorcycle rid-ing Janbaaz stuntmen arerecord holders in various eventson their 350cc-Enfield bikesand the 210-strong team willperform over 13 acrobaticmanoeuvres during the parade.
The bikers are trained atBSFs Central School of MotorTransport, part of the BSFAcademy, Tekanpur.
Their name has featured inthe Limca Book of WorldRecords. In 2006, Janbaaz cre-ated two new world records byforming a Human Pyramid of 26
stuntmen riding on just 3 RoyalEnfield Bullet motorcycles, cov-ering a distance of 1 km in 1minute 16 seconds. The otherrecord was created by having 40stuntmen ride on just 1 Bulletmotorcycle covering a distanceof 32 meters in 48.11 seconds.
Apart from the regularfoot marching contingent fol-lowed by the brass band teams,the BSF will also showcase itscamel contingent and thecamel-mounted band team.
Incidentally, the camel-mounted band had performedbefore Obama when he visitedIndia in November 2010.
One of the camels in thisteam, 16-year-old Sangram willparticipate in its last RepublicDay parade this time as it is setto retire later this year. It hasperformed at Rajpath 10 timesin the past.
BSF deploys 12 additional unitsalong International Border in J&K
New Delhi: Britain has warnedIndia about possible attack byISIS and said all efforts mustbe taken to check activities ofthe Middle-East terroristgroup. British officials haveconveyed this to their Indiancounterparts at the Indo-UKCounter Terrorism JointWorking Group meeting heldin London on January 15-16.
Officials said that duringthe meeting, India had askedBritain to impress uponPakistan not to differentiatebetween good and bad ter-rorists in the wake of recentattack on a school in Peshawarand said that it must take a firmstand on why Pakistan hadbecome a nursery of terrorists.
We have asked Britain tobe alert about possible attack byLashkar-e-Taiba there. Britainin turn has warned us that anattack by ISIS could take placein India, an official said. Britainwas more focused on the ISISthreat than from Pakistan-based terror groups.
UK warns India
of possible
attack by ISIS
The BSF camel contingent during a rehearsal for the upcoming Beating Retreat ceremony in New Delhi on Monday PTI
BSF to showcase maximum 5
marching contingents this year
New Delhi: India has said a politeno' to the US for its proposal thatonly the American snipers bedeployed on the rooftops ofbuildings overlooking Rajpathduring the Republic Day paradewhere President Barack Obamawill be the chief guest. Withpreparations for the high-profilevisit beginning January 25 enteringthe last leg, top security officials ofthe two countries are engaged insorting out such issues aboutdeployment and other aspectsrelated to protection of the world'smost secured leader. Furnishing alist of demands to their Indiancounterparts, the US SecretServices officials wanted rooftopsoverlooking Rajpath as anexclusive domain for their men.This was politely turned down,officials involved in thearrangements said, adding the USofficials were asked not to interferein the security set up as the Indianofficials are well trained andequipped to provide protectivecover for the VVIP.
India does not need to adopthawkish foreign policy: Rijiju
India turns down
only US snipers
proposal
r In Panaji, Defence MinisterManohar Parrikar said: Thereports of terrorists trying toinfiltrate from across the borderare unnecessarily linked withObama's visit. From NorthernCommands information thishappens every year.
The applications were filed in
a disposed matter where the
SC on May 9, 2014 directed
CBI to probe all chit fund
scams, figuring over 500,
in Odisha and West Bengal
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fijian Attorney-General and the Minister forFinance, Public Enterprises, Public Service and Communications at a meeting in New Delhi on Monday PTI
Prime Minister