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Delhi minister summoned
NEW DELHI, Nov 22 (UNI) — Delhi Transport Minister
Parvez Hashmi has been summoned by the Lok Ayukta
following charges of corruption levelled against his
department in the recent hike of bus fares in the
Capital. Sources said Mr Hashmi had been told to appear
through a representative and the Principal Secretary and
Commissioner, Transport, would appear before the Lok
Ayukta on December 4. Talking to UNI, Mr Hashmi confirmed
that his department had received the summons but
challenged the Lok Ayukta’s jurisdiction in issuing
them.Corporators
unseated
NAVI MUMBAI, Nov 22 (UNI) — Nine Shiv Sena
corporators of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation,
have been unseated under the Anti-Defection Law. They had
deserted former Sena rebel Ganesh Naik’s camp, which
they had joined earlier deserting the ruling party. The
Sena’s effective strength in the 57-member civic
body has been reduced to 12 — just one more than the
Independent group.
Govt order
quashed
KOCHI, Nov 22 (PTI) — In a significant ruling, the
Kerala High Court today held buildings could not be
exempted solely on the basis of religion from the state
Rent Control Act as it would be against secular tenets
enshrined in the Constitution. "India is a secular
state and secularism is one of the basic features of the
Constitution. In such circumstances, exempting buildings
on grounds solely on religion whether it is owned by a
majority or minority community is opposed to the basic
principles of secularism enshrined in the
Constitution," a Division Bench of the court
observed.
10 killed
MULTAN, Nov 22 (AFP) — Eleven persons were killed
and 13 injured when a minibus carrying a wedding party
collided with a passenger bus in central Pakistani town,
the "police said today," it said the collision
took place in Serai Sidhu town, 105 km from here, late
yesterday when the driver of the minibus on his way to a
nearby village lost control while overtaking another
vehicle. The victims, all members of the same family,
included five children.
Road block
AGARTALA, Nov 22 (UNI) — The entire South Tripura
and parts of West Tripura districts remained cut off from
the capital city today following the Congress and
Trinamool Congress-sponsored road block at Bishramganj in
West Tripura in protest against militant attacks. The
police said here today that the road block started early
in the morning affecting the surface communication
between the capital town and South Tripura district and
West Tripura’s Sonamura subdivision. Negotiations
were on with the agitators to withdraw the blockade.
Jet crash
TOKYO, Nov 22 (Reuters) — A Japanese military jet
crashed into a power line today, leaving a wide swathe of
Tokyo without electricity, killing the plane’s two
crew members and narrowly missing a school. Witnesses
near the crash site in Saitama prefecture, some 20 km
north of the capital, said they heard a bang and then saw
the jet falling in flames into a field near a junior high
school. Some 800,000 houses in central and western Tokyo
were affected by the power cut, an official at Tokyo
Electric Power Co Ltd said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange
temporarily halted trade in bond futures and options.
LTTE claim
COLOMBO, Nov 22 (PTI) — The LTTE today claimed to
have captured a small town in northern Sri Lanka after
losing Madu town to the government troops yesterday and
warned residents of three other towns in north-west
Mannar district to vacate before its rebels launch an
attack there. Meanwhile, the Army withdrew from the
compound of the 17th century Dutch-built Catholic church
in Madu where 44 Tamil refugees were killed and the
church damaged yesterday in shelling allegedly by LTTE
rebels.
March
DHAKA, Nov 22 (PTI) — Bangladesh's former Prime
Minister and Leader of Opposition Khaleda Zia today led a
march of thousands of her party lawmakers and supporters
here to press for resignation of the Sheikh Hasina
Government. Addressing some 5,000 supporters, the leader
of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said the march
was a symbol of "people's urge" to oust the
Hasina Government.
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