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SC orders closure of foundries to save Taj Going for Modi not to be smooth
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Parking of vehicles near IGI airport banned New Delhi, October 3 The Delhi Police has issued an order to those parking vehicles near funnel point area of the Indira Gandhi International Airport on national highway number eight. The order was issued following a police analysis revealing that an attack could be made on the landing aircraft at the airport. ‘Curtail
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SIMI’s accounts may be frozen RSS holds procession amid tension Naidu confronts Naxals
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Italian pistol before murder Hindu
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SC orders closure of foundries to save Taj New Delhi, October 3 If the foundries do not shift to gas-based fuel by December 31, from the present coke/coal, they will be closed by the Agra administration, a Bench comprising Mr Justice M.B. Shah and Mr Justice R.P. Sethi said. The court ordered each individual foundry owner to file affidavit by October 10 regarding their readiness to shift to gas-based unit. The authorities would close on October 11 all such foundries whose owners do not file the undertaking before the court. Appearing for the Central Pollution Control Board, counsel Vijay Panjawani said the apex court, keeping in mind the damage caused to the white marble Mughal monument from the emissions, had ordered on December 31, 1996, that all these foundries were to be closed by December 31, 1997, if they did not shift to gas-based fuel. Taking strong exception to the non-implementation of the court order passed five years ago, the Bench said it was the duty of the government to implement the court order and the non-implementation only indicated the collusion between the authorities and the foundry owners. The court, while ordering the closure of the non-compliant industries, had directed the Uttar Pradesh Government to allot alternate plots to these foundries, unwilling to change the fuel from coke-coal to gas, outside the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ). Accordingly, the government had allotted plots to several industrial units outside the TTZ but not many industries shifted out of Agra, citing one or the other reason.
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Going for Modi not to be smooth New Delhi, October 3 Although he has the blessings of the party’s Central leadership, especially Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister L.K. Advani, besides the RSS, being its “pracharak”, Modi will have his task cut out. First, he will have to get himself elected to the Assembly within six months and bring-in some semblance of discipline in the rank and file of the party there by selecting carefully his Ministerial colleagues. He will also have to carry the faction-ridden party, and use organisational capabilities to boost image of the party. The 48-year-old OBC leader will also be expected to speed up rehabilitation work for the quake affected people. Modi, due to his abrasive style of functioning, was believed to be responsible for the rebellion by Shankersinh Vaghela splitting the BJP in the mid-90s and costing Keshubhai Patel his first job as CM. Modi earned the sobriquet of “Super CM” when Keshubhai first became Chief Minister in 1995 and Keshubhai Patel had many a time blamed Modi for all his problems and when he became the Chief Minister for the second time, he demanded of the central leadership that Gujarat should be made out-of-bounds for Modi. This factor could have an effect this time too, with 48 BJP seats falling in the Saurashtra region, from where Keshubhai Patel hails. The Central leadership here believes that like in the case of Uttar Pradesh, where Rajnath Singh brought instant success as far as boosting the image was concerned, Mr Modi, who is well-known for organisational capabilities, would repeat the same for the party in Gujarat. They also strongly believe that if at all there are some differences among the party leaders in Gujarat, Mr Modi, who has popularity among younger leaders there will be able to carry the folks together without hurting the feelings of senior leaders. The Central leadership also believes that the transition would be “very smooth” as at the end of the day Mr Modi emerged as a consensus candidate and none but Keshubhai agreed to propose Mr Modi’s name in the BJP Legislature Party meeting scheduled for tomorrow. |
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Pak national held for spying Varanasi, October 3 Senior Suprintendent of Police Anil Agarwal said the Pakistani national identified as Jalaluddin was caught red-handed while passing on information through e-mail at a cybercafe in the city area. Jalaluddin confessed during the interrogation that he was staying here for the past one year after he entered India on a fake passport. He also revealed he was passing information about Defence data and the Indian military installations and maps, Agarwal said at a press conference. The police recovered a fake passport, maps of Indian military installations and a diary containing addresses of several military officials in Pakistan. Jalaluddin said he had recently passed on secret data on Kolkata cantonment area besides other information to officials in Pakistan. He said he was working in India for Pakistan military.
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Parking of vehicles near IGI airport banned New Delhi, October 3 The order was issued following a police analysis revealing that an attack could be made on the landing aircraft at the airport. The order provides that there will be no assembly of people and parking of vehicles within 250 metres on either side of the funnel point. Passers-by used to park vehicles on the funnel point to watch aircraft. During weekdays the gathering becomes large and people parking vehicles on roadsides used to wait for hours to watch aircraft touch down. The police said at that altitude it was possible to use a high power rifle to fire at the aircraft. Since the area is largely unguarded the risk factor was grave. Keeping the security problem at the airport in view, the ban on parking of vehicle on the funnel point has been banned. PCR van will also be stationed there. |
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delegation to CPA conference’ New Delhi, October 3 According to the programme drawn by the CPA, a 100-member delegation, drawn from various states and Union Territories and led by Lok Sabha Speaker G M C Balayogi, is likely to participate and the first batch of delegates are expected to leave on October 10 for the week-long conference. In a letter dated September 26 addressed to the Lok Sabha Secretary-General, Mr G.C. Malhotra, the Joint Secretary (Coordination) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Mr V.S. Verma wanted to ascertain whether the conference would be held as per schedule and in that case advised the secretariat to drastically reduce the level of participation due to security reasons, highly placed sources told The Tribune. But even after the elapse of eight days and just a week left for the conference, the CPA India Chapter has not replied to the MEA letter, the sources said. When contacted, Deputy Secretary in the Lok Sabha Secretariat U.S. Saxena, who is dealing with the preparations for the conference, feigned ignorance about any such letter written by the MEA. |
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SIMI’s accounts may be frozen New Delhi, October 3 The proposed action aims at restricting the outfit’s activities in the country. The outfit’s portal would also be closed down to prevent mischief by its members. Since the outfit has two bank accounts in the Capital, one near its South Delhi head office and the other in Zakir Nagar, initially a probe would be conducted to find out whether there was any illegal transaction and action would be taken accordingly, said the official. Although SIMI has never admitted that its funds have been used for encouraging anti-national activities in the country, information available with intelligence agencies prove the outfit’s direct involvement in such activities. |
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RSS holds procession amid tension Bahraich, October 3 While on September 16 a district conference of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) here at Sir Sayyad College became the immediate cause for a ban on the 25-year-old organisation, a small Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) procession called “path sanchalan” through a route from Pipal ka Tirha to Ghantaghar was another attempt which if not properly handled could have become a cause for a communal flare-up. Preparations for the RSS march were done on a large scale as one saw over three dozen welcome gates erected on the march route starting from the local RSS-run school, Shishu Mandir. Even the route chosen by the organisers of the march was highly sensitive. While the administration was initially reluctant to grant permission for the use of the route, political pressure from Lucknow made the district authorities helpless. The RSS was insistent on the route as it wanted to show its clout, a local official said. While the district administration had rounded up eight of the top SIMI leaders after imposition of the ban, its followers and sympathisers numbering in hundreds were still there to take advantage of the situation. |
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Naidu confronts Naxals on rationale Hyderabad, October 3 At a crowded press conference at the secretariat, where 21 Naxalites surrendered, Mr Naidu first turned his attention to K. Venkateshwarulu, PWG Naxalite, who is a district committee member and also a sub-zonal committee member and carried a reward of Rs three lakh on his head. Mr Naidu wanted to know why was he surrendering and what role had he played in the movement. Venkateshwarulu told the Chief Minister that he joined the movement in 1985 to avoid harassment by the police. Mr Naidu then turned to another surrendered Naxalite, Thotakuri Linga Murthy (Deputy Commander) of ‘A’ section of military platoon (of the PWG) and asked the latter about the attack carried out by him with other Naxalites killing the Circle Inspector of the Bhupalapalli police station. He told the Chief Minister that he joined the Naxalite movement in 1995 after the landlords had grabbed 25 acres of land belonging to his family.
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Manu ‘bought’
Italian pistol before murder New Delhi, October 3 Surinder Singh, who owns Harayana Gun House at Ambala Cantonment, told the court that a second-hand foreign pistol No-B 56943-UP. Beretta made in Italy was sold to Manu. The licence for the pistol was valid up to September, 1999. Identifying Manu in the court room, 42 year-old arms dealer said that he bought the pistol from a woman Azra Javed, from Haridwar on December 19, 1998 and sold the same to Manu in January 1999.
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Mahasabha raps PM New Delhi, October 3 Hindu Mahasabha president Dinesh Chandra Tyagi said the “pleadings” of Mr Vajpayee and External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh before the USA to put an end to terrorism in Kashmir were reflective of the nation’s “weakness and cowardice.” The Prime Minister’s act of writing a letter to the US President in this regard was itself “shameful”.
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U-turn facility under flyover New Delhi, October 3 The U-turn facility would solve the problem of motorists desiring to take the short route to reach their destinations more safely without waiting at traffic signals. Similar U-turns would be provided under the Savitri, IIT and Ashram flyovers, he said. |
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