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Pranab assumes charge as FM, faces tough task
the economy currently being battered by the global recession Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee took charge of the high-profile Finance
Ministry on Monday.
Bangladesh evacuates thousands as cyclone nears its shores
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overnight took refuge at makeshift emergency shelters along
southwestern Bangladesh coastlines as a cyclone brewing in the Bay of
Bengal heads towards its shores.
Officials said the under the influence
of the advancing cyclone 'Aila', tidal surges lashed the coastlines
damaging nearly a dozen of flood control structures like dams,
marooning thousands others.
The Met office earlier on Monday issued
the "danger signal no 7" in a scale of 10 revising the earlier signal
no 6 for southwestern Mongla Port while the southeastern Chottagong and
Cox's Bazar ports were asked to hoist danger signal 6.
Strong winds and tidal surges have already started battering the coastal villages.
Television channels reported that
packing winds up to 100 kilometres per hour alongwith heavy rains, the
Aila started crossing West Bengal-Khulna coasts near Sagar Island in
West Bengal at around 2 pm.
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Email this storyThe return to government of India's Congress Party
with added authority last week was a remarkable victory for an unusual
political partnership.
Manmohan Singh, the 76-year-old
Oxford-educated economist, will continue as prime minister with a
mandate to re-energize the economic reform program he began in 1991.
But
Singh keeps his post because he has been chosen by Sonia Gandhi, the
Italian-born widow of murdered former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who
against all expectations, including her own, has become the dominant
force in Indian politics and leader of the Congress Party.
Singh
is her front man and expert in policy and administration while Gandhi
excels at the behind-the-scenes political bartering and bargaining that
are the life blood of democracies everywhere, but especially in India.
Some
eyebrows were raised when she picked Singh to be prime minister after
the 2004 election when the campaign she led put the Congress Party in a
position to gather a coalition able to command a majority in parliament.
As
finance minister in the early 1990s, Singh had begun the process of
dismantling the Soviet-style command economy favoured by successive
Indian governments in the decades after independence from Britain in
1947.
And as well as presenting the acceptable face of market
capitalism, Singh has a reputation for absolute honesty in a political
culture that swims in a sea of graft. And he is personally modest and
unassuming in a milieu that thrives on charisma and glamour. Some
concluded Gandhi picked Singh because he represented no threat to the
Gandhi-Nehru family dynasty she controls and which has dominated the
Congress Party and provided India with three prime ministers since
independence.
But it was a wonder, owing much to Gandhi's backroom skills, that Singh's government survived the last five years.
The
Congress-led coalition depended for its survival on several regional
communist parties, which raised bitter opposition to some of his
economic reform plans, including the privatizing of pension funds and
the encouragement of foreign investment.
The communists became
totally apoplectic and finally withdrew their support from the Congress
Party over Singh's deal with George W. Bush to have the United States
recognize India as a nuclear power and mentor New Delhi into the good
graces of the international nuclear regulation fraternity.
The
expectation among most observers and analysts was that this month-long
election, which began in mid-April and involved over 740 million
voters, would produce yet another weak coalition dominated, as they
have been for 20 years, by regional and caste-based parties making
demands far beyond their stature. So it was a surprise when Congress
won 261 seats in the 543-seat lower house of parliament and was easily
able to put together a solid majority of 322 seats.
Most credit
for that must go to Sonia Gandhi. She produced the strategy for
confronting the power of the small regional parties and returning
Congress to its position as the natural party of power it lost after
1991 when her husband Rajiv was killed by a Tamil suicide bomber.
She
insisted on using government revenues bloated by the boom years since
2003, when the Indian economy has grown at nine per cent a year and
more, on schemes aimed at the rural poor, who number at least 300
million among the country's 1.1 billion people.
Mountains of
rupees have been directed at social, health and education spending as
well as public works projects in the countryside, food subsidies and
expensive loan repayment waivers for farmers.
If Singh was appalled by this assault on market economy orthodoxy, he kept it to himself.
But
the electoral result was to sideline the small socialist and communist
parties, and to give Singh a strong hand to drive his own agenda in the
new parliament.
India's markets certainly believe that Singh will
plough ahead with free-market reforms and restructuring that had to be
shelved during the last five years of communist party influence.
Last
Monday India's bellwether Sensex index rocketed up 2,000 points and
twice tripped "circuit breakers" designed to curb excessive market
movement. The first trip came 40 seconds after the market opened and
the second 20 seconds after the floor was re-opened after a two-hour
cooling off period.
But how long Singh will be around to take
advantage of his victory is another question. He had heart surgery
earlier this year and may not want or be able to finish his five-year
term.
And there is a third person in this political partnership.
Rahul Gandhi, 38, is Sonia's son and not only won election to
parliament this time, but is credited with much of the organizational
reform that toned the Congress party for the campaign.
Sonia
Gandhi has always insisted Rahul must earn his political legitimacy.
Many observers say that in two years time, when he is 40 and the same
age as when his father, Rajiv, became prime minister, Rahul will have
earned his stripes.
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| 21 killed, over a lakh hit as cyclone Aila strikes!At least 21 persons were killed and more than one lakh people hit as a cyclone spawned by a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal pounded large parts of West Bengal and coastal Orissa today leaving a trail of devastation and crippling normal life in the two states However, the good news from the Met department is that cyclone Aila has started gradually weakening. In neighbouring Bangladesh which is in the path of the cyclone, The highest number of 14 deaths in West Bengal was reported from "The cyclone, now lying stationery 50 km west of Kolkata, hit West "Rains, however, will continue throughout tomorrow," he said. A severe storm with a windspeed of 110 kmph, accompanied by heavy Unofficial reports, however, put the toll at 26 and the number of affected at over two lakh. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight |
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I have already written about IPL Economics. Now I am writing about IPL Politics which has taken over Indian Political Economy. The Reality Show continues and nothing is out of the Holy Script!
activists, civil society and, of course, his family as the iconic
Binayak Sen was on Monday granted bail by the Supreme Court after being
held for more than two years under unproven charges of links with
Maoists in Chhattisgarh.
'Team Manhmohan' stated its second innings! The market is agog with expectations of revival of the PSU divestment
policy with the second coming of the Congress-led United Progressive
Alliance government at the centre, even as finance minister Pranab
Mukherjee got down to the task of budget preparation.
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Cyclone Aila made a landfall in West Bengal
today, killing 19 people, affecting over a lakh and leaving behind a
trail of destruction before gradually weakening. The cyclone slammed into the coastal areas of eastern India and Bangladesh on Monday. Orissa
is also effected badly. The CYCLONE affected areas INHIBIT our people,
Indigenous, Aboriginal, Minority Communities and Refugees! The
Political and Administrative system Over ENGAGED in IPL Politics and
Hundred day MASS DESTRUCTION Agenda of the Desi ILLUMINATI, the India
Incs NEVER cared to cope with such a SITUATION as it helps Wanted
DEMOGRAPHIC Readjustment to SUSTAIN HEGEMONY RULE in the PERIPHERY
Economy!
Cyclone Aila rolled into the region, with 110-km/h winds forcing
authorities to shut down operations at ports in Bangladesh and the
Indian state of West Bengal, said B.K. Bandhopadhyaya, an official at
the Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi.
As cyclone
'Aila' brought life in West Bengal to a halt, Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee on Monday spoke to Defence Minister A K Antony and sought
assistance of the armed forces to help the civil administration in
rescue operations.
Soon after assuming charge of the
Finance Ministry, Mr. Mukherjee called up Mr. Antony seeking help from
the armed forces for rescue operations, officials said here on Monday.
Mr. Mukherjee told Mr. Antony that the
Sundarbans, the habitat of Royal Bengal Tiger, have been badly affected
by the cyclone and early assistance is required there.
The Finance Minister also called up
Home Minister P Chidambaram and West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee to asses the situation.
Three persons were killed in the
metropolis and seven others injured with hundreds of mud houses
collapsing in neighbouring districts as cyclone 'Aila' hit the state on
Monday.
The army has been alerted by the state authorities.
All flights, including international
ones, at the N S C Bose International Airport were suspended from 1400
hours due to the storm.
Commissioner Lalit Modi claimed after Sunday's final that the Indian Premier League had become a global phenomenon.
The
claim might have been a touch extravagant, but there could be no doubt
that the second version of cricket's richest tournament, moved at short
notice from India to South Africa, contributed to a change in world
cricket's landscape.
Despite the IPL insisting the International
Cricket Council official tours programme took precedence, there were
alarming signs for the game's administrators that their hold on top
players was weakening.
A graphic illustration was the late
departure of West Indian captain Chris Gayle from the IPL. He opted to
play an extra game for the struggling Kolkata Knight Riders and joined
his Caribbean team-mates only two days before the first Test against
England.
Gayle offended traditionalists when he said he wouldn't
be sad to give up both the captaincy and Test cricket as he underlined
an uncomfortable reality for administrators around the world.
While
Gayle reluctantly led the West Indies to two crushing Test defeats,
recently retired international players like Australians Matthew Hayden
and Adam Gilchrist were able to play the full IPL programme.
The
West Indies were playing in England only because Sri Lanka withdrew to
enable their star players such as Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara
and Lasith Malinga to play in the IPL.
England stars Kevin
Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, both signed for 1.55 million dollars a
season, could play only a handful of IPL games - but Flintoff added to
a recent history of injuries and was unable to play for his country.
While
England did not stop Flintoff from playing in the IPL, Australia took a
tougher line with contracted players Nathan Bracken, Shane Watson and
James Hopes.
All suffered injuries and were prevented from
joining the league because Australia wanted to make sure they were fit
to play for their country.
With the money on offer from the IPL, however, insisting on such loyalty may become increasingly difficult.
Modi's
vision of creating a tournament to rival the big European football
leagues was advanced by staging the five-week, 59-match tournament
across South Africa.
The concept of the world's best players
linking up to franchises for the highest bidders made a change from the
traditional diet of international cricket and South African crowds
flocked to see the games.
The extravagance of the IPL promotion,
fuelled by a television deal worth more than a billion dollars over 10
years, confirmed India as the financial powerhouse of world cricket.
South Africa and Australia entrenched their position in the big-money league as founder members of the Champions League.
The
first edition will be played in India between October 8-13 after being
postponed last year because of a terror attack on Mumbai.
Three
teams from India, two from Australia, South Africa and England and the
champions of New Zealand, West Indies and Sri Lanka will play for six
million dollars in prize money.
Cyclone ravages Bangla coastlines, 11 killed
Dhaka (PTI) At least 11 people, mostly
children, were killed on Monday as cyclone "Aila", packing windspeed of
up to 100 kilometres per hour, slammed into the southern coastlines of
Bangladesh bursting embankments, levelling houses and flooding
low-lying localities.
The Met office said the main brunt of
the cyclone spared Bangladesh as West Bengal suffered the storm fury
but at least five deaths were caused alone in the coastal Bhola
district, which appeared to be the worst-affected area according to
initial reports.
"The cyclone crossed the coastline after the evening," a Met office spokesman told PTI.
Five deaths were reported from Bhola,
three from Noakhali, one from Barisal, one from Jhalkathi and one from
Patuakhali, with most of the victims being children.
Officials reached here by phone said
some 30 people including three children were missing in southeastern
Cox's Bazar, where the cyclone also left its scourge breaking up
embankments.
"At least 50,000 people took refuge at
cyclone shelters but another 100,000 are believed to be marooned by
gushing waters due to sudden embankment collapse in 13 upazilas
(sub-districts)," Red Crescent spokeswomen Rezia Jobed told PTI.
Trinamool
Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she would formally take
charge as the Railway Minister at the Eastern Railway Headquaters here
and not at Rail Bhavan in Delhi.
"I am unable to go to Delhi. I have to
stand by the people of those affected by the cyclone that has hit West
Bengal. I will take charge as Railway Minister at the Eastern Railway
headquarters here tomorrow," Mamata told PTI.
She has said that six more MPs would take oath in the Manmohan Singh government on Tuesday.
The Centre has decided to consider the mercy petitions of Parliament
attack convict Afzal Guru and 27 other prisoners on death row and take
a decision whether to accept or reject them, Home Minister P
Chidambaram said in New Delhi on Monday.
Chidambaram indicated that Afzal's petition would be taken up after
similar pleas by 21 others who are listed in sequence before him.
He was answering queries from reporters whether the Centre has
worked out any policy for expediting consideration of the mercy
petitions of prisoners sentenced to death.
"There are 28 cases on death row. I have asked the Home Secretary to
take up those cases in order in which they appear on that list and to
ensure that a decision is taken whether the mercy petition should be
accepted or rejected. We will advise the President accordingly,"
Chidambaram said.
"The Home Secretary will now take up the first case and follow it
through and we will go down in that order," Chidambaram said, adding
"...They (officers) will update me on each case one by one."
To a question when would the mercy petition of Afzal Guru be taken
up, Chidambaram replied "he (Afzal) sits on serial number 22. This has
been said many times and I want you to remember these two numbers--22
out of 28."
Israeli Phalcon to land in India today!
Escorted by combat jets,
the first of three Indian Air Force (IAF) "eye-in-the-sky" airborne warning and
control systems (AWACS) flew
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Monday and will be formally inducted into the force here Thursday.
The giant IL-76 heavy transport aircraft, configured in its new
avatar, was escorted by three MiG-29s and an equal number of Jaguars as it
entered Indian airspace.
India will host a multi-nation Champions League Twenty20 competition
in October to cash in on the growing popularity of the sport's shortest
version, organisers said on Monday.
The tournament, featuring the
top domestic T20 teams from seven countries, will be held from October
8-23, Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi said in a statement.
The
12-team event will offer six million dollars as prize money which Modi,
who also heads the Champions League, said was the "biggest prize in
world cricket at a domestic competition level."
India will field
three teams, Australia, South Africa and England two each, while New
Zealand, Sri Lanka and the West Indies will have one team each.
India's Deccan Chargers and Bangalore Royal Challengers, which
contested the IPL final in Johannesburg on Sunday, gained a direct
entry into the Champions League along with Delhi Daredevils, who topped
the IPL preliminary round.
Australia will be represented by their
domestic T20 finalists Victoria and New South Wales, while Cape Cobras
and Eagles will fly South Africa's flag.
Pakistan,
which was earlier nominated to send one team, will not feature this
year due to Islamabad's refusal to send sporting teams to India amid
political tensions between the neighbours, Modi said.
The two English county teams will be finalised on August 25 when their domestic Twenty20 Cup ends.
Otago
(New Zealand), Trinidad and Tobago (West Indies) and Wayamba (Sri
Lanka) will be the other teams in the fray in the 23-match event.
The
12 teams will be divided into four groups with the top two from each
group advancing to the next round. The top four teams in the second
round will move to the semi-finals.
The draw will be held in
London on June 23, two days after the International Cricket Council's
World Twenty20 ends. The match venues will be finalised later.
The
Champions League was earlier scheduled to be held in December last year
but was postponed following the Mumbai terror strikes in November which
killed 166 people.
Tel Aviv: Indian Air Force pilots are all set to fly home first of
the three Israeli Phalcon AWACS, India’s most potent force multiplier,
capable of tracking down incoming missiles and peep into neighbouring
countries without violating their airspace.
“The Russian supplied Ilyushin-76 mounted system, a part of the
tripartite agreement between India, Israel and Russia, will take off
from the Ben-Gurion airport on Sunday , first for Uvda in the southern
Israeli coastal town of Eilat,” Defence Sources here said. “Later in
the night it will fly from Eilat to Jamnagar, reaching India on Monday
,” the sources said.
The all weather system, capable of logging 60 targets
simultaneously with a range of 400 km, is primarily used for detection
of incoming hostile cruise missiles and aircraft from hundreds of
kilometres away, as well as directing air defence fighters during
combat operations against enemy jets.
It also helps detect troop build up in hostile territories. India’s
frontline IAF fighters like Sukhoi-30MKIs, Mirage-2000s and Jaguars
after the supply of the aircraft will be backed by “eyes in the sky” to
look much beyond its existing capability through direct data linking.
The delivery of the first of the three aircraft, bought at a
whopping price of $1.1 billion, is almost a year and a half behind
schedule. Much of the delay is being attributed to technical
difficulties arising while integrating the Ilyushin-76 aircraft with
the whole system.
The remaining two aircraft would be delivered by Mid or late 2010,
if everything goes on schedule, the sources said. India and Israel are
said to be in advanced talks for the purchase of several more Phalcon
AWACS, which the IAF proposes to integrate with other air and ground
assets.
All the AWACS bought from Israel would be linked with the country’s
first military satellite proposed to be launched by mid next year.
The Phalcons will provide the IAF with intelligence inputs, helping
it to maintain air superiority, improve strike capabilities and conduct
tactical surveillance deep into neighbouring countries. The U.S. had
earlier pressurised Israel to cancel a similar deal with China in 2000
but gave, green light to the deal with India in May 2003. Israel has
recently emerged as India’s largest supplier of defence equipments with
the country’s weapon sales to New Delhi constituting about 50 per cent
of its arms exports. — PTI
Mud embankments in West Bengal burst as heavy rains swelled the rivers, officials said.
The storm uprooted trees and brought down communication lines in Calcutta, West Bengal's state capital.
Tourists along the southern coast in the resort region of Digha were being told to stay inside.
"The situation is very grave, countless families have been
displaced, especially in the Sundarbans," Sundarbans state minister
Kanti Ganguly told Reuters.
Meanwhile, the storm triggered tidal waves in the Bay of Bengal that
slammed into low-lying coastal Bangladesh, damaging thousands of
houses, officials said. At least seven people are believed to have been
killed in the surges, said officials.
Thousands of people were evacuated from the Khulna district ahead of
the storm but about 15,000 people are believed to still be stranded in
eight flooded villages, authorities said.
"Thousands of families have been moved to shelters and many left on
their own," Salahuddin Chowdhury, an official of the Cyclone
Preparedness Centre in Chittagong, told Reuters.
Shrimp farms were also washed away by the waves and rice fields were covered in water.
The storm began to weaken in the evening, said G.C. Debnath, an official at the local meteorological office.
But the Bangladesh Meteorology Department said the ports at
Chittagong, Mongla and Cox's Bazar will remain closed until further
notice.
"My mother, sister and I have spent the last two years in struggle and hoping...it was painful living without my father and knowing he was in jail," she sighed.
"The family will finally be united," she said.
On the other hand ,Normal life was disrupted in several parts of coastal Orissa as heavy rains accompanied by high-velocity wind pounded many areas on Monday under the impact of a cyclonic storm. Low-lying areas were inundated in coastal districts like Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore districts due to incessant rains since yesterday, damaging around 400 thatched huts, sources said adding no loss of life has been reported so far.
District Magistrate Choten D Lama said, "Tourists were stuck at various points from Digha to Kolaghat by uprooted trees and electrical poles. Steps are being taken to clear the roads."
There was no power and scarcity of drinking water in the district following the storm.
Ms. Lama said crops, particularly paddy and betel, grown on 60,000 acres were damaged.
Coastal areas of South 24-Parganas and Midnapur districts of West Bengal are also likely to be inundated, it added.
Team Manmohan takes charge
New Delhi Team Manmohan took charge of office
today as key cabinet ministers assumed their respective roles along
with the Prime Minister. Those who took over their offices included
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P Chidambaram and
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee took charge of the
his ministry on Monday, a portfolio he held 25 years ago in the
government led by Indira Gandhi.
The first task before Mukherjee, who was also in
charge of the Finance Minister in the previous government, would be to
present the budget for 2009-10 and spell out policies and priorities of
the new UPA government.
64-year-old Chidambaram is one among the 19
Cabinet ministers who were sworn-in on May 22, along with Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh.
Chidambaram, a Harvard educated lawyer, was
shifted to the Home Ministry from the Finance Ministry by the Prime
Minister in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack last year which led to
the resignation of Shivraj Patil from the post.
He has earned the reputation of being a good
economic administrator capped by his image as a tough taskmaster during
his short stint as the Home Minister.
Chidambaram has been focusing on reorganising the
intelligence network, tightening the provisions in the anti-terror laws
and amending the CISF Act.
Pawar takes charge as Agriculture Minister
NCP-supremo Sharad Pawar on Monday took charge as
Minister of Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution, beginning his tenure for the second time.
Pawar convened a meeting of senior officials and
took stock of the situation in the agriculture, which would require a
fresh impetus in the face of increasing debt burden on farmers despite
loan waivers.
He takes over the reigns of the agriculture
affairs when the country has harvested a bumper foodgrain production
and the central pool are overflowing with wheat and rice.
India is estimated to have harvested a record over
99 million tonnes of rice in 2008-09 season. Wheat output is pegged at
77.63 million tonnes, which is slightly less than last year's record
78.57 million tonnes.
On the back of bumper production and higher support price, the Centre has procured record wheat and rice in the ongoing season.
From a situation when India had to go in for
imports in 2006, lifting ban on exports of wheat and non-basmati rice
could be Pawar's first major administrative decision in the coming days
in his second tenure at Krishi Bhavan.
Vienna backlash: 2 die as violence spreads across Punjab
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Posted: May 25, 2009 at 1604 hrs IST
Jalandhar
Two people have died as tension mounted in Punjab on Monday with
violence breaking out in several parts of the state following the
attack on the head of Dera Sachkhand Baland and his supporters in
Vienna on Sunday.
Mobs torched three trains, including Jammu Express,
but no one was reported injured. Unconfirmed reports said two persons
were killed in police firing. Reports of violence have also come from
Amritsar, Patiala and Nawanshahr. A showroom of Hyundai motors in
Jalandhar was torched destroying at least 15 brand news cars.
Police fired in the air and curfew was imposed in
at three cities of Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur.
Traffic on the national highway and train services have been
disruppted. Protesters also burnt down a train at Dakola near here but
one was reported injured.
Army has been called out in certain parts of Jalandhar and has been put on alert all across the state.
Last night followers of the sect had torched
several vehicles and indulged in arson in Jalandhar. Senior
Superintendent of Police R K Jaiswal said security forces have been
deployed at sensitive points to check any untoward incident.
At least 30 people were injured, nine of them
seriously when two groups had clashed with knives and handgun at a
gurdwara in Vienna on Sunday.
Meanwhile markets in several areas of Punjab, including Patiala, have been closed and bus service has been suspended.
Sources said that the second-in-command of the sect
Sant Ramanand who was shot in Vienna died early Monday morning, as he
had suffered gun shots.
Around 500 persons at Lambra tried to burn the police station.
The army and police personnel were gheroed by the
mob and in self defence army personnel fired and thus one person died
and another was injured. Also a gunman of IG (Jalandhar) Sanjiv Kalra
was also injured in the incident.
A mob entered in Maqsudan police station burnt one
Tata sumo, one motorcycle and shattered glasses of seven other vehicles
parked in the malkhana of the police station.
Around 150 persons gathered and entered into the
Patiala bus stand and damaged the buses. A Punjab roadways bus coming
to Chandigarh from Batala was damaged at Nawanshhar.
Also the Chandigarh-Jalandhar highway was blocked
at Banga by the protestors. SSP Jalandhar, RK Jaiswal said, "some 12
cases have been registered by the police for arson and some half dozen
people have been rounded-up."
While the army has started flag march in
Jalandhar. Harcharan Bains Media adviser to the CM said, "it was a very
tragic incident in Vienna the state government strongly condemns this
incident. As mark of sympathy, solidarity the Shiromani Akai Dal has
decided to call a peaceful bandh of commercial establishments across
the state.’"
"The Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal is in touch
with the MEA. Also a all party meeting has been called by the CM
Parkash Singh Badal tomorrow at Chandigarh for peace," he said.
Bains said, "about a dozen buses have also been burnt in the state."
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Vienna-backlash-2-die-as-violence-spreads-across-Punjab/465414/
‘IPL primes India for World Cup’
; Press Trust of India
JOHANNESBURG, 24 MAY: Youngsters gaining experience in handling
pressure, the emergence of match-winning part-timers and valuable
practice are the positives Indians have taken from the Indian Premier
League as they get ready to defend their Twenty20 World Championship
crown next month, says skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
“Well, the good thing in this tournament that will really help us in
the International Cricket Council World Cup Twenty20 meet is the
emergence of part-timers who have done really well," he said, naming,
among others, Yusuf Pathan and Pragyan Ojha.
“Most of the spinners are part-timers who are parts of the side; they
have bowled in that particular time when you, as a bowler, are under
pressure. The experience will really count as this tournament had many
games that went really close. Most of the Indian batsmen ... or maybe
the bowlers who were parts of winning moments, were under pressure.
They will handle the pressure well when it comes to an international
Twenty20 game," Dhoni said. He said he had been impressed by the
domestic talent he had seen during the championship in South Africa.
“We have seen new domestic players come up and perform at this level.
Overall, you can say, it was a good tournament for us. Also, last
year's IPL helped the Indian team perform better in the Twenty20 and
one-day formats. Hopefully, this year's tournament will take us to the
next level,” he said.
The Chennai Super Kings had been the runners-up last year but crashed
out at the semi-final stage this season. Dhoni said the team had been
undone by injuries to some key bowlers.
Nor was the wicketkeeper-batsman all that happy with his team's
fielding. “Well, of course, it's a batsman's game; people say it's a
batsman's game but bowlers are important because they definitely
contribute to the team's efforts. Our bowling department was very
fragile from the very start. Injuries never really help,” he said,
adding: “Sudeep Tyagi, Albie Morkel and Manpreet Singh Gony suffered
injuries. That was a problem. But, overall, I am quite happy with the
performance of our side. We definitely need to field better. We are
actually a better fielding side than we looked like in this tournament.
Hopefully, next year, we will be a better fielding side.”
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CPM man hacked in Nandigram
;Statesman News Service
TAMLUK, 24 MAY: Even after the conclusion of the Lok Sabha elections, violence has not left long-suffering Nandigram alone.
A 55-year-old CPI-M worker and his family members were badly hacked,
allegedly by Trinamul Congress workers, and they are now battling for
their lives in the hospital.
Mr Santosh Barman, a party member of the CPI-M's Satengabari branch
committee and his family members were attacked by the alleged Trinamul
Congress workers soon after the end of a meeting of newly elected
Trinamul Congress MP Mr Subhendu Adhikari at nearby Ranichawk
yesterday, apparently because they had led the CPI-M party during the
election.
A severely injured Mr Barman and his wife and son were first taken to
the Kamardah hospital from where they were shifted to the
Tamluk district hospital as their conditions were stated to be
critical. Today, Mr Barman was shifted to the SSKM hospital in
Kolkata as his condition was deteriorating fast.
Mr Ashok Guria, CPI-M district secretariat member alleged: “The
Trinamul Congress workers had chopped Mr Barman and his son
mercilessly. Mr Barman is now in a coma in the SSKM.
“He needed a total of 53 stitches as the attackers had hacked at him
all over his body and broke both his hands and legs. They also had not
spared his wife. They
kicked her abdomen so badly that bleeding from her private parts has not been stopped till today. We
have lodged a complaint with the Nandigram police demanding the immediate arrest of the culprits,” Mr Guria said.
When asked, Mr Abu Taher, a Trinamul Congress leader in Nandigram said:
“He was not attacked by our workers for political reasons, but he could
have been attacked for other reasons”.
Underdogs rule
; Agencies
JOHANNESBURG, 24 MAY: Deccan Chargers completed an extraordinary
journey from being at the bottom of the table last year to win the
second edition of the Indian Premier League, defeating Royal
Challengers Bangalore by six runs in a pulsating final at the New
Wanderers here Sunday.
Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds, who has not been included in the
Australian team to defend the Ashes in England this year, led the
Deccan Chargers to a six-run victory over the Royal Challengers,
boosting the Chargers' innings with 33 from 21 balls.
South Africa's one-day opener Herschelle Gibbs batted through the innings to score 53 not out in the Chargers' 143 for six.
Promising South African all-rounder Roelof van der Merwe (32) and New
Zealander Ross Taylor (27) mounted a spirited response before Symonds
took two wickets with two balls and Bangalore finished on 137 for nine.
Van der Merwe struck three sixes from 21 balls and Taylor was also in
threatening form before Symonds had Taylor caught hooking by Venugopal
Rao at deep square-leg in the 15th over and wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist
pulled off a brilliant leg-side stumping to dismiss Virat Kohli (7) off
the next delivery. Bangalore went into the final over needing 15 runs
to win, but Rudra Pratap Singh, the leading wicket-taker in the
competition, frustrated their efforts with his canny variations.
Earlier, Bangalore captain Anil Kumble scythed through the early
batting, bowling Gilchrist for a duck in the first over and also
removing Symonds. Legspinner Kumble, who opened the bowling himself
after opting to field on winning the toss at the Wanderers, bowled with
good flight and accuracy to return figures of 4-16 in four overs.
Herschelle Gibbs top-scored for Deccan with an unbeaten 53 while Andrew
Symonds was the next best performer with 33. Gibbs smashed three
boundaries and two sixes in 48 balls while Symonds faced 21 balls and
cracked four boundaries and a six. The pair shared a third wicket stand
of 40 runs to bring the Deccan innings back on track after the setback
of losing in-form captain Adam Gilchrist in the first over.
Brief scores: Deccan Chargers 143/6 (Gibbs 53*, Kumble 4/16) Royal Challengers Bangalore 137/9 (Ojha 3/28, Symonds 2/18)
CPM policies helped Cong, feels Karat
KOLKATA,
24 MAY: The CPI-M general secretary, Mr Prakash Karat, feels that
pro-people programmes adopted by the Congress-led UPA under sustained
pressure by the Left parties have actually helped the Congress to
secure a remarkable victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.
Following the CPI-M's debacle in Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal and
Kerala, Mr Karat has written an article in his party mouthpiece ~
People’s' Democracy ~ claiming that the role played by Left Parties in
the Parliament had forced the UPA to take many pro-people policies
which helped UPA notching up an amazing victory. The comment came at a
time when the CPI-M is busy in a soul-searching exercise to find out
the reasons behind party's unprecedented electoral setback.
Analysing the “reason for Congress success”, Mr Karat, stated in his
article that some measures and social welfare programmes (taken by the
UPA under the pressure of the Left Parties) have had a "positive
impact" on the people.
His article states: "Despite the neo-liberal predilections of the
Congress-led government, some of the measures adopted have had a
positive impact on the people. These are the NREGA which now extends to
the entire country, the Tribal Forest Rights Act and the increase in
the minimum support price for rice and wheat, the loan waiver scheme
for farmers and some such measures, many of whom were brought under the
pressure of the Left parties." Mr Karat commented that despite the
agrarian crisis, such measures provided "some relief" to the rural
people. He also pointed out that UPA's success in electoral battle
should be seen in the light of some policies of various state
governments such as providing rice at Rs 1 or 2 per kilogram to the
people. He however didn't explain why majority of the electorate of
West Bengal refused to vote for Left Front though the CPI-M-led
government. ;SNS
‘Left lost touch with ground reality’
;Agencies
New Delhi, 24 MAY: The CPI-M seems to be feeling bitter about its
allies like BSP and JD-S switching sides to the UPA after the Third
Front's electoral debacle, with a senior party leader saying the
post-poll developments have proved that the “cut and paste” alliance
was a mistake. Mr Yechury admitted that the party had “lost touch” with
the ground reality in its bastions of West Bengal and Kerala.
“You are right about BSP, JD-S and TRS and that is precisely the point
that I am making, our decision is that it was neither credible nor
viable and this (deserting the pre-poll alliance) only confirmed that,”
CPI-M Politburo member Mr Sitaram Yechury has said.
Mr Yechury was responding to questions on Karan Thapar's Devil's
Advocate programme whether it was a mistake to ally with parties which
were earlier with the BJP. BSP and JD-S are now supporting the
Congress-led government while TRS has crossed over to the NDA.
“That is why in retrospect, we are saying that people did not find it
(Third Front) credible,” he said to a question on whether they chose
wrong allies like the BSP. To a spate of questions on reported demands
for general secretary Mr Prakash Karat's resignation, he said the
Central Committee would be meeting in June to analyse the causes for
the debacle and noted that Mr Karat's quitting would only imply
“escaping from responsibility”.
Asked whether veteran Marxist Jyoti Mr Basu had advised against
breaking ties with the UPA, Mr Yechury said he might have had his
opinions which were raised in party committees, “but there is no advice
that has come to us.”
On Mr Karat, Mr Yechury maintained that the Communist parties
functioned on the principles of collective function and individual
responsibility.
“It will have to be a collective assessment that we will make of these
results ... And remember, resignation also can be escape from
responsibilities.”
To questions on critical views expressed by senior leaders and former
MPs that the CPI-M leadership had “lost touch” with the ground reality,
he said “all issues will be discussed by us and we will come to a
self-critical conclusion.”
This was the first time in last two decades that the party has no role
in a secular government at the Centre and that is why the people had
expressed disappointment, he said, adding the CPI-M numbers in Lok
Sabha this time have plummeted from the earlier lowest of 19 in 1967 to
16.
On severe criticism of the CPI-M by a number of Left party leaders
blaming central leadership and decision to forge a Third Front, he said
these views would also be considered in the review.
Mr Yechury was of the view that the way the Third Front or the
state-level alliances were brought together and projected at the
national level was a “mistake”.
“The third alternative will have to bring about a shift in the policy
trajectory. But that cannot be a cut and paste job on the eve of
elections. To achieve our objective of third alternative, there are no
short-cuts,” Mr Yechury said.
Asked whether prospect of projection of Miss Mayawati as Prime
Ministerial candidate let a number of people off, he said the question
was not of stability alone.
“They (people) wanted stability with a commitment to the secular democratic foundations of India.”
Review work underway
;Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, May 24 : The “suicidal” push for industrialisation through
farm land acquisition, the “adventurist" step of withdrawing Left
support from the UPA-government on the Indo-US nuke deal, pushing the
Congress to tie up with the Trinamul and the “futile” exercise of
scouting support for the Third Front only a few months before the
Lok Sabha poll were the primary reasons for the Left Front's debacle in
West Bengal.
The CPI-M state committee, which held a brain-storming session today to
identify the reasons for the crushing defeat that the Trinamul
Congress-Congress combine had inflicted on it in the
Lok Sabha elections, pinpointed these factors for the rout.
The stunning blow made the CPI-M so nervous that the state committee
decided to be open to “public criticism so that it could correct its
mistakes,” which was in stark contrast to the party leadership's style
of functioning marked by contempt for the people.
It was the gloomiest session the party ever had during its 32-year-long
rule and the mood of the 80-odd members was such that none of the
central leaders, including Mr Prakash Karat or Mr Sitaram Yechury found
it wise to be present to avert unpleasant situations.
Despite the denial by the CPI-M leadership that either of the two
central leaders was scheduled to attend the meeting, the tenor of the
discussions, presided over by central committee member, Mr
Benoy Konar, did indicate the extent of grouse against the hard line
adopted by Mr Karat on the nuke deal issue and the closing of all
options for a rapprochement with the Congress in post-poll equations.
Some of them said hadn't the Congress been forced to forge an alliance
with the Trinamul, the Left would certainly have retained most of the
seats that it had won in 2004 elections.
At the same time leaders of several districts, where no attempt was
made to acquired land for industrialisation, blamed the failure of
leaders, including Mr Lakshman Seth, to feel the pulse of the people,
who were vehemently opposed to land grab, and forewarn the party.
Corruption in the CPI-M-run panchayats, partisan implementation of
rural development schemes and arrogance of different party
functionaries in dealing with the rural poor were also cited as reasons
for the “alienation of the people” from the party.
Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee outlined the steps to be taken to speedily
implement various government schemes through the panchayats and the
civic bodies.
The state committee feared the Trinamul and its allies would from now
on create all sorts of obstacles and lawlessness to prevent the state
government from properly functioning during the next two years so that
the LF-government could be blamed for non-performance before the
Assembly elections scheduled in 2011.
athehdar Akal Takht expresses solidarity with Vienna victims
Amritsar (PTI) Jathehdar Akal Takht
(highest Sikh temporal seat) Gyani Gurbachan Singh on Monday expressed
sympathy and solidarity with the victims of Vienna incident and urged
their followers across Punjab to maintain peace and tranquility.
Addressing a press conference here, the Jathehdar condemned the killing of Sant Rama Nand and described it "inhuman."
He said that the Sikh religious scripture and message of Sikh masters always suggested to love everybody and brotherhood.
The violence started in reaction to
attack by certain miscreants on the congregation in a Gurdwara where
Sant Niranjan Dass and Sant Ram Nand were holding a sermon.
Atleast six persons belonging to a rival group attacked the preachers injuring 30 people, nine of them critically.
Sant Rama Nand later died in the hospital during operation.
Sant Niranjan Dass who is head of the
Guru Ravi Dass Gurdawara in village Ballan on Jalandhar-Pathankot road
was injured but out of danger, reports said
Govt. finds Rs 1,200 crores in frozen demat accounts
New Delhi (PTI) The I-T department has
found over Rs 1,200 crores lying unaccounted in lakhs of frozen demat
accounts across the country and has sought a detailed probe on the
possibility of their use for illegal transaction and tax evasion.
The department has now sent the reports
of such accounts to the respective Chief Commissioners of Income Tax
(CCITs) in various parts of the country to check the veracity of such
accounts in their regions.
More than 6.5 lakh frozen demat
accounts were taken under scanner and investigated by the Income Tax
Department in December last year on the suspicion of huge evasion of
taxes and 'benami' transactions.
According to official sources, the
CCITs have been asked to serve notices to all the account holders and
report unclaimed accounts so that such accounts can be seized.
All the I-T Commissioners have also been asked to prepare "detailed reports" on the transactions of these accounts.
Official sources said that distinction
between claimed and unclaimed accounts will help the authorities to
proceed with further probe or seizure procedures respectively, as these
accounts could lead to links to further cases of tax evasions and
unreported economic transactions.
'New govt to face security threat with speed, decisiveness'
New Delhi (PTI) With terrorism and
naxalite violence being considered as key challenges, Union Home
Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said the new government will respond
to any threat to security, public order and communal harmony "with
speed and decisiveness".
"Terrorism, naxalite violence and
insurgency in the north-east are the key challenges before the country.
We will raise the level of preparedness to meet the increasing threat
to security, public order and communal harmony," he told reporters here
on the first day of joining office.
The Home Minister said the government
will respond any of these threat using modern systems, highly trained
human resources and advanced technological tools.
Signalling that the centre was
determined to deal with Left-wing extremism with an iron hand, Mr.
Chidambaram said the centre would first carry out a "police action
followed by development."
"Naxalites are anti-development. We
build schools, they demolish the school buildings. Telecom operators
put up mobile towers, they blast those towers. We build panchayat
houses, they blast those houses," he said.
"We build roads, they mine the roads.
Therefore, it is important that police action takes place first. The
area is cleared of naxalites and immediately followed with development
activities like building roads, schools and bringing electricity," Mr.
Chidambaram said.
About the Left-wing extremism during
election period, he said "as far as naxalite violence is concerned, by
and large the election passed off peacefully, but for three rather bad
incidents of naxalite violence.
"Such violence is condemnable. Infact,
the naxals took advantage of the fact that our forces have been spread
through out the country. But we will respond," the Home Minister said.
Mr. Chidambaram said the 100-day
security Action Plan launched on February 21 last was implemented
substantially and a new 100-day plan will be implemented beginning June
1, as directed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Referring to the Congress manifesto
which had promised to deal with the scourge of terrorism squarely and
decisively and the April seven declaration of the party that pledged to
provide strong and decisive leadership to meet the challenge of
terrorism, he said these two documents will serve as guide and help
bring a focus to the efforts of the Home Ministry.
Power struggle may be brewing among LTTE remnants
Colombo (PTI) A power-struggle appears
to be brewing among the remnants of the LTTE, with one faction claiming
that the Tamil Tiger leadership, including its supremo Velupillai
Prabhakaran is safe and will re-emerge when the "right time comes".
Two groups of the Tiger remnants have joined issue in the pro-Tiger Tamil website 'Tamilnet' on the fate of Prabhakaran.
Almost, a week after the Sri Lankan
government announced that its troops killed the LTTE chief in the
fighting in the northern war zone, the groups newly named chief of
international relations S Pathmanathan admitted that Prabhakaran was
dead.
"We announce today with inexpressible
sadness and heavy hearts that our incomparable leader, the supreme
commander of the LTTE, attained martyrdom," Pathmanathan said in a
statement on Sunday.
While Pathmanathan advocated that LTTE
which had lost its military capacity will henceforth go for a
non-violent struggle, the other group headed by the intelligence wing
cadre say they would open their cards at the right moment.
"The Intelligence Department of the
Tigers reiterated on Sunday that the LTTE leadership is safe and it
will re-emerge when the right time comes", the Tamilnet said.
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Pak troops secure key Taliban base, 2.4 million flee fighting
Islamabad (PTI): Pakistani troops
captured a key Taliban stronghold in Swat valley and moved to wrest its
main town Mingora, where the militants today appealed to civilians to
return and promised to hold fire but stopped short of calling it a
truce.
Amid intense fighting, nearly 2.4 million people have fled their homes, the UN and government officials said.
The military said the security forces
have secured Maalam Jabba, located on the main line of communication
and connecting Swat Valley with Mansehra in Hazara area.
Once popular with tourists for its
pristine ski slopes, it was being used as a training centre and
logistics base by terrorists, a military statement said.
"After stiff resistance, security forces have secured Maalam Jabba, the stronghold of militant-terrorists in Swat," it said.
Officials said six Taliban were killed,
eight arrested and six security personnel were injured in the last 24
hours in different parts of the restive region.
The forces have also started an
operation to secure Kabbal, the main stronghold of Taliban, where
fleeing militants from Mingora are gathering, the military said.
The security forces are facing "stiff
resistance" as they moved to secure the militant strongholds, according
to the statement. Troops had to clear improvised explosive devices
while advancing, it said.
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First Published: 01:25 IST(25/5/2009)
Russia is set to lose a billion dollar (Rs 48,000 crore) defence
deal for midair refuellers, signalling a break in its over 50-year-old
monopoly as India’s preferred military supplier.
The former communist giant has clearly lost favour with the Indian
military, as the air force has decided not to field any more Russian
Ilyushin-78 refuellers to keep fighter jets airborne for considerably
longer periods by tanking them up during flight.
After operating Il-78 tankers for almost six years, the Indian Air
Force has said the Russian platform does not meet its requirements and
it wants to deploy the Airbus A330 multi-role tanker transport (MRTT)
offered by European aerospace corporation EADS.
The Il-78 and Airbus 330 MRTT were competing for the $1 billion
global tender floated three years ago by the defence ministry for six
midair refuellers to extend the operating radiuses of Indian fighter
jets.
In an exclusive interview to HT, IAF chief Air
Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major said, “We have finished all evaluations
and selected the A330 MRTT. The deal will come up for final approval by
the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) very soon. The Russian platform
did not meet certain requirements.” The A330 MRTT is a military
derivative of the Airbus A330 airliner.
Cracks in the India-Russia defence relationship have existed for
some time now. Some of the irritants include Russia seeking mid-course
price revisions in contracts for Sukhoi-30 fighters and aircraft
carrier Admiral Gorshkov, a problem of steady supply of spares, poor
vendor support after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and
transfer of technology issues.
The air chief, who retires on May 31 on turning 62, said, “After the
disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia has changed the whole
pattern of doing defence business. Now we are faced with issues
concerning spares, vendor support and built-in delays in the structure
of their centralised military corporations.”
Two years ago, Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta had publicly said
that India needed to take a relook at its military relationship with
Russia, much to the government’s discomfort. The armed forces maintain
that Russian equipment comes cheap but entails huge maintenance costs.
The A330 MRTT has won several tanker competitions with contracts
signed by the governments of United Kingdom, Australia, Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Emirates. The first A330 MRTT would be delivered to
the IAF within three years of signing of the deal while the remaining
five would be inducted 15 months after that.
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Violence hits industrial activity in Punjab
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the state following the violence sparked by the killing of a Dera
leader in Austria even as state industry viewed the law and order
problem would ...
China Opposes N. Korean Nuclear Test
opposes the North Korean nuclear test, but refrained from any harsh
language in its statement issued late Monday.
Storm lashes Bangladesh and India
eastern India and Bangladesh has killed at least 15 people and prompted
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