Monday, May 25, 2009

IPL POLITICS and CYCLONE AYALA! Amidst DISASTER all Round Binayak Sen Granted Bail


IPL POLITICS and CYCLONE AYALA! Amidst DISASTER all Round Binayak Sen Granted Bail


Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 238
 
Palash Biswas

Miss B'wood IPL is ecstatic!

25 May 2009, 0000 hrs IST, IANS










Model and actress Dune Kossatz, 35, was named Miss Bollywood IPL South Africa in SA this weekend, ahead of the
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IPL final.

Confessing that she hadn't seen any Bollywood movies yet, Kossatz said she was going to start doing so immediately. She also promised to start learning Hindi, and was ecstatic at the opportunity to do screen tests for a movie with Shah Rukh Khan as part of her prize.


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Pranab assumes charge as FM, faces tough task

Deccan Herald - ‎2 hours ago‎
Faced with challenge of reviving 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

Dhaka (PTI) Thousands of people 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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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.


 
 BJP President Rajnath Singh on Monday had a telephonic discussion with Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on the violence in the state following the attack on a Dera leader in Vienna on Sunday.
 
Dr. Binayak Sen, 59, an award-winning paediatrician and national vice-president of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), was jailed May 14, 2007, and accused of acting as a courier for an alleged Maoist lodged in jail - making his family, friends and many admirers cry out for justice.
 
"I am extremely relieved that this ordeal of two years has finally ended. The judiciary has stood up for what is correct. He was held on trumped up charges," his wife Ilina Sen told IANS in Raipur.
 
A Supreme Court vacation bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Deepak Verma granted him bail even as voices for his release have grown louder.
 
"This is good news, but it is delayed by two years. Justice should have been done by granting him bail two years ago," said Rajendra K. Sail, president of the Chhattisgarh PUCL.
 
Dr. Binayak Sen had been lodged at the Raipur Central Jail under the stringent Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act.
 
Former law minister Shanti Bhushan, appearing for Dr. Sen, had earlier pleaded with the court to accord an urgent hearing to the bail plea in view of his precarious health condition.
 
His wife Ilina and daughter Pranhita flew in to Raipur from Mumbai as soon as the news of the court order came.
 
When asked if her husband would continue working for public health in tribal areas of Chhattisgarh, Ilina said: "I know that the health services that he was providing have suffered in the last two years. But at the moment I am waiting for him to be released and want him to recover from his health problems."
 
"I am overwhelmed at the decision of the Supreme Court and we thank people of the country, especially journalists, who have supported us in our fight," said his brother Dipankar Sen.
 
Mr. Dipankar, a trader in the commodities market in Antwerp, Belgium, is currently in India and has been fighting for his brother's freedom.
 
The state's government has kept silent over the apex court's decision. Earlier, it had even opposed Dr. Sen's plea to be treated at his alma mater, the Christian Medical College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.
 
Gautam Kumar Bandyopadhyay, a rights activist and convenor of NGO Nadi Ghati Morcha, described Dr. Binayak Sen's bail as a "victory of human rights" in Chhattisgarh.
 
"It's the victory of human rights in the state. Dr. Sen's bail is a blow to the state's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, which is targeting people who try and raise (their voice) against human rights violations in Chhattisgarh."
 
On May 4, former law minister Ram Jethmalani, appearing for Dr. Binayak Sen, had contended that despite the case against him having been demolished in a trial court, the Chhattisgarh High Court was not entertaining his bail plea.
 
Dr. Sen's younger daughter Aparajita, who is in Delhi, said she cannot wait for the "scattered family" of four to be united. A Class 12 student in Mumbai, she was in the capital on Monday for a National School of Drama workshop.
 

"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.

 

 
"The cyclone, now lying stationery 50 km west of Kolkata, hit the West Bengal coast at 1.30 pm near Sagar Island. It is moving in a northerly direction and will weaken gradually," Regional Meteorological Centre Director G C Debnath told PTI tonight.
 
"Rains, however, will continue throughout tomorrow," he said.
 
A severe storm with a wind speed of 110 kmph accompanied by heavy rainfall preceded the cyclone that had formed in the Bay of Bengal from a very deep depression last night.
 
It ripped through Kolkata, North and South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly, Burdwan and East Midnapore districts at 110 kmph, killing at least 19 people and affected a population of 1.10 lakh, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Finance Minister Ashim Dasgupta told newsmen here.
 
Unofficial reports, however, put the toll at 26 and the number of affected at over two lakh.
 

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.

 

 A large number of tourists were stranded here and on the highways while returning from this sea resort town in West Bengal's East Midnapore district after a cyclonic storm hit the state on Monday.
 

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."

Tourist vehicles were stranded at Pichaboni, Chaulkhola, Digha and Ramnagar.
 
Hundreds of small eateries and stalls selling souvenirs on the coast were washed away by huge waves which lashed the shores at Digha, Mandarmani and Shankarpur since morning, Ms. Lama said.
 
Several coastal villages, comprising 1,500 houses, were inundated after a sea dyke was breached by tidal waves, she said.
 

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.

A large number of trees was uprooted and branches broken in Jagatsinghpur and Cuttack districts as gale with speed up to 100 kmph swept the coast, blocking several roads and disrupting vehicular movement.
 
Water logging also affected road traffic in several places in Cuttack, Paradip and Jagatsinghpur, giving a tough time to office goers, they said adding electricity supply was also hit in many places.
 
In the capital city of Bhubanesawar, power supply was disrupted for about seven hours in several localities including Bapuji Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Patia, Chandrasekharpur and Jayadev Vihar this morning.
 
Many parts of Balasore district also remained without electricity for over eight hours, sources said.
 
Low lying areas of Cuttack like Sutahat, Friends Colony, Patapola and Police Colony were flooded due to incessant rainfall
 
The cyclonic storm 'Aila' over Bay of Bengal, which lay about 140 km east of Paradip, is likely to intensify further and move in northerly direction and cross West Bengal coast shortly.
 
Under its impact, heavy to very heavy rainfall was experienced at some places in coastal Orissa as areas like Ersama, Balikuda and Biridi and the port town of Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district were severely affected.
 
About 1000 hectares of agricultural land with standing crops in Ersama area was submerged as high to very high waves lashed the Orissa coast.
 
Cyclone shelter centres were opened at several places in Jagatsinghpur district to enable people from low lying areas to take refuge.
 
The weather office advised suspension of fishing operation asking fishermen not to venture into the sea, while danger signals were hoisted at Chandbali, Paradip, Gopalpur and Puri.
 
Steps were initiated to remove uprooted trees blocking roads in order to ensure early restoration of normal vehicular movement.
 
The Union Home Ministry has warned that the cyclone located over the Bay of Bengal, may hit coastal areas of West Bengal.
 
Gale wind with speed reaching 90 kmph is likely along and off West Bengal, it said, adding that sea condition will be high to very high.
 
Breaking of tree branches may cause damage to power and communication lines over the coastal districts, it warned.
 
The system is likely to intensify further and move in a near northerly direction and cross West Bengal coast near Sagar Island, it said.
 
The Home Ministry said there was possibility of rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls at a few places and isolated extremely heavy falls over Gangetic West Bengal and north coastal Orissa during next two days.
 

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 protest

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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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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Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, May 25, 2009

First Published: 01:25 IST(25/5/2009)

Last Updated: 01:45 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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