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Monday 27 June 2011

Stalin leaves for Delhi, likely to meet Kanimozhi

Monday, June 27, 2011    
CHENNAI: DMK tresurer and party chief M Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin on Monday left for New Delhi.

The leader is likely to meet his sister Kanimozhi, lodged in Tihar jail for her alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

Stalin, also DMK's Legislature Party Leader, left by a government carrier.

Karunanidhi, who met Kanimozhi at the jail last week, had told reporters here on his return from Delhi that his daughter was shut in the prison in an "inhuman manner".

He had also stated that Kanimozhi was suffering from blisters and swelling on her body.
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Rahul Gandhi visits hospital, meets young girl attacked

Monday, June 27, 2011    
New Delhi:  Rahul Gandhi today met a 14-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh, undergoing treatment at AIIMS after being stabbed in the eye by two young men who tried to rape her.

Mr Gandhi went to the Rajendra Prasad Eye Centre at the AIIMS at 10.45 am and spoke to the girl and her parents for, sources said.

They said doctors briefed Mr Gandhi about the treatment being given to the minor girl.

His visit comes close on the heels of the Congress attacking the Mayawati government over the alleged spurt in incidents of rape and murder in her state.

The victim was allegedly kidnapped by two persons from her home in Ghurpurwa village in Kannauj district on June 19 and was stabbed in her eyes when she resisted a rape attempt.

The villagers found her in the fields and rushed her to the district hospital.

Doctors are learnt to have told Me Gandhi that the victim has lost vision in one eye while 80 to 90 percent recovery is possible in the other eye, which was operated upon.
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Yeddyurappa visits temple, skips 'Truth Test'

Monday, June 27, 2011    
Bangalore:  BS Yeddyurappa kept his promise to visit the Lord Manjunatha temple in Dharmasthala this morning. He offered prasad, but did not make references to the controversial face-off he had set up with his political rival.

The Karnataka Chief Minister had dared HD Kumaraswamy, leader of a major Opposition party, to meet him at this temple. Mr Kumaraswamy, in the presence of God, he said would have to testify that allegations of corruption that he has leveled against the Chief Minister are based on fact.

"I have told the chief minister and Kumaraswamy to follow political dharma, but not mix politics with religion. Both have accepted it," Veerendra Heggade, the head of the famous temple said last night.

Criticism from other religious leaders, and a stern warning from his party president, Nitin Gadkari, persuaded Mr Yedduyarappa to drop the bizarre "truth test."
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Sunday 26 June 2011

India gives into China at the border

Sunday, June 26, 2011    
Leh:  China has done it, but India can't.

One can see Chinese construction next to the Indo-China border, but after a confrontation with China last year - over an Indian shed being made - New Delhi has banned all construction on the Indo-China border in Ladakh.

The Ministry of Home Affairs in a letter, written in November 2010, to the Jammu and Kashmir Government said: "You are not to undertake any construction work of any nature in Demchok area till clearance of the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi is obtained."

Gurmet Dorjee, who represents Demchok in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Developmental council says his people are feeling cheated, and let down.

"China continues to build across the border but we can't. What is the meaning of this order? People sitting in air-conditioned rooms in New Delhi can't decide what is good for us," said Gurmet Dorjee, member, Ladakh Autonomous Council, Leh.

Dorjee showed NDTV pictures of the Chinese army in the Demchok area, and the buildings coming up in the Chinese controlled area.

But Dorjee and his people after the MHA order, now, can't even build residential houses in the area till it is cleared by New Delhi.

The construction of roads and all the rural development projects have been stopped. The construction of schools and medical health care facilities too has been stopped.

While New Delhi takes babysteps to normalise relations with China, people in Durbhok and Nyomah in south east part of Ladakh are raising serious questions for New Delhi. They want India to be more aggressive with the 'dragon' and are questioning India's China policy.
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Sai Baba Trust money: Puttaparthi wants clarity

Sunday, June 26, 2011    
Puttaparthi:  In Sathya Sai Baba's Puttaparthi, things are changing. Following the spiritual leader's death there are serious doubts about financial irregularities in the way the enormously rich Trust is functioning - with police even questioning two Trust members - something unheard of in the past.

A public meeting was held in Puttaparthi's Hanuman temple today - the first of its kind - organised in the little town to discuss the current scenario. With rumours of financial irregularity mounting against some Trust members, representatives from NGOs and political parties demanded clarity, but nobody from the Trust was present to answer them.

"After the death of Sathya Sai Baba, this place is losing its divinity. There are doubts about Trust leaders...we are discussing about what to do...All the hard work of Baba is being lost through these happenings," said K Nagendra Kumar, an NGO representative.

The meeting was held close to the home of Ratnakar, a Trust member and the nephew of Sathya Sai Baba. Ratnakar was questioned for hours by the police yesterday over the movement of lakhs in cash from the ashram.

However, there are those who still have faith and believe that this dark cloud will pass.

"In a family little bit problems ...the law is there...What you see depends upon your mind...Devotees don't bother about the Trust," said Shivaiah, a school principal in Puttaparthi.

On June 17, close to Rs. 11.56 crore in cash were found in Yajur Mandir, which was Sai Baba's private chamber at his ashram. 98 kilos of gold and 307 kilos of silver were also found. At that time, trustees said the cash was being counted in the presence of income tax officials and was being deposited in the State Bank of India.

Two days later on June 19, police in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district seized Rs. 35.5 lakh from a car belonging to the trust and arrested the driver of the vehicle Harishnanda Shetty. A trust official V Srinivasan was believed to have given him the money. This led to allegations that the trust money was being removed from the ashram premises. Sai Baba's nephew RJ Ratnakar, who is also a member of the trust, was questioned by the Andhra Pradesh police on Friday in connection with this seizure. Police is also interrogating V Srinivasan.

The Sai Baba Trust is now under pressure as there is just too much at stake for the public to settle for uncertainty when it comes to the handling of the incredible assets of the Trust. 
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Baba Ramdev back in Delhi, hits out at government

Sunday, June 26, 2011    
New Delhi:  Returning to Delhi three weeks after he was bundled out from here, yoga guru Ramdev today attacked the government claiming that it has no will to fight corruption or create a Lokpal to check the menace.

Ramdev said he would continue his fight against corruption alongside "anybody from any party, any religion". He said he was willing to fight the menace but he did not make it clear whether he would join Anna Hazare on August 16 when the latter relaunches his campaign for a strong Lokpal.

Holding that he was "not a mask" for BJP or RSS, he asked why the government was talking to him if they thought he was a criminal and insisted he doesn't have a penny of black money.

"Government does not want to create a Lokpal," he said addressing a press conference here after meeting Raj Bala, who was grievously injured in the June five pre-dawn police crackdown at Ramlila Maidan on his supporters, at a hospital and dared the government to "search" his institutions for black money and declare it as national asset.

"Sarkar pehle bhrashtachari thi, abh woh atyachari bhi ho gayi (The government was indulging in corruption earlier. Now it is indulging in atrocities)," he said, adding, "This government has no will to fight corruption."

The yoga guru alleged that the government was muzzling voices of those who talk about black money or tell the truth.

Terming the crackdown in Ramlila Maidan as "murder of democracy", he alleged it was aimed at eliminating him and that there were "attempts to rape women" by drunk men during the police action.

However, Ramdev did not throw any light on his next move as part of his anti-corruption campaign. He said he would launch a free housing scheme in Haridwar on July one followed by another programme on August four for empowering villages.

Ramdev reached the capital from Haridwar by road this afternoon and straight away headed to G B Pant Hospital in central Delhi to visit Raj Bala.

Police had erected barricades along the border to screen those entering the Capital and ensure that no untoward incident occurred during Ramdev's visit to the city.

Earlier, police had said he was not allowed to enter the capital for 15 days but later retracted from it.
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