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Home Contact Us Dateline New Delhi, Tuesday, May 10, 2005

India to resume partial defence supplies to Nepal

New Delhi/Kathmandu: Notwithstanding the gunning down of 32 Maoists in south eastern Nepal overnight, India on Tuesday announced that it would partially resume defence supplies to Nepal. A spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs said that New Delhi hoped that Kathmandu would take "further and early' steps towards the restoration of multiparty democracy and constitutional monarchy in that country. "With the lifting of emergency in Nepal on April 29, 2005 and the release of several political party leaders and activists, the Government of India has decided to release some of the supplies currently in the pipeline, including vehicles," the spokesman said. India had suspended military supplies to Nepal following King Gyanendra's decision on February one to sack the Sher Bahadur Deuba government, declare emergency, detain political leaders and impose press censorship. "It is our expectation that in the coming days, His Majesty's Government of Nepal will take further and early steps towards the resotration of multiparty democracy and constitutional monarchy, which remain, in our view, the two pillars of political stability in Nepal and for meeting the challenges of the Maoists," he said

Lalu has the right to choose his own bench: SC (Go To Top)

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has accepted Railway Minister Lalu Prasad's contention on choosing the bench in the Patna High Court to hear his petition challenging the sanction for his prosecution in the disproportionate assets case. Upholding Prasad's right, the apex court said that it was the prerogative of the chief justice of the Patna High Court to constitute a Bench. On April 26, the Supreme Court had constituted a Bench comprising Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Chandramouli Prasad for hearing the petition. In his petition, Prasad had taken objection to the naming of Justice Prasad as part of the Bench requesting that the apex Court could not have chosen the Bench.

Maharashtra withdraws free power to farmers (Go To Top)

Mumbai: A crippling power crisis has forced the Vilasrao Deshmukh-led Democratic Front government in Maharashtra to discontinue its pre-poll promise of providing free power to farmers. Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced this after a state cabinet meeting in Mumbai on Tuesday. He, however, said the government would provide subsidised power to the farmers and reimburse Rs 1,200 crore subsidy bill every year to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board. The Sushil Kumar Shinde government, on the eve of the Assembly elections in July last year, had announced free power to over 2.5 million agricultural pumps in Maharashtra.

Five ULFA rebels killed in Assam (Go To Top)

Guwahati: At least five separatists were killed by security forces in two separate encounters in Assam, officials said on Tuesday. Soldiers shot dead three militants from the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) late on Monday in a shootout near Kathalguri, 510 kilometers (316 miles) east of Assam's main city of Guwahati, police said. "ULFA rebels challenged an army patrol and in the encounter that followed three militants were killed," a senior police official said. The soldiers recovered two AK-56 assault rifles, a grenade, and several rounds of ammunition, besides cash from the dead rebels. In a separate incident, two ULFA militants were shot dead by army soldiers in western Assam's Nalbari district on Monday night and their AK-56 rifles and ammunition was seized.

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