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Paswan reiterates demand for Muslim CM in Bihar

     Patna: Reiterating his demand for a Muslim Chief Ministerial candidate in Bihar, Union Steel Minister and LJP supremo Ram Vilas Paswan, has accused Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav of using the minority as vote bank. Paswan told reporters here that his party referred a Muslim chief for the state. "We will neither take or give support to the Rashtriya Janata Dal. But for the good of the minorities of the state, we want that a Muslim becomes the state chief, there is a secular government and the assembly is not dissolved. That is why we are bowing down to give support to the Congress. We want that there be a stable government," Paswan said. Paswan said that he wanted to expose Yadav's party and the other so called secular forces. He also urged Congress to help form a secular coalition government under a Muslim state chief. The Congress has given a cold shoulder to Paswan's offer saying it would not sever ties with the RJD. Senior RJD leader, Ram Kripal Yadav, said that Paswan was getting desperate in his bid to keep his flock intact. "His party is breaking up, his legislators are running away and now he is making frantic efforts to keep them together. He took his proposal to the Congress party chief, he has got an answer. The proposal has been rejected, there is absolutely no weight in his claims, it had to be rejected," Ram Kripal Yadav, National General Secretary of RJD, said.

Delhi rape accused gets two-day judicial custody (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: Ajeet Katiyar, prime accused in the Dhaula Kuan gang rape case, has been sent to two days of judicial custody. He was arrested yesterday from his Noida hideout. The Police are making all efforts to nab other three accused. In a shocking incident, a Delhi University student who hails from the country's northeast, was raped after midnight on Saturday in a moving car after being seized near a roadside eatery in south Delhi's busy Dhaula Kuan area. Four men dragged her into a steel-grey car around 2.15 a.m. on Sunday and raped her while driving through the city. The culprits changed cars on the way and dumped the student two hours later almost near the same spot where they had grabbed her. The Delhi Police are under intense pressure to nab the culprits at the earliest.

I and B Secretary Naveen Chawla appointed EC (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: Navin Chawla, Information and Broadcasting Secretary, is heading for the Election Commission as new Election Commissioner. According to media reports, he was today appointed as Election Commissioner. His appointment will take effect from Monday. His name has been cleared by the Prime Minister's Office and has been approved by the President. With Chief Election Commissioner T S Krishnamurthy retiring tomorrow and B.B.Tandon taking his place from Monday, one slot of Election Commissioner got vacant which will be filled by Chawla who was due to retire next month. N Gopalaswami is the other Election Commissioner. Now, Chawla will get a five-year tenure as Election Commissioner. The retirement age of Election Commissioners is 65. Chawla took over formally as Information and Broadcasting Secretary from Pawan Chopra in June last year. He served as a joint secretary in the I and B ministry in the 1990s.

Shibu Soren, son charged by local court (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: JMM supremo Shibu Soren and his son have been charged by a local court for allegedly manhandling a CBI witness in connection with the Shashinath Jha murder case. The charges were framed against them in a case on Thursday in the presence of Chief Judicial Magistrate Brahmadeo Gupta. Earlier on the complaint of Jha's elder brother, Delhi Police had registered a case on June 2, 1994. Knowledge of alleged deal between Congress and JMM to save the P V Narasimha Rao government during July 1993 no-confidence motion and an act of sodomy led to the murder of Jha, the then secretary to Mr Soren, CBI had alleged. While on the other hand the JMM had demanded a thorough inquiry into the role of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Shashinath Jha murder case and had accused the agency of harassing party chief Shibu Soren. Shasuddin Ansari has filed the case against Shibu Soren, his son Durga Soren and two others, alleging that they beat him up and also threatened him. A case was registered in the city police station.Shahsinath Jha, political secretary of Shibu Soren, was murdered. Jha was abducted from Dhaula Kuan on May 22, 1994 and taken to Piska Nagari village near Ranchi where he was murdered.

UPA report card not upto the mark: CPI-M Politburo (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: The politburo of the CPI-M on Saturday expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of the UPA government, and in particular focussed on the ruling coalition's inability to pass the Employment Guarantee and Womens Reservartion Bills. It also gave the thumbs down to the government's move to introduce the Pension Fund, Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2005 and the Special Economic Zones Bill, 2005 among others during its first session this morning. The meeting will resume this evening. A decision on whether it would participate in the Government delibrations on its first anniversary on 22nd May or not is likely to be taken. The members, however, complimented the Manmohan Singh government for improving India's ties with China and Pakistan. ''These are positive developments,'' they said but expressed concern over what they termed as attempts to strengthen strategic ties with the US. The Politburo meeting assmues special significance as this is the first meeting of the party's newly elected highest decision making body after the Party Congress held here between April 6 to11. All the 18 Politburo members barring H S Surjeet and Sitaram Yechury, who are not well and are hospitalsed in the AIIMS, are attending the meeting being held at the party headquarters- A K Gopalan Bhawan. Among others, former West Begnal Chief Minsiter and veteran Marxist Jyoti Basu, the present incumbent Buddhadev Bhattacharjee, first woman Politburo member Brinda Karat and Manik Sarkar are attending it. The politburo, which is the CPI-M's highest decision making body, is meeting on Sunday as well.

Astrologers predict full term for Manmohan Govt (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: Astrologers contacted in the Indian capital have predicted that Manmohan Singh will serve out his full term of five years as the country's Prime Minister. Bharat Bhushan Padmadeo, an astrologer based in New Delhi, says Singh would be in the saddle for over six years.The country might face a mid-term poll, but stars are likely to favour Singh's Congress party. "The Congress (party) as such is going to stay. It will continue to be in command for another 6-7 years," Padmadeo said. "Meanwhile, we will have a mid-term poll. But India as a country, I find will be very stable," he added. The influence of planetary movements and numerical calculations are responsible for what will happen in the near future, says Manoranjan Prusty, another astrologer. Prusty feels Singh, whose astrologically influenced numerical calculation comes to a lucky one, has a bright future. "Even though he did not have the political background, he became successful because number 1 he belongs to the sun," Prusty said. He adds that Singh's prospects are bright due to his astrological chart and he would retain office for the entire five year term. "It gives him name, fame, power, position and authority. So all of a sudden he came to power and because Manmohan Singh added "Doctor" to his name, it became more favourable. As far as my knowledge is concerned, he became PM (prime minister) and calculation says he will be able to completehis tenure," Prusty said. Singh, possibly India's unlikeliest prime minister, has neither glamour nor legacy on his side. Yet after a dramatic twist of events last May, the former finance minister took over as the first non-Hindu prime minister of the world's largest democracy. The 71-year-old economist, who threw open the Indian economy in the early 1990s after decades of socialist control, came to the top job after Congress leader Sonia Gandhi renounced her claim to protect the party from attacks over her Italian birth. Analysts feel Singh's mild accommodative stance has worked well in bringing together fractious allies. Indian astrologers base their predictions on "Panchaanga", the ancient Indian art of calculating planetary movements to study the influence of planets and its consequences on one's fate. Of late these astrologers have given predictions varying from share market trends to political repercussions after the September 11 attacks.

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