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| Corrupt MPs, State legislators can be proscuted | | | |
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NEW DELHI, JUNE 18: A major official step is round the corner: Existing anti-corruption law is being amended to empower the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha as well as the presiding officers of the Asemblies in States and Union Territories to grant sanction to prosecute members of Parliament (MPs) and State legislators for graft.
The Ministry of Personnel has initated a proposal under which the presiding officers of two Houses of Parliament would be designated authorites to give necesary sanction in the case of MPs. The Personel Ministry is under the administrative control of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). In cases of corruption involving members of Legislative Asemblies and Councils in States and Union Territories, the presiding officers of the Houses will have the power to allow the politicans to be prosecuted.
Last month, a Group of Ministers (GoM) cleared the proposal to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, headed the GoM. The group consited of Law Minister, HR ... | |
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| Foreign Mercenaries | | Donot surrender: Lt Gen Panag | | |
Jammu,June 18
Army authorities have found
that foreign mercenaries,operating in Jammu and
Kashmir,”do not surrender before the security
forces.” Even those who are challenged on the LOC
by the Indian troops while trying to sneak into the state
either
get killed or manage to escape back.
According to the GOC-in-Chief Northern Command,
Lt.Gen.H.S.Panag,”foreign mercenaries come to
Kashmir for launching Jehad while being on a tour of
beauty.” He said “the foreign mercenaries are told to
cross over to Kashmir,enjoy its beauty and return
after launching Jehad.”He said “they do not surrender
because they have a task assigned to them by their
patrons across ... | |
| | | | Police ‘probing’ Al-Qaeda connections | | | |
Jammu, June 18: With top security brasses completing ruling out Al-Qaeda presence in Jammu and Kashmir, the authorities are now looking for the plotter of Osama connection to understand the wider Jehadi game plan.
In the past week Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta and GoC—n-C Northern Command Lt Gen HS Panag –one after the other rules out Al-Qaeda presence in Jammu and Kashmir. Though the Home Secretary put himself on a little cautious footing as he said that “the case needs to be probed”, the other two described the Al-Qaeda theory as mischievous.
Unable to say anything contrary to their bosses, the Jammu and Kashmir Police is not quite ready to ... | |
| | | | Belts back to suspend cops; Anara waits to tell her story | | | |
jammu, June 18: The controversial former beauty queen of the Capital City, Anara Gupta may have to wait for the official reply and judicial verdict for narrating her part of story but interestingly shortly ahead of scheduled release of the biographical film, the government has reinstated two Police Officers suspended for alleged dereliction of duties in her case.
Deepak Slathia, a Superintendent of Police, then posted as SP City and Tanvir Jeelani, a DySP, then posted as SDPO Bakshi Nagar were placed under suspension in December, 2004, as newsmen managed to interview Anara while she was in lockup. These officers were suspended for allowing media persons access to Anara Gupta, who was th... | |
| | | | What is PDP now waiting for? | | | |
Jammu, June 13: If the stand of Peoples Democratic Party on demilitarisation is a principled and not guided by the electoral interests, the Muftis should follow the suit of Bhim Singh and pull out of the coalition government after today’s rebuff to their demand coming from a highest forum.
The Defence Minister AK Antony, after chairing a conference Unified Commanders in New Delhi, has categorically ruled out any move of troop reduction. Antony’s this statement assumed paramount significance as he ruled out troop reduction in Jammu and Kashmir after chairing the conference of Army commanders –which means after getting strategic inputs on the situation and discussing the ramifications... | |
| | | | Capital cities switching over to clean fuel | | …………but Srinagar first, Jammu to wait conventionally | | |
Jammu, June 18: The long wait for some clean breathe on the highly polluted and congested roads of the twin capital cities –Jammu and Srinagar –is soon likely to be over as the plan is being drawn out for switching over the commercial vehicles to cleaner fuel option –but as the fate of Jammu would have the trend will begin from Srinagar.
The Jammu and Kashmir Government in consultations with the Union Petroleum Ministry and its corporations have formulated a two pronged strategy to shift the commercial vehicles in Jammu and Srinagar cities to the cleaner fuel options. The complete shift over to the world’s cleanest fuel is likely to take around two years.
The Union Petroleum Mi... | |
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