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Doval visits Burdwan blast site
Mamata assures of
held to fight terrorism
NIA chief Sharad Kumar, IB Syed Asif Ibrahim accompanied him
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KOLKATA/BURDWAN, OCT 27
They also went to
the room which had
served as the laboratory of the suspected
terrorists and
climbed the roof top
of the house to
check the visibility of
surrounding areas
BURDWAN, OCT 27
TOP security and intelligence chiefs of the country
including
National
Security Advisor Ajit
Doval today visited the
blast site in Burdwan and
assessed the progress of
investigations into it.
NIA Director General
Sharad Kumar, NSG
Director General Jayanta
Narayan Chowdhury and
Intelligence Bureau director Syed Asif Ibrahim
accompanied him during
the over 30 minute visit to
the house at Khagragarh
where the blast took place
on October 2, police said.
Doval and the three top
officials visited the room
where the blast occurred,
during which two suspected terrorists were also
killed.
They also went to the
room which had served as
the laboratory of the suspected terrorists and
climbed the roof top of the
house to check the visibility of surrounding areas.
Doval also inquired
where the two children of
UP CM asks
8.5 LMT urea
from Centre
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LUCKNOW, OCT 27
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, NSG chief J N Choudhury, NIA DG Sharad Kumar
and IB chief Asif Ibrahim inspecting the blast site at Khagragarh — PTI photo
the suspected terrorists
stayed in the house.
The children, who are
toddlers have since been
taken into custody along
with their mothers, one of
whom is the widow of one
of the suspected terrorists
who died in the explosion.
Later, Doval met the
district officials and asked
about the progress of
inquiry into the blast, the
police added.
The four top officials
then left for Kolkata to
meet
Chief
Minister
Mamata Banerjee at the
state secretariat 'Nabanna'.
Earlier, the security and
DARJEELING, OCT 27
STHE esteemed St. Paul's
School, Darjeeling will
celebrate its 150th year
this year.
To mark the occasion,
old Paulites from different periods spread across
the globe will assemble in
the hill town for a threeday celebration.
Speaking to reporters,
School Rector Joy Haldar
said, "Our past students
known as Old Paulites
have acknowledged the
need to demonstrate their
appreciation and rally
themselves in solidarity
with their Alma Mater."
For
the
'Paulite
Forever'
meet
from
October 30 to November
1 the school was expecting more than 250
Paulites with their families - from Europe, US,
France,
Thailand,
WEST
Bengal
Chief
Minister
Mamata
Banerjee today assured
the Centre of all cooperation to fight terrorism and
promised to work together, as the country's security and intelligence chiefs
including
National
Security Advisor Ajit
Doval discussed with her
the Burdwan blast case.
"We discussed the
issue with the chief minister. The chief minister
assured us to extend all
cooperation and work
together with the Centre
to
fight
terrorism,"
Prakash Mishra, Special
Secretary, Union Home
Ministry, told reporters
after the meeting with
Banerjee which lasted
over an hour at the state
secretariat.
Doval, Mishra, NSG
DG J N Chowdhury and
two senior intelligence
officers from the Centre
and state first met the
chief minister. State Chief
Secretary Sanjay Mitra,
Home Secretary Basudeb
Banerjee, state DGP GMP
Reddy and city police
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UTTARKASHI, OCT 27
ASHOK S RAJPUT,
SENDING a strong political message of tolerating
no-nonsense, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Akhikesh
Yadav recently sacked 82
persons enjoying rank of
minister in the state, but
later re-instated a dozen of
them.
Security,
residential
facilities and salaries have
been withdrawn of these
persons, both of Cabinet
and Minister of State status,
who were either chairman
or vice-chairman or advisor
to the government institutions and departments.
UP Government has
given no reason for the
sacking of these persons,
who are mostly senior leaders and supporters of the
ruling Samajwadi Party.
Meanwhile, UP BJP said
that sacking of these persons was just an eye-wash
and demanded a probe into
the working of these sacked
ministers.
Although it seems that
controversy leading to
threat to policemen by
father of such a minister
rank person, Kuldeep
Ujjawal in Bagpat, recently
could be the reason behind
such a move.
The entire episode was
viral in the social media in
which senior Samajwadi
Party leader and father of
Besides probing
their actions, the
state government
must also reveal the
expenses that were
incurred on them by
the government
— UP BJP chief
the minister rank person,
had threatened to strip
policemen in Meerut who
had gone to the village to
arrest criminals involved in
cow slaughter. He even
called the cops chowkidars.
The army of these
removed leaders who
enjoyed the status of ministers in UP blatantly misused their official position.
SP chief Mulayam Singh
Yadav had also taken note
of their non-performance
and thrice expressed his
displeasure publicly, over
their functioning.
UP BJP has demanded a
probe into various acts of
sacked person enjoyed
minister status. "Besides
probing their actions, the
state government must also
reveal the expenses that
were incurred on them by
the government," UP BJP
chief Laxmi Kant Bajpai
said.
The state government
spokesman also released a
list of those who would
continue to work on their
posts. They include former
chief secretary Naveen
Chandra Bajpai who is vice
chairman Uttar Pradesh
State
Planning
Commission, chairman of
UP Language Institute Dr
Gopal Das Neeraj, UP
Hindi Institute Uday
Pratap Singh, Hindustani
Academy in Allahabad
Sunil Joshi, UP Agro
Corporation Tarkeshwar
Mishra, UP Pollution
Control Board Javed Abdi,
Ex-servicemen
Welfare
Corporation
head
Brigadier RD Singh and
Executive
Committee
member of Uttar Pradesh
Urdu Academy Nawaj
Deobandi and Vocational
Education
Department
advisor Farzand Ahmad.
The chairmen of statutory bodies, commissions etc
have also not been
removed. They include UP
Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled
Tribes
Corporation, UP State
Backward
Classes
Commission, UP State
Women Commission, UP
Saint Paul’s School to
celebrate its 150th year
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commissioner Surajit Kar
Purakayastha joined later.
Although the NSA did
not interact with the
media, Mishra said that
the government had
taken the Burdwan blast
seriously and described it
as an "issue of terror".
"The investigation to
Burdwan blast will be
taken to its logical end,"
he promised, adding that
the Centre and the state
were together on the issue
of fighting terrorism.
"Very senior officers of
both the Centre and the
state are here. We have
resolved to work together
on this issue," he said.
Asked what prompted
NSA Doval's visit to West
Bengal, Mishra said, "He
is a senior police officer.
He is here to give a professional touch to the
blast investigation."
To another question, he
said, "We are also here for
improving the capacity of
the West Bengal Police
and security agencies to
handle this kind of situation."
Earlier in the day, the
NSA visited the blast site
in Burdwan and assessed
the progress of the investigation.
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Two killed
in clash
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SURI, OCT 27
TWO persons were killed,
and one was injured, and at
least five housed gutted in
a clash between Trinamool
Congress and BJP supporters today at Makra village
in Birbhum district.
The two were injured by
bullets fired from countrymade guns in the two-hour
clash and succumbed to
their injuries at a hospital,
hospital sources said.
However, no one was
arrested as yet in connection with the clash.
Trading charges, ruling
Trinamool Congress and
BJP have blamed each
other for the violence,
police said.
Makra village is adjacent to Chakmondola
where the officer-in-charge
of Parui police station was
attacked during a raid on
October 24.
Parui police station officer-in-charge
Prosenjit
Dutta and three other
policemen were injured
when they raided Chakmondola village following
reports that bombs were
being made there. Bombs
were thrown at the police
personnel during the raid.
Akhilesh sacks 82 heads of Govt Statehood activists threaten stir
bodies but later reinstates a dozen
LUCKNOW, OCT 27
UTTAR Pradesh Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav
has shot off a letter to
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi to provide required
quantity of fertilizers in
2014, as per the demand of
the state farmers to get the
targeted
agriculture
growth in Rabi season.
The UP CM has
demanded 8.50 lakh metric
tonnes of urea immediately, in which 4.50 lakh
tonnes would be rewired
in the cooperative sector
and remaining four lakh
tonnes in the private sector.
The letter dispatched
today to the PM said that
due to shortage in supply
of fertilizers by the central
agencies, the state farmers
are facing problem in sowing their crops. Against the
demand of 38 lakh tonnes
of urea, the Centre has
only sanctioned 35 lakh
tonnes, lending to a shortfall of three lakh metric
tones, UP CM claimed.
The state government
has decided to store two
lakh tonnes of urea for
emergency while during
the Rabi season in 2014-15,
in the month of October,
there is a requirement of
6.50 lakh tonnes of urea, of
which 50 per cent would
be allotted for distribution
in for cooperative sector.
intelligence chiefs flew in
to Burdwan by a chopper
from
NSC
Bose
International
Airport.
They had reached Kolkata
in an IAF special aircraft
this morning.
Today's visit was the
second in four days by the
NIA director.
Kumar after his first
visit to Burdwan and
Murshidabad on Friday
had said that the arrested
persons in connection
with the blast and their
associates were members
of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen
Bangladesh and were
making IEDs to be transported to the neighbouring country for possible
terror attacks.
Today's visit comes
ahead of the Union government's decision to send
a report to Bangladesh following a request from that
country in this regard.
Three persons, including the two women were
arrested in connection
with the blast and were
interrogated by the NIA.
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Bangladesh, Nepal and
Bhutan.
Though actually the
year 2014 marked the
school completing 191
years of existence since
its inception as The
Parental Academic institution in Kolkata in 1823,
the school was shifted to
the present location near
Jalapahar in Darjeeling in
1864 by Bishop George
Edward Lynch Cotton,
who also founded the
Bishop Cotton School in
Shimla.
The location of the
school had caught the fascination of Bollywood
directors.
Popular
Bollywood
films
like
Amitabh
Bachchan starrer Do
Anjane, Mera Naam Joker
with Raj Kapoor and
Shahrukh Khan's Main
Hoo Na and Ranbir
Kapoor's Barfi had been
shot in the school's vicinity.
Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets monks
during his visit to Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya — PTI
Minorities
Commission
and various selection commissions, boards and constitutional bodies and constitutional commissions.
As of now, the state government
will
make
appointments in these
vacant posts, but they
won't get status of a minister. Earlier, Supreme Court
had also objected on giving
minister status to such people, who misuse their posts,
senior party official told
PBD.
The decision to sack
such minister rank persons
was taken a couple of days
back during a meeting
between Mulayam Singh
Yadav, Ram Gopal Yadav
and CM Akhilesh Yadav.
Before the Lok Sabha elections, Akhilesh had sacked
36 such minister rank persons. Meanwhile, in the
fall-out of the chief minister's decision, the tours of
26 such chairmen to districts have been deferred.
The SP leaders were expected to visit 26 districts
between October 26 and 30
and submit a report suggesting
measures
to
strengthen
the
party.
Sacking of the ranked
Ministers was on the cards
of the party leadership after
the Lok Sabha elections
review meeting was held
for poor performance,
infighting and indiscipline
several incidents occurred
at districts level.
A group of Uttarakhand
statehood activists has
threatened to go on a fast
unto
death
from
November 7 in Dehradun
if its demands are not conceded by the state government.
The three-point charter
of demands of Rajya Andolankari Sangharsh Samiti
includes pension to all statehood activists, 10 per cent
quota to their dependents
in government jobs and
free travelling for all activists and their dependents
in state-owned buses.
"If our demands are not
fulfilled by November 6,
we will stage a fast unto
death at Shahid Sthal in the
state capital from November 7," Rajya Andolankari
Sangharsh Samiti Secretary
Bira Bhandari said.
Accusing the state government of giving false
assurances to statehood
activists, she said that the
samiti feels cheated and
has made up its mind
about going to any extent
to have its demands fulfilled.
Women carry Ganga water for preparing 'prashad' ahead of Chhath festiva,l in Patna — PTI
Thailand to
gifted bronze
Buddha statue
Temple of Vedic Planetarium
to come up in Bengal by 2022
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DARJEELING, OCT 27
MATHURA, OCT 27
A 31-member delegation
from Thailand will present
a bronze Buddha statue to
a monastery in Darjeeling
as part of a philanthropic
endeavour.
Darjeeling Eastern Himalayan Buddhist Cultural
Association (DEHBCA)
spokesman S L Palzor said,
"One of our members in
Delhi was informed about
some
people
from
Thailand
wanting
to
donate a statue of Buddha.
He referred the name of
Dichen TashiCholing Gumba located at Gopal
Dhura in Singtam, Darjeeling which was then
endorsed by the Indian
Ambassador to Thailand".
"The presentation is
being coordinated by Himalayan Buddhist Cultural
Association," said Palzor.
A 350-feet high temple and
sprawling over six lac
square foot area in West
Bengal's Mayapur, the
world headquarters of
International Society for
Krishna
Consciousness
(ISKCON), is inching
toward completion and
will be ready by 2022.
Construction work at
the Rs 500 crore-'Sri
Mayapur
Chandroday'
temple project is in full
swing since its foundation
stone
was
laid
by
ISKCON's
FounderAcharya Srila Prabhupada
in 1972.
"The temple would be
unique as it would not only
house the planetarium that
would speak secret of
Vedas but it would have a
hall on 1.5 acre area where
10,000 devotees can pay
their obeisance at a time,"
Alfred Ford, grandson of
iconic American industrialist Henry Ford and the
president of the temple
construction committee,
told reporters here
The Temple of Vedic
Planetarium will also
describe all the physical
details of the Universe and
their relationship with
God. "It would encourage a
sense of wonder in the creation and in the hand
behind it," he said, adding
that the temple would be
completed by 2022.
Ford, who has invested
Rs 200 crores in this temple
project, is here in the city to
participate in the religious
rituals related to the auspicious 'Kartik' month.
"Though my wife is
from a Brahmin family of
West BengaI, I opted
Vaishnav Dharma after
taking 'Deeksha' (consecration) from my preceptor
Prabhupada in the year
1972. In order to obey the
commandment made by
my preceptor I invested Rs
200 crores in this temple,"
he said.
Prabhupada defined the
size and design details of
temple and town. "He also
purchased the land, laid
the cornerstone and left the
royalties from his numerous books to help fund
needed for construction.
Since he gave his disciples
the task of completing the
Mayapur project and the
temple I am honouring the
wishes of my spiritual
teacher," Ford said.
Mayapur has become a
symbol of harmony where
without distinction of
caste, creed and colour,
three thousand devotees
from 32 countries under
the banner of Krishna
Bhakti, propagate the message of the Bhagwad
Geeta.