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Chandigarh July 3:
Farmers' apprehensions, real or fancied, over rollback of the notification on provision of direct payments to them by government agencies or arhtiyas (commission agents), prompted the Punjab and Haryana High Court to assure them of vigilance on the matter.
The division bench led by chief justice Tirath Singh Thakur assured "to keep a watch on all the moves of the government for the next three weeks so that the notification is not withdrawn" while hearing the submissions during a resumed hearing.
The petitioners, including farm unions and farmer welfare bodies, had expressed apprehensions about the state government withdrawing its April 16 notification under pressure from 45,000-odd arhtiyas who had threatened to go on strike from July 1 to protest the policy of payments through cheques across the state. However, the state government counsel informed the high court that his client was in no mood to roll back its decision. The matter will next be heard at the end of July.
A committee headed by the Punjab finance minister had issued the notification on April 16, after some farmer welfare bodies under the banner of Chambers of Punjab Farmers and Others had moved the court two years ago to seek directions for implementing the recommendation of the Punjab Farmers Commission. The issue of direct payment to farmers had been hanging fire for the past several years. The Punjab Farmers Commission had recommended direct payments through cheque when Amarinder Singh was the chief minister.
The recommendation was part of several measures which were suggested in order to take out farmers from the debt trap through non-institutional loans. Though, a notification was also issued in this regard by the Amarinder government, it was never implemented as the issue came up only a few weeks before the 2007 assembly elections.
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Chandigarh July 3:
Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal has resigned from the post of Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab as well as the Council of Ministers. Governor S. F. Rodrigues has accepted the resignation.
According to an official release here late on Wednesday evening, Mr. Badal cited technical reasons for his resignation. He had been sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister on January 21 this year and was required to get elected as an MLA within six months, which did not happen.
The release said Mr. Badal submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in view of the upcoming by-elections to three Punjab Assembly constituencies that would enable him to contest. The Election Commission of India has already announced the schedule for the by-elections from Jalalabad, Kahnuwan and Banur due on August 3.
While the Jalalabad and Kahnuwan seats fell vacant after sitting MLAs Sher Singh Ghubiya and Partap Singh Bajwa of the Akali Dal and the Congress respectively were elected as MPs from Ferozepur and Gurdaspur, the Banur by-election was forced by the death of Cooperation Minister Kanwaljit Singh. An official communication said the Chief Minister would now look after the portfolios held by Mr. Sukhbir Singh. They include the departments of Home Affairs, Information and Public Relations, Water Supply and Sanitation, NRI Affairs, Sports and Youth Welfare and Non-Conventional Energy.
The Punjab Government appointed a Jammu and Kashmir cadre IPS officer, P.S. Gill, as the next Director-General of Police (DGP). Earlier, the State Government promulgated an Ordinance to amend the provisions of the Punjab Police Act and facilitate the appointment of an officer from outside the State to the top police post.
Mr Gill succeeds K.K. Attri, who retired on June 30. He would supersede three Punjab Police officers, A.P. Pandey, R.S. Gill and Anil Kaushik, who already have been given the rank of Director-General of Police.
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July 3,200
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Mohali July 3:
Maharashtra DGP Sarbdeep Singh Virk alleged that the Punjab Government which has filed corruption cases against him was acting out of "political vendetta".
Virk said the state government was acting against him out of "political vendetta" and was leveling "false and baseless" charges against him with an aim to "tarnish" his clean image.
In an informal chat with media after his appearance before a special court in a high-profile case relating to alleged corruption in which the police official is facing trial before a special court here, he said, "Selection of DGP is the prerogative of the state government, it has every right to choose any officer from any cadre, whom it deems fit, to head the state police.
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Punjab Mail Online
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July 3,200
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Chandigarh July 3:
The BJP-SAD Government sought an immediate rollback of fuel price rise, with Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal adding that the step, if taken, would be the 'first honest gift' of the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre for the common man.
Badal said the decision to increase petrol and diesel prices, respectively, by Rs 4 and Rs 2 per litre would break the back of farmers, already struggling with the burden of inflating debts and a delayed and erratic monsoon.
"It is the first honest gift of a Government that came to power on the promise of price control and cheaper living for the aam aadmi," said Badal, adding that the decision would also paralyse the engines of growth and break the back of the already beleaguered peasantry in the country. The Chief Minister said the costs of agricultural inputs have shown a major increase as a direct fall-out of the inflationary pressures on the international oil market in recent months.
"The Centre never missed an opportunity to hike the prices of agricultural inputs such as diesel and some other petroleum based products in the guise of the slightest increase in the prices of crude oil in the international market," he said. Seeking immediate rollback of the fuel prices, SAD president and former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said he would meet the central Government leaders to seek a total reversal of the decision immediately as the decision was bound to hit both agricultural and industrial growth.
Demanding total withdrawal of the hike, Chief Minister Badal regretted that this hike in the prices of petrol and diesel would also adversely hit the transport sector in the State resulting in the corresponding price rise of essential commodities and other materials thereby affecting the common man.
Senior BJP leader and Punjab's Medical Education Minister Tikshan Sud said crude prices have dropped 80 per cent during last year and at that time the Government hoodwinked the masses by announcing a meagre 10 per cent cut in petrol prices and seven per cent in diesel, enabling multinational oil companies to mint money.
"On the plea of temporary rise of crude from $60 to $68, the Government is hell bent to bear down on ordinary consumers already braving the price hike of essential commodities instead of asking oil companies to utilise 60 per cent saving made last year in covering the hike," Sud, in a statement, said.
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Punjab Mail Online
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July 3,200
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Amritsar July 3:
The Vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University, Prof Ajaib Singh Brar, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University. The order in this regard, issued on behalf of the Governor, Punjab, who is also Chancellor of the university, was received by the varsity this evening.
This is for the first time in four decades of the inception of the university in 1969 that a serving VC would be joining it as Vice-Chancellor. Talking to reporters, Prof Brar said like Lucknow University, he would be taking regular classes in the Guru Nanak Dev University too. He said he never missed even a single class throughout his academic career. Despite the busy schedule of a Vice-Chancellor, he has been teaching for the past about one and half years in Lucknow University.
To a question, Prof Brar said he would give top priority to promote quality teaching and research. “My endeavour would be to ensure transparency and efficiency in the functioning of the university, named after Guru Nanak Dev”. “I had studied at the university for about six years and I am happy to be back at the same place after more than 27 years”, he said.
However, Prof Brar said he would be joining the university after two weeks. It is learnt that the UP government sought four weeks time from Brar to find his successor. Since working of the GND varsity has been suffering due to absence of regular Vice Chancellor, he has asked the UP government to relieve him within two weeks time.
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July 3,200
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New Delhi July 3:
In a pathbreaking judgement, the Delhi High Court legalised gay sex among consenting adults holding that the law making it a criminal offence violates fundamental rights.
However, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises homosexuality, will continue for non-consensual and non-vaginal sex. "We declare section 377 of IPC in so far as it criminalises consensual sexual acts of adults in private is violative of Articles 14, 21 and 15 of the Constitution," a Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Murlidhar said. .
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July 3,200
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New Delhi July 3:
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan said there was no need put the assets of judges in public domain as it would send a "wrong message" to litigants.
"Judges do declare their assets at the time of taking oath. All their details are with the registrar. There is no need for the assets to be disclosed before the public as that would send a wrong message to litigants," Justice Balakrishnan told a news channel.
He was responding to a question regarding Law Minister M Veerappa Moily's call for disclosure of judges' assets to the public. The Minister had last week said that the government would soon bring a bill to make it mandatory for the Judges of Supreme Court and High Courts to declare their assets.
On June 4, Moily had said the judiciary has to come out with an answer to the issue of disclosure of assets by judges as no public authority can claim it is not accountable to the society. The appeal filed by the Supreme Court registry against an order of the Central Information Commission holding that judges were liable to declare their assets has been reserved for judgement before the Delhi High Court.
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July 3,200
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New Delhi July 3:
The Delhi High Court judgement legalising gay sex among consenting adults may help the government in finalising its stand on decriminalising the penal provision dealing with it but there was no indication as to what it proposes to do.
The government adopted a cautious approach and avoided any direct reply on what its next move will be following the Delhi High Court ruling. "We need to examine the details of the judgement. Let me examine it," Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily said when asked about the government's move following todays judgement.
Sources in the Union Home Ministry said that a meeting between Home Minister P Chidambaram, Moily and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad would be convened soon during which a final decision of repealing Section 377 of IPC or going in appeal against the High Court judgement would be taken.
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July 3,200
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New Delhi July 3:
Monsoon became more active and advanced further in the northern region bringing good rains in sun-parched areas with Ambala in Haryana recording the highest rainfall of 40 mm.
Widespread rains lashed many parts of Rajasthan, which was reeling under severe heat conditions until the last week. Jaipur recorded 15.2 mm rainfall. Most parts of the desert state received light to moderate rains.
Showers eluded Barmer and Jaisalmer where mercury scraped 40 degree Celsius, followed by Ajmer and Jodhpur at 39 degrees. With the spread of monsoon, mercury further dipped in Uttar Pradesh. A rainfall of 36.4 mm was recorded in Ghazipur, while it was 12.2 mm in Jhansi.
In capital Lucknow, maximum temperature settled at 38.1 degrees. Rain and thundershowers are likely at few places in all the divisions of the state in the next 24 hours, weathermen has said. Maximum temperatures across Punjab and Haryana stayed few notches below normal. Chandigarh had a partially cloudy sky and mercury plunged by four degrees to settle at 31.6 degrees. Humidity levels touched 87 per cent.
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July 3,200
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New Delhi July 3:
On the boil following fuel price hike announced by the government late last evening, the opposition forced four adjournments of the Lok Sabha, steering it back to old times and giving Speaker Meira Kumar the first taste of House proceedings.
While she kept shouting, “Kripya baith jaiye (please sit down)”, almost all day, the opposition remained unrelenting in its demand of a rollback of petrol and diesel prices. They had for company both the UPA allies, the TMC and DMK, who urged the UPA to reconsider its decision, with DMK’s T.R. Baalu going an extra mile to remind the government of its collective responsibility.
“It is an alarming situation where a coalition government headed by Dr Manmohan Singh and supported by us has imposed such a major decision on the people without consulting its allies. I hope this does not recur,” said Baalu, his tone laced with caution. The DMK even joined issues with the Left, which accused the government of gross parliamentary impropriety for announcing the hike hours before the House was to meet. “The government could have made the announcement in the parliament.
This is contempt of the House,” said CPI and CPM leaders Gurudas Dasgupta and Basudeb Acharia, who denounced the move as anti-people. The UPA, however, defended the hike, with Petroleum minister Murli Deora saying it was necessary to offset the impact of global crude price rise. JDU’s Sharad Yadav threatened to disrupt the House until the rollback happened, while RJD’s Lalu Yadav and SP’s Mulayam Singh Yadav put the ball in the court of UPA chief Sonia Gandhi, needling her “wrong advisors”.
Outside the parliament, there were murmurings all day of how the government, with its petrol hike, might just have succeeded in deflecting attention from the controversial Liberhan Commission report, with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee again indicating that it would not be tabled in this session. Inside the Lok Sabha, however, members kept decibel levels high, with the House united in its demand to get the government to withdraw the hike. The charge was led by CPI’s Gurudas Dasgupta.
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Punjab Mail Online
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July 3,200
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