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Home Minister Launches New Website of Inter State Council Secretariat

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Union Home Minister Shri P. Chidambaram launched the new website of the Inter State Council Secretariat (ISCS) today. The new website developed in house by the Secretariat provides a wealth of information on the genesis, constitution, procedure and meetings of the Inter State Council and Zonal Councils, the evolution of Indian States and various issues of Centre State and Inter State Relations.

Shri P.G Dhar Chakrabarti, Additional Secretary & Adviser, ISCS appraised the Minister about the role and functioning of the Inter State Council Secretariat. Various measures for activating the work of the Council Secretariat were also discussed.

Written Result of Special Class Railway Apprentice’s Examination, 2012

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The result of Written Examination of SCRA, 2012 has been declared by the Union public service Commission and the same is available on the Commission’s Website, http://www.upsc.gov.in. It is informed that all the qualified candidates are required to fill up and submit the Detailed Application Form (DAF) ONLINE followed by sending of ink signed copy of the printout of DAF along with their photograph and all relevant documents to the Commission. The DAF shall be available on the Commission’s Website till 29-05-2012. Important Instruction for filling up and submitting the ONLINE DAF are also available on the Website along with the Rules of SCRA Examination, 2012. The last date for the receipt of printed copy of DAF (ink signed) along with relevant documents is-01-06-2012. In the event of non-receipt of ink signed copy of DAF, the candidature will be cancelled without any further notice. The candidates shall be informed for their Personality Test which is tentatively scheduled to commence from 18-06-2012 through e-mail followed by speed post. The details of Personality Test shall also be available on the Commission’s Website in due course.

Construction of Expressways

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Under National Highways Development Project (NHDP) Phase VI, construction of 1,000km of expressway have been approved by the Government. Main criterion for selection of expressway corridors has been the volume of the traffic on the corridors.

Vadodara-Mumbai Corridor (400 km) being the highest density corridor has been given priority. Other identified stretches include Delhi-Chandigarh (249km) on NH-1 & NH-22, Bangalore-Chennai (334km) on NH-4, Delhi-Jaipur (261km) on NH-8, Delhi-Meerut (66km) on NH-58, Kolkata-Dhanbad (277km) on NH-2, and Delhi-Agra (200km) on NH-2, out of which remaining 600 is km to be undertaken based on outcome of pre-feasibility studies. Originally, it was targeted to award concession by 2009-10. Delays have been mainly on account of issues pertaining to consultations with State Governments regarding finalisation of alignment, as a result final feasibility reports were delayed. Delhi-Jaipur expressway is also part of pre-feasibility studies. Presently work relating to fixing the alignment of the expressway is going on.

This information was given by Dr. Tushar A. Chaudhary, the Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways in response to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Tax on Re-Registration of Vehicles

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The Motor Vehicle(Amendment) Bill, 2012, which was passed by Rajya Sabha on 08th May, 2012 provides as under:-

“49A. Where an owner of a motor vehicle (other than transport vehicle) on which one-time or long-term tax has been paid, ceases to reside at the address recorded in the certificate of registration of the vehicle on account of his transfer on official duty or shift of residence, the registering authority shall, where the vehicle was registered prior to such transfer or shift of residence, on application for no objection certificate under section 48, refund the pro-rata unutilized tax on the vehicle; and the registering authority where the vehicle is being shifted shall levy and collect pro-rata tax for the remaining valid period of registration of such vehicle.”

This information was given by Dr. Tushar A. Chaudhary, the Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways in response a question in Lok Sabha today.

हमारी संसद के छह दशक

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भारतीय संसद के 60 साल पूरे होने का अर्थ अत्यंत असाधारण है| एशिया में यों तो संसदें और भी हैं और हम से पुरानी भी हैं लेकिन जो बात हमारी संसद में है, वह किसी और में नहीं है| हमारी संसद ने हमारे संविधान और हमारे लोकतंत्र की रक्षा की है| ज़रा हम एशिया और अफ्रीका पर नज़र घुमाकर देखें| दूर क्यों जाएं, जरा दक्षिण एशिया पर ही गौर करें| ह

Chidambaram, Karthi Aircel-Maxis deal and UPA : Cloak and dagger

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Cloak and dagger
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/51624-cloak-and-dagger.html

16 May 2012

Government must probe allegations

Having failed to establish his innocence in the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal, Union Minister for Home Affairs P Chidambaram has taken to heart-rending dramatics to obfuscate the issue. In the Rajya Sabha on Monday he pleaded with the Opposition to put a dagger into his heart than question his integrity. In a normal situation, this emotional outburst would have mellowed even the most stone-hearted critic. But with the large amount of material which has surfaced over the last few days, repeatedly hinting at irregularities in the deal that was struck when he was the Union Minister for Finance in 2006, Mr Chidambaram’s claim of innocence and victimhood is finding few takers.

While no one is saying that he must be pronounced guilty straightaway, what is surely a reasonable demand is that the UPA Government must order a thorough probe into the issue. There is no reason why Mr Chidambaram should object to that. Indeed, he should call for such an inquiry and end the ordeal that he is being put to nearly every day in Parliament. Instead of calling for the dagger to be drawn into his chest, Mr Chidambaram must lift the cloak of secrecy that surrounds his role in the telecom deal. After all, there are issues that cannot be denied, and the leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mr Arun Jaitley, has brought them out with clinical precision, demolishing every claim that the Minister has made. Nor can the alleged involvement of Mr Chidambaram’s son in the acquisition of telecom company Aircel by Maxis be considered a closed subject merely because the Minister and his son have issued statements of denial.

Politicians of India- A community that failed the nation

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(Ranjit Singh)

The Corporate world in collaboration with the governing classes, the politicians and bureaucrats have taken corruption in India to unfathomable depths. In the ongoing war between integrity and corruption, the practitioners of corruption have been winning, continuously. Except a few countable successes on the judicial front, the activists of anti-corruption movements have a miserable track record. The reason is the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the coalitions of the corrupt, commonly known as NEXUS.

The Politicians of India: The coalition of the corrupt cannot be sustained without them. If bureaucrats are kingpins, the politicians are the drivers of the corruption machine. They are the ones who have made country a corruption-ridden society and they are the ones who can make it corruption free, if and when they decide. A story, right or wrong, from the regime of Akbar, the Great, vindicates my observation.
Akbar, the Great, used to wander around his territory in disguise to know how his people live. One evening, he, along with his few courtiers passed by a roadside “dhaba”. He asked the owner to weigh the “tandoori” loaf that he was selling to his customers. It was lesser in weight than what his government had standardized. Akbar ordered his security men to immediately throw the owner in the burning “tandoor”. The news spread like wild fire and all the bread-makers began selling the standard weight loaves.
Are our rulers doing this role of regulating and supervising the social behavior of our community and ensuring a fast punishment to the guilty?

Bill to protect heritage buildings in Tamil Nadu. First, declare protection of Rama Setu.

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Once this becomes law, the first action should be to declare Rama Setu as a historic structure and Setusamudram as heritage site and Rameshwaram island as pilgrimage island. This will ensure that no one tries to dredge again in this marine biological reserve, a treasure of mankind and a memory to cherish vigrahavan dharmah: Sri Rama whose memory will remain forever.

Kalyanaraman

Bill to protect heritage buildings in Tamil Nadu
TNN | May 15, 2012, 06.23AM IST

CHENNAI: A comprehensive heritage conservation bill that is expected to go a long way in conserving historic buildings and environmentally important precincts in Tamil Nadu was tabled in the state assembly on Monday. A commission under the Tamil Nadu Heritage Commission Bill 2012 will frame guidelines on conserving structures not protected by the Archaeological Survey of India or the state archaeological department.

The commission will use incentives and penal provisions to preserve public and private historic structures. Apart from penalising those who deface heritage buildings, it will exempt owners of such structures from payment of taxes or fees for supply of water and grant them certificates of right of development.

According to the bill, introduced by School Education minister N R Sivapathi, the commission will help the government identify, restore and preserve heritage buildings. It will have a say in development projects, including road and drainage work that could affect nearby historic structures.

Saluting our heroes: "havaldar gyan bahadur tamang - 1/11 gorkha rifles"

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http://184.168.115.63/index.php?topic=13654.0

Field Marshal Manekshaw once said, “When a man says that he is not scared of dying, he is either lying or he is a Gorkha."
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A Heroic tale of Havaldar Gyan Bahadur

Tamang, SM - '1/11 Gorkha Rifles'

“Armed with just a Khukri and grit he killed 7 Pakistani Soldiers in the Kargil war “!

Havaldar Gyan Bahadur Tamang was part of the CO's column of attack on the night during Operation Vijay in 1999. The hair-raising story of his exploits during the attack is exemplary.

Gyan Bahadur Tamang was ordered to move behind an enemy position to cut them off from their reinforcements . The enemy spotted the movement and in the fire-fight that ensued, Havaldar Gyan Bahadur and his buddy were separated from others. In the exchange of fire, both were hit. While his colleague made the supreme sacrifice, Gyan Bahadur Tamang fell backwards and rolled downhill some twenty metres before he passed out with blood oozing from his neck. A light drizzle revived him the next morning and he came to his senses with the sound of automatic weapons and artillery shells landing all around him. He was soon spotted and eight Pakistani soldiers began to fire on him with their AK-47 assault rifles while he dashed around from one boulder to another. Displaying remarkable shooting skills under extreme pressure and with utmost fire discipline, Gyan Bahadur Tamang shot dead three Pakistanis.

Maxis’ stake declaration demolishes PC defence.

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TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012 00:25 J GOPIKRISHNAN | NEW DELHI

For days Home Minister P Chidambaram has pleaded innocence in the Aircel-Maxis deal, but new facts show that the acquisition of Aircel by the Maxis in 2006 was illegal.

The deal, which took place when Chidambaram was the Finance Minister, violates Indian laws. While domestic laws place a cap of 74 per cent on foreign investment in telecom sector, in the Aircel-Maxis deal, the latter acquired nearly 100 per cent stake in three tranches.

Equally shocking is the fact that a probe instituted by the Finance Minister and Department of Telecom in early 2007 to look into this violation, has reached nowhere. The Government has so far not initiated any action against Maxis.

On March 15, 2006, Maxis declared to the Malaysian Stock Exchange that it proposed to acquire 99.714 per cent in Aircel. This was before the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) — under Chidambaram — cleared the so-called final acquisition on October 3, 2006.

“Aircel Transactions comprising:

(I) Proposed acquisition by Global Communication Services Holdings Ltd (GCSHL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maxis, and Deccan Digital Networks Private Limited (JVC), a proposed joint venture company of Maxis in the Republic of India, of 94,864,865 and 85,135,135 equity shares of 10 Indian Rupees each in Aircel Limited (Aircel), a company incorporated in the Republic of India (“Aircel Shares”), representing 39% and 35% respectively, of the enlarged issued and paid-up share capital of Aircel from Aircel Televentures Limited for a cash consideration of $422 million and $378 million respectively.

PC scam: PM should order CBI investigation. PC lies on Karti loan to Aircel, should resign - Dr. Swamy

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Subramanian Swamy demands Chidambaram's resignation
New Delhi, Mon, 14 May 2012ANI

New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Monday took Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to task over the statement made him in Parliament on the Aircel deal, and asked Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to order a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the matter.

Swamy demanded that Chidambaram should step down from his post.

"Today, we saw with the statement of Mr. Chidambaram that he has admitted to three things. One as a Home Minister, who is supposed to catch thieves, he has ended up arguing that he is not a thief. He has lost moral responsibility to remain as Minister," said Swamy.

"Second, he has admitted that it is possible that the Malaysian company owned 99. 3 percent, but this is to be inquired. This happened when he was giving permission. Why didn't he hold an inquiry then? He had the Enforcement Directorate and all these people. Therefore, we want the papers of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board put on the table," he added.

Swamy further said: "Third thing he admitted that they may have common e-mails. He has to explain that. And finally, he said that his son got consultation fees, but actually the account show that it was a loan given, advance given to the Aircel Company. So, he got caught telling a lie on that."

"So, I demand that Mr. Chidambaram should resign immediately. The Prime Minister should order a CBI probe into this," he added.

Chidambaram had earlier today clarified all the doubts over the issue, saying that neither he nor any members of his family have owned any share in any telecom company.

National security scam: Chidambaram-Aircel-Maxis (with FAQ inputs from J. Gopikrishnan)

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The core national security risk created by the Chidambaram-Aircel-Maxis ghotala has been explained with precision and clarity by Dr. Subramanian Swamy in the context of an international Sarkozy-Carla Bruni-Sonia-TAK-Rahul pow-wow network. "...we have to see the Aircel-Maxis deal since it impinges on India’s national security as did Swan-Etisalat and Unitech-Telenor deals. Telecom towers and equipment can do cyber warfare, snoop on closed door conversations and read email...FDI Rules require an Indian partner to hold at least 26 per cent of the equity for the deal to be okayed by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)...TAK declared proudly to Malaysian Stock Exchange and to his company shareholders’ meeting that he had bought 99.3 per cent of Aircel equity (0.7 per cent still left with sivasankaran) and thus dejure Aircel became a wholly owned company of Maxis...the bogus FIPB clearance. P Chidambaram has committed offence of criminal misconduct under Section 13(1)(d)(iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act which entails a seven year jail term for Maran, Karti, and may be Sivasankaran too under sub-Section (ii) read with IPC 120A&B. The Supreme Court has been apprised by me on May 10 last, and the matter will be heard after the vacations on July 17. If Manmohan Singh does not want to testify in court, he must get rid of Chidambaram from the Cabinet. This is what all Congress leaders except one want." Read on at: http://organiser.org//Encyc/2012/5/12/EXPOSE.aspx?NB=&lang=4&m1=&m2=&p1=&p2=&p3=&p4=

Dr. Subramanian Swamy's explosive article on the Aircel-Maxis scam - V. Sundaram blogs

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Monday, May 14, 2012

DR. SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY’S EXPLOSIVE ARTICLE ON THE AIRCEL-MAXIS SCAM

On 12th May 2012, Dr. Subramanian Swamy wrote a very explosive article in the Organizer journal, exposing the full-blooded involvement and participation of Union Minister P. Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis scam. For the benefit of my readers I am presenting below the full text of the article:...Read on at http://ennapadampanchajanya.blogspot.in/

Sundaram's comments

1. The Prime Minister should sack the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram immediately because a prima facie case against his criminality has been clearly established with irrefutable documentary evidence by Dr. Subramanian Swamy.

2. The CBI is not functioning like the Central Bureau of Investigation. It is functioning as the CONGRESS BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (CBI), CRIMINAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (CBI), CRIMINAL BUREAU OF INSTIGATION (CBI), CRIMINAL BUREAU OF INSINUATION (CBI), CRIMINAL BUREAU OF INTIMIDATION (CBI), CRIMINAL BUREAU OF ILLEGALITY (CBI), CRIMINAL BUREAU OF IMMORALITY (CBI), etc., etc.

3. No one can expect such a criminal body like the CBI to initiate tough action against a supremely corrupt Union Home Minister whose continuance in office poses a serious threat to our national security and territorial integrity.

4. Since we have a President with criminal antecedents, we cannot expect her to initiate any action for the dismissal of P. Chidambaram invoking her powers under the Indian Constitution.

We have a Parliament. After 60 years, do we have Parliamentarians?

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AGRA: Has the functioning of the Indian Parliament been able to foster democratic values and strengthen participatory institutions down the line or has it been a failed experiment?

These are the questions being asked as our Westminster-modelled parliamentary democratic system celebrates its 60th anniversary.

"From panchayats and nagar nigams to the assemblies and the two houses of Parliament you only have rabble rousers, playing to the galleries. One does no longer hear enlightened debates interspersed with wit and sarcasm, as was the case till the 1977 Janata Party experiment," political commentator Paras Nath Choudhary told IANS.

Former socialist leader from Lucknow Ram Kishore, says: "The likes of Raj Narain, Madhu Limaye or even Piloo Mody, made Parliament a vibrant democratic institution. The 'firing range' comprising HV Kamath, Subramanian Swamy, SN Mishra, Shibban Lal Saxena and Kunwar Lal Gupta was ever alert during the 1970s to government lapses. Their questions and points of orders were dreaded and ministers never made a mistake of coming to Parliament without doing adequate home work."

During the 1960s and 1970s, the performance of parliamentarians was generally of a high order and the media relished the quotable quotes. As long as Ram Manohar Lohia was in the house, one was assured of sparkling fire-works. Madhu Limaye, Nath Pai, NG Gorey, Ashok Mehta and others carried the tradition forward.

Playing commie politics with Dhamma

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Playing commie politics with Dhamma. Globalising with Lumbini, Nalanda intl. universities? Amartya Sen and CCP should quit ideology games in the name of Bauddham.

Let there be an honest effort to study Dhamma, esha dhammo sanantano. Chinese Communist Party and ideological and bogus chamcha-s like Amartya Sen should quit playing politics with Bauddham. Stay away from the sacred, heritage, world pilgrimage sites of Lumbini and Nalanda. Don't forget: "religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden." (Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, (1912, English translation by Joseph Swain: 1915) The Free Press, 1965, p.47). Amartya Sen and CCP, don't violate the forbidden territorial imperative, because it is sacred. Dhamma is sacred.

Kalyanaraman

By Jayadeva Ranade
10 May 2012 12:07:00 AM IST

China’s Buddhist dilemma

China’s attempts to play Buddhist politics and further its strategic agenda, by concurrently organising two international conferences last month in Lumbini in Nepal and Hong Kong both failed. They also revealed a schism within the CCP’s United Front Work Department (UFWD).

Important factors contributing to this setback are the CCP’s apparent unwillingness to address the growing incidence of self-immolations among Tibetan Buddhists; inability to calm restiveness in Tibet and Tibetan-populated areas in China; and the policy of consistently excluding the Dalai Lama. Reports filtering out of Beijing cite factional in-fighting within the UFWD, which handles all matters relating to China’s non-communist entities and ethnic minorities, including Tibet and the Dalai Lama, as a concern.

China's colonisation of Tibet. China, free Tibet, NOW.

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Dalai Lama: national service

He has established that Tibet is no longer merely a country, still less a region of China. It now seems more like a nation

Editorial

Sunday 13 May 2012

The Chinese occupation of Tibet has been the most successful colonisation in the last 60 years. At a time when the old empires were everywhere in retreat, the Chinese army seized Tibet and held it. The occupiers are confident of their manifest destiny there. They are filling the country with Han immigrants. Tragically and horribly, some Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest over the past year since all other forms of rebellion have been crushed. Even the government in exile now calls only for "autonomy", not independence, and they are most unlikely to be granted even that much. Yet for all that, it would be wrong to think that the Dalai Lama has failed.

He is a politician with no army and no country behind him; a religious leader who cannot visit his own shrines, and whose colleagues are chosen by his enemies. Much of what he believes and teaches is absurd to modern ears. But he is still a world figure: a man who stands for nonviolence and the disinterested pursuit of truth in a way that no other religious leader manages to do. In part this is because of his exoticism. Tibetan Buddhism has scandals, superstitions and power struggles like any other religion, but these are largely invisible to its western admirers, who see it as free of the familiar baggage of Christianity or Islam.

Leaking treasonous story of army movements, campaign of calumny against Indian army

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Leaking treasonous story of army movements, campaign of calumny against Indian army - Commission of Inquiry by SC judge demanded - Dr. Subramanian Swamy

May 14, 2012.
Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy,
President of the Janata Party.

I demand a Commission of Inquiry under a sitting Judge of the Supreme Court to go into two connected questions of national security: – first, the bogus and planted Indian Express story about the attempted coup by alleged illegal movement of armoured vehicles near Delhi, and second,the leak of the letter written to the Prime Minister by the Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, Gen V.K. Singh, pointing out the shortages in the Indian army which makes India’s preparedness less than complete. The letter leak was, according to a respected newswire service,the PTI,an official of the Cabinet Secretariat belonging to the Indian Economic Service had leaked the said letter.

The fact of the matter is that such news leaks and publications cannot be effected unless there is a high level patronage promising a cover up, if and when necessary. In the case of letter leak question, it is well known that the present RAW Chief and the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister are part of the personal entourage of Ms. Sonia Gandhi and have frequently performed personal tasks and chores for her abroad. It is also well known that a clique of the Indian army with full backing of Sonia Gandhi had targeted one of India’s most honest Army Chief viz., Gen V.K. Singh, and hence it is time to get to the bottom of this campaign of calumny, to demoralize the Indian army to the extent that they surrender to the corrupt.

PC scam. Swamy poses six queries to Pranabda. Will he answer instead of merely apologising for losing temper?

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Swamy poses six queries to Pranab for reply in House
SUNDAY, 13 MAY 2012 00:24 PIONEER NEWS SERVICE | NEW DELHI

Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Saturday demanded Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to answer six of his questions on the controversial FIPB clearance to the Aircel-Maxis deal in Parliament on Monday. In a statement issued here, Swamy sought to know:

How the Ministry of Finance issued a press release to say that the Aircel-Maxis equity purchase clearance in the Foreign Investment Board meeting presided over by then Finance Minister P Chidambaram was given on March 7, 2006 when the PIB website even today does not disclose this clearance amongst the clearances of other deals made on that day?

The meaning of the ‘clearance’ given by the FIPB at the October 3, 2006 meeting to the Aircel- Maxis deal, as announced in PIB website of October 17, 2006.

Pranab should disclose how is it that when the Malayasia Stock Exchange was informed by Maxis that its controlling interest in Aircel was 99.3%, far above the FBI rule that it could not exceed 74%.

Whether a fraud was committed by including a dummy JV called Deccan Digital Network to beat the FDI rule?

Pranab should make clear to Parliament the conclusions of the FIPB probes since he became Finance Minister, and also agree to lay the said report in Parliament. He should also disclose whether the DoT conducted an enquiry into this share purchase fraud through a dummy JV and whether the said enquiry by the DoT has been completed.
Whether the CBI has gone into this question since it is a criminal offence under Section 13(1)(d)(iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act?

0 #3 AK Singh 2012-05-13 07:07
Quoting rajiv ranjan sinha:

PC scam. Stench of the Aircel-Maxis sleaze - Expose by Dr. Subramanian Swamy

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Source: Organiser - Weekly Date: 5/12/2012 10:08:35 PM
Swamy Exposes Chidambaram Scam

Stench of the Aircel-Maxis sleaze

Chidambaram's response unconvincing

BJP demands probe, his resignation

Dr Subramanian Swamy

Aircel is a telecom company providing mobile phone wireless services using 2G and 3G spectrum. Before 2006 it was wholly owned by a Tamil Nadu based capitalist called Sivasankaran, but by January 2006 it came to be owned by a Malaysia born citizen called T Anantha Krishnan, popularly called TAK. He is the son of a Sri Lankan Tamil immigrant, who arrived as indentured plantation worker.

T Anantha Krishnan's second wife is Latchoumie (Lakshmi?) Marie Helene (LMH) born to a white French father who belongs the Le Chateau Briand family, and Tamil mother. She is popularly known as Mme ‘TAK’.

TAK made his fortune first in gambling casinos and laundering LTTE drug and extortion loot garnered by the terrorist organisation treasurer K Padmanabhan (now Sri Lanka custody), and then branched into construction etc., to become a powerfully influential person in Malaysia, and had helped Quatrrocchi grease the system in that country and escape the law because of the CBI’s deliberately chosen counsel.

Mme TAK, according to my usually reliable sources in Paris, is the owner of a very big art gallery, La Fantaisie, which can be described as the Christie's in France! Carla Bruni, the Italian wife of former French President Sarkozy, is a partner in this venture since two years!

Smt TAK is also owner of a sophisticated Music Recording House in Paris. Carla, who is also a pop singer, uses Smt TAK's studios for registering and issue of her albums!

Twitter users in UK get legal warning

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The internet is not a law-free zone, the British government's top law officer warned Twitter users Friday, adding that he would not hesitate to take action over offending posts.

LONDON: The internet is not a law-free zone, the British government's top law officer warned Twitter users Friday, adding that he would not hesitate to take action over offending posts.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the government's chief legal advisor in England and Wales, spoke out following a series of high-profile court cases involving postings made on the micro-blogging site.

"If somebody goes down to the pub with printed sheets of paper and hands it out, that's no different than if somebody goes and does a tweet," Grieve told BBC radio.

"The idea that you have immunity because you're an anonymous tweeter is a big mistake.

"I don't want to take action but if I think it is necessary to prevent crime, such as racially aggravated harassment, then I won't hesitate to do it."

A student who mocked English Premier League footballer Fabrice Muamba on Twitter after he collapsed on the pitch with a heart attack in March was jailed for 56 days after admitting a racially aggravated public order offence.

Some 17 arrests have been made in connection with the alleged naming on Twitter of the woman that Wales footballer Ched Evans was last month convicted of raping.

In March, former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns won a libel action against ex-Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi in the first libel action heard in England against a post on Twitter.

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Home Minister Launches New Website of Inter State Council Secretariat

Written Result of Special Class Railway Apprentice’s Examination, 2012

Construction of Expressways

Tax on Re-Registration of Vehicles

हमारी संसद के छह दशक

Chidambaram, Karthi Aircel-Maxis deal and UPA : Cloak and dagger

Politicians of India- A community that failed the nation

Bill to protect heritage buildings in Tamil Nadu. First, declare protection of Rama Setu.

Saluting our heroes: "havaldar gyan bahadur tamang - 1/11 gorkha rifles"

Maxis’ stake declaration demolishes PC defence.

PC scam: PM should order CBI investigation. PC lies on Karti loan to Aircel, should resign - Dr. Swamy

National security scam: Chidambaram-Aircel-Maxis (with FAQ inputs from J. Gopikrishnan)

Dr. Subramanian Swamy's explosive article on the Aircel-Maxis scam - V. Sundaram blogs

We have a Parliament. After 60 years, do we have Parliamentarians?

Playing commie politics with Dhamma

China's colonisation of Tibet. China, free Tibet, NOW.

Leaking treasonous story of army movements, campaign of calumny against Indian army

PC scam. Swamy poses six queries to Pranabda. Will he answer instead of merely apologising for losing temper?

PC scam. Stench of the Aircel-Maxis sleaze - Expose by Dr. Subramanian Swamy

Twitter users in UK get legal warning