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Home Contact Us Dateline New Delhi, Monday, May 30, 2005

IAF's maiden Everest conquest

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) once has lived up to its credo of "touching the sky with glory" by successfully conquering the 8848 metres high Mt. Everest on Monday. The first ever IAF expedition to Mt Everest, which was flagged off by Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi on March 22, climbed the summit between 05:15 am and 06:30 am today morning, said a report from the Ministry of Defence. Wing Commander Amit Choudhary led the 19-member team, and Wing Commander RC Tripathi, Squadron Leader Chaitanya and Sergeant NR Choudhary conquered the summit. The team is expected to be back in Delhi by June 10. Air Marshal HS Garkal complimented the team over satellite phone for the successful conquest.

Siwan police chasing Shahabuddin (Go To Top)

New Delhi: Siwan police are making sustained efforts to arrest controversial local RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin following the issue of non-bailable warrant against him by a local court in connection with a criminal case. Sources said that Siwan police had the copy of the arrest warrant and it would be executed at the earliest. The copies of the warrant had been forwarded to the State Home Secretary and Delhi Police Commissioner. Other State police officials have also been contacted for helping in the execution of the orders. Additional district judge B K Ray had on Saturday issued the non- bailable warrant of arrest against Shahabuddin as he failed to appear before the court despite several summons for framing charges in connection with abduction of two CPI-ML (L) workers Jangam Sah and Sivanaj Paswan. Shahabuddin, who is facing charges in over 40 criminal cases, is presently not traceable. He was reportedly in New Delhi last week. The district administration has also sought reopening of nine criminal cases against Shahabuddin Bihar police had seized 7,600 US dollars 7,240 dirhams and 400 riyals besides illegal firearms and animal skins during the raid at Shahabuddin's house in a village in Siwan. The Siwan district administration had filed six new cases against Shahabuddin after the raid - three under the Arms Act and one each under the Wildlife Protection Act, Bihar State Electricity Act and Transport Act. The Home department was also looking into the legalities of reopening old cases in which the MP was set free for want of witnesses. Shahabuddin was granted bail in February this year by the Patna High Court in a case relating to the kidnapping and murder of Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist worker Munna Choudhury in 2001. He had been in jail for 18 months.

Sushil Modi appointed Bihar BJP chief (Go To Top)

New Delhi: In an attempt to give a fresh leadership to the party ahead of State Assembly polls, BJP President L K Advani today appointed National Vice President Sushil Kumar Modi as the State unit chief with immediate effect. Former Union Minister C P Thakur has been appointed as Chairman of Bihar Election Campaign Committee. BJP National Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that the changes have been made to give the Party much-needed punch to face the forthcoming State Assembly elections. Modi's appointment came after the incumbent Gopal Narain Singh submitted his resignation. He is a Member of Parliament from Patna.

VHP protests against registration tax on Amarnath pilgrims (Go To Top)

New Delhi: Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists today took to streets here against the Jammu and Kashmir state government's decision to impose registration tax on the Amarnath pilgrims. The annual pilgrimage is due to begin after three weeks only. Jammu and Kashmir government has recently decided to impose registration tax on the pilgrims. Last year, around 300,000 devotees went on the pilgrimage. Activists, also joined by Bajrang Dal, shouting slogans against the state Chief Minister, condemned him for slapping the tax, which they say was in stark contrast to the kind of subsidies being granted to Muslims during their annual Haj pilgrimage. "On one side the Centre and state governments are providing subsidy to the Haj pilgrims and for other minorities. If this tax of 10 rupees is being imposed on the Hindus, it is an insult which we will not tolerate," said Ashok Kapoor, a VHP activist. For long activists have also been campaigning for the extension of the month-long pilgrimage by another 30 days, a proposal the state government has rejected citing security problems. The Chief Minister says the forces deployed across the restive region have to be pulled out to provide security to pilgrims and that causes problems. Several times militants have attacked the annual pilgrimage since the violence began in the region in 1989. In 2002 eight pilgrims were killed in the attack on Nunwan camp in Pahalgam. Amarnath stands at a height of nearly 12,500 feet (3,888 metres) above sea level.

Security along Indo-Bangla border beefed up (Go To Top)

Agartala: India has put on high alert its security forces along the Indo-Bangla border in Tripura and Assam to foil all efforts of the insurgents to cross into its territory following an anti-terrorist drive launched by the Bangladesh security forces. The Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF) of Tripura, Mizoram and Cachar (TCM), S. K. Dutta, said that all the border outposts in Tripura and Cachar in Assam have been alerted to curb every attempt of the ultras to sneak into Indian territory. Earlier, at an officer level meeting of the two forces, the BSF had given to Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) a list of camps operating in Chitagong hill region. Chief Minister of Tripura, Manik Sarkar, has also been requesting the Centre to take up the matter with Bangladesh so that the insurgents could be discouraged to use Bangladeshi soil to launch illegal activities in India. Dutta also appreciated Bangladeshs efforts to curb insurgency in the region. "We are happy that Bangladesh is now raiding the hideouts of the ultras and hope that the process would wipe out the ultras from Bangla soil," he said.

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