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The Navhind Times I Tuesday February 7, 2017 Till date, 28 antiquities have been retrieved from various foreign countries” 7 navhindtimes.com È APPOINTMENTS PTI NEW DELHI Taking a dig at Congress after Election Comission asked it to complete its organisational elections by June, Union Minis- ter Venkaiah Naidu to- day said all was not well in the main opposition party where internal de- mocracy was not effec- tive. “It’s duty of every po- litical party, that too for a political party which claims 125 years of his- tory...Parties should con- duct internal elections in a free and fair manner and report to the Elec- tion Commission. They should have taken the lead in doing this. “Very fact that the Election Commission has to remind the Con- gress party shows that all is not well and democra- cy is not effective in in- ternal functioning of the Congress party,” Naidu told reporters here. Since September, 2015, Congress has on two oc- casions urged the poll panel to allow it to defer its internal elections. EC had recently said it would grant no further extension and the inter- nal polls should be over “latest by June 30, 2017”. Congress has also been asked to submit the list of its new office bear- ers by July 15 to the poll panel. With the Commission refusing to grant more time to Congress to hold the organisational polls, the demand for anoint- ing Rahul Gandhi as par- ty president could gain momentum after the as- sembly elections in five states are over in March. Under the EC’s rules, all registered political parties have to hold or- ganisational elections annually. Congress has, however, cited its con- stitution to say that its internal polls are held every 5 years. Internal democracy not effective in Congress: Naidu PTI NEW DELHI In a relief to former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki, the Supreme Court on Monday set aside the Gauhati High Court order for a CBI probe into corruption allegations related to his tenure as PWD Minister in 2006. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice N V Ramana asked the High Court to hear afresh the PIL, on which CBI probe was launched against the Congress leader. Referring to the contents of August 21, 2015 order of the High Court, the apex court said the since the for- mer Chief Minister had not been accorded the hearing a fresh adjudication was needed. The bench, however, ac- cepted the submission of Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, representing CBI, that several FIRs had been lodged in pursuance of the HC order and the con- sequential proceedings and investigation be not stayed. “If something has been initiated, they will remain, if he (Tuki) has not chal- lenged them,” it said, while disposing of the plea and remanding it back to the High Court. Earlier, the apex court had on August 26, 2015 stayed the Gauhati High Court order for a CBI probe into corruption allegations against Tuki. Graft charges: SC quashes HC order for CBI probe against Tuki SANJIB DUTTA | AFP A policeman destroys poppy flowers being grown for opium production in Chatra district in Jharkhand on Monday PTI NEW DELHI India has retrieved as many as 28 antiquities from vari- ous countries till date even as there is no proposal for retrieval of artefacts from British Museum, London, the Lok Sabha was in- formed on Monday. “Till date, 28 antiquities have been retrieved from various foreign countries. Presently, there is no pro- posal with the Archaeolog- ical Survey of India (ASI) for retrieval of artefacts from British Museum, London,” Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said in a written reply. The Archaeological Sur- vey of India, under the Culture Ministry, retrieves antiquities from foreign countries which are ex- ported in violation of An- tiquities and Art Treasure Act, 1972. Sharma said National Museum in the city has planned to organise an international exhibition ‘India and the world’ for which 150 original arte- facts will be temporarily brought from the British Museum. The exhibition will be jointly organised by the National Museum, New Delhi, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangraha- laya (CSMVS), Mumbai and British Museum, London. At present the National Museum has over two lakh objects out of which 9,347 are on display. Objects are displayed as per theme, significance and available space in the museum. From time to time, the artefacts are re- placed from reserved store, the minister said. The expenditure in- curred on the National Mu- suem was over Rs 31 crore in 2015-16, he said. On another query, Shar- ma said, “There has been no new acquisition in his- torical artefacts during the last five years. How- ever, one manuscript was received by the National Museum as a gift in 2016 and another art object ti- tled ‘Yogni’, which was smuggled out of India, was brought back in 2013 from Paris (France).” Over 28 antiquities retrieved from abroad till date: government Till date, 28 antiquities have been retrieved from various foreign countries. Presently, there is no proposal with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for retrieval of artefacts from British Museum, London,” Mahesh Sharma, Union Culture Minister Modi to address 4 election rallies in Uttarakhand DEHRADUN: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ad- dress four election rallies in poll-bound Uttarakhand on February 10 to February 12, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said on Monday. Modi will address the first rally in Haridwar on February 10, second in Pithora- garh on February 11 and the rest on February 12 in Srinagar Garhwal and Rudrapur. Media in-charge of the party Devendra Bhasin said that the party workers are working hard for making the rallies a great success and that people were looking forward to hear Prime Minister Modi spell out the priorities of the BJP for the hill state. The BJP is fighting against the Congress and in its bid to wrest power in Uttarakhand has rolled out a never before offensive against the ruling party, assimilating almost all tall leaders from the Congress into the party fold. IANS Student drowns in Hooghly river in Bengal KOLKATA: A class 10 student drowned in the Hooghly river in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Monday, police said. “Sayan Poddar (16) of Garia in the district had gone along with three friends to bathe in the river near the Diamond Harbour,” Gautam Mitra, in charge of Diamond Harbour police station, said. One of the boys fled the spot while locals rescued the other two and later handed them over to the police. Poddar, a stu- dent at Andrew’s High School in Kolkata, did not know swimming, police said. “We launched a search operation and also contacted the disaster management team but the body is yet to be located,” the officer said. “The two boys handed over to police are students of Class 7 and 9 in south Kolkata’s Jadavpur High school. We have informed their guardians,” the officer added. IANS INDIA DIGEST Oust Modi to save India’s diversity: Antony IANS THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be ousted in elections to save Indian di- versity, Congress leader A K Antony said on Monday. The strength of India was the unity in diversity that the country was known for and today that has been destroyed by the RSS-con- trolled Modi-led BJP gov- ernment, Antony said. The former Kerala Chief Minister was inaugurating a political convention here of the Congress-led United Democratic Front. “The need of the hour is that we have to stand to- gether to save India which was always known for its unity in diversity. Now with Modi at the helm, that idea has been destroyed,” he said. IANS NEW DELHI A court here on Monday allowed the CBI’s plea for more time to file its final report in a coal block allo- cation case against former Congress MP and indus- trialist Naveen Jindal and others. Special Judge Bharat Par- ashar granted two more weeks to the Central Bu- reau of Investigation (CBI) after Investigating Officer of the case informed the court that the report has been forwarded to senior authorities and was await- ing approval. The court has now fixed the matter for next hearing on February 29. The court had pulled up the CBI for not filing the fi- nal report in the case in a proper manner and format. The final investigation re- port has to be filed on the basis of the statement giv- en by prosecution witness, Chartered Accountant and New Delhi Exim Pvt Ltd Di- rector Suresh Singhal, who has turned approver in the case. The court was hearing the case related to the allo- cation of Jharkhand’s Am- arkonda Murgadangal coal block to Jindal Steel and Gagan Sponge. Besides the industrialist, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayana Rao, former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former coal secretary H C Gupta are also accused in the case. CBI granted time to file report in coal case against Jindal Frame charges against firm, directors in coal case: Court NEW DELHI A court here on Monday ordered framing of charges against Adhunik Corporation Limited and its two di- rectors who are accused in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of Patrapara coal block in Odisha. Special Judge Bharat Parashar found prima facie charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and for- gery against the firm and its directors Nirmal Kumar Agarwal and Mahesh Kumar Agarwal. The charges will be formally framed on February 16, the next date of hearing. The court was hearing a case pertain- ing to the allocation of Patrapara coal block to the firm. PTI NEW DELHI The Income Tax depart- ment has won the Central government award for dis- posing a record 96 per cent grievances or over 20,000 complaints last year as part of its initiatives to reduce taxpayers’ concerns rang- ing from issuance of re- funds, PAN and others. The award and certifi- cate for rendering merito- rious service in grievance redressal through the cen- tralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) was given by the Minister of State for the PMO Jitendra Singh to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy-making body of the I-T department, last week. A senior official said the department handled a whopping over 20,000 complaints in two quarters last year, i.E. Between July- September and October- December, with the dispos- al rate being 96 per cent, making the department the most efficient govern- ment organisation in deal- ing with the heavy volume of grievance redressal. “The disposal rate be- tween July-September was 9,444 while the cor- responding figures for Oc- tober-December, 2016 was 11,345. The department put in a lot of efforts to ensure that grievance redressal is done as quickly as possi- ble,” the official said. The award recognises outstanding work done by government departments in redressing public griev- ances and it is reviewed every quarter. The tax department re- ceives the maximum com- plaints from the public and taxpayers due to the sheer volume of its interaction with the people. The department had last year created a special di- rectorate in its establish- ment called Tax Payer Ser- vices (TPS) to effectively deal with such cases. Central govt award for IT dept for 96% grievance redressal The award and certificate for rendering meritori- ous service in grievance redressal through the centralised Public Grievance Redress and Moni- toring System (CPGRAMS) was given by the Min- ister of State for the PMO Jitendra Singh to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy- making body of the I-T department, last week. IANS NEW DELHI Led by their leader Rahul Gandhi, Congress MPs on Monday demanded a Par- liamentary probe into the death of IUML leader and Kerala MP E Ahamed. The MPs demonstrated in the Parliament com- plex, accusing the Modi government of hush- ing up the veteran MP’s death in a hospital ahead of the annual union budget’s presentation on February 1. Holding a placard that read “We are Ahamed Sa- hib”, Gandhi along with Congress colleagues staged the protest near the Ma- hatma Gandhi statue that faces Parliament. Former union minister and Indian Union Muslim League leader Ahamed was declared dead hours be- fore Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the union budget in Parliament on February 1. The opposition has said that he died a day earlier but the Modi government kept the news under wraps to ensure that the budget presentation was not dis- rupted. Congress seeks Parliamentary probe into Ahamed’s death IANS VIJAYAWADA A TDP legislator’s family members bashed up a jour- nalist in full public view after the latter reportedly brought to light his alleged corrupt activities. M Nagarjuna Reddy was injured when Amanchi Krishna Mohan’s brother Amanchi Swamulu and his supporters beat him up near a police station in Chirala town of Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. The incident occurred on Sunday but came to light on Monday after the visuals of the attack went viral over social media. The journalist, who works for a Telugu news- paper, was knocked down from his two-wheeler when he was on his way to a shop with his son. Swam- ulu and others chased him on the streets and attacked him with sticks. People watched help- lessly and nobody came to the victim’s help. The jour- nalist, who suffered bleed- ing injuries, was later tak- en to a hospital. The police registered a case against Swamulu and others but no arrests have been made. But on a complaint by the MLA’s brother, the po- lice booked the journalist under SC ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The com- plainant alleged that Na- garjuna Reddy abused him citing his caste. TDP MLA’s brother publicly thrashes journalist GOA VIDYAPRASARAK MANDAL We require below mentioned staff for our institutions on leave vacancies Sr.No Qualification Subject to teach 1. B.Sc.B.Ed Maths/Science 2. B.A.B.Ed English and Social Science Interested candidate may appear for walk in interview with testimonials on Saturday, 11th February 2017 at 9.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. in Goa Vidyaprasarak Mandals Office, Dr Dada Vaidya Vidya Sankul, Almeida High School Campus, Ponda Goa.
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NEW DELHITaking a dig at Congress after Election Comission asked it to complete its organisational elections by June, Union Minis-ter Venkaiah Naidu to-day said all was not well in the main opposition party where internal de-mocracy was not effec-tive.
“It’s duty of every po-litical party, that too for a political party which claims 125 years of his-tory...Parties should con-duct internal elections in a free and fair manner and report to the Elec-tion Commission. They should have taken the lead in doing this.
“Very fact that the Election Commission has to remind the Con-gress party shows that all is not well and democra-cy is not effective in in-ternal functioning of the Congress party,” Naidu told reporters here.
Since September, 2015, Congress has on two oc-casions urged the poll panel to allow it to defer its internal elections.
EC had recently said it would grant no further extension and the inter-nal polls should be over “latest by June 30, 2017”.
Congress has also been asked to submit the list of its new office bear-ers by July 15 to the poll panel.
With the Commission refusing to grant more time to Congress to hold the organisational polls, the demand for anoint-ing Rahul Gandhi as par-ty president could gain momentum after the as-sembly elections in five states are over in March.
Under the EC’s rules, all registered political parties have to hold or-ganisational elections annually. Congress has, however, cited its con-stitution to say that its internal polls are held every 5 years.
Internal democracy not effective in Congress: Naidu
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NEW DELHIIn a relief to former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki, the Supreme Court on Monday set aside the Gauhati High Court order for a CBI probe into corruption allegations related to his tenure as PWD Minister in 2006.
A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice N V Ramana asked the High Court to hear afresh the PIL, on which CBI probe was launched against the Congress leader.
Referring to the contents of August 21, 2015 order of the High Court, the apex court said the since the for-mer Chief Minister had not been accorded the hearing
a fresh adjudication was needed.
The bench, however, ac-cepted the submission of Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, representing CBI, that several FIRs had been lodged in pursuance of the HC order and the con-sequential proceedings and investigation be not stayed.
“If something has been initiated, they will remain, if he (Tuki) has not chal-lenged them,” it said, while disposing of the plea and remanding it back to the High Court.
Earlier, the apex court had on August 26, 2015 stayed the Gauhati High Court order for a CBI probe into corruption allegations against Tuki.
Graft charges: SC quashes HC order for CBI probe against Tuki
SANJIB DUTTA | AFP
A policeman destroys poppy flowers being grown for opium production in Chatra district in Jharkhand on Monday
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NEW DELHIIndia has retrieved as many as 28 antiquities from vari-ous countries till date even as there is no proposal for retrieval of artefacts from British Museum, London, the Lok Sabha was in-formed on Monday.
“Till date, 28 antiquities have been retrieved from various foreign countries. Presently, there is no pro-posal with the Archaeolog-ical Survey of India (ASI) for retrieval of artefacts from British Museum, London,” Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said in a written reply.
The Archaeological Sur-vey of India, under the
Culture Ministry, retrieves antiquities from foreign countries which are ex-ported in violation of An-tiquities and Art Treasure Act, 1972.
Sharma said National Museum in the city has planned to organise an international exhibition ‘India and the world’ for which 150 original arte-facts will be temporarily
brought from the British Museum.
The exhibition will be jointly organised by the National Museum, New Delhi, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangraha-laya (CSMVS), Mumbai and British Museum, London.
At present the National Museum has over two lakh objects out of which 9,347 are on display.
Objects are displayed as per theme, significance and available space in the museum. From time to time, the artefacts are re-placed from reserved store, the minister said.
The expenditure in-curred on the National Mu-suem was over Rs 31 crore in 2015-16, he said.
On another query, Shar-ma said, “There has been no new acquisition in his-torical artefacts during the last five years. How-ever, one manuscript was received by the National Museum as a gift in 2016 and another art object ti-tled ‘Yogni’, which was smuggled out of India, was brought back in 2013 from Paris (France).”
Over 28 antiquities retrieved from abroad till date: government
Till date, 28 antiquities have been retrieved from various
foreign countries. Presently, there is no proposal with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for retrieval of artefacts from British Museum, London,” Mahesh Sharma, Union Culture Minister
modi to address 4 election rallies in UttarakhandDEHRADUN: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ad-dress four election rallies in poll-bound Uttarakhand on February 10 to February 12, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said on Monday. Modi will address the first rally in Haridwar on February 10, second in Pithora-garh on February 11 and the rest on February 12 in Srinagar Garhwal and Rudrapur. Media in-charge of the party Devendra Bhasin said that the party workers are working hard for making the rallies a great success and that people were looking forward to hear Prime Minister Modi spell out the priorities of the BJP for the hill state. The BJP is fighting against the Congress and in its bid to wrest power in Uttarakhand has rolled out a never before offensive against the ruling party, assimilating almost all tall leaders from the Congress into the party fold. IANS
student drowns in Hooghly river in BengalKOLKATA: A class 10 student drowned in the Hooghly river in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Monday, police said. “Sayan Poddar (16) of Garia in the district had gone along with three friends to bathe in the river near the Diamond Harbour,” Gautam Mitra, in charge of Diamond Harbour police station, said. One of the boys fled the spot while locals rescued the other two and later handed them over to the police. Poddar, a stu-dent at Andrew’s High School in Kolkata, did not know swimming, police said. “We launched a search operation and also contacted the disaster management team but the body is yet to be located,” the officer said.“The two boys handed over to police are students of Class 7 and 9 in south Kolkata’s Jadavpur High school. We have informed their guardians,” the officer added. IANS
inDia DiGesT Oust Modi to save India’s diversity: Antony
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAMPrime Minister Narendra Modi must be ousted in elections to save Indian di-versity, Congress leader A K Antony said on Monday.
The strength of India was the unity in diversity that the country was known for and today that has been destroyed by the RSS-con-trolled Modi-led BJP gov-ernment, Antony said.
The former Kerala Chief Minister was inaugurating a political convention here of the Congress-led United Democratic Front.
“The need of the hour is that we have to stand to-gether to save India which was always known for its unity in diversity. Now with Modi at the helm, that idea has been destroyed,” he said.
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NEW DELHIA court here on Monday allowed the CBI’s plea for more time to file its final report in a coal block allo-cation case against former Congress MP and indus-trialist Naveen Jindal and others.
Special Judge Bharat Par-ashar granted two more weeks to the Central Bu-reau of Investigation (CBI) after Investigating Officer of the case informed the court that the report has been forwarded to senior authorities and was await-ing approval. The court has now fixed the matter for next hearing on February 29.
The court had pulled up the CBI for not filing the fi-nal report in the case in a proper manner and format.
The final investigation re-port has to be filed on the basis of the statement giv-en by prosecution witness, Chartered Accountant and New Delhi Exim Pvt Ltd Di-rector Suresh Singhal, who has turned approver in the case. The court was hearing the case related to the allo-cation of Jharkhand’s Am-
arkonda Murgadangal coal block to Jindal Steel and Gagan Sponge.
Besides the industrialist, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayana Rao, former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former coal secretary H C Gupta are also accused in the case.
CBI granted time to file report in coal case against Jindal
Frame charges against firm, directors in coal case: CourtNEW DELHIA court here on Monday ordered framing of charges against Adhunik Corporation Limited and its two di-rectors who are accused in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of Patrapara coal block in Odisha. Special Judge Bharat Parashar found prima facie charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and for-gery against the firm and its directors Nirmal Kumar Agarwal and Mahesh Kumar Agarwal.
The charges will be formally framed on February 16, the next date of hearing. The court was hearing a case pertain-ing to the allocation of Patrapara coal block to the firm.
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NEW DELHIThe Income Tax depart-ment has won the Central government award for dis-posing a record 96 per cent grievances or over 20,000 complaints last year as part of its initiatives to reduce taxpayers’ concerns rang-ing from issuance of re-funds, PAN and others.
The award and certifi-cate for rendering merito-rious service in grievance redressal through the cen-tralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) was given by the Minister of State for the PMO Jitendra
Singh to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy-making body of the I-T department, last week.
A senior official said the department handled a whopping over 20,000 complaints in two quarters last year, i.E. Between July-September and October-December, with the dispos-
al rate being 96 per cent, making the department the most efficient govern-ment organisation in deal-ing with the heavy volume of grievance redressal.
“The disposal rate be-tween July-September was 9,444 while the cor-responding figures for Oc-tober-December, 2016 was 11,345. The department put
in a lot of efforts to ensure that grievance redressal is done as quickly as possi-ble,” the official said.
The award recognises outstanding work done by government departments in redressing public griev-ances and it is reviewed every quarter.
The tax department re-ceives the maximum com-plaints from the public and taxpayers due to the sheer volume of its interaction with the people.
The department had last year created a special di-rectorate in its establish-ment called Tax Payer Ser-vices (TPS) to effectively deal with such cases.
Central govt award for IT dept for 96% grievance redressalThe award and certificate for rendering meritori-ous service in grievance redressal through the centralised Public Grievance Redress and Moni-toring System (CPGRAMS) was given by the Min-ister of State for the PMO Jitendra Singh to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy-making body of the I-T department, last week.
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NEW DELHILed by their leader Rahul Gandhi, Congress MPs on Monday demanded a Par-liamentary probe into the death of IUML leader and Kerala MP E Ahamed.
The MPs demonstrated in the Parliament com-plex, accusing the Modi government of hush-ing up the veteran MP’s death in a hospital ahead of the annual union budget’s presentation on February 1.
Holding a placard that read “We are Ahamed Sa-
hib”, Gandhi along with Congress colleagues staged the protest near the Ma-hatma Gandhi statue that faces Parliament.
Former union minister and Indian Union Muslim League leader Ahamed was declared dead hours be-fore Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the union budget in Parliament on February 1.
The opposition has said that he died a day earlier but the Modi government kept the news under wraps to ensure that the budget presentation was not dis-rupted.
Congress seeks Parliamentary probe into Ahamed’s death
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VIJAYAWADAA TDP legislator’s family members bashed up a jour-nalist in full public view after the latter reportedly brought to light his alleged corrupt activities.
M Nagarjuna Reddy was injured when Amanchi Krishna Mohan’s brother Amanchi Swamulu and his supporters beat him up near a police station in Chirala town of Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.
The incident occurred on Sunday but came to light on Monday after the visuals of the attack went viral over social media.
The journalist, who works for a Telugu news-
paper, was knocked down from his two-wheeler when he was on his way to a shop with his son. Swam-ulu and others chased him on the streets and attacked him with sticks.
People watched help-lessly and nobody came to the victim’s help. The jour-nalist, who suffered bleed-ing injuries, was later tak-en to a hospital. The police registered a case against Swamulu and others but no arrests have been made.
But on a complaint by the MLA’s brother, the po-lice booked the journalist under SC ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The com-plainant alleged that Na-garjuna Reddy abused him citing his caste.
TDP MLA’s brother publicly thrashes journalist
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