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INDIA: Don’t Give Mobiles to Girls - BSP MP

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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">MUZAFFARNAGAR
(NNN-PTI) -- A BSP MP has kicked off a controversy by saying that girls should
not be given mobile phones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"Don't
give mobile phones to children, especially girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I
say this at all the places where I make my speeches. And if any of these kids
have a mobile, take them away. What are they missing anyway? What are the girls
missing without mobile," Rajya Sabha MP Rajpal Singh Saini said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"Our
mothers, sisters.. Did they die if there were no mobiles during their time,"
he said addressing party workers here last night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Saini
also reportedly conveyed this view to a man who sought his help after his
daughter had eloped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The
BSP leader told him that the mobile phone was the main cause behind his
daughter's elopement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The
BSP leader's comments come months after a panchayat in Baghpat had banned love
marriages and barred women below 40 from going out for shopping and using
mobile phones outside their homes. --NNN-PTI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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INDIA: Don’t Give Mobiles to Girls - BSP MP

MUZAFFARNAGAR (NNN-PTI) -- A BSP MP has kicked off a controversy by saying that girls should not be given mobile phones. "Do...

INDIA: International Airport to Come Up Near Taj Mahal

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LUCKNOW (NNN-PTI): With a view to catering to needs of tourists visiting Taj city Agra, an international airport would soon come up between Agra and Mathura.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The airport, to be built on PPP model, is likely to be completed by 2017, a tourism department spokesman said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The district magistrates of Agra and Mathura have already identified four spots for setting up the airport, he said adding that an authorised committee and advisory committee for developing and managing the proposed airport have already been set up.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maximum number of tourists coming to the country visit Taj Mahal and as there is no international airport in Agra they face problems. -NNN-PTI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

INDIA: International Airport to Come Up Near Taj Mahal

LUCKNOW (NNN-PTI): With a view to catering to needs of tourists visiting Taj city Agra, an international airport would soon come up betwee...

India: Govt. Cracks Down on Ration Mafia

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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">RAMPUR (NNN-PTI): Taking a strong view of rampant black marketing and hoarding of essential commodities, the Uttar Pradesh government has directed the concerned authorities to take stringent action against the ration mafia in the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"Poor people in Uttar Pradesh are being deprived of their right to avail cheaper ration under public distribution system due to black marketeers," state Urban Development minister Mohd Azam Khan told reporters here Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Complaints have been received from citizens regarding such illegal operations, he said, adding that any official found showing laxity in their work in this regard would be "severely punished." -NNN-PTI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India: Govt. Cracks Down on Ration Mafia

RAMPUR (NNN-PTI): Taking a strong view of rampant black marketing and hoarding of essential commodities, the Uttar Pradesh government ha...

India: Rape of Girls Inside Juvenile Home Comes To Light

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ALLAHABAD (NNN-PTI): In a shocking incident, the alleged rape of at least three girls aged less than 10 years inside a state-run juvenile home here has come to light following which its superintendent has been placed under suspension while a peon accused of the heinous crime has been arrested, police said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The accused Vidyabhushan Ojha (52) was arrested from the vicinity of the juvenile home, which is situated in Shivkuti locality of the city, last night and police claim that he has confessed to have sexually assaulted a number of inmates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The matter came to light when a six year-old girl narrated the horrendous happenings inside the juvenile home to a city-based couple who had adopted her recently.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The horrified couple contacted the juvenile home's superintendent Urmila Gupta who got an FIR registered at the Shivkuti police station against Ojha, a native of Siwan district in neighbouring state of Bihar.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Police claim that three girls from the juvenile home were taken for medical tests following Ojha's confession and their sexual assault has been confirmed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, District Probation Officer Ila Pant has suspended the superintendent Urmila Gupta for "negligence" while the services of Ojha, who was a contractual employee, have been terminated. -NNN-PTI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India: Rape of Girls Inside Juvenile Home Comes To Light

ALLAHABAD (NNN-PTI): In a shocking incident, the alleged rape of at least three girls aged less than 10 years inside a state-run juvenile ...

India: Who Will Be CM; Mulayam to Decide

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">  </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">LUCKNOW, India (NNN-UNI) -- Central Parliamentary Board of Samajwadi Party today put the stamp on party president Mulayam Singh Yadav becoming the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the fourth time in the state. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Board, which met here this afternoon, took a decision in this regard electing Mr Yadav as the leader of the Legislature Party, SP national secretary Kiranmoy Nanda told UNI here. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Though, he said the formal announcement will be made in theSP Legislature Party meeting after Holi festival, some inner party sources indicated that Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav may put the crown his son Akhilesh Yadav's head. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sources said though the board has already authorised Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav for the chief minister post, the decision to become the CM or pass on the baton to his son rested on him. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, the today's meeting was attended by general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav and Mr Nanda. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Senior party leader Mohd Azam Khan, who won the assembly elections from Rampur, is on the way to Lucknow while other senior leader Mohan Singh is in Delhi for treatment.--NNN-UNI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India: Who Will Be CM; Mulayam to Decide

LUCKNOW, India (NNN-UNI) -- Central Parliamentary Board of Samajwadi Party today put the stamp on party president Mulayam Singh Yadav be...

India: Political Parties to Focus on Uttar Pradesh from Tomorrow

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">LUCKNOW</span></st1:city><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> (NNN-UNI) -- As Uttarakhand and <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> states are going to polls tomorrow, all political parties have turned their attention towards Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and a horde of leaders would descend on the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The first phase of elections in the state is just 10 days away on February 8 in 55 Assembly seats.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Political parties have chalked out a detailed campaigning programme to take their leaders in every nook and corner of the constituencies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Due to strictness of the Election Commission, political parties are facing severe problems to reach the voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Only election meetings and some restricted ad campaigns are the options for the parties to reach the voters. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Smaller and bigger parties are campaigning by distributing handbills, door-to-door campaign and even through social networking sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">National parties have been allowed to use 40 each star campaigners in the state, while the recognised parties would have to go with 20.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">With weather improving in the state after foggy and chilly conditions, the electioneering in the state will be electrifying with more than 40 choppers and around 15 chartered planes to ferry the leaders to reach the voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son and party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and her daughter Priyanka would be in the state for campaign next week along with other party leaders including Chief Ministers of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>, Rajasthan, Haryana along with several Union Ministers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi along with Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid would also be in the state capital today to address a meeting of the lawyers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">BJP, which held a star–studded campaign in <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> and Uttarakhand in its effort to retain power, has engaged all star campaigners led by party president Nitin Gadkari.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Mr Gadkari will be in UP for two days from tomorrow and will address election meetings in Balrampur and Faizabad.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Similarly, other BJP leaders including former presidents Rajnath Singh and Murli Manohar Joshi, party General Secretary Ravishankar Prasad and others would camp in UP along with Uma Bharti, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Bollywood star Hema Malini, small screen actor Smriti Irani and cricketer Navjot Singh Siddhu. -- NNN-UNI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div> <br />
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India: Kalyan Singh Rules Out Alliance with BJP for UP Polls

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Singh claimed that the BJP had lost the confidence of the people in the state.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He said his party has already released the first list of candidates while the next list would be released in October.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Elections for the Uttar Pradesh legislature are scheduled to be held early next year.-NNN-PTI</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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