tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36743135604607102802024-02-09T00:23:32.082+05:30Siraj Dailyഅക്ഷരംhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06755795799227142726noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674313560460710280.post-18052770158024153232013-07-13T22:02:00.003+05:302013-07-13T22:02:33.249+05:30Sonia Gandhi asks CMs to roll out food scheme in 'letter and spirit'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">NEW DELHI: Congress president </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sonia-Gandhi" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sonia Gandhi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">on Saturday asked the states ruled by the party to implement in 'letter and spirit' the </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/food-security-scheme" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">food security scheme</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> which it sees as a 'game changer' in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">She held deliberations with Congress chief ministers on how to implement the food scheme seeking to provide cheap foodgrains to 82 crore people, for which an ordinance was promulgated last week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Party sources said the CMs were told at the meeting to rollout the scheme in 'letter and spirit'.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The meeting was held at a time when the party is preparing for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and is keen to reach out to the people with its populist measure.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Delhi, where assembly polls are due by year-end, will be the first state to roll out the scheme on August 20, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Besides Congress CMs, Prime Minister </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Manmohan Singh</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, party vice president </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rahul-Gandhi" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Rahul Gandhi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, food minister K V Thomas, </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/AICC" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">AICC</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> general secretaries and Core Group members were present during the deliberations.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The aim of the meeting was to ensure that the scheme is implemented in the best possible manner with Congress-ruled states becoming role models in implementation of the food security measure.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme and the Food Security Act are being considered as major moves by Congress ahead of the 2014 general elections as was the farmers' loan waiver scheme and</span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/MNREGA" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">MNREGA</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> announced in UPA-I.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The loan waiver and MNREGA schemes were credited among other things for return of </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/UPA" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">UPA</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> to power in 2009.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Several states, including Congress-ruled Karnataka and </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttarakhand" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Uttarakhand</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, BJP-governed Chhattigarh, SP-ruled Uttar Pradesh and JD(U)-run </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bihar" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bihar</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, could see early roll out of the programme.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Partymen wanted early roll out the scheme so that the scheme is well in place by the time </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lok-Sabha-elections" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Lok Sabha elections</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> take place.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The bill has been the pet project of Sonia Gandhi.</span></div>
അക്ഷരംhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06755795799227142726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674313560460710280.post-61976310317873653672010-03-16T20:03:00.001+05:302013-07-13T22:00:15.093+05:30Bofors scam: Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi dies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi died of a cardiac arrest in Milan on Friday night. </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The 72-year-old had been chargesheeted for acting as a conduit for bribes in the purchase of Howitzer guns from Swedish company Bofors AE. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Quattrocchi's close relationship with former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia Gandhi became a source of controversy. The Bofors scandal was instrumental in the defeat of the Congress Party in the 1989 elections.</div>
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