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Modi named chairman of BJP election committee

June 9, 2013
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Panaji, Jun 9: Narendra Modi has been declared the Chairman of the BJP's campaign committee for 2014 general elections.

This was announced by the BJP President, Rajnath Singh, at the end of the two-day executive committee meeting in Goa.

"I have declared Narendra Modi Chairman of the BJP election campaign," Rajnath said today.

"Whatever was done was done on the basis of consensus. Every party sees election as a challenge and BJP takes the 2014 polls as a challenge with a pledge to be victorious," he added.

"Keeping the Lok Sabha elections in mind, I had declared Modi as Chairman of the campaign committee."

Rajnath Singh told BJP cadres, "We are the only alternative, will bring about change." "From corruption to misgovernance, this country has been let down by the government," he added.

Advani was talked to by Rajnath Singh yesterday and today, said BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu to PTI.

Earlier today, the BJP said the party “cannot ignore the expectations of the workers” and a decision would be announced shortly.

The party also sent out a message to alliance partner JD(U), which has objections to projection of Modi as BJP’s Prime Ministerial face, saying the party does not need any certificate from anyone about who is secular and who is not.

BJP spokesman Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said the Gujarat Chief Minister is as “secular” as any other leader in the party and asserted that parties will ally with the party when it reaches close to power.

“People have expectations, we cannot ignore those expectations. Workers (of BJP) have expectations, we cannot ignore those expectations,” Hussain told a press conference here while briefing on the deliberations at BJP’s National Executive meet.

To a question about JD(U)’s opposition to Modi, he said, “We do not need certificate from anybody about who is secular and who is not... In BJP, all are secular and nobody is communal...How can one be secular (in BJP) and another not be secular?”

When asked by reporters about JD(U)’s reservations over Modi, Hussain said, “Modi’s ideology is the same as that of L.K. Advani which is the same as that of Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj, and Venkaiah Naidu.”

The BJP MP wondered how there can be any confusion about one party leader being secular and the other not. “Everybody from Atal Bihari Vajpayee downwards is secular,” Hussain said.

Asked whether Advani’s role will be confined to giving blessings to BJP leaders, he said, “Advani is a seniormost leader and also most hardworking. He will give his blessing and cooperation in dislodging Congress.”

He maintained that since BJP is a democratic party, unlike others, a democratic process of decision-making is followed in it. “We are doing this churning to bring out the best,” he said.

Hussain insisted that there should be no confusion about BJP’s ideology, saying either the whole party is secular or it is communal.

“BJP does not want to nor will it go to any party for a certificate on secularism,” he said.

Expressing confidence that BJP will win new allies before the polls, he said, “Some parties are with us. Some more will join.”

The spokesperson said only when BJP reaches a certain number of seats will other parties be attracted to NDA. They will not join the alliance merely because of the “looks” of the party, he added.

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February 28,2020

Feb 28: The best economic tonic for the coronavirus shock is to contain its spread and worry about stimulus later, said Raghuram Rajan, former head of the Reserve Bank of India.

There’s little central banks can do, and while more government spending would help, the priority should be on convincing companies and households that the virus is under control, he said.

“People want to have a sense that there is a limit to the spread of this virus perhaps because of containment measures or because there is hope that some kind of viral solution can be found,” Rajan told Bloomberg Television’s Haidi Stroud Watts and Shery Ahn.

“At this point I would say the best thing that governments can do is to really fight the epidemic rather than worry about stimulus measures that comes later,” said Rajan, who is currently a professor at the Chicago Booth School of Business.

The spread of coronavirus is pushing the world economy toward its worst performance since the financial crisis more than a decade ago.

Bank of America Corp. economists warned clients Thursday that they now expect 2.8% global growth this year, the weakest since 2009.

“We have moved from extreme confidence in markets to extreme panic, all in the space of one week,” said Rajan, who previously was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.

The virus outbreak will force companies to rethink supply chains and overseas production facilities, he said.

“I think we will see a lot of rethinking on this, coming on the back of the trade disruption, now we have this,” Rajan said. “Globalization in production is going to be hit quite badly.”

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August 8,2020

Kozhikode, Aug 8: A tailwind or crosswind could be the reason for the Air India Express flight mishap at Kozhikode international airport in Kerala, according to some aviation experts. 

Team of DGCA and AIE already reached the spot. With the death of the captain and co-pilot in the mishap, the investigation would be focusing mainly on the voice recorders and other technical aspects.

It is learnt that the ill-fated aircraft, IX 1344 with 190 onboard including crew, was initially planning to land on runway-28 of the airport. But later the pilot opted runway-10 which is toward the other direction. Pilots would be taking the decisions on the basis of inputs from ATC.

The questions now doing the rounds are what made the pilot opt runway-10 and whether the tabletop runway lacked adequate safety parameters.

An aviation expert, who didn't want to be quoted, said that Capt Deepak Sathe, who was commandeering the aircraft, was a well-experienced pilot and was also familiar with the terrains. Hence the chances of any error from his part was very unlikely. Hence a fair in-depth probe was required to find the exact cause.

Though the Kozhikode airport has an Instrument Landing System, it was of category-I for which pilot's visibility is very crucial toward a touchdown. Since it is a tabletop airport and rough weather prevailing in the region, the chances of tailwind was also high, said sources.

There had been safety concerns about the airport over quite some time. In 2011 aviation safety consultant captain Mohan Ranganathan reportedly gave a report citing the safety issues, especially the buffer zones at the end of the runway.

However, an AAI officer said that rectification steps were already done by last year by widening the Runway End Safety Area (RESA) from 90 metre to 240 metre. However, the length of the runway had to be reduced to 2,700 metre from 2,850. The AAI was also constantly pressing for increasing the runway length to 3,150 metres. But that was getting delayed due to land acquisition issues pending with the state government.

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January 10,2020

New Delhi, Jan 10: An IPS officer's thumb was bitten by a woman protester when he was pushing back agitators, who were trying to march towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan here on Thursday, police sources said.

The protesters had gathered after a call was given by JNU Students' Union president Aishe Ghosh to march towards President's House to demand the removal of University's Vice Chancellor, M Jagadesh Kumar.

Ingit Pratap Singh, a 2011 batch officer, who is currently posted as the additional deputy commissioner of the southwest district, was injured in the attack.

According to sources, Singh was trying to pull a male protester when the woman, in a bid to shield her friend, bit Singh's left thumb.

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