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Sena chief blasts Congress for Sachin’s Rajya Sabha innings

April 30, 2012
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Mumbai, April 30: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has taken strong exception to Sachin Tendulkar's nomination to the Rajya Sabha by the Congress-led UPA.

"What is Tendulkar going to do in the Rajya Sabha? He has no scope there,'' Thackeray said. He was talking informally to mediapersons at his Bandra residence on Sunday on the sidelines of a function to honour him for his contribution to the contemporary media as cartoonist. 'Cartoon Watch', a Raipur-based magazine, felicitated Thackeray.

Questioning the role of matinee idols and cricketing stars in the Rajya Sabha, Thackeray said, "It's time to take a close, hard look at the contribution of film stars to the Upper House. What did Hema Malini do in the Rajya Sabha all these years?'' he asked caustically, "Nominating Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha is the Congress party's Dirty Picture.''

The Thackeray Senior's tirade against Tendulkar is in sharp contrast with his estranged nephew, MNS chief Raj Thackeray's wholehearted support for his best friend's new assignment.

Addressing a press conference last week, Raj Thackeray had said there was no political context to Tendulkar's RS nomination. "It's a gesture of honour for his sterling contribution to Indian and world sports,'' he said.

"Tendulkar is not going to campaign for the Congress party because the UPA government has offered him a seat in the RS. Lata Mangeshkar was nominated to the Upper House by the BJP-led NDA a few years ago. But neither did she join the BJP nor helped the BJP garner votes,'' said Raj, adding, "It would be cheap to politicize the issue.''

Shorn of rhetoric, the Master Blaster finds himself caught in a cross-fire between the Sena and the MNS, say political observers.

Meanwhile, Bal Thackeray slammed Anna Hazare for his conspicuous silence on the "malpractices'' of his close colleagues such as Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Kiran Bedi. Thackeray said Bedi, Kejriwal and Sisodia all have skeletons in their cupboards. "However, Hazare doesn't utter a word on their misdeeds. He keeps mum on his colleagues.''

"Hazare talks of weeding out corruption from public life. Who will reform his corrupt colleagues?'' the Sena chief asked.

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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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March 26,2020

Jaipur, Mar 26: Two new COVID-19 positive cases were registered in Rajasthan taking the total number of coronavirus cases to 38 in the state.
The Union Health Ministry had on Wednesday reported 606 positive COVID-19 cases in India including 43 foreign nationals.

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January 18,2020

New Delhi, Jan 18: Asha Devi, the mother of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim, on Saturday slammed senior lawyer Indira Jaising for her suggestion that she should forgive her daughter's rapists.

"Who is Indira Jaising to give me such a suggestion? The whole country wants the convicts to be executed. Just because of people like her, justice is not done with rape victims," Asha Devi said here.

"Cannot believe how Indira Jaising even dared to suggest this. I met her many times over the years in Supreme Court, not even once has she asked for my well being and today she is speaking for the convicts. Such people earn their livelihoods by supporting rapists, hence rape incidents do not stop," she added.

Asha Devi further accused Jaising of using "the garb of human rights" to make a living.

'People like her keep earning money under the garb of human rights. I do not need her suggestions... Just because of people who think like her incidents like rape keep happening, she is a disgrace to women," she said.

Earlier yesterday, Indira Jaising, through a tweet, had urged Asha Devi to forgive the perpetrators and had used the example of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, who had forgiven Nalini, one of the convicts who was given the death penalty by the courts.

"While I fully identify with the pain of Asha Devi I urge her to follow the example of Sonia Gandhi who forgave Nalini and said she did not want the death penalty for her. We are with you but against the death penalty," Jaising's tweet read.

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