Madhya Pradesh ratifies 126th amendment
Bhopal, Jan 18 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Friday unanimously passed a resolution ratifying the 126th Amendment Bill of the Constitution. The amendment provides for extension of reservation system for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) for the next ten years.
However, in the resolution, the government added a suggestion that the provision to nominate Anglo Indians in the Assembly should be retained. The opposition objected to this and said that the state does not have such authority in the resolution regarding ratification of the constitution amendment. Whereas, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Govind Singh said that Anglo Indians are also backward. After the resolution was passed, the Assembly was adjourned sine die.
Former Speaker Seethasaran Sharma said the government's intention wasn't clear as it has added a rider the resolution. Such provision cannot be made in the Constitution Amendment Bill.
Sharma said even after 70 years we have been repeatedly extending the provision for reservations. Whereas Japan has progressed in 35 years we have not been able to bring scheduled castes and scheduled tribes on par. There is something wrong with the system.
Chief Minister Kamal Nath said that this is an amendment which was unanimously passed by both houses of Parliament. He said that when the framers of the Constitution made this provision for ten years, they thought that they would be saved in this period, but from 70 years we all continue to extend the provision.
--IANS
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Sri Lanka lifts ban on drones
Colombo, Jan 18 (IANS) Sri Lanka's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has lifted a ban imposed on drones within the island country, local media reports said.
The CAA in a statement said drones can now be operated in conformity of civil aviation regulations, Xinhua reported on Friday.
The CAA had suspended the operation of all pilotless aircraft including drones last May, soon after the Easter Sunday terror attacks in April which killed over 250 people.
The CAA had said the ban had been imposed considering the volatile situation in the country after the blasts.
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Former India all-rounder Bapu Nadkarni passes away
Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) Former Test all-rounder Rameshchandra Gangaram 'Bapu' Nadkarni passed away here on Friday at the age of 86. Nadkarni, best known for bowling a record 21 consecutive maiden overs in a Test match, is survived by his wife and two daughters.
A left-arm batsman and slow-left arm orthodox bowler, Nadkarni played 41 Tests for India between 1955 and 1968. He scored 1,414 runs and took 88 wickets. His debut and final Tests were both against New Zealand.
Nadkarni was known to be one of the toughest bowlers to score runs against with an astonishing economy rate of 1.67 in 65 innings that he bowled in Test cricket. In 1964, Nadkarni bowled 21 successive maidens against England in Chennai. He bowled a total of 27 maidens in the innings, albeit without a wicket, and his figures read 32-27-5-0.
In the 1960-61 series against Pakistan, he managed figures of 32-24-23-0 in Kanpur followed by 34-24-24-1 in Delhi.
Nadkarni had played a total of 191 first class matches in which he scored 8,880 runs and took 500 wickets. His economy rate across his first class career was 1.64.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India paid tribute to Nadkarni. "It is with profound sadness that BCCI has learnt of the passing of former India all-rounder Rameshchandra Gangaram 'Bapu' Nadkarni. The 86-year-old breathed his last at his daughter's residence in Mumbai on Friday," BCCI Secretary Jay Shah said in a statement.
"The Board shares the pain and grief of the Nadkarni family and prays for the departed soul," he added.
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Deccan Chronicle staff moves NCLT against transfers
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) Employees of Deccan Chronicle Holdings have approached NCLT complaining that the companys decision to close news bureaus and transfer the staff is illegal.
Deccan Chronicle, headquartered in Hyderabad, runs the English dailies Deccan Chronicle, Asian Age and Financial Chronicle, and the Telugu daily Andhra Bhoomi.
The case has been filed with the National Company Law Tribunal on the grounds that the SREI Multiple Asset Investments Trust's Vision India Fund, which is set to take over DCHL, hasn't assumed charge yet. Therefore, the employees contend, changes in the company structure are illegal.
For Deccan Chronicle, it has been a disastrous last few years. In 2015, its Chairman, T Venkattram Reddy, and his brother and the company's Managing Director, T Vinayaka Ravi Reddy, were arrested for forgery to secure loans worth Rs 10,000 crore.
In 2017, the company was declared insolvent for failing to pay its creditors and bids were invited for its takeover. In 2019, Srei, based out of Kolkata, won the bid.
Over the last two months, DCHL has shut its bureaus in Kolkata, Kochi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, and transferred some of the staffers to the company's offices in Hyderabad and Chennai. In February 2019, when insolvency proceedings were still underway, the Financial Chronicle was discontinued as a daily. However, its staff was retained, and Deccan Chronicle and the Asian Age began publishing business news on two pages under the Financial Chronicle masthead.
On June 3, 2019, the National Company Law Tribunal, which adjudicates matters pertaining to corporate bodies, approved Srei's takeover plan of DCHL. The new management usually takes over a company immediately, but Srei hasn't done so yet.
In its order on December 5, 2019, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal -- which hears appeals against the orders of the NCLT -- said that since Srei had not taken over DCHL, the company remained a "going concern".
--IANS
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