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- [BJP News]: Gujarat quake disaster: help came from all: RSS to the forefront
- M V Kamath - Free Press Journal - Posted on
>>>There is something very touching about the manner in whichnations, organisations, institutions and individuals haveresponded to the disastrous earthquake in Gujarat that hasalready taken several thousand lives and left behind thousandsmore injured or orphaned. The true facts have yet to be.....
- [BJP News]: Children of a Lesser God
- Rajeev Srinivasan - Rediff.com - Posted on
>>>The rantings of one T John, an erstwhile minister in theKarnataka government, are now well known: he claimedthat "God was punishing Gujarat and Orissa for attackson Christians." My first thought on hearing this was thatJohn was logically challenged. For I too can come up.....
- [BJP News]: Byelection ResultBoost for BJP, allies, shock for Congress
- Smita Gupta - Times of India News Service - Posted on
>>>NEW DELHI: The results of the recent byelections havecome as a morale booster for the BJP and its regional allies,the Telugu Desam Party and the Akali Dal. But it was adisappointing day for the Congress which bagged only oneof the 10 seats the results of which were declared on Friday.....
- [BJP News]: Check militancy: US tells Pak
- PTI - Indian Express - Posted on
>>>ISLAMABAD: A visiting US Congressional delegation has asked Pakistan'smilitary ruler General Pervez Musharraf to respond positively to India'sceasefire extension in Jammu and kKshmir and to check growth of Islamicmilitant groups, a matter of concern for the international community.The delegation, which arrived here from New Delhi after holding talks with.....
- [BJP News]: India strong contender for permanent UN Security Council seat
- Agencies/New Delhi - The Pioneer - Posted on
>>>Russia and France have consistently supported India's candidature for permanent membership of an expanded UN SecurityCouncil even as United States termed New Delhi to be a strong contender for the post, Rajya Sabha was told on Thursday.External affairs minister Jaswant Singh said in a written reply that the foreign and commonwealth secretary of the UK during avisit to India said he "sees India as a natural contender for permanent membership of UN Security Council".Meanwhile, a US official has said "there is no question that India is a very strong contender for permanent membership of the.....
- [BJP News]: Why this tamasha?
- Pritish Nandy - Rediff - Posted on
>>>Why do we always turn everything into an overbearingtamasha? Even the biggest of tragedies or the mostsoul-churning of calamities ends up looking like afull-fledged production out here. Whether it is theBhopal gas leak or a tragic war on our borders, we tend.....
- [BJP News]: RSS to adopt 25 villages in Gujarat
- UNI - Indian Express - Posted on
>>>AHMEDABAD: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) will rehabilitate 25villages in quake-ravaged Kutch by reconstructing houses, temples, mosques,churches, and other places of worship, a senior RSS official has said.Without naming the villages to be adopted by the Sangh, state secretaryPravinbhai Maniar told newspersons here yesterday that each village would be.....
- [BJP News]: Vinod Khanna chips in to build a `commune'
- Kingshuk Nag - Times of India News Service - Posted on
>>>GANDHIDHAM: Usually a lot of hype surrounds theactivities of filmstars, even if it involves raising funds forcharity. But here is film star-turned-politician VinodKhanna in Gandhidham, busy setting up a `commune' forthe quake-affected, and nobody other than the locals knows.....
- [BJP News]: RSS for negotiated settlement to Ayodhya tangle
- PTI - The Hindu - Posted on
>>>Anjar (Gujarat), Feb. 20. (PTI): The RSS today said it preferred a negotiatedsettlement to the Ayodhya tangle even as it indicated that Kashi and Mathuracontinued to be on the Sangh Parivar agenda. ``We are in favour of a peaceful solution to the Ram Janma Bhoomi issueacceptable to both the communities. It could be either through legal means or.....
- [BJP News]: An Appeal to our friends and well wishers of India living abroad: BJP
- Jana Krishnamurthy, BJP Vice-President - BJP.org - Posted on
>>>It is needless for me to draw your attention to the unprecedented calamity that hasbefallen our brothers and sisters of Gujarat. The Earthquake devastation is of suchmagnitude that out of its population of 3,77,59,859 persons a total number of 1,58,57,541persons have been affected. More than 18,000 persons died and are 1,66,834 injured.The enormity of damages caused can be gauged from 1,59,960 pucca houses.....
- [BJP News]: `No discrimination in Gujarat relief': PM
- Pioneer News Service/New Delhi - The Pioneer - Posted on
>>>Even while denying the Opposition charge of discrimination in Gujarat relief measures, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee hasassured that strict vigil will be maintained to prevent mismanagement of relief operations.A meeting of the National Committee on Disaster Management (NCDM) also decided to set up a working group of experts to chalkout a long-term disaster management strategy."The Prime Minister and the Gujarat Chief Minister denied any such discrimination on religious and caste lines and assured that.....
- [BJP News]: 25,000 RSS men work for relief
- Anil Pathak - Times of India News - Posted on
>>>AHMEDABAD: More than 25,000 Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh are engaged in rescue and relief operations in theaffected areas of Kutch, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Patan andAhmedabad since the quake hit Gujarat.RSS workers so far have extricated 7,280 bodies and.....
- [BJP News]: Rebuilding of Gujarat
- Keshubhai Patel - Not Known - Posted on
>>>New Delhi, Chief Minister Shri Keshubhai Patel has invited the International Community,Financial institutions and the Central Government to join the Herculean task initiated bythe Gujarat Government for the rehabilitation of earthquake hit people on the Republic Dayin the area devastated under seismic zone five and four. The Chief Minister announced the State Government's firm determination of rebuilding.....
- [BJP News]: BJP proposal to raise fund for Gujarat
- Special Correspondent - The Hindu - Posted on
>>>NEW DELHI, FEB. 16. A proposal to raise about Rs. 20,000 crores from income-taxpayers over three years as a fund for relief and rehabilitation in Gujarat has been formallymade by the BJP to the Finance Minister. ``It will now be for the Finance Minister to accept it or reject it,'' the party vice-presidentand spokesperson, Mr. Jana Krishnamurthi, said today. .....
- [BJP News]: Gujarat announces reconstruction package
- UNI - Rediff - Posted on
>>>The Gujarat Government Tuesday announced arehabilitation and reconstruction package forearthquake victims. Conceptualised by a task force, its recommendationswere first scrutinised by the high-powered Gujarat.....
- [BJP News]: The saffron flutters high, yet again
- Arvind Lavakare - rediff.com - Posted on
>>>It has been unbelievable and perhaps unparalleled: the aid has been as quick and colossal in coming asthe tragedy itself. The Gujarat earthquake has stirredthe conscience and united the hearts of an entire nationof one billion, and the rest of the world has empathised.....
- [BJP News]: Co-chairman of India caucus cancels visit to Pakistan
- UNI - Rediff - Posted on
>>>Republican co-chairman of the Congressional Indiacaucus Edward Royce has cancelled his visit to Pakistan aspart of a 10-day tour of a US Congressional team to thesub-continent from February 15. The Indian American groups were up in arms against the.....
- [BJP News]: Advani, Joshi, Uma acquited in Babri demolition case
- PTI - Rediff - Posted on
>>>In a new twist to the Babri Masjid demolition trial, theLucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Monday setaside as "improper and defective" a notification for thetrial of eight accused persons, including Union ministersLal Kishenchand Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma.....
- [BJP News]: Semblance of normalcy in Gujarat
- The Times of India News Service - Times of India - Posted on
>>>NEW DELHI: The situation is returning to ``some sort ofnormalcy'' in Gujarat, says the Union government.Electricity and water supply has been restored in severalparts of Kutch and telephone links been reestablished. Shopsand business establishments have also started opening in the.....
- [BJP News]: Vitriol from the viceregal lodge of yore
- Arvind Lavakare - Rediff - Posted on
>>>Congressman K R Narayanan, alias President of India,has been at his favourite pastime yet again -- hurlingvitriolic barbs at the BJP-led coalition in the capital. Speaking at the golden jubilee function of the country'sElection Commission last month, he crossed swords with.....
- [BJP News]: Gujarat-Bhookamp Sahayata Kendriya Prakosht
- J.P. Mathur - BJP Website - Posted on
>>>Gujarat-Bhookamp Sahayata Kendriya PrakoshtMinistry of Home Affairs of Government of India have under its orderNo.(11/21022/11(4)/2001) FCRAI dated 01-02-2001 permitted even. Non Governmentorganisations to receive foreign contributions for Gujrat (India). Earthquake relief workwithout prior permission. This exemption would be valid upto March 31, 2001 only. .....
- [BJP News]: Raising Gujarat from the rubble
- Ashwani Talwar - Times of India - Posted on
>>>AHMEDABAD: They have boxed the problem into fourslots. Rescue, relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction. The 4Rformula looks neat on paper. But on the ground buriedunder the rubble, the challenge seems awesome.`` The scale is mind-boggling,'' says K V Bhanujan, pulled.....
- [BJP News]: RSS mobilizes for quake relief
- Chris Tomlinson - The Associated Press - Posted on
>>>Bhuj, India (AP) - Saffron scarves flung around theirnecks and pickaxes and shovels slung over theirshoulders, the Hindu nationalist volunteers walk thestreets of Bhuj, collecting the dead. They belong to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or.....
- [BJP News]: Advani sets a sterling example
- Deepak Sharma/Gandhidham - The Pioneer - Posted on
>>>He did not utter a word against anybody. But he realised what had gone wrong and what had to be done. Unprecedenteddestruction needs unprecedented attention. No wonder he rushed to Gujarat for the third time within five days after thequake rocked the State.But practice what you preach. And his message was straight and simple to those who are spending nights in five star hotelswhile assessing the situation in Gujarat's disaster zone. The first to react was none other than Chief Minister Keshubhai.....
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