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Relief operations stepped up, food riots continue
Sena leaders held in late night swoop
Film festival
NCCI wants categorical assurance from PM on Papal visit
Bachchan disowns disputed bungalow
Stopping crime
Governor is unhappy with hygiene at mass eye camps
MUL launches Euro-II Omni vans
Tendulkar, Kumble head averages
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Benchmark tumbles at midsession on selling
BSE Sensex loses 35.38 points
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Relief operations stepped up, food riots continue
Bhubaneswar,Wednesday, November 03, 1999: Rescue and relief operation in cyclone ravaged Orissa were stepped up amidst reports of food riots and vandalism in many areas of the ten affected districts.
"The biggest challenge before the authorities now is to deal with increasing instances of lawlessness and vandalism," State Revenue Minister Jagannath Patnaik said on Tuesday as desperate people looted food from thousands of trucks stranded on National Highway-5 in Balasore.
Patnaik confirmed nearly 250 deaths so far but the officials monitoring the rescue operations said the figure might go up to 5,000.
With improvement in weather, huge quantities of food packets were airdropped by relief teams of armed forces while the railways moved in at least 1,000 tonnes of drinking water and medicines for the affected people.
Two navy ships entered Paradip port and off-loaded relief material and set up medical camps.
Under 'Operation Sahayata', the army provided drinking water to over 70,000 people in 74 villages of the worst-affected Balasore district.
The 132 KV power line at Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Puri was restored. Communication links between the state capital and Khurda, Nayagaon, Berhampur, Koraput, Baripada, Dhenkanal and Talcher were also put in place, according to an official statement.
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Sena leaders held in late night swoop
Mumbai: In a major crackdown on the eve of the Papal visit, police
arrested top leaders of the Shiv Sena including its northern India
chief Jai Bhagwan Goyal in raids across the capital late last night.
According to sources, besides Goyal, the police arrested Om Dutt
Sharma, the party's state vice-president, Ravinder Kumar Bedi,
propaganda secretary and Ramakant Sharma, a state executive member.
The detentions were described by top police officials as "preventive"
and may continue till the Pope leaves the country. The police action
follows a protest demonstration by the Sainiks yesterday against the
Papal visit and alleged conversions carried out by Christian
missionaries. The activists led by Goyal had set fire to an effigy of
'conversions'. The Sena had earlier threatened to stage demonstrations
against Pope John Paul II during his visit beginning 5 November if he
did not apologise for alleged atrocities committed on Hindus by the
church during the Portuguese rule in Goa, Vasai, Kerala and other
places.
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Film festival
Mumbai: The second international film festival of the Mumbai Academy
of Moving Images will be held here from November 20 to 27.
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NCCI wants categorical assurance from PM on Papal visit
Nagpur: The National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) has demanded
a categorical assurance from Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and
home minister L K Advani on creating a cordial atmosphere for Pope
John Paul II's visit to Delhi from November 5. Even though the
external affairs ministry had come out with an assurance to this
effect, the BJP leaders in their individual capacities are continuing
to unleash a hatred campaign against the pontiff, NCCI president Dr K
Rajratnam told a press conference. Accusing the NDA-led ruling
combination at the Centre of double-speak, Rajratnam asserted that
despite emphatic promises on the floor of the Lok Sabha, the Hindu
fundamentalist outfits were bent upon carrying out malicious
agitational plans including anti-Pope rallies and proposed
demonstrations, he lamented.
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Bachchan disowns disputed bungalow
Mumbai: Filmstar Amitabh Bachchan on Monday told a debt recovery
tribunal that the Mansa bungalow here did not belong to him or his
wife Jaya- the guarantors of a loan taken by the Amitabh Bachchan
Corporation Ltd from Canara Bank- and that it was an exclusive
property of Ramola Bachchan, wife of his elder brother Ajitabh. This
was stated in an affidavit sworn by Stanley Saldhana, the constituted
attorney of Bachchan, before the tribunal for Maharashtra and Goa in
connection with the bank's move to attach the bungalow in Juhu, where
the actor stays with his family, to recover a Rs 10 crore-loan from
the Bachchans.
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Stopping crime
Mumbai: The Mumbai police have introduced a sticker carrying two
telephone numbers on which residents can inform the police of crime
and criminals. Twelve lakh such stickers will be distributed in the
city.
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Governor is unhappy with hygiene at mass eye camps
Mumbai: Governor P.C Alexander on Sunday said that mass eye operations
conducted under tents by social service organisations needed to be
curbed because some of them were held under insanitary conditions with
inadequately-trained doctors. Mr Alexander was speaking as chief guest
at the 27th Dhanvantari award function.
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MUL launches Euro-II Omni vans
Maruti Udyog today announced the launch of Euro-II compliant Omni vans and hiked its prices in the range between Rs 3,000-6,000.
Omni vans with Euro-II emission norms would carry a price tag of Rs 1.90 lakhs (8-seater) and Rs 2.02 lakhs (5-seater) in Delhi (Ex-showroom) against the earlier price of Rs 1.84 lakhs and Rs 1.99 lakhs respectively, a company release said.
The company also launched two new Euro-II norm compliant Omni variants with high roof, priced at Rs 1.97 lakhs (8-seater) and Rs 2.10 lakhs (5-seater).
The Euro-II compliant Omni vans would be available in Delhi and Calcutta only.
Omni is the second vehicle after Zen from the Maruti stable which has been made stringent Euro-II standards compliant.
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Tendulkar, Kumble head averages
Skipper Sachin Tendulkar and ace leg-spinner Anil Kumble led the overall averages in batting and bowling in the three-Test series against New Zealand that ended on Tuesday.
The master batsman, who was in glorious form and cracked his first Test double century, 217 in the first innings in the third Test at Ahmedabad, also had an unbeaten 126 in the first match in Mohali against his name.The 26-year-old star piled up 435 runs from six innings, remaining unbeaten twice, for a stupendous average of 108.75.Kumble, who rediscovered his form and proved a terror in the second Test at Kanpur which India won by eight wickets to eventually seal the series 1-0, tops the chart among bowlers.The 29-year-old bowler finished with a superb haul of 20 wickets, for just 18.20 runs apiece, which also enabled him to claim the man of the series award.Left-hander Saurav Ganguly was the second best batsman in the Indian ranks, scoring 244 runs for a fine average of 61.00 which included a century and two fifties. The big bonus was impressive performances by both openers S Ramesh and Devang Gandhi, in his debut series. Left-hander Ramesh, who has
been a picture of consistency since making his debut early this year, struck two fifties and a century to aggregate 287 runs at 47.83 while Gandhi's two half-centuries enabled him to total 200 from five innings at 50.00.
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Markets
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Benchmark tumbles at midsession on selling
Mumbai,Wednesday, November 03, 1999: The Benchmark 30-share index tumbled following a sharp setback in economy stocks at the midsession on the stock market here today.
Even heavyweighted infotech stocks like Infosys Tech and NIIT fell substantially due to a sudden spurt in selling pressure, triggered by liquidation on the Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) ahead of end of account tomorrow.
The high badla of about 55 per cent on the CSE last week was still fresh in the memory of operators and they preferred to be cautious this time, dealers said.
Economy stocks like Tisco, Telco, SBI, RIL, MTNL, BHEL and some others showed sharp falls at the midsession due to selling pressure.
The BSE Sensitive Index, which had moved further upwards to 4536.20 at the initial stages, later dropped to a low of 4382.95 before being quoted at 4413.02 at 1300 hrs as against Tuesday's close of 4491.56.
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BSE Sensex loses 35.38 points
The BSE Sensex closed at 4456.18, losing 35.38 points.
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Forex
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1 DMark = 23.27179 INR
1 FFranc = 6.938710 INR
1 U.K. Pound = 71.58736 INR
1 US $ = 43.36000 INR
1 Yen = 0.416363 INR
1 Singapore $ = 25.98 INR
1 UAE Dirham = 11.81 INR
1 Saudi Arabian Riyal = 11.56 INR |
Metals
| Gold
Mumbai (Rs/10 gm) 4590.00 -30.00
London ($/Oz) 292.75 -2.75
Silver
Mumbai (Rs/kg) 8185.00 -15.00
London ($/oz) 5.23 0.01 |
Weather
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Temperature: 84 F / 29 C
HeatIndex: 92 F / 33 C
Humidity: 74%
Dewpoint: 75 F / 24 C
Wind: Calm
Pressure: 29.83 in / 1010 hPa
Conditions: Smoke
Tonight: Low: 86 F / 30 C Clear
Thursday: High: 93 F / 34 C Clear
Thursday Night: Low: 64 F / 18 C Scattered Clouds
Friday: High: 95 F / 35 C Clear
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