Month: August 2014

Dhaka, Aug 24 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged India to seal the Teesta water-sharing agreement, media reported Sunday. Hasina made the call Saturday when India’s Minister of State for External Affairs General (retd) V.K. Singh paid a visit at her Dhaka residence, bdnews 24 reported. “Hasina said the Teesta water-sharing deal should be inked as soon as possible as Bangladesh needs more water in the lean period,” said an official from the Bangladesh prime minister’s office. “She expressed hope that the Teesta deal will be signed soon by mutual understanding and the Land Boundary Agreement will be implemented,” the official added.

New Delhi, Aug 24 (ANI): Amid repeated ceasefire violations from across the border, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Tariq Anwar today said that talks, not war, were the way to move forward with Pakistan. Anwar told ANI, “War is not the solution. “I think that talks should be continued with Pakistan and pressure should be put on them that on one side Pakistan says about talks and on other side it carries out these violations. Indian government should strictly say to Pakistan that if this isn’t stopped then relations may become bitter between the two countries,” Anwar told ANI.

New Delhi, Aug 24 (ANI): Congress leader Manish Tewari today described the new disclosures reportedly coming from the former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai as yet another sensationalism, and wondered why those facts were never brought to light into public domain earlier. Speaking to ANI on the former CAG’s disclosure that he was under pressure, reportedly by the former UPA government to drop names from the CAG reports, Tewari asked, “Sensationalism has been a staple of the former CAG, therefore, after putting sensational numbers out in the public space, which completely vitiated the public discourse between 2010-2014, now you have this latest bout of sensationalism.

New Delhi, Aug. 24 (ANI): Launching a frontal attack on the Congress over former CAG Vinod Rai’s claims that coalition functionaries had deputed politicians to get him leave out names from the audit reports in the Coalgate and Commonwealth Games scam, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said a lot of bullying tactics was utilized by the former ruling party at the Centre to make sure that the corrupt were not exposed during the UPA regime. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said the Congress stands naked today as the truth has been exposed. The Bharatiya Janata Party has been driving this awareness campaign across the country and today we all stand with the fact that the truth has been exposed. The Congress stands naked today.

New Delhi, Aug 24 (ANI): Expressing concern over the inclusion of topics like ‘love jihad’ in Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Uttar Pradesh meet, political leaders have said that these things are been done to divert the minds of people from other issues. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Tariq Anwar told ANI, “Prime Minister Modi promised many things during the elections but now they are not being done. The nation understands everything and I think this plan of BJP will not be successful.” Criticizing the move, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Ali Anwar went a step further demanding reservation in jobs for those who marry outside their castes.