Vice-president Hamid Ansari Sunday recalled the earliest contributions to Australia of Indians who arrived here as camel drivers in the 19th century and became crucial links between the southern part of the island and its rugged interior. Speaking at a reception attended by the Indian diaspora here, Dr Ansari said the cameleers reached Australia after a communication between the governor of South Australia with his counterpart in the then Bombay Presidency in the 19th century.
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Bedi to return excess airfare to Indore NGO
Bhopal, Oct. 30: A NGO in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city Sunday said that former Indian Police Service officer and Team Anna core committee member Kiran Bedi, who had charged it business class airfare but travelled in economy class for a function, had agreed to return the excess amount.
Ms Kiran Bedi admits she charged various NGOs business class airfare while travelling in the lower class, saying the excess money went into her own NGO.
Abhyas Mandal demanded she return the excess amount she had charged while attending their golden jubilee celebrations on May 13, 2009.
Ms Bedi, one of the invitees, had submitted a travel agent bill for `38,871 air fare (Delhi-Indore-Delhi) which they had paid. — IANS
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Resignations of 4 irs officers still pending
AGE CORRESPONDENT
new delhi, Oct. 30
In a startling revelation, a recent RTI has revealed that resignations of four IRS officers, including Magsaysay awardee and Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal, have not been accepted by the government due to pending requisite formalities. According to the RTI, resignation of IRS (IT) officers M.S Padma Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal, A.K. Verma and Ashok Mittal are under process for acceptance pending completion of requisite formalities, i.e. “no dues certificate” vigilance clearance. The information given by CBDT in response to a RTI application by activist Subhash Agrawal revealed that between 2007 and 11, resignations
of 15 IRS (T) officers were accepted.
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KCR: cong will merge with trs, not trs with cong
AGE CORRESPONDENT
hyderabad, Oct. 30
Buoyed by the entry of three Congress MLAs, one of them an associate member of the ruling party, into the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, party chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao said there was no question of his party merging with the Congress. Instead, he said, it will be the Congress that will merge with the TRS if it continues to delay a decision on a separate Telangana state. The three MLAs said a separate Telangana will not be a reality as long as they continue in the party. Former minister and Kollapur MLA Jupally Krishna Rao, Station Ghanpur MLA Tadikonda Rajaiah and Ramagundam Independent-cum-Congress associate MLA Somarapu Satyanarayana communicated their decision to PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana through fax.