An electrical engineer from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and belonging to Bihar, Syed Kashif Hassan has been the Common Admission Test (CAT) topper among candidates who appeared from Bihar. He has secured 99.99 percentile.
Those close to him said that his 99.99 percentile could have also been fetched by candidates from other states, but Kashif has been the topper among the Bihari candidates and he has also set the all-time record for the state till now.
He has been invited by all the six premier Indian Institute of Management (IIM) centres for group discussion, and final selection in the IIM concerned. Born at Hanuman Nagar, Patna, he has his ancestral roots at Bhagalpur's Mohibalichak locality. His father Dr S Q Hassan, an eye-specialist, and mother Eakhshimda groomed him, but his inspiration was his "nana (maternal grandfather) late Dr H A Usmani, a child specialist.
He did his schooling from Don Bosco and college studies from Science College (Patna) before moving to AMU for the five-year course (2005-09) in electrical trade. He has interest in music, and recently produced an album `Ummeed: A Tryst with Hope' in the company of his friends.link
Monday 27 April 2009
Maoists blow up school, health centre in Bihar
In the second strike in 24 hours, about 500 heavily armed Maoists encircled a village in Gaya district of Bihar and blew up a primary health centre, a middle school and community hall.
Earlier, the Maoists had blown up a police building in the same Chonha village on Saturday morning. It was the eighth Maoist attack in the district this month.
The Maoists also raided the two-storeyed house of a big farmer and former mukhiya of Narainpur panchayat of the Naxal-infested Dumaria block. Using walkie-talkies, they directed the farmer's wife, daughter and two maid servants, to move out of the house before dynamites were thrown in.
The farmer's son Rizwan Khan said the Maoists looted about 100 quintals of rice, an equal quantity of wheat, 10 quintals of potatoe and onion and some jewellery from the house.
According to Rizwan, he was in a neighbouring village when the Maoists started encircling his village. He immediately informed senior police officers, "but the police reached only after everything was over''.
Admitting that she got information about the movement of the Maoists, Magadh Range DIG Anupama Nilekar claimed that immediate steps were taken and police parties dispatched to the village.link
Earlier, the Maoists had blown up a police building in the same Chonha village on Saturday morning. It was the eighth Maoist attack in the district this month.
The Maoists also raided the two-storeyed house of a big farmer and former mukhiya of Narainpur panchayat of the Naxal-infested Dumaria block. Using walkie-talkies, they directed the farmer's wife, daughter and two maid servants, to move out of the house before dynamites were thrown in.
The farmer's son Rizwan Khan said the Maoists looted about 100 quintals of rice, an equal quantity of wheat, 10 quintals of potatoe and onion and some jewellery from the house.
According to Rizwan, he was in a neighbouring village when the Maoists started encircling his village. He immediately informed senior police officers, "but the police reached only after everything was over''.
Admitting that she got information about the movement of the Maoists, Magadh Range DIG Anupama Nilekar claimed that immediate steps were taken and police parties dispatched to the village.link
Sunday 26 April 2009
Lalu's place is in jail: Rajiv Ranjan
A senior leader of Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Sunday said that Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad would be in jail for his involvement in the multi-million rupee fodder scam if the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came to power at the centre.
"Lalu ka satta sukh ab khatam ho gaya hai, Lalu ko ab jail sukh bhogna hoga (The days of Lalu enjoying power are over, Lalu should now be ready to face the hard reality of jail)," Rajeev Ranjan alias Lalan Singh said at a election rally in Munger from where he is contesting the poll.
Known as a severe critic of Lalu Prasad, Singh said a fresh probe would be ordered into the RJD's chief involvement in the fodder scam if the NDA comes to power. He alleged that the RJD chief had managed to suppress the cases against him in the fodder scam with the help of the Congress.
Singh, a close confidant of chief minister Nitish Kumar, said Lalu Prasad would now be ousted from the centre in the same way he was ousted from Bihar in 2005.link
"Lalu ka satta sukh ab khatam ho gaya hai, Lalu ko ab jail sukh bhogna hoga (The days of Lalu enjoying power are over, Lalu should now be ready to face the hard reality of jail)," Rajeev Ranjan alias Lalan Singh said at a election rally in Munger from where he is contesting the poll.
Known as a severe critic of Lalu Prasad, Singh said a fresh probe would be ordered into the RJD's chief involvement in the fodder scam if the NDA comes to power. He alleged that the RJD chief had managed to suppress the cases against him in the fodder scam with the help of the Congress.
Singh, a close confidant of chief minister Nitish Kumar, said Lalu Prasad would now be ousted from the centre in the same way he was ousted from Bihar in 2005.link
Sunday 12 April 2009
BJP engaged in 'savarna' mobilisation
The spectre of former JD(U) leader and Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra is haunting NDA, specially BJP, in the Mithila region. Aware of the possible subversive or negative impact of the quitting of JD(U) by Mishra, the state BJP has engaged itself in active mobilisation of the "savarna samaj (upper caste sections)" in the region in favour of NDA.
The region accounts for three parliamentary constituencies -- Darbhanga, Madhubani and Jhanjharpur. While BJP is contesting Madhubani and Darbhanga seats, the Jhanjharpur seat has gone to JD(U). Incidentally, Mishra, in the past, has contested the Jhanjharpur seat, though unsuccessfully. Yet, the damage that he could cause is very much on the radar of NDA, specially BJP. It has been assumed that the adverse impact of the move of Mishra on NDA would be immediate. The poll would be held in the second phase.
Mishra had aired his concerns on the devastations wrought by the Kosi floods in the five districts, and had also queered the pitch for CM Nitish Kumar. Later, he quit JD(U), while his son Nitish Mishra, a JD(U) aspirant for the Jhanjharpur seat, resigned from the council of ministers. Senior Mishra cosied up to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, and also announced to support any candidate who could strengthen secular and democratic traditions.
BJP, in effect, has taken to damage control exercise. In less than a week, two of its state leaders -- former state president Tara Kant Jha and the party's state spokesman Vinod Narayan Jha -- have aired their concerns on the region to influence the voting behaviour of the people, specially the upper caste sections. While Tara Kant Jha, among other things, recently pointed to the contribution of NDA in securing recognition for Maithili language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, Vinod Narayan Jha, after a week long tour of the region, reiterated it on Saturday.
He dubbed Mishra as "swayambhu neta (self-proclaimed leader)". Due to his new association with Lalu and LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan, he also called Mishra Lalu's "guru" and "chaaraa ghotaale ka humsafar", and put him as "naya humsafar" of Ram Vilas Paswan! He, finally, lambasted Mishra for claiming that the honeymoon of Brahmins (Maithil) with NDA in the Mithila region was over, and also blasted UPA.
"Not only the Brahmin community of the region, but all other sections are solidly behind NDA," Vinod Narayan said, adding: "Brahmins, in particular, constitute the intelligentsia. They have always longed for development and law and order, which the state NDA government has given in the last three and half years. This section is positively oriented towards NDA." link
The region accounts for three parliamentary constituencies -- Darbhanga, Madhubani and Jhanjharpur. While BJP is contesting Madhubani and Darbhanga seats, the Jhanjharpur seat has gone to JD(U). Incidentally, Mishra, in the past, has contested the Jhanjharpur seat, though unsuccessfully. Yet, the damage that he could cause is very much on the radar of NDA, specially BJP. It has been assumed that the adverse impact of the move of Mishra on NDA would be immediate. The poll would be held in the second phase.
Mishra had aired his concerns on the devastations wrought by the Kosi floods in the five districts, and had also queered the pitch for CM Nitish Kumar. Later, he quit JD(U), while his son Nitish Mishra, a JD(U) aspirant for the Jhanjharpur seat, resigned from the council of ministers. Senior Mishra cosied up to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, and also announced to support any candidate who could strengthen secular and democratic traditions.
BJP, in effect, has taken to damage control exercise. In less than a week, two of its state leaders -- former state president Tara Kant Jha and the party's state spokesman Vinod Narayan Jha -- have aired their concerns on the region to influence the voting behaviour of the people, specially the upper caste sections. While Tara Kant Jha, among other things, recently pointed to the contribution of NDA in securing recognition for Maithili language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, Vinod Narayan Jha, after a week long tour of the region, reiterated it on Saturday.
He dubbed Mishra as "swayambhu neta (self-proclaimed leader)". Due to his new association with Lalu and LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan, he also called Mishra Lalu's "guru" and "chaaraa ghotaale ka humsafar", and put him as "naya humsafar" of Ram Vilas Paswan! He, finally, lambasted Mishra for claiming that the honeymoon of Brahmins (Maithil) with NDA in the Mithila region was over, and also blasted UPA.
"Not only the Brahmin community of the region, but all other sections are solidly behind NDA," Vinod Narayan said, adding: "Brahmins, in particular, constitute the intelligentsia. They have always longed for development and law and order, which the state NDA government has given in the last three and half years. This section is positively oriented towards NDA." link
Nominees with criminal charges galore in Bihar
IIM-Bangalore professor and Delhi-based Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) chairman Trilochan Sastry on Saturday admitted that election-watchers had their limitations in differentiating between the history-sheeter candidates contesting polls and political and social activists chargesheeted in various criminal cases involving some untoward incidents in course of their political and social agitations.
Attributing such a handicap to the absence of a seperate code for the political incidents in the Indian Penal Code, Sastry said as sections of the same Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) applied to both categories of wrong doers hardened criminals and those involved in criminal cases in course of their social and political activism, differentiation is next to impossible under the present laws.
Releasing a joint ADR and National Election Watch on Bihar Elections report, Sastry put forth a party-wise data of the candidates facing criminal charges contesting election in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in Bihar. According to the data relating to the first phase of polls released by the two organisations, 16 out of 90 Independent candidates fall under such category.
Six out of eight nominees of the ruling JD(U) in the first phase are facing criminal charges. CPI-ML (Liberation) has same number of aspirants facing criminal charges as of JD(U). Six out of 10 RJD nominees contesting first phase of elections, too, are facing criminal charges. In case of BSP, this number is of five out of a dozen aspirants. Five out of the elevan Congress nominees are facing criminal charges, while one out of two LJP nominees contesting in first phase of elections is facing criminal charges, says the report.
On the basis of the affidavits filed by candidate with the election commission, the two organizations also released the name of 23 candidates having Rs one crore-plus wealth and assets.
Attributing such a handicap to the absence of a seperate code for the political incidents in the Indian Penal Code, Sastry said as sections of the same Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) applied to both categories of wrong doers hardened criminals and those involved in criminal cases in course of their social and political activism, differentiation is next to impossible under the present laws.
Releasing a joint ADR and National Election Watch on Bihar Elections report, Sastry put forth a party-wise data of the candidates facing criminal charges contesting election in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in Bihar. According to the data relating to the first phase of polls released by the two organisations, 16 out of 90 Independent candidates fall under such category.
Six out of eight nominees of the ruling JD(U) in the first phase are facing criminal charges. CPI-ML (Liberation) has same number of aspirants facing criminal charges as of JD(U). Six out of 10 RJD nominees contesting first phase of elections, too, are facing criminal charges. In case of BSP, this number is of five out of a dozen aspirants. Five out of the elevan Congress nominees are facing criminal charges, while one out of two LJP nominees contesting in first phase of elections is facing criminal charges, says the report.
On the basis of the affidavits filed by candidate with the election commission, the two organizations also released the name of 23 candidates having Rs one crore-plus wealth and assets.
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