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Stop digging, Jagmohan If this goes on, Unesco — Swami Muktananda Monumental plunder NEWS DIGEST tells UP government Imaging: Deepak Harichandan threatens delisting Shilpa’s father surrenders: Ac- By Akshaya Mukul By Saurabh Sinha tress Shilpa Shetty’s father, Suren- June 16 to the UP CM requesting of World Heritage in Danger’’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK dra Shetty, surrendered before the her to stop the construction because of the construction of around the regulated area as two suspension bridges near the police at Umra police station in New Delhi: The Union culture New Delhi: The plan to con- prohibited by the Ancient Monu- monument. ‘‘The construction of Surat and was formally arrested in ministry on Friday distanced it- struct huge structures near the ments and Archaeological Sites a road towards one of the the Prafful Sarees extortion case on self from the unauthorised con- Taj Mahal has jeopardised the Friday. P10 and Remains Act, 1958, the work bridges will result in a major in- struction around the regulated prestigious Unesco World Her- continues. He had reacted to a re- crease in heavy goods traffic and Cases against Vaghela: The area of the Taj Mahal and Agra itage status of the monument. If port published in the Sunday has already resulted in the dis- Gujarat government on Friday filed Fort, both world heritage sites, the project affects the authentic- Times of India on June 15. mantling ... of an important his- cases of alleged corruption against and asked the Uttar Pradesh gov- ity and integrity of the site and Sources, however, informed toric monument,’’ says the Un- former chief minister and Congress ernment to stop construction its environs, it could be put in leader Shankersinh Vaghela and forthwith. It has also asked the the TOI that what has come out the ‘‘World Heritage in Danger’’ esco website. former food and civil supplies UP government to probe the mat- so far is a mere tip of the ice- list and later even lose the status, A natural site, the Manas na- minister Jasha Barad on the basis ter further since the Centre had berg. ‘‘Many senior politicians said R P Perera, administrative tional park in Assam, is also in of a Lokayukt report which had not given any clearance for the and construction companies and programme officer (cul- the danger list. So, while two of indicted them. project. were involved when the project ture), Unesco. the 24 World Heritage sites in In- Saddam in Iraq? American intelli- After a two-hour-long meeting was cleared in 1996 and kick- ‘‘The Delhi office of Unesco dia are already on the endan- gence analysts now with the UP environment secre- started with a show at the Taj by has informed its Paris-based gered list, the Taj may also end believe that Saddam tary, the commissioner of Agra musician Yanni. Though the World Heritage Centre about the up figuring on this list. Hussein is much division and the vice-chairman project has been delayed, it developments in Agra. The Paris But, the sword over the monu- more likely to be of the Agra Development Au- would be very difficult political- THE TAJ HERITAGE CORRIDOR office, in turn, has written to the ment will keep dangling until alive than dead, a thority (ADA), culture minister ly to suspend it now. It would • The proposed corridor will include a shopping Indian delegation to Unesco for Unesco is sure that nothing will view that has merely be reinvented.’’ be done to alter the visual aes- been strengthened Jagmohan wrote a letter to UP mall behind the Taj by filling up a part of the more information,’’ said Perera. chief minister Mayawati listing According to Jagmohan’s let- Yamuna riverbed Under a Rs 175-crore plan, the thetics and originality of the by intercepted ter, the ambience required to surroundings of the Taj. communications various provisions of the law UP government is planning to maintain the status of the Taj • It’s a part of the project which plans to link the ‘‘A question mark on the World among members of the Saddam which have been flouted. These build shopping malls, parks, and Agra Fort as world heritage Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Ram Bagh, Etmatuddula Heritage status of a monument Fedayeen and the Iraqi intelligence include getting prior clearance and Chini-ka-Roza monuments. restaurants and entertainment service. P13 from local bodies like the ADA, sites have not only been ignored centres near the Taj. like the Taj — which symbolises Agra Municipal Corporation, but the permission of the cul- The Archaeological Survey of India globally — would have a Govt firm on CAS: I&B minister ture ministry — which takes PROGRESS SO FAR negative impact on the country’s Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday reit- Central Pollution Control Board India (ASI) has lodged a police care of such sites —was never image. It will show we are not erated the government resolve for (CPCB) and the Central Water • Construction work began in November’02 under complaint against these ‘‘unau- roll-out of CAS in the four metros Commission. sought. Jagmohan also remind- the National Project Construction Corporation thorised constructions’’. Union conscious of its importance,’’ from July 14 onwards. P8 The Archaelogical Survey of ed the UP CM of the Supreme culture minister has asked UP said a senior ASI official. India (ASI) has also lodged a Court order of May 1, 2003, • Rs 17 crore paid to a Delhi-based construction chief minister Mayawati to Explaining the importance of Nipah virus: A team of US scien- which stipulated that though company for removing sand from the riverbed World Heritage status, conserva- tists will visit Uttar Pradesh to look complaint with the Agra police ‘‘stop all the construction activi- tion architect Ratish Nanda into the recent cases of the outbreak in connection with the unautho- the state government can ties at once’’. of the killer Nipah virus which is list- rised construction. raise temporary embankments “Supreme Court had directed us to remove Acknowledging the Centre’s said, ‘‘It makes the international ed by the US among the potential After the meeting, Jagmohan by using stones and clay, this move, Perera said, ‘‘The steps community responsible for the bioterrorism agents. P8 denied that Unesco has threat- would be subject to further all shops from the front of the Taj.We are taken by Union culture minister safety of the heritage. Apart WTO rejects Indian complaint: ened to withdraw the Taj from directions and clearance by the only trying to relocate them.” Jagmohan are very apprecia- from providing global expertise A World Trade Organisation panel its world heritage list. Union government under the ble.’’ In 1999, Unesco had includ- in all conservation-related fields, has upheld US laws on determining The minister expressed sur- Environment Protection Act. — R K Sharma, principal secretary, ministry of environment ed the Hampi group of monu- Unesco can even chip in with the country of origin of textile and prise that despite his letter of No check on pollution level - P6 ments in Karnataka in the ‘‘List money to help save the sites.’’ apparel products after India chal- lenged these rules, US trade repre- sentative Robert B Zoellick said. Kalyan: Atal, Rain check by Laxman YOU SAID IT Terror plot in US embarrasses Pakistan Friday, Advani party June 20 By Chidanand Rajghatta Afghanistan. In a badly-timed dis- had travelled to Pakistan and he feared the situation was too dif- TIMES NEWS NETWORK closure for Pakistan, attorney gen- Afghanistan in the beginning of ficult to execute the plot to blow up to demolition eral John Ashcroft announced on year 2000 and met with Osama bin the Brooklyn bridge, which has Delhi Washington: Pakistan suffered Thursday that Iyman Faris, a 34- Laden and his operations director been under tight security ever TIMES NEWS NETWORK embarrassment and discomfiture year-old naturalized American cit- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to or- since it became subject of ru- on the eve of President Pervez Lucknow: Kalyan Singh, the izen from Kashmir living in ganise and finance terrorist activ- mours that it was being targeted. Kolkata Musharraf ’s visit to the United chief minister of Uttar Columbus, Ohio, had confessed to ities in the US. Although Faris was arrested States with the Bush administra- June 19 Pradesh when the Babri casing targets in the US with the The plotting continued till as re- three months back, Ashcroft an- tion announcing that it had uncov- Masjid was demolished on intention to destroy them. cently as March this year, and in nounced only on Friday that he Mumbai Chennai December 6, 1992, says the ered a plot to blow up the Brooklyn US officials did not say which one instance Faris sent coded mes- had agreed to plead guilty even as BJP-VHP leadership is lying bridge and other targets in the US part of Kashmir Faris hailed from, sages to Qaida operatives in Pak- General Musharraf landed in the when it says it had no idea of by an immigrant truck driver who but they highlighted the Pakistani istan saying ‘‘the weather is too US and headed to Boston to spend what was going to happen on had trained in Pakistan and connection.