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S.Ramadoss, founder of PMK demanded I-T raids on the premises of all self-financing colleges and deemed universities. He said that the action had come rather late in the day and that the owners of self-finincing colleges and deemed universities must be brought under examination.

The PMK leader has been campaigning for greater state control of self financing institutions and deemed universities which have commercialised higher education.

The PMK leader urged the Tamil Nadu Government to encourage the production of electric bikes by small and medium enterprises. He said that the government must give permission to young engineers who were intrested in largescale production of battery motorcycles.

He explained the uses of electric bikes which were operated by batteries. He said that the electric bikes were not only used to conserve fossil fuel but also to protect the environment.

This battery motorcycle could run up to 60 km a day at a cost of just 6 paise per km. The fuel cost for electric bikes is less than one-third the cost of gasoline power, he said.

Seperate lanes for bicycles were also suggested by him to ensure safe ride of the students. Ramadoss stated about the transfer of Justice Sathasivam of Madras High Court to Punjab. He said that there would not be a judge from Tamil Nadu in the panel for appointment of new judges to the High court. He strongly blammed the sale of ganja near schools and said that those responsible for this should not be pardoned.

An international conference to mark the centenary of the satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi was inaugurated by the Congress President Sonia Gandhi in South Africa on January 29. Sonia said India’s nuclear weapon programme was made necessary because of strategic compulsion moved along with the failure to convince the world to destroy nuclear weapons completely.

Sonia said the world’s nuclear weapons’ had more atomic arsenal to destroy humanity many times and it was not just nuclear weapons. She also said that they challenged the spectre of chemical and biological weapons. Sonia noted that nuclear weapons had become even more of a terrifying reality since Hiroshima.

Sonia recalled about the blueprint for comprehensive nuclear disarmament which was presented by her late husband Mr.Rajiv Gandhi in October 1988, Universal nuclear disarmament at the United Nations. Four influential Amercians including Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, who held very different views while in office, have drawn attention to his impassioned plea.

She did not refer the role of the US and UK with regard to Iraq against the backdrop of recent developments. Sonia said that they were faced with the scourge terrorism fuelled by religious, political, ethnic or sectarian conflict. She added that it was a sad reality in many instances to be heard.

A video address to the conference was made by the former South African president Nelson Mandela from Johannesburg in South Africa.

January 28, Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi said that India needed an aerospace command to exploit the outer space and it would be established soon. He told reporters that the Indian Air Force (IAF) was in the process of establishing, an aerospace command to exploit outer space by integrating its capabilities.

He remarked that the China successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon by destroying one of its own weather satellites. The remark of Air Chief, here to attend the South Western Air Commanders’ conference.

He said that as the reach of the Indian Air Force was expanding, it had become extremely important that they exploit space assets. He added that they were an aeroscope power having trans-oceanic reach and they had started training a core group of people for the ‘aeroscope command’.

Tyagi was non-committal on the exact time frame for setting up the command. He said in reply to a question that they would take help of ISRO for the aerospace command but it would have distinct features as it was a military command. IAF officers said that the Aerospace command would be an integration of various components of the Air Force. They also said that the Indian satellites, raders, communications systems, fighter aircraft and helicopters would be integrated under the command.

Tyagi replied to a question about military development in China, he said that they were ahead in some fields and that country had huge resources due to their rapid economic development. At the same time air force chiefs from 37 countries will converge in the capital next month.