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Lucknow: Her defeat in the Uttar Pradesh elections may have been brutal. But if Mayawati needs cheering up, she could review her long list of assets. The former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh shared the details of her property, cash and jewellery as she filed her nomination for the Rajya Sabha. It's an impressive portfolio. In the last two years, her assets have shot up by 24 crores. So how much is Mayawati worth exactly? 111 crores.
Behenji, as the former chief minister is known, has said she has 380 carats of diamonds, and one kilogram of gold. Together, these are worth just under a crore. Her silver dinner set, which weighs nearly 20 kgs, is worth 9 lakhs.
Her immovable assets - largely property - add upto 96 crores. This includes two shops in Delhi's Connaught Place, a home worth 62 crores on Sardar Patel Marg, one of Delhi's most sought-after neighbourhoods, and a home in Lucknow worth 15 crores.
In May 2010, her assets were worth 87 crores.
This morning, she filed her nomination for the Rajya Sabha. Last week, she was voted out of power in UP. Her party managed less than 100 of the 403 seats in the UP assembly. The Samajwadi Party, with whom she shares a bitter rivalry, won the elections with astounding numbers. Once she is elected to the Rajya Sabha, she will resign from the UP Assembly.
Explaining her decision to move to the Rajya Sabha, Mayawati said her party has decided that with the general elections just two years away, she wants to prep her strategy. That will include drawing parliament's attention to the crime and lawlessness in UP, she said.
The BSP chief also said, "The party men have said I should increase party's support base all over the country and not just in UP. They said they would not want me to devote all my time here."
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Chennai: A wholly Indian-built spy-surveillance satellite - the Radar Imaging Satellite or Risat-1- that can see through clouds and fog and has very high- resolution imaging is slated for launch in April, a senior official of the Indian space agency has said.
An official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said thorough tests were being done on the Risat-1. "The Risat-1 is put to thermal vacuum test (a test to check the satellite's functioning in space environment). It is a complex microwave satellite being built for the first time in India. The satellite is expected to be launched in April," the senior official told IANS, not wishing to be named because of the organisational rules.
In earlier satellites, one major component, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) was imported, but in Risat-1 that has also been developed in India.
He said Risat-1 is the first such satellite being built by India and is a bit complex compared to other remote sensing/earth observation satellites built and sent up earlier.
According to ISRO officials, Risat-1 at 1,850 kg is the heaviest microwave satellite to be built by India.
The satellite would be used for disaster prediction and agriculture forestry, and the high resolution pictures and microwave imaging could also be used for defence purposes.
Risat-1 will have all weather, day and night imaging capability.
The satellite's synthetic aperture radar can acquire data at C-band.
ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan had said last October that the space agency would launch two more satellites - Risat-1 and SARAL - before 2011-end. But that did not happen. He also said two more satellites - AstroSat and Aditya - will be launched in 2012-13.
Remote sensing satellites send back pictures and other data for use. India has the largest constellation of remote sensing satellites in the world providing imagery in a variety of spatial resolutions, from more than a metre ranging up to 500 metres, and is a major player in vending such data in the global market.
In 2009, ISRO had launched 300 kg Risat-2 with an Israeli built SAR enabling earth observation on all weather, day and night conditions. The satellite can look through clouds and fog.
With 11 remote sensing/earth observation satellites orbiting in the space, India is a world leader in the remote sensing data market. The 11 satellites are TES, Resourcesat 1, Cartosat 1, 2, 2A and 2B, IMS 1, Risat-2, Oceansat 2, Resourcesat-2, Megha-Tropiques.
According to ISRO officials, the rocket that would sling Risat-1 will be the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle's (PSLV) upgraded variant called PSLV-XL.
The rocket would weigh around 320 tonnes at lift-off and will be the third such expendable rocket to be sent up by ISRO, and first time to launch a remote sensing satellite.
ISRO had used the PSLV-XL variant (rocket with extended strap-on motors than what the base model has) for its moon mission (Chandrayaan-1) in 2008 and for launching its communication satellite GSAT-12 in 2011.
The PSLV is a four-stage (engine) rocket powered by solid and liquid propellants alternatively. The first and third stages are fired by solid propellant and the second and fourth stages are fired by liquid propellant.
ISRO has developed three PSLV variants. The first is the standard variant weighing around 290 tonnes with six strap-on motors measuring 11.3 metres with a fuel capacity of nine tonnes.
The other two rocket variants are the PSLV Core Alone without the six strap-on motors and PSLV-XL with longer strap-on motors measuring 13.5 metres having a fuel capacity of 12 tonnes of solid fuel.
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked the central government for a copy of the contract signed with an Indian domestic help who was working with a diplomat at the consulate in New York and has alleged that she was ill-treated. The court said the government had to take care of the maid as she was also Indian.
Justice Kailash Gambhir also sought the bank account details regarding the salary given to Shanti Gurung, who has alleged that she was not paid during her stay in New York when she was working with Neena Malhotra, the press counsellor at the Indian Consulate in 2006, and her husband Jogesh Malhotra.
The government had Monday approached the Delhi High Court seeking directions to restrain Gurung from pursuing the claim in a New York court.
A New York judge had last month recommended that Gurung deserved nearly $1.5 million for her "barbaric treatment". The proposed award included $500,000 for the "emotional distress" inflicted on Gurung, who was a teenager when she was taken to the US.
Taking note of Gurung's allegation that she had drastically lost weight, Justice Gambhir asked the central government to produce documents pertaining to her health records by March 14, the next date of hearing.
Additional Solicitor General A.S. Chandiok told the court that Gurung was the employee of the central government. "She was the service staff member of Indian consulate employee and the government of India paid her salary."
"Can such an government employee ever be under the jurisdiction of foreign court?" Chandiok asked, saying that the New York court lacked jurisdiction to entertain her complaint.
Justice Gambhir said that as the government of India "you have to take care of the maid also, as she is also an Indian".
Countering Gurung's allegation that she was trafficked to the US against her will, the government's petition said "the fact is she travelled to New York at the expenses of the government of India".
"Gurung also alleged that she was not paid during her stay in New York as service staff to Neena Malhotra. Admittedly, Neena Malhotra was making payments as per mutually agreed terms and conditions in the form of regular transfers into a bank account in India," the petition said.
The government said the couple enjoyed diplomatic immunity and any legal action against them could only be done in Delhi.
Gurung in her complaint in the US alleged that she was made to work without pay. Her passport and visa had been seized, her movements were restricted and she was constantly warned her that if she travelled on her own, without their permission, she would be arrested, beaten and raped.
In her lawsuit, Gurung had alleged that in bringing her over to the US in 2006 on an A-3 visa, Neena Malhotra instructed Gurung to tell the US embassy in New Delhi that she would be paid $7 per hour.
The complaint also said that with a steady deterioration in her living conditions from June 2006, Gurung was required to "perform substantially more duties than had been represented at the time of recruitment".
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Post the release of comic caper Housefull 2, actor Akshay Kumar says he will be taking a break from comedy to concentrate on action films and serious cinema.
In the Capital to shoot for Neeraj Pandey's multi-starrer Special Chabbis, the 44-year-old, who began his film journey with action films like Khiladi, Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi and Mohra, said he was dying to do action for the past seven years.
"There was too much of comedy from my end. Even I got bored of them. For the past seven years, I was craving for a serious and full-fledged action film but I was loaded with comedy.
"Action is something with which I have started my career and it gave me the platform to become a star. I enjoy doing them and now for sometime I will stick to this particular genre.
"After Housefull 2, my next two releases - Joker and Once Upon a time in Mumbai 2 are hard core actions. I am happy that the action man is back," Akshay told PTI.
In the past few years, Akshay has been seen in numerous comedy films like Welcome, Singh Is Kinng, Housefull and Tees Maar Khan.
