Yeddyurappa makes formal move to be part of NDA

Yeddyurappa makes formal move to be part of NDA

Taking the initial formal step to be part of NDA, former Chief Minister and Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) President B.S. Yeddyurappa on Saturday asked it to consider making his party an alliance partner of the BJP-led coalition while expressing support to its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.

In a letter to NDA Chairman and BJP veteran leader L.K. Advani, with whom he shares an uneasy relationship, Mr. Yeddyurappa requested him to involve Karnataka Janata Party in all the deliberations of NDA by inviting it to all the meetings.

Mr. Yeddyurappa's missive comes in the midst of his repeated public posture that KJP would not merge with BJP, which he quit in the sequel to BJP central leadership's decision to remove him as Chief Minister over the illegal mining issue.

State BJP is divided on the re-entry of Mr. Yeddyurappa, whose outfit too has differences of opinion on the merger of both parties.

In his letter, Mr. Yeddyurappa drew the attention of Mr. Advani to the unanimous decision of KJP's Executive Committee to support NDA in its endeavour of making Modi the "future" Prime Minister.

He noted that KJP had won six seats in the May Assembly polls in Karnataka and secured more than 10 per cent of total valid votes polled. The Election Commission had also recognised KJP as a regional party, he said.

KJP had failed to make a mark of its own in the Assembly polls but played spoilsport to the chances of BJP, whose only government in the South crumbled leading to resurrection of the Congress rule after a long hiatus.

Mr. Yeddyurappa assured Mr. Advani of full cooperation to make NDA a success in the Lok Sabha polls.

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ANR suffering from Cancer!

ANR suffering from Cancer!

Tollywood and Telugu audience is yet to recover from the untimely death of Srihari but ANR revealed one more shocker this morning. Speaking in a specially arranged Press meet, the veteran actor said doctors found cancer at early stage in his body. The legendary actor do not want press to start speculations about his health and air rumours. Hence he revealed it all himself. Entire Akkineni family is present at the press meet.

Akkineni Nageswara Rao is currently acting in Manam in which his son Nagarjuna and grand son, Naga Chaitanya are also starring. The shooting of the movie is going on at brisk pace and it will hit the screens early next year. We at Cinetara wish ANR quickly recovers and have a long healthy life.

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Mars mission delayed by a week due to late ship: ISRO

Mars mission delayed by a week due to late ship: ISRO

The launch of the Mars Orbiter Mission has been delayed, probably by a week, into early November.

The mission must wait until the main ship deployed to track launch events reaches the South Pacific, hopefully on Monday, ISRO's spokesman said on Saturday.

Bad weather in the South Pacific has apparently delayed the ship, MV SCI Nalanda, from reaching Fiji on Saturday, while the other ship, Yamuna, is already there.

The two ships, deployed last month, carry tracking terminals and are a crucial link in relaying real-time data about the last stages of the launch and release of the spacecraft, which will happen over the South Pacific.

ISRO's top officials will decide the launch date on October 22 when the ship is in Fiji, said Deviprasad Karnik, ISRO's Director for Press & Public Relations. "The second ship Nalanda has been delayed by bad weather in the South Pacific. We expect it to reach there by October 21. Our decision should be made on October 22," he said.

ISRO had hoped to send up the Mars spacecraft on October 28, the first day of its planned time band or window'.

It can do the launch up to November 19; however the spacecraft must necessarily leave the Earth's orbit on or before November 30 if it has to reach Mars in mid-September 2014. ISRO says the launch opportunity comes up once in 26 months.

Ahead of the launch from Sriharikota, the ships will be deployed at vantage points in the ocean some 3,000 nautical miles apart. The events will be monitored by ISRO's engineers and telemetry and tracking team on board the ships.

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