Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan announced in the state legislature recently that the Nashik house where Dadasaheb Phalke, the founder of Indian cinema industry, lived, will be converted into a national memorial. The only hitch in the plan could be that the house no longer exists. There is a black marble plaque pointing out the place in Gole colony in Ashok Stambh area of city where Phalke's house once stood. What stands there now is  'Janakashram', a four-storey 10-year-old building, which houses a commercial complex and an apartment owned by Phalke's grandson, Deepak Phalke. According to Madhukar Zende, senior official of the Nashik Municipal Corporation, Phalke leased this plot of land from Professor Gole in 1939, and constructed a small bungalow which he named Janakashram.

Dadasaheb Phalke`s house in Nashik no more exists

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels-- founders of Marxism--may be out of history syllabus in government schools in West Bengal following a recommendation by a state education panel.

Mamata to keep Marx and Engels away from textbooks

Not satisfied with the state government's assurance on release of 27 jailed persons belonging to the CPI (Maoists) and the banned Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh, the red rebels have ruled out immediate release of the abducted Italian national Paolo Bosusco.

Naxals rule out immediate release of Italian national

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Developers generating power from coal washery rejects in Orissa would have to share 12 per cent free power with the state in line with the National Hydro Policy of Government of India.

State seeks 13% free power from coal washery plants

Union defence minister A K Antony has agreed to strengthen the basic defence infrastructure in the border areas of Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand CM asks Antony to strengthen Army in border areas

Even as it hogged media limelight recently after one of its students was offered a dream job offer by IT marquee firm Facebook, Allahabad-based Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) still remains grounded in reality.

'IITs are not made overnight'

The civil aviation ministry has accepted a proposal to name Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) here after founder of this garden city Kempegowda.

Centre accepts proposal to name Bangalore airport after Kempegowda

Several proposals regarding construction of rural roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) from Karnataka pending before the rural development ministry will soon be cleared. Union Minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh has promised to expedite the proposals favourably.

Karnataka set to get Rs 1,400 cr to upgrade highways

"Owing to the Centre's lack of initiative in expediting collection of arrears, the state has lost out revenue to the tune of Rs 3800 crore by way of shared tax. Had the Centre collected the outstanding arrears of Rs 2.49 lakh crore, all the states taken together would have gained around Rs 80,000 crore as 32 per cent state share&rdquo;, said a senior finance department official.

Orissa sore over Centre`s inaction on direct tax arrears

While state-level party leaders hitting the road on the last day of the short-duration campaign, the campaign otherwise remained by and large low-key for the elections to the urban local bodies (ULBs).Curtain came down on the low-key campaign on Tuesday at 7 am, 48 hours prior to the polls on March 7.

Holiday on ULB voting day

BS Reporter

Even though most multilateral and Indian institutions have raised Indias gross domestic product growth forecast to around 7 per cent, industrial growth in October 2003 slipped to 5.4 per cent in

Industry grew 5.4% in Oct

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