Ali Khan A former guard at New York City’s troubled main prison today was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of ignoring the pleas of a dying inmate.
Former Department of Correction Captain Terrence Pendergrass was also fined USD 5,000 after a jury convicted him in December of depriving 25-year-old Jason Echevarria of his civil rights.
High-flying India was brought down to earth by a spirited Bangladesh who pulled off an upset 79- run victory in the first cricket one-dayer to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series, here today.
Bangladesh
Outsmarted India in all departments of the game and extracted a sweet revenge for their their quarterfinal loss at the hands of the same opponents in the World Cup earlier this year.
Chasing an imposing 308 for win, the Indians made a
steady start before losing wickets at heap to be bundled out for 228 with four overs to spare.
Ruling TRS is trying to appease its ally MIM, in connection with allotting of Fridays for Yaum-ul-Quran at Makkah Masjid. 5 Fridays fall during the month of Ramadan out of which 3 has been allotted to local political party. It must be noted that Siasat had predicted the allotment of Fridays by Minority Welfare Department which came true.
Michelle Obama and her elder daughter visited Milan’s Duomo cathedral today, where an official traveling with her said they lit candles in memory of the victims of the shooting in South Carolina.
Haryana government is considering forming its own accreditation council on the lines of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) to assess and accredit higher education institutions functioning in the state.
While presiding over a meeting of State Higher Education Council here, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who is also the council’s chairman, today directed the concerned officers to explore possibilities for creation of State Assessment and Accreditation Council (SAAC).
Crunch talks to resolve a five-month standoff between Greece and its EU-IMF creditors ended Thursday without a deal, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission vice-president for the euro, said today.
“No deal at Eurogroup,” Dombrovskis said in a tweet after the talks broke up after 90 minutes of discussion on Greece.
“Strong signal for Greece to engage seriously in negotiations. The Eurogroup stands ready to reconvene at any moment,” he added.
US lawmakers voted today to give President Barack Obama fast-track authority to negotiate a major trans-Pacific trade accord, moving it closer to his desk after a dramatic defeat last week.
Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) narrowly passed the House of Representatives by 218 votes to 208 as a stand-alone bill, after congressional leaders uncoupled it from a worker-assistance program that crashed to defeat Friday when most Democrats voted against it in order to block the trade package.
TPA now heads to the US Senate, where it could receive a vote as early as next week.
Bangladesh defeated India by 79 runs in the first cricket ODI of the three-match series here today.
Brief Scores:
Bangladesh: 307 all out in 49.4 overs (Tamim Iqbal 60, Soumya Sarkar 54, Shakib Al Hasan 52; Ravichandran Ashwin 3-51, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2-37, Umesh Yadav 2-58).
India: 228 all out in 46 overs (Rohit Sharma 63, Suresh Raina 40; Mustafizur Rahman 5/50).
Pakistan today released 150 Indian fishermen lodged in jails here in a goodwill gesture, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to greet him on the holy month of Ramzan amid a war of words between the two countries.
Pakistani authorities said they had released 150 Indian fishermen from the Landhi and Malir jails as a goodwill gesture before the start of Ramazan.
A dejected US President Barack Obama today strongly condemned the “senseless murders” of nine Americans by a white gunman inside a historic black church, saying such type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.
Members at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, had gathered for a prayer meeting when gunfire erupted in the 19th century building, raising racial tensions in the country that has recently witnessed a spate of killings of unarmed black men by white police officers.
Authorities say officials at a New York City jail have uncovered an apparent escape plot while sweeping the facility after learning of drug smuggling there.
Law enforcement officials said today that an inmate at the Manhattan Detention Center had neatly tied together 64 bedsheets and stashed them under the sink in his cell.
The discovery of the plot comes less than two weeks after two convicted murderers escaped from a maximum-security prison in northern New York state. A manhunt is underway.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said that the ‘Jalyukta Shivar’ project will be undertaken in 20,000 villages with the aim being to help them end the problem of water scarcity.
Fadnavis reviewed the progress of the project at Pachod, Chittegaon and other villages of the district.
As of now, 6,000 villages have undertaken this project and, in the coming two years, 11,000 more villages will be added to the list, he said.
Stating that startups in e-commerce segment are asking for too high a price for parting stakes, Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata today took a dig at the fledgling sector, saying “valuations” and not “evaluations” are driving the play.
“Its true that the valuations (of e-commerce) are very high and valuation seems to driving these companies more than traditional matrix of evaluation,” Tata said at the 107th Annual General Meeting of Indian Merchants’ Chamber.
Maharashtra cabinet is likely to approve a proposal to take action against the sand mafia under the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act (MPDA) at its next meeting.
Minister of state for Revenue Sanjay Rathod today said the government had prepared the proposal.
The government would not be enacting a new law to curb the illegal sand mining, instead it was going to amend the existing laws to make them more stringent, he said.
The Bombay High Court bench here today issued a notice to Maharashtra government seeking a reply by June 22 on a petition filed by a former PWD Secretary, named by the state Anti-Corruption bureau in Maharashtra Sadan corruption case challenging the FIR against him.
Former Public Works Department Secretary Devdutta Marathe has challenged the FIR lodged by the Anti-Corruption Bureau which also names the former PWD minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal and his family members.
The Centre today convened a crucial meeting to finalise the quantum of Krishna river water to be shared between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and discuss the jurisdiction of the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB).
According to sources, officials of both states also discussed the various projects across the river falling in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
“We discussed the sharing of water from the Krishna between the two states with regard to the award of Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal I,” said an official who participated in the meeting.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has allocated Rs 100 crore to develop the Vemulawada temple, he announced here today.
Rao arrived at Vemulawada at about 1 pm alongwith his family members and was welcomed by Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leaders.
He prayed at the Sri Raja Rajeshwara Swamy Devasthanam for more than an hour.
Speaking to reporters this evening at the temple premises in Vemulawada, he said that more funds will be allocated for the purpose.
With the opposition launching a fresh offensive seeking her resignation over ‘Lalitgate’, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj received support from veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi who met her tonight at her residence here.
Sources said Joshi spent a little over half-an-hour with Swaraj but did not reveal as to what transpired at the meeting.
Opposition parties have said that Swaraj’s continuance as a minister has become untenable over the alleged acts of ‘grave impropriety’ by her in helping the tainted former IPL boss Lalit Modi.
Pomp, pageantry and a vast array of elaborate hats make Royal Ascot a truly English affair — but Britain’s most prestigious horse race meeting is attracting a growing international contingent.
More than 300,000 people are expected during the course of the five-day extravaganza in Berkshire, southeast England, attended yearly by Queen Elizabeth II — with Ladies Day today a sartorial highlight of the upper class social calendar.
Ending years of wait, the government agreed today to provide millions of dollars in disability benefits to as many as 2,100 US Air Force reservists and active-duty forces exposed to Agent Orange residue on airplanes used in the Vietnam War.
It is the first time the Department of Veteran Affairs, a government-run military veteran benefit system, has established a special category of Agent Orange exposure for troops who weren’t on the ground or didn’t serve on inland waterways in Vietnam.
A Palliative Cancer care home for patients was today inaugurated at Sri Ramakrishna Rural Health Centre in Pachapalayam on the outskirts.
The Rs.One crore project, a joint venture by the SNR Sons Charitable Trust and Rotary Club of Coimbatore Satellite Dist RI 321, is on a 3,500 square feet built up area and will take care of the needy patient’s treatment and their care till they become free from cancer.
P Venugopalan Menon, District Governor, RI District 3201, inaugurated the project in the presence of R Vijayakumhar, Managing Trustee, SNR Sons Charitable Trust.
South Africa’s parliament collapsed in chaos today, allowing President Jacob Zuma to escape questions over why Sudan’s leader was allowed to leave the country despite a court order barring his departure.
The Economic Freedom Fighters opposition party prevented Zuma from speaking, demanding that he first agree to pay back millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money spent on his private rural residence at Nkandla – a long-running domestic scandal.
One businessman was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in Midnapore (West) district today.
Police said two motorcycle borne unidentified miscreants fired on the businessman Jay Prakash Sahu (40) when he was returning home from his shop near Kharagpur.
He was taken to a local hospital where he was declared brought dead.
The locals blocked roads in protest against the killing but the police reached the spot and cleared the road after about four hours.
Further investigations are on.
An engineering graduate today began a cycling campaign from Salem to Chennai to create awareness about road safety and evil effects of alcohol addiction.
Highlighting the objectives of the campaign, the enterprising graduate, Nandakumar said pamphlets focusing on road safety and the menace of liquor addiction would be distributed.
Incessant rains for the second consecutive day today led to better inflow into the dams in Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts.
The Courtallam waterfalls here also got copious water.
The Papanasam dam got an inflow of 300 cusecs while Manimutharu and Kadananathi dams got 75 cusecs and 60 cusecs respectively, officials said.