Gali Nagaraja Seven people were killed and many others were injured when a bus carrying around 30 pilgrims overturned in West Bengal’s Hooghly district Sunday, police said.
The accident occurred when the speeding bus lost control and overturned, said a police officer.
The injured passengers have been admitted to the Burdwan Medical College and Hospital. The condition of some is critical, the officer said.
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An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to death for killing a policeman.
The court in Rawalpindi Saturday also imposed a fine of Rs.100,000 on Kashif Hussain for killing policeman Ashiq Hussain and injuring two other police officials during a raid at a hideout of suspected car thieves in May 2011, the Dawn reported Sunday.
The man was charged with murder and possession of illegal weapons. He was also wanted in a vehicle theft case in May 2011.
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Maintaining strong opposition to entering politics as it is “full of dirt”, Anna Hazare today claimed that he did not get answers from Arvind Kejriwal-led group on questions raised by him on how to organise a political alternative.
Hazare, who arrived here this morning and met activists to chalk out the next course of action on an apolitical anti-corruption movement, said the path of “politics is not sacred and it is full of dirt” but the route of agitation is “sacred”.
Information Technology Ministry’s proposal to levy a cess on import of electronic products to create a corpus for development of domestic industry, has been opposed by the Finance Ministry.
While the Planning Commission and the Commerce Ministry have supported the proposal, the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) and the Department of Agriculture have expressed some reservations, sources privy to the development said.
Planning Commission, they said, is of the view that to support electronics sector, a cess may be imposed for 10 years and the quantum of it can be appropriately fixed.
India will showcase its latest air force acquisitions — an indigenous airborne radar plane and a Russian-origin cargo helicopter — at this year’s Air Force Day parade that marks its 80th anniversary, a week from now.
“This year, the Indian Air Force (IAF) completes its 80 years. We will showcase our latest acquisitions such as the indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft and the Mi-17V5 cargo chopper at the Air Force Day parade, Oct 8,” an IAF officer told IANS here Sunday.
Bhutan is to inaugurate its third domestic airport in Gelephu next month.
Two more airports in Bumthang and Trashigang will be relaunched next month, the national newspaper Kuensel reported. The airports would be serviced by national carrier Drukair, which also operates its only international flights from Paro, the gateway to the mystical Buddhist nation that is seeking to keep a fine balance between modernisation and tradition.
With a population of just over 650,000, Bhutan is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by China. India is its main trade partner.
The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that “it is contemplating foolproof methods” to ensure that electronic voting machines (EVMs) are not misused or tampered with as is being feared in some quarters.
Appearing for the poll panel before a bench of justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi, senior counsel Ashok Desai said the EC was taking various steps in consultation with technical experts and eliciting the views of all recognised political parties on the issue.
The issue of US visa fee hike, which has hurt several Indian IT firms, is expected to come up for discussion when External Affairs Minister S M Krishna meets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton here tomorrow on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session.
India has “consistently” taken up the issue of the visa fee hike with the US and the issue will figure in talks between Krishna and Clinton, official sources told PTI here.
The US had raised visa fee in 2010 to fund its enhanced costs on securing border with Mexico under the Border Security Act.
Mr. G.Kishan Reddy, State President of BJP has registered a complaint with Cyber Crime police that he received a threat on his face book from a Pakistani national Ikram Shah that he should not make statements about the anti-Muslim film otherwise he has to face dire consequences. He told that the Pakistani National has threatened to kill him.
Mr. Reddy has requested the police to conduct investigations and find out the details of the said person.
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Leaders of Telangana Elders’ Forum, namely; Prof. Keshava Rao Jadhav, Prof. Rama Melkote, Mr. Arifuddin, Prof. Masood Ali Khan, Prof. Vimala, Mr. Hamid Mohammed Khan, Ms. Jyothi, Mr. Mohammed Aliuddin Quadri and others have strongly supported Telangana March which is being held today. They have appealed to the people to maintain peace and attend the programme in large numbers. We should not allow any body to disrupt the peace of the city. They have also requested the Telangana leaders of the Congress Party to attend the programme in large numbers to make it a grand success.
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Hyderabad is going to host U.N.O’s Bio-diversity International Conference which begins tomorrow.
As part of the conference, a session on Cartagena protocol on Bio-diversity will be held and after that the meeting of the partners on Biological Diversity will starts which will be held from 1st to 5th October.
Mr. Chandrasekhara Rao, TRS Chief met Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad and demanded to form Telangana State as early as possible.
In connection with Bangalore Terrorist Attack case, Bangalore Police brought Obaidur Rahman and his companion Mohammed Akram to Hyderabad from Bangalore and raided two Internet centers in the city. Bangalore Police produced these two youths before the local magistrate in Bangalore. On completion of their two days additional period of custody, Obaidur Rahman was given in judicial custody for 14 days and Mohammed Akram was shifted to Maharastra in a case registered in Aurangabad.
An old leg injury has forced Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to remain mostly indoors for the past two weeks and now an ayurvedic treatment is expected to put him well back on his feet.
Since Sep 16, Chandy is troubled by his nagging leg injury caused by a fall in Davos, Switzerland, in 2006, when he was headed for the World Economic Forum meeting.
Battering at the hands of YSR Congress in successive by-elections notwithstanding, Congress in Andhra Pradesh does not feel the need to approach rebel Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and suggests any effort for a rapprochement should come from his side.
It also attributes the triumph of YSR Congress in the June by-elections to “sympathy” towards late YS Rajasekhara Reddy and the arrest of his son Jaganmohan Reddy in disproportionate assets case while asserting that the party is not afraid of facing anyone at the hustings.
Tension prevailed in parts of Hyderabad as hundreds of pro-Telangana activists were reaching the Necklace Road Sunday to participate in a march to demand separate Telangana state.
Telangana protagonists from various parts of Hyderabad and neighbouring districts started reaching the venue on the bank of Hussain Sagar lake in the heart of the city since Sunday morning. Protestors were trying to take out rallies to reach the Necklace Road.
Tension prevailed at Osmania University, the nerve centre of the movement for separate state, as students clashed with police.
With President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit contesting the Lok Sabha by-election from Jangipur in West Bengal, a galaxy of senior Congress leaders and star campaigners will be visiting Bengal to campaign for him.
“Several top leaders of our party will be visiting Jangipur to campaign for Abhijit Mukherjee. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress MP and actor Raj Babbar, Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed, state Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya will also campaign for him,” said Maya Ghosh, a Congress leader.
Pakistan wants a “result-oriented uninterrupted dialogue” with India that will help find a permanent solution to the Kashmir dispute, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari told Kashmiri leader and Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq.
Zardari reiterated Pakistan’s stance to continue support to the Kashmiri cause at a meeting with the Mirwaiz, who heads the moderate faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Jammu and Kashmir, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported Sunday.
Twenty-first century India is no longer Nehru’s India; it is confident, optimistic and on the move, says BJP heavyweight and former union minister Jaswant Singh, but questions whether “it is a civic nation”.
“It is not,” he replies in the same vein.
A complaint has been filed in a court in New Delhi against Bollywood actor-producer Ajay Devgn for allegedly maligning and defaming the Sikhs in his upcoming film Son of Sardar.
The complaint has been filed by Ravinder Singh,who claims to be a member of a Sikh organisation Sikhi Sidak, seeks action against Devgn and the film’s director Ashwini Dhir for hurting religious sentiments of the Sikh community and defaming it.
Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is scheduled to visit Russia next week to give a push to Islamabad’s efforts to improve relations with Moscow ahead of the pull out of foreign troops from Afghanistan.
Kayani during his October 3-6 visit will hold talks with Russia’s top military leadership and is expected to meet some political leaders, defence sources said yesterday.
It is expected that he will also meet President Vladimir Putin, who recently called off a scheduled visit to Pakistan.
At least 16 Taliban militants have been killed in “clean-up” operations in Afghanistan, the interior ministry said Sunday.
Afghan police, army and personnel from the NATO-led coalition forces launched joint operations in Sar-e-Pul, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Wardak, Logar, Herat, Farah, Ghor and Helmand provinces, Xinhua reported.
A total of 22 Taliban militants were arrested.
The ministry did not say if there were any casualties among the security forces.
The Taliban did not make any comment.
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A Sikh woman and her three children have been found dead in their home in Brussels.
The family hailed from Ludhiana in India, the EuAsiaNews reported Sunday.
It was the woman’s husband who made the terrible discovery when he returned home from work Friday. All four victims had their throats cut.
The authorities have confirmed that they are investigating the crime, but have refused to comment further on the case.
The father whom the Belgian media named as Jasbir Singh, 37, was living in Belgium since 15 years and was working in a restaurant.
Iran has unveiled an indigenously built sniper rifle with a range of three kilometres, Xinhua reported.
The Shaaher 14.5-mm-caliber rifle is 185 cm long and weighs 22 kg.
A tactical vehicle called Neinava was also unveiled during a ceremony in Tehran Saturday. Iran Army’S Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan attended the event.
The 2.5-tonne vehicle, which boasts a 240-horsepower engine, is designed to transport troops and equipment.
—IANS
India’s heaviest communication satellite with 30 communication transponders was launched successfully early Saturday by an Ariane-5 rocket from French Guiana in South America, ISRO said.
The GSAT-10 satellite weighting 3,400 kg and India’s 101st space mission “is in good health” and would be operational by November, the Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement here.