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Lucknow, July 02: Chief Minister Mayawati’s attempt to bypass the opposition and foist a tainted bureaucrat as the Chief Information Commissioner has created turmoil leading to the High Court issuing a notice to the government.

Recently Mining Secretary Ranjeet Singh Pankaj was handpicked by the government. However, when a PIL was filed in the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court on Monday he was hurriedly administered oath of office by Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh instead of the Governor.

New Delhi, July 02: Muslim community leaders have come out in opposition of the DHC judgement. “It is wrong to legalise homosexuality. We will not accept any such law,” reacted Jama Masjid Imam Ahmed Bukhari. He was critical of the government’s role in this. “If the government makes such attempt to scrap Section 377, we will oppose it strongly.”

Mumbai, July 02: The Reserve Bank today said the country’s wholesale price-based inflation and industrial production data should be improved and employment data availed for effective monetary policy management.

“There is scope for significant improvement in the construction of WPI … there is much more to data analysis than simple mathematical formulation between inflation and rate cuts,” RBI governor D Subbarao said while speaking at the statistics day conference here.

Islamabad, July 02: There were 585 Indian prisoners including nine juveniles in Pakistan jails, according to a report in leading and credible daily Dawn. The paper quoted diplomatic sources to say that the list contained names of 535 fishermen, 41 civilians and nine juveniles being held in different jails of the country.

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Mumbai, July 02: The morning commuters suffered badly in Mumbai on Thursday after the city’s lifeline, its local train service, was hit following a technical snag.

The rush hour traffic was disrupted after an overhead electric wire snapped at Mulund station.

Train services on one track were suspended, which affected traffic in the central section.

–Agencies

New Delhi, July 02: The Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Thursday on the controversial penal provision on homosexuality even as the government is grappling with the option to scrap it from the statute.

A bench of Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Muralidhar had reserved its order on November 7 last year after marathon proceedings in which the governemnt had vociferously opposed scrapping of section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which prescribes punishment upto life imprisonment for indulging in unnatural sexual acts.

New Delhi, July 01: If the Election Commission has its way, BMC may soon stop accepting your property tax payment, power utilities may not accept your bill payments, mobile companies and internet service providers may refuse you a connection, cooking gas companies may not give you a refill, banks may not let you open an account, you may not get rations – all if you cannot prove you are on the photo-roll of voters.

Mumbai, July 01: If the building you stay in or own in Mumbai is 30 years or older, you will have to get a structural audit for your building done as soon as possible. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has issued a public notice to the effect from the civic commissioner Jairaj Phatak’s office.

Chennai, July 01: A day after the sensational revelation by justice R Regupathi of the Madras High Court that a Union minister had tried to “strongly influence” him into granting bail to two persons accused in a forged mark sheet case, a section of lawyers reacted strongly and sought the unnamed minister’s dismissal.

The anticipatory bail application came up for hearing before justice Regupathi on Monday and the judge lost his cool when counsel for the petitioners complained that he was “passing orders” on the basis of the prosecution’s submission alone.