Cairo, June 28: Wild celebrations erupted in Libya’s besieged rebel-held city of Misrata as the news that the international criminal court had issued an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi spread through the city.
Warrants for arrest over crimes against humanity committed against opponents of the Libyan regime were also issued for Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, and the Libyan intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi.
New Delhi, June 27: Delhiites and DU aspirants had not even got over the 100 per cent cut-off nightmare that an admission racket has been busted at the Central University.
Three people have been arrested for selling fake caste certificates and helping at least 12 students get admissions in top notch colleges in Delhi University including the prestigious SRCC.
A student who scored 94 per cent took the fake route to secure a seat at the college.
New Delhi, June 27: The Income Tax department and Enforcement Directorate have been asked by the government to pull up their socks and expedite disposal of cases related to terror financing in various parts of the country.
This was decided at a meeting chaired by Union Home Secretary G K Pillai where he asked both the departments to immediately inform the Home Ministry when such cases are traced and take immediate action, official sources said.
The meeting was attended by top officials, including ED Chief Arun Mathur and police chiefs of terrorism-affected states.
New Delhi, June 27: DMK leader M K Stalin on Monday met his half-sister and party MP Kanimozhi, arrested in connection with the 2G scam, at Tihar jail here.
Stalin, who flew in from Chennai this morning, met Kanimozhi at the Tihar jail accompanied by DMK Parliamentary Party Leader T R Baalu and MP A K S Vijayan.
The atmosphere was emotionally-charged, and Stalin and Kanimozhi were seen talking to each other for some time in Tamil. The meeting lasted for over 30 minutes.
New Delhi, June 27: Strengthening its capabilities to carry out special operations, the Indian Army is raising a new special forces battalion which will be deployed in the north-eastern sector.
A new battalion of the Parachute Regiment — 11 Para (SF) — is being raised and will be first deployed in the north-eastern sector, Army sources said here.
This will be eighth special forces battalion of the Parachute Regiment and will be deployed in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations in that region, they said.
Lucknow, June 27: A senior TV journalist was allegedly picked up “forcibly” by police in Hazratganj area here on Sunday night.
Shalabh Mani Tripathi, state bureau chief of a Hindi news channel, was picked up by SP (City) BP Ashok and Circle Officer Anup Kumar while he was coming out of his office.
Tripathi alleged that he and his colleague were not only manhandled but also abused by the cops.
“They caught us by the collar. You are mafia and we won’t leave you. They abused not just me, but also the entire media fraternity,” Tripathi said.
London, June 27: China provides a “huge opportunity” for British businesses, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday after meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao here.
Cameron announced trade agreements with China worth 1.4 billion pounds (around $2.2 billion), BBC reported.
The British prime minister hailed what he termed a “deeper dialogue” but said political and economic progress must go hand in hand with respect for human rights.
Human rights was “the best guarantor” of prosperity and stability, Cameron said.
La Paz, June 27: Police say a bus has run off a foggy mountain road in Bolivia, killing at least 28 people.
Police Col. Placido Arroyo tells the radio station Fidels that the bus plunged about 300 feet (about 100 meters) down a ravine on Sunday. It was en route from Villazon near the Argentine border to the city of Tarija.
Arroyo says the cause of the accident is under investigation, but he says there was a dense fog at the time of the crash.
Moscow, June 27: President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday said it was time to rethink the Russian system, with a view to making it freer and less centralised.
“It is completely obvious the centralisation of power in any state and even in such a complex federal state like Russia could not continue forever,” Medvedev told billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, a strong opponent of the dominance of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ruling faction.
Washington, June 27: A 95-year-old cancer-stricken woman was forced to undergo 45 minutes of intrusive pat-down at a US airport, triggering an outrage on the treatment meted out to her.
Lena Reppert was to say her final goodbyes to her daughter before she made what would most likely be her last flight to her native Michigan.
New Delhi, June 27: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday met at a hospital here a Dalit girl who was blinded by her assailants after she resisted rape in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Gandhi arrived at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where the girl has been shifted for treatment, at 10.45 am and spoke to her as well as her family members.
According to official sources, Gandhi also interacted with the team of doctors treating the girl. The doctors told him that the girl has lost vision in one eye and efforts are on to improve the sight in the other.
The Lok Satta Party on Monday demanded that the state government xert pressure on the Union government and get Section 14 (F) deleted from the Presidential Order of 1975.
Lok Satta Party leaders Katari Srinivasa Rao and P Bhaskara Rao pointed out that at the initiative of the Lok Satta, the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution seeking deletion of Section 14 (F) nearly a year ago and sent it to the government of India.
Hyderabad, June 27: Ignoring objections from Telangana groups, the Andhra Pradesh government Monday made it clear that it would go ahead with the recruitment of sub-inspectors of police without deleting a clause that treats Hyderabad as a free zone and allows people from other regions of the state to appear in the test.
Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy told reporters that the written test for recruitment of SIs would be held as scheduled Aug 13 and 14.
Jammu, June 27: A college teacher in Jammu and Kashmir has been arrested for making sex video with his student.
Identifying the accused as Tariq Qyoom Tak (30), the police said that he has been working as a teacher at the Islamia Faridiya Education and Research Institute, a private college at Kishtwar.
Tak was arrested at Vailo in Kokernag area of Anantnag district, where he had fled after the video clip recorded by him got leaked.
New Delhi, June 27: PAC Chairperson Murli Manohar Joshi today said he suspected that the government was tampering with the CAG draft report on KG-D6 Basin and sought to know the reason for the delay in vetting the report.
“The government should make clear whether it had ordered a performance or a special audit. The CAG has pointed out some anomalies in its draft report. I suspect the government is tampering with the report. This should not be done,” he said.
Chennai, June 27: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has said she was against bringing the Prime Minister under the Lokpal”s ambit as it would undermine his authority and pave way for a “parallel government.”
“The Prime Minister should be excluded from the purview of the bill as he is already covered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the CBI can investigate,” she said on Times Now today.
The 65-year-old Phoenix man revealed that he does it to inject some fun to his regular business travels.
A man who was photographed in striking blue spandex underwear during his business trip said he did it “for fun”.
His outfit: A cropped colbat blue top with panties worn under a translucent white cardigen, black stockings, and high heels.
The 65-year-old man from Phoenix, US, revealed that he does it to inject some fun to his regular business travels, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
Lucknow, June 27: Scores of Congress leaders and workers led by UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi were on Monday detained for defying prohibitory orders as they tried to march towards the assembly building here protesting the “spurt” in crimes in UP, a day after the party was denied permission for the demonstration by the Mayawati government.
“This is a coward government which itself has violated law. We will continue to struggle on the issue of atrocities against women and deteriorating law and order situation,” Joshi told reporters as she was detained by the police.
Ara, June 27: A Bihar court today ordered attachment of properties of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray for having failed to appear in connection with a complaint case charging him with publishing a ”contemptuous” article in Sena mouthpiece ”Samana”.
Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Ara, S B M Tripathy ordered issue of warrant for attachment of properties of Thackeray in connection with a complaint lodged by Rajesh Kumar Singh, Advocate on March 7,2008.
Hyderabad, June 27: The Hyderabad Police have arrested an infamous Qazi Ali Abdullah Rafai from the Old city on the charges of forcing a minor girl to perform contract marriage with an Arab Sheikh.
The Police yesterday swooped on Barkha lodge at Talabkatta belonging to 53-year-old Qazi Ali Abdullah Rafai and arrested him on the charges for allegedly forcing to contract marriages of Arab sheiks with poor Muslim girls hailing from Old City.
Mumbai, June 27: (PTI) Senior Maharashtra leaders of the Congress and the NCP, allies that share power both in the state as well as in the Centre, are involved in a war of words over the fuel price hike issue.
First, it was Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar who said on Saturday that his party was against the fuel price rise by the Centre, as it has increased the hardships of the common man.
Kolkata, June 27: After CPM leaders, including Sitaram Yechury, talked of a possible merger with the CPI, the parent party on Monday sounded evasive about it, saying “unity of action” by Communist parties will eventually lead to merger.
“CPI General Secretary shaking hands with CPI(M) General Secretary has nothing to do with the merger of the two parties. So we should concentrate on unity of action,” CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said today.
New Delhi, June 27: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked all chief ministers to reduce state levies on diesel, kerosene and cooking gas to mitigate the impact of the price hike on the common man.
Seeking their co-operation, the finance minister in a letter “urged state governments to reduce levies on diesel, kerosene and domestic LPG line with the duty cuts undertaken by the Centre so as to provide some relief to the common man.”
Lucknow, June 27: Thousands of Congress workers led by Uttar Pradesh party chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi were arrested here Monday for staging a street protest to demand a CBI probe into the alleged murder of deputy chief medical officer Y.S. Sachan.
Sachan was found dead in mysterious circumstances inside a toilet of the Lucknow district jail on June 22.
Islamabad, June 27: At least six people have been killed and seven others injured, in various violent attacks in Pakistan as militancy gains momentum in the volatile state.
Separate gun attacks in different parts of Karachi claimed the lives of three people and injured five others on Sunday, police sources told Press TV.
At least one person was killed and two more wounded in armed clashes between two groups in Bilal Colony area in Karachi’s Korangi town.
Elsewhere, an unidentified man was gunned down near Passport Office in Saddar area of Karachi.