Month: February 2012

An official and six policemen were injured in a communal clash in this Rajasthan district Sunday, police said.

The situation remained tense as police twice baton-charged a crowd of people from two communities clashing with each other.

According to police, the incident took place in Mavli town in Udaipur district, some 400 km fromJaipur.

“A minor tiff took place between a mobile shop owner and two youths, who were participating in a function of a particular community at a nearby school,” said a police officer.

Baba Ramdev envisions a Libya-like popular revolution in India in which the corrupt leaders will be ousted from power like Muammar Gaddafi, the slain long-time ruler of the north African country.

Speaking to reporters here Sunday after his day-long fast against “corruption, black money and illegal mining”, Ramdev also said that one family and one party had been responsible for bankruptcy and looting of India.

“Those corrupt people who are in power, will be wiped off like Gaddafi. Only there, people used violence, while I am advocating democratic means,” Ramdev said.

The airstrike targeted Kapisa’s Tagab district, leaving another four people injured.

The attack comes less than two weeks after another US-led strike killed eight Afghan civilians in the same province. The victims were reportedly bombed twice while herding sheep in the snow.

Afghans have been holding almost six consecutive days of rallies against US-led forces in Afghanistan and the recent desecration of the holy Quran by US troops.

Baba Ramdev envisions a Libya-like popular revolution in India in which the corrupt leaders will be ousted from power like Muammar Gaddafi, the slain long-time ruler of the north African country.

Speaking to reporters here Sunday after his day-long fast against “corruption, black money and illegal mining”, Ramdev also said that one family and one party had been responsible for bankruptcy and looting of India.

“Those corrupt people who are in power, will be wiped off like Gaddafi. Only there, people used violence, while I am advocating democratic means,” Ramdev said.

At least nine people, including four policemen, were injured in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district Sunday after a clash between police and villagers.

“We had detained three people from a village near the Deothar police station on Saturday night regarding a case registered at the police station. However, they were released Sunday morning,” police said adding that after their release, they went back to the village and came back with more men to attack the police station.

Escalating attack on the ruling BSP in Uttar Pradesh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Sunday alleged the state has become a “mascot of corruption” and funds worth crores given by the Centre has vanished under the nose of Chief Minister Mayawati.

“Instead of targeting BSP, opposition parties in UP are busy targeting Congress, however, under the rule of Mayawati the state has become a mascot of corruption,” Sonia said while addressing a rally in Gandhi park of the city.

Banned Indian Mujahideen terror outfit is suspected to be behind the low intensity blast outside the Delhi High Court in May last year.

The NIA, which took over the probe in December last year after the Special Cell of Delhi Police failed to make any headway, has got some leads to suggest that the blast on May 25 last year was a handiwork of the banned terror outfit, official sources said.

The investigations into this blast had virtually slipped into the background after the High Court premises were rocked on September seven by an explosion that left 15 people dead.

Baba Ramdev is considering an appeal against the Supreme Court judgement that blamed him too for the violent crackdown on his supporters in Delhi’s Ramlila ground last year.

Speaking to reporters Sunday at the end of a day-long fast in protest against corruption, black money and illegal mining, Ramdev said he was set to launch a decisive campaign against corruption in March.

“The court was given edited CCTV footage by police which had misguided the Supreme Court… My legal experts are considering an appeal against the verdict,” Ramdev said.

The Delhi High Court has ruled that a wife, though separated, is entitled to maintenance depending on her husband’s financial position.

“A life on alimony is not to be a life different from what the wife would have led if the relationship had not gone sour. The quantum of maintenance inter alia depends upon the status of the husband,” a division bench of acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said.

It rejected the argument that if a husband provides food and shelter after a separation, he owes nothing more to his wife.

Inaugurating the ‘National Youth Integration Camp’ organised by Snehalaya and National Youth Project, Hazare said, “Mentality of the Indian youth is changing rapidly, and the year 2014 would be the year of change. If the youth resolve, they can change the system.”

The next general elections are due on 2014. The anti-corruption crusader, who has been accused by senior Congress leaders of acting at the behest of RSS and BJP, however added that “change of power” was not the goal of his nor his associates.