Month: May 2012

Defending his son Sidhartha’s remarks on the woman allegedly molested by an Australian player Luke Pomersbach that have drawn widespread criticism, RCB owner Vijay Mallya said he is not a child and has tweeted his impressions about the “lady’s conduct”.

“He is not a child. He can defend himself. He said what he said. Twitter is a global forum and he has been tweeting
for a while and he has his set of followers,” Mallya senior told NDTV when asked whether his son’s tweets were
appropriate.

Security forces today recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Kandi forest area in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, a defence spokesman said.

The seizure included an AK 56 Rifle, its one magazine with 18 rounds, an Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL) with
eight rounds, five rockets with a booster, four electric detonator, 14 IED Circuits and five Chinese grenades, the
spokesman said.

The recovery was made on a specific information from Kandi forest, about 100 kms from here, during a joint search

Cadres of the armed militant outfits have joined criminal gangs in Assam, leading to recent spurt in petty crimes across the state, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said here Friday.

“All the militant outfits in Assam, barring two, have signed ceasefire agreements with the government. Now, after the outfits have shunned violence and responded to our peace efforts, some of the cadres have joined criminal gangs. This has led to an increase in petty crimes such as extortion, kidnappings and murder in the state,” Gogoi said.

The largest body of Muslim scholars in India today put the rights of women on its discussion table and decided to take up actively the issue of inheritance rights for the fairer sex in the country.

The members of the Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind met for a general body meeting in the capital today to discuss the issues that need their attention and agreed that ensuring rights for women was among the priority areas.

Inheritance rights, particularly in the case of farm lands, need to be guaranteed for women, the scholars said as

Two groups of the Shia community fought pitched battles outside Lucknow’s famous Bada Imambara, exchanged blows and set on fire a vehicle Friday.

The violence broke out after the weekly Friday prayers when a group of supporters of Waseem Rizvi, the president of the Shia Waqf Board, made some snide comments against Shia cleric and member of the All-India Mulsim Personal law Board Kalbe Jawwad.

This ignited sentiments and Jawwad’s supporters starting pelting stones and attacked Rizvi’s vehicle.

A stink in the Rajya Sabha again Friday forced the upper house to be adjourned twice for nearly half an hour.

A week after half of the question hour was disrupted because of a “sewage gas-like smell”, some members complained of “foul smell of burning” which forced the house to be adjourned Friday.

As a private member’s bill on formation of Telangana state was being raised and treasury and opposition benches were engaged in a verbal duel over the issue, Congress member Alka Balram Kshatriya raised an alarm about a burning smell.