Month: June 2012

2-year-old boy stolen by co-passenger in train

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A two-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh was allegedly stolen from her mother’s custody by a co-passenger at Bandra terminus here, police said today.

According to police, Puja Singh (20), a resident of Loni in Uttar Pradesh, traveled from Delhi to Mumbai in a train and reached Bandra terminus railway station last evening.

“During the journey, a woman who introduced herself as Niha (30), had befriended Puja Singh,” said a police officer at Nirmal Nagar police station.

–Agencies

26/11: NIA files FIR against Jundal, Kagazi

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday registered an FIR against Abu Jundal, the handler of ten Pakistani terrorists who attacked Mumbai in 2008, for his role in the carnage.

As per reports, the NIA also booked another suspect Fayag Kagazi, besides Jundal, for hatching the 26/11 attacks conspiracy and aiding the Pakistan-trained terrorists.

Jundal was recently arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in connection with terrorism related cases.

He remains in the custody of the Delhi Police.

India not to share info on Abu Jundal with Pakistan

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India will not share with Pakistan any information related to Syed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal who was arrested by the Delhi Police for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, sources in the Home Ministry said today.

Zaibuddin is being interrogated by law enforcement agencies and the ministry does not want its investigations hampered in any manner by sharing such information with Pakistan.

–Agencies

Don’t link leadership issue with Telangana: Botsa

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Stating that the Congress High Command would resolve the Telangana issue soon, Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Thursday appealed to party leaders not to link the leadership issue in the State to Telangana statehood demand.

Talking to media persons, Botsa Satyanarayana said that the leadership issue has nothing to do with the demand for Telangana state. “There is no point in linking the Telangana issue with the change in leadership issue,” he said.

Ram Jeth Malani against Pranab’s candidature

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Noted criminal advocate Ram Jeth Malani on Thursday stated that he would not support the candidature of UPA candidate Pranab mukherjee for the Presidential elections.

Talking to media persons at a private hotel, Ram Jethmalani accused Mukherjee of supporting the emergency during Indira Gandhi’s regime and responsible for the excesses and atrocities. When his nomination was announced, it reminded me of black days during the emergency period, he said.

Indonesia Islamic Parties Lose Popularity

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Fails to consider religious concerns of supporters, Indonesian Islamic parties are losing popularity. People are turning instead to social Muslim groups to fulfil their aspirations, a new survey has found as reported in Jakarta Post, Wednesday, June 27.

“Islamic parties need to consolidate to regain their existence in politics,” Umar S. Bakry, executive director of the National Survey Institute said, The Jakarta Post reported Wednesday, June 27.

“Otherwise the remaining parties will collapse like the others.”

A border shrine unites Indians, Pakistanis

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Despite the chill in India-Pakistan relations, thousands of people gathered Thursday on both sides of the border for a week-long fair in memory of a saint revered in both countries.

The Chamliyal Mela is held at a shrine about 50 km south of Jammu right on the border.
It is an event that has been held for some 200 years, starting from the fourth Thursday of June.

Baba Chamliyal, as the holy man was called, has devoted followers on both sides of the border.

Reduce petrol price by Rs7.50 per litre: BJP

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BJP on Thursday expressed disappointment at the cut of just Rs2.46 per litre in price of petrol and demanded that it should be slashed by Rs7.50, the amount by which it was hiked recently.

“When the international price of petroleum was $120 per barrel, the government increased the prices here in domestic market but when prices went down to $80 they continued with the earlier prices,” BJP spokesperson Tarun Vijay said.

He said the measure of decreasing petrol prices by Rs2.46 was not an “honest” one by the government.

US top court upholds Obama’s signature healthcare law

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In a historic verdict, the US Supreme Court Thursday upheld President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, handing him a major victory in the run-up to the November presidential poll.

In a split 5-4 decision, the court upheld the law’s central provision requiring all people to have health insurance beginning 2014 or pay a fine, saying that while people could not be forced to buy insurance the proposed penalty could be imposed as a tax.

Pregnancy killing a million girls every year: Report

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Pregnancy has emerged as the biggest killer across the globe for teenage girls, with a million teenagers dying annually, a report by international voluntary organisation Save the Children said here Thursday.

The report, ‘Every Woman’s Right’ said: “Girls under the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in pregnancy than women in their 20s. Babies born to younger mums are also at far greater risk and around one million babies born to adolescent girls die every year.”

Comedy of Error: Urdu caused confusion in Sarabjit, Surjeet

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Pakistan media ignorance turned Surjeet Singh into Sarabjit Singh, but now the fact has been revealed and its nothing but spelling in Urdu as highlighted by Mumbai’s one of the top news portal DNA, on Thursday 28th June 2012.

But by the time Pakistan government realised the import of what had happened, the Indian media had turned it into the hot news of the day.

The world laughs at Pakistan for an error that turned into sorrow the joy of one Indian family and vice versa.

Surjeet also shone some light on how the misunderstanding must have happened reported DNA.

Ruling of Jagan ‘s Bail petition posted to July 4

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Arguments on the bail petition of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy concluded in the High Court on Thursday. The court reserved its orders for July 4.

While Jagan was represented by Supreme Court senior lawyer and former Union minister Ram Jethmalani, the CBI was represented by another eminent jurist and Supreme Court former judge Ashok Bhan.

Congress TDP Lost footing in Telangana : KTR

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TRS leader and Sircilla MLA K T Rama Rao has said that both the ruling Congress and the main Opposition TDP were fast losing their very existence in the Telangana region.

Talking to the media at Yellareddyguda on Thursday, KTR said that recent by-election results have proved this beyond doubt. He argued that people of the region no longer believing the sweet talk of leaders of these parties. He said that leaders of the two parties from the Telangana region should now either bring pressure on the Union government for announcing Telangana or close the shop in the region.

13 IAS Ofiicers transferred

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The State government has transferred 13 IAS officers and given postings to 11 of them. Services of K. Pradeep Chandra, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of A.P. State Warehousing Corporation are withdrawn from Agriculture & Cooperation Department and posted as Principal Secretary of Industries and Commerce Department and CIP, Hyderabad in the existing vacancy. Dr. Vijay Kumar, who is waiting for posting is posted as Commissioner & IG, Registration & Stamps in the existing vacancy. Rajat Kumar, who is awaiting posting, is posted as Commissioner, Tourism vice Sabyasachi Ghosh transferred.

Bihar to computerise jails

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Bihar has roped in the National Informatics Centre(NIC) to develop a software to computerise all prisons.

“NIC is developing a software for the computerization of prisons and to upload all data. It will be in our hands within six months,” Inspector General of Police (Prisons) Anand Kishore said here.

The software will be launched at the Beur Jail here as a pilot project followed by 54 other jails in the state, Kishore told IANS.

Shed fear, invest in Afghan opportunity: India

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India Thursday unveiled its vision of promoting economic rejuvenation and stability of Afghanistan by asking companies from the region to invest in that country in the spirit of solidarity, despite the risks, and called for CEOs to replace generals to lead the country’s reconstruction.

“We need to offer a narrative of opportunity to counter the anxiety of withdrawal, uncertainty, instability and foreign interference,” External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told the first regional conclave organised in India to encourage private sector investment in Afghanistan.

What is Islam?

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What is Islam?:

The name of the religion is Islam, which comes from an Arabic root word meaning “peace” and “submission.” Islam teaches that one can only find peace in one’s life by submitting to Almighty God (Allah) in heart, soul and deed. The same Arabic root word gives us “Salaam alaykum,” (“Peace be with you”), the universal Muslim greeting.

Who is a Muslim?:

India pushes Afghanistan’s economic rejuvination

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* India June 28 hosted the first regional investment summit in New Delhi to promote Afghanistan’s economic rejuvenation and stability by encouraging private sector investment from across the region. External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna called for “replacing generals with CEOs”.

* The conclave was organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and was supported by the governments of India and Afghanistan.

NIA moves court for Hamza’s custody

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Thursday moved a Delhi court seeking custody of Abu Jindal Hamza, alias Zabiuddin Ansari, a key suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

The NIA filed the application for custody of Hamza before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, who would next take up the matter July 4.

—-IANS—

Woman kills minor daughter in Maharashtra

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In a shocking incident, a woman here Thursday slashed the throat of her four-year-old daughter while she was sleeping, police said.

Sheela Bhake, 35, is on the run since the incident, said area police station chief W.T. Wandre.

The incident came to light when Vaishali’s 11-year-old brother Abhishek woke up and found her body in a pool of blood around 8 a.m. in their house.

Vaishali’s throat was slashed and her chest was apparently hit with an iron rod, police said.

Assam floods toll 18 dead, 2,500 train passengers still stranded

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Heavy rainfall in Assam has killed at least 18 people till Thursday, even as over 2,500 passengers in four trains continued to be stranded for the third day as heavy landslides blocked tracks and cut off parts of southern Assam.

Announcing the floods damage, Assam Agriculture Minister Nilamoni Sen Deka said a total of 850,000 people and about 70,000 hectares of cropland have been affected so far by floods in the state.

Petrol price cut by Rs 2.46 a litre from the midnight

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Petrol price was cut today by Rs 2.46 per litre, the second reduction this month.

Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 67.78 a litre with effect from midnight tonight as against Rs 70.24 a litre, three oil marketing companies announced today.

State-owned oil firms, which had last month hiked petrol price by a massive Rs 7.54 a litre, had on June 3 cut rates by Rs 2.02 per litre.

US court absolves Union Carbide of liability in Bhopal tragedy

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In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims at the firm’s former chemical plant in Bhopal.

US district judge John Keena in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit accusing the company of causing soil and water pollution around the Bhopal plant due to the disaster, and ruled that Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) and Anderson were not liable for remediation or pollution-related claims.

Surjeet Singh confesses being a spy

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Minutes after stepping on home soil after spending over 30 years in Pakistani jails, Surjeet Singh admitted that he was a Indian spy sent to Pakistan.

“I was a RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) agent. No one bothered for me after I got arrested. Dona’t ask me too much…..otherwise the BSF (Border Security Force) will get annoyed,” he told media just after his arrival here.

Within seconds of his making this statement, BSF officials sitting besides him took him away to a room for a briefing.