General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Saturday said that the assault on Sarabjit Singh was a planned move, and similar to the earlier attack on Chamel Singh, who was killed. Rudy recalled that Chamel Singh was similarly attacked in a Lahore jail, and when his body was returned, some parts of his body was missing. Rudy said:” Till date we do not know the exact reason for his death.
For a week, the media eagerly lapped up the criticism hurled at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi by Kerala’s rival fronts ahead of his visit to the abode of social reformer Sree Narayana Guru. In the end, it was Modi who had the last laugh.
“We should thank both the Left and the Congress-led front’s for their frequent outbursts against Modi. Due to that, he got the maximum publicity and his visit to the state was a grand success,” BJP leader George Kurian claimed.
The asset value of Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has increased four times than that of his wife Shilpa Shettar, but he is literally indebted to her and brother Pradip Shettar, going by the affidavit filed by him along with his nomination papers here.
Shettar, seeking a fifth win from a constituency here in the May five Assembly polls, has a loan of Rs. 18.97 lakh, the affidavit said. He has to pay Rs 7.51 lakh to his family members and Rs 4.5 lakh to brother Pradip Shettar. He has taken a loan of Rs. 6.96 lakh from his wife as well.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists here have lodged a strong protest over the incursion by Chinese troops in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region. Holding anti-China placards, BJP activists marched through the streets of Poonch demanding a thorough probe into the ground realities along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. The president of the Jammu unit of the Bharatiya Jana Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of BJP, Ravinder Raina, asked why Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was doing nothing other than tweeting on this intrusion by the Chinese. “He (Abdullah) doesn’t have guts.
The brutal abduction, rape and torture of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, has once again put the spotlight on rampant child abuse and abysmal enforcement of child protection laws in India. In New Delhi alone, 14 children go missing everyday, and nationwide, a majority of India”s 440 million children are subjected to some form of sexual abuse. Families of victims and experts said failings in the police and health services means most kidnappers and abusers often escape punishment. Azhar, the father of a missing girl, resides in a slum area of North Delhi.
Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf is facing threat of a terrorist attack during his appearances in courts.
The interior ministry dispatched a letter to the law ministry, underlining threats Musharraf is facing from various terrorist outfits.
According to the News, in the letter the ministry also said that an explosive-laden vehicle was found near Musharraf’s farmhouse, which has been declared a sub-jail.
The interior ministry said that Musharraf’s movement provided a golden opportunity to terrorist to go ahead with their plans.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reportedly been considering a proposal to include veteran middle-order batsman Younis Khan in the list of 30 probables for the ICC Champions Trophy, from which a 15-member Pakistan squad will be announced by the end of this month. According to sources, Khan, who has a considerable experience of 253 ODIs in which he has scored 7,014 runs at 31.88 average, may be considered in place of injured paceman Umar Gul, for the eight-nation tournament to be held in England from June 6, The Dawn reports.
Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, was Saturday advised rest by a doctor here after she complained of uneasiness and chest pain.
“She has high blood pressure (110/160), chest pain and breathing difficulty. I have advised her rest. We are monitoring her health,” the doctor treating her said.
In an incident occurred in Chaderghat police station limits, a man got seriously injured in gas leak in a house near Azampura ground. It is said that 48 year old Mohammed Sheeraz lit the cigarette after reaching his house. As soon as he lit the cigarette it caught fire as a result the man got seriously injured.
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A group of Pakistan’s military officers have protested, before a parliamentary panel, the treatment being meted out to former president Pervez Musharraf, a media report said Saturday.
The delegation of 75 officers from Command and Staff College, Quetta, led by Col. Saqib Ali Cheema, met the chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production Mushahid Hussain Sayed at the parliament house to express concern over Musharraf’s arrest, reported Dawn.
CBI has registered a fresh case against a Chhattisgarh-based company in connection with alleged misrepresentation of facts while applying for coal blocks and carried out searches at 11 locations across the country.
CBI sources said here today that Pushp Steel and Mines Ltd and several of its directors including Atul Jain and Sanjay Jain have been named in the new FIR taking the total number of cases in the coal allocation to 11.
Eleven people were killed and over 40 injured when a bomb went off near an election office of the Awami National Party here on Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks by the Taliban on secular political parties ahead of Pakistan’s general election.
The bomb exploded just as senior ANP leader Bashir Jan arrived in Mominabad area to address an election meeting.
Jan, who has been targeted by the Taliban several times, escaped unhurt though his car was damaged by the blast.
(Abu Aimal’s report): As the marriage of the daughter come closer, the entire household including the servant, are worried about her departure and the life they have to spend without her. Even the girl is in tears, as she would be separated with her parents.
This is not the script of a film but a reality where we take to a village Goraipally Mandal in Yadgirgutta where G Madhav Reddy and his wife Laxmi Reddy and their daughter (hold your breath) Farzana, 22 are living together.
Indian national Sarabjit Singh was in a “deep coma” and put on ventilator support after being assaulted by a group of prisoners in a Pakistani jail, with doctors today saying that they will not be able to perform surgery on him till his condition stabilises.
Sarabjit, 49, was in an Intensive Care Unit of the state-run Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, where he was admitted yesterday after being brutally beaten by at least six other prisoners within his barrack at the Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Secretary of the US Air Force Michael Donley is to step down and return to private life, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced in a statement.
Hagel said that Donley has been “an invaluable adviser during my first two months as secretary of defense and has been an outstanding leader of the air force for nearly five years”, reported Xinhua.
He added that Donley served during “a challenging time for the air force” and “helped instil a culture of responsibility, initiative, and professionalism to the service”.
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US President Barack Obama promised Friday an in-depth investigation into the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, and said if that proves to be the case, it will change his “calculus” about how to deal with the crisis in the Middle Eastern country.
Use of chemical weapons in Syria would bring “increased urgency to what is already a significant security problem and humanitarian problem in the region”, Obama said in a brief joint press appearance with visiting Jordanian King Abdullah II.
The toll in the building that collapsed Wednesday in the outskirts of this Bangladesh capital rose to 328 Saturday, media reports said.
Fourteen people were pulled out alive and 13 bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble of the eight-storeyed building Saturday morning, raising the toll to 328, reported the Daily Star.
The building, “Rana Plaza”, collapsed around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday and since then rescuers have been trying to extricate those still buried under the debris.
With Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in coma at a Lahore hospital after being fatally assaulted by fellow prisoners, his family members in Punjab said Saturday that they wanted to leave for Pakistan immediately to take care of him.
Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur, who has been spearheading the campaign for his release from Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat prison, and his wife and two daughters, arrived here Saturday morning from their hometown Bhikhiwind, 50 km from here.
The Indian High Commission has been granted consular access to death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh who was admitted to a Lahore hospital Friday after a murderous attack on him by fellow prisoners in Kot Lakhpat jail, a media report said.
The India High Commission has been granted consular access to Sarabjit Singh, reported Geo TV quoting the Foreign Office spokesman.
ISarabjit suffered critical head injuries in the assault Friday.
A case of attempt to murder has been registered against the two prisoners who viciously attacked Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail, a media report said.
A case of attempt to murder has been registered against main accused Aamir and Mudassar, reported the News International.
Sarabjit suffered critical head injuries in the assault Friday.
The assault on Sarabjit comes a few months after the death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh in the same Kot Lakhpat jail after he was allegedly assaulted by jail staff.
A medical board has been constituted to treat Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh who was admitted to the ICU of Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital after a murderous attack on him by fellow prisoners in Kot Lakhpat jail on Friday, a media report said.
“A high-powered medical board has been constituted to treat the patient,” Allama Iqbal Medical College Principal Mahmood Shaukat told Dawn.
The board includes neurosurgeon Anjum Habib Vohra, neuro-physician Naeem Kasuri and Zafar Chaudhry.
Shaukat said Sarabjit’s condition was critical.
It seems Arshad Warsi has taken a liking to cycling for fitness, and even as a means to spend more time with his kids.
“Bought cycles and trikkes for Zeke, Zene and myself. Going to try and cycle as much as I can,” Arshad tweeted along with a picture of his chic cycle.
A trikke is a three-wheeled scooter-like vehicle.
In 2011, superstar Shah Rukh Khan was spotted accompanying his daughter Suhana for a cycle ride. Who knows Arshad, Bollywood’s ‘Circuit’, will be seen doing the same soon.
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Actor Emraan Hashmi, who has carved a niche for himself in his ten-year Bollywood career, says he is happy to get his due after having created a new genre of mainstream films in the industry.”As an actor I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me as the audience had accepted me.
I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way,” Emraan told .
“I think, slowly I started getting my due. I am very happy that filmmakers like Vishal Bharadwaj and Karan Johar have started approaching me.”
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has warned museums, individuals and other bodies against promoting fake relics of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
“The Prophet (pbuh) died more than 1,400 years ago and there is no solid evidence that the so-called relics belonged to him,” he said.
Al-Asheikh warned against accusing people of bribery and promoting rumors about them. “Accusing people without proof is impermissible,” he said.
CBI’s embarrassing admission before the Supreme Court Friday that its draft status report on the coal scam was shared with the government put the ruling UPA in a political quagmire and the opposition baying for blood of both the prime minister and the law minister.
The government, which is already battling a combined opposition onslaught on the coal scam in Parliament paralysed over this and on the JPC report on 2G scam, also faced fresh charges that it was in a mood for “confrontation”.