Days after Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Kumar indicated action against private companies for allegedly functioning on April 24 and not letting their employees vote in the general polls that day, police today filed FIR against five such firms.
Police said FIRs have been filed against the companies evoking various sections of the IPC and 135(B) 3 of the Representation of Peoples Act.
A married woman and mother of a four-year-old child allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her home in north-west Delhi’s Subhash Place, police said today.
The deceased, identified as Sanjana, 24, was found hanging from the ceiling fan with a dupatta last night following which police was informed and the body was sent for post-mortem, a police official said.
Although police has not recovered any suicide note, Sanjana’s parents alleged that she was being harassed by her husband’s family for dowry ever since her marriage to Sanjeev, a local businessman, in 2009.
The body of Major Mukund Varadarajan, who was killed along with a jawan in an encounter with militants in Shopian district of south Kashmir on Friday, arrived here by a flight tonight.
The coffin draped with the national flag and floral wreaths from senior army officials arrived at the domestic terminal by an Air India flight from Delhi at around 11.45 PM, police said.
Family members received the body, which has been kept at the military hospital at St Thomas Mount.
The cremation is expected to take place at Besant Nagar area here tomorrow with full military honours.
National Conference (NC) patron and Srinagar Lok Sabha candidate Farooq Abdullah said Sunday that Jammu and Kashmir would not remain a part of India if the country becomes communal, while asking those who vote for Narendra Modi to “drown themselves”.
Lashing out at Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate, Abdullah told a party election rally in old city’s Khanyar area that: “Those who say that people opposing Modi should go to Pakistan must remember that if India becomes a communal country, Kashmir would not remain its part.
Taking a dig at Manmohan Singh for his comments that there was no Modi wave, Narendra Modi Sunday said that whatever the prime minister has seen over the last 10 years was through the eyes of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.
“The prime minister told media persons in Guwahati that he does not see a Modi wave. I ask the prime minister, ok, you don’t see a wave. But during the 10 years you were in power, did you see the rising prices, unemployment and corruption?” the BJP prime ministerial candidate said at an election rally here in Hooghly district.
In an all-out attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday accused her of joining hands with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram to save the Saradha scamsters and ruining the state by vote bank politics.
Addressing an election rally in this town of Hooghly district, Modi raised the issue of the multi-crore rupee Saradha scam, promising “no one will be spared” if he came to power at the centre and specifically raising questions about who bought one of Banerjee’s paintings for Rs.1.80 crore.
The verbal spat between the Congress and the BJP grew more strident Sunday with the BJP’s allegations of “corruption under patronage” in land deals of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra evoked a spirited response from his wife Priyanka Gandhi, who accused the party of “running like bewildered rats”.
Ridiculing Rahul Gandhi, BJP’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi Sunday said that for the Congress vice president, poverty was a “matter of fun” as he had never experienced any such thing in his life.
“Those born with a golden spoon don’t know what poverty is. Just as those who have not seen Taj Mahal, go with friends and relatives to see it, similarly Rahul goes to see poverty. For him, poverty is like tourism,” Modi said at a rally here.
“Because he wonders what poverty is, he goes to see poverty and takes along the media. For him, the poor are only a means to gain votes.”
India successfully test-fired an anti-ballistic missile on Sunday capable of intercepting targets outside the earth’s atmosphere, a major step in development of a missile defence system that is available to only a handful of nations.
Sharing borders with nuclear armed China and Pakistan, India is developing a two-tier missile defence system that aims to provide a multi-layered shield against ballistic missile attack.
Abdullah was scheduled to address the rally in Magam town of central Badgam district, 30km from Srinagar.
“Fourteen people were injured in the explosion. Of them, 10 have been taken to hospital,” a police official said, adding that they were investigating the explosion.
Eyewitnesses said some unidentified persons threw a hand grenade causing the explosion.
Earlier, another explosion occurred 50metres from an election rally being addressed by Abdullah in Khanyar area of the state capital.
Twelve country bombs were recovered today from a village near the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, police.
The bombs were found buried in sand in Kuthankuzhi village, they said.
The recovery of the bombs comes two days after 16 bombs were recovered from the same village.
Police said they have intensified search for more bombs in the area as they could be used during clashes between fishermen, which frequently occur in the area.
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Pro-Russian militants in Ukraine today presented a captured team of international observers as “prisoners of war,” raising the stakes in the crisis as US President Barack Obama warned Moscow against “provocation”.
The self-styled mayor of rebel-held Slavyansk, which has become the epicentre of the crisis, led eight European members of an OSCE military inspection mission before scores of local and foreign journalists in the town hall.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday threatened to deport Bangladeshi immigrants if NDA comes to power, saying they were being welcomed with red carpets for vote bank politics.
“I want to warn from here, brothers and sisters write down, that after May 16, will send these Bangladeshis beyond the border with their bags and baggages,” Modi said alleging that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was pursuing vote bank politics.
AAP leader Rakhi Birla today flayed Yoga guru Ramdev over his remarks on Dalits saying he has not only insulted the community but also women of this country and questioned the silence of Narendra Modi and BJP on the issue.
She said BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Modi’s silence on the statement shows how insensitive they are towards women of this country and also their lack of commitment toward the uplift of women.
Union Minister and NC chief Farooq Abdullah today said those who vote for Narendra Modi should “drown” in the sea and also threatened that Kashmir will not remain with India if the country becomes communal. The BJP hit back at Farooq for his remarks that communalism was not acceptable, saying that the country does not need a certificate from the Union minister to become secular.
Trinamool Congress tonight heaped scorn on Narendra Modi, calling him the “Butcher of Gujarat”, in an angry retaliation to his no-holds barred attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“Butcher of Gujarat air-dropped into Bengal. He has no answers to Bengal’s development model. So, making personal attacks,” TMC Spokesperson Derek O”Brien said in a series of tweets lambasting the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate after the latter’s fresh attack on the party supremo at a rally in Serampore earlier in the day.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh today claimed a ‘deal’ has conspired between Robert Vadra and BJP in Rajasthan, just after the saffron party released a video and booklet on an alleged land scam involving Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law.
“You (BJP) run the Rajasthan government, but not a single FIR has been lodged during the last five months. I mean there is a deal between Vasundhara Raje Scindia and Robert Vadra.
There is a deal between BJP and Vadra,” Singh told reporters here today.
Chinese industrial businesses saw their profits rise by 10.1 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2014, official data showed Sunday.
Total profits of industrial companies with annual business revenue of more than 20 million yuan ($3.25 million) reached 1.3 trillion yuan from January to March, Xinhua reported citing the National Bureau of Statistics.
The profits growth accelerated compared with a 9.4-percent increase recorded in the first two months.
India’s exports to West Africa for the period April 2013 to February 2014 totalled around $6 billion, recording a 22.55 percent growth over the past year, a foreign trade performance analysis by the department of commerce under India’s ministry of commerce and industry has revealed.
Nigeria topped the list with Rs.14,526.49 crore as against Rs.13,416.91 crore over the previous period and registered a growth of 8.27 percent. Ghana followed with Rs.4,651.73 crore as against Rs.3,591.09 and registered a 29.54 percent growth.
Delhi Metro Sunday said its engineers will go to Malaysia to improve their skills in underground tunnelling. Delhi Metro also plans to open its own tunnel training academy here.
Delhi Metro has tied up with the Tunnel Training Academy in Kuala Lumpur, and the first batch of its 10 engineers will be there next month.
Delhi Metro managing director Mangu Singh said in a statement that the skills learnt in Malaysia will help the engineers to tunnel 53 km of Metro line in the existing network as well as two new lines.
All this forms Phase III of the Metro network, he said.
Andhra Pradesh Police have received a red corner notice against Rajya Sabha member K.V.P.Ramachandra Rao in the titanium bribery case but since it is not accompanied by a warrant, they are in touch with the CBI, said the state police chief B.Prasada Rao.
Director General of Police (DGP) Prasada Rao told the reporters here Sunday that the Crime Investigation Department (CID) received the red corner notice from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is the nodal agency of the Interpol in the country.
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has scrapped the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Combined Graduate Level Examination for 2013 and ordered re-examination on the ground that the question papers were leaked.
Taking into note the status report Delhi Police filed in the case, that said the SSC CGLE 2013 Tier-I and II exams were leaked from various centres, a bench of CAT members Raj Vir Sharma and Shekhar Agarwal scrapped the examination.
US whistleblower Edward Snowden was officially initiated as the student rector of the University of Glasgow in Scotland Wednesday.
At the rector installation ceremony at the university, Snowden presented his inaugural address via video link to staff and students, Xinhua reported Wednesday.
“In a democracy people have a right to know the policies of their government. This idea that if we believe in something we should stand up for it is what I will follow in my role as rector of the university,” Xinhua quoted Snowden as saying.
Only four percent of parents from the economically and socially backward category in the national capital are aware of the privileges accorded to children under the RTE act, a report said Friday.
The report by Indus Action, an NGO, working towards the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) act said: “Seats reserved for the economically and socially backward students in private unaided schools of Delhi are not being completely utilised due to lower awareness levels, procedural barriers and lack of efforts towards social integration.”
People of Dalit community took to streets in Ludhiana and Jalandhar in Punjab on Sunday to protest against yoga guru Baba Ramdev”s controversial remark on Rahul Gandhi and the community.
Ramdev on Friday had commented that the Congress party”s vice-president Rahul Gandhi visited households of Dalit community for picnics and honeymoon. The remark from Ramdev, who is an avid supporter of the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, was not only seen as a political attack on Rahul Gandhi but also as an insult to the women of Dalit community.