Month: April 2014

Judicial custody for driver in Gurgaon hit-and-run case

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The driver of the city bus that mowed down a doctor and his five-year-old daughter was sent to judicial custody Saturday, police said.

Accused Harish Singh was presented before the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Kuwad Guglani Saturday and was sent to 14 days judicial custody, Deputy Commissioner of Police Nazneen Bhasin told IANS.

Singh was Friday re-arrested from Delhi’s Najafgarh area where he was living with his family after police booked him for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, a non-bailable offence.

Repolling in one Bengal booth Sunday

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Repolling will be held in one booth Sunday in West Bengal’s Malda district following an electronic voting machine (EVM) error during Thursday’s polls, a Election Commission official said Saturday.

“Repolling has been scheduled in the Malda South parliamentary constituency due to EVM error during Thursday’s polls,” Amit Ray Chaudhury, officer on special duty in the chief electoral officer’s office, told reporters here.

Court notice to YouTube, Facebook over Owaisi speech

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A court here Saturday issued notice to YouTube, Facebook and a TV channel on a plea by a lawyer seeking permanent restraint on an alleged hate speech by Andhra Pradesh legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, saying it was hurting the sentiments of various religious communities.

Advocate Amit Sahni told civil judge Vikrant Vaid that the alleged speech hate speech was being continuously broadcast by YouTube and it was hurting the sentiments of religious communities.

He sought a permanent restraint on the video, saying it was easily visible and accessible to every common man.

Sonia, Rahul, Modi to address rallies in Himachal

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Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to hold election rallies in Himachal Pradesh next week, party leaders said Saturday.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will address her first public meeting and canvass for the party candidates in Kullu town, some 250 km from Shimla, state vice president and former minister Harsh Mahajan told IANS.

A day before her visit, party vice president Rahul Gandhi would address two public meetings – at Bilaspur and Solan towns.

Modi will address three public rallies in the state April 29.

Polling officials arrested over rigging in Assam

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Two days after the final phase of the Lok Sabha polls in Assam, police Saturday arrested six people, including the presiding officer, four colleagues and a polling agent of a political party, over allegations of casting of votes under influence, officials said.

The incident of rigging took place at polling station No.35 at Bornijora L.P. School in Jalukbari assembly segment of the Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency.

Re-polling in the booth will be held Monday, according to the orders of the Election Commission.

Rahul again hits out at Gujarat development model

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Lashing out yet again at the Gujarat model of development, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Saturday said BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was claiming credit for the work of other people.

Gandhi also alleged that Modi favoured only one industrialist in the state.

“There is a partnership between Modi and Adani,” he alleged, asserting that all senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders like L.K. Advani, now-expelled Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Sushma Swaraj were sidelined for Modi’s partnership with Adani.

Congress, NCP threaten to ban Ramdev in Maharashtra

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The Congress and NCP Saturday strongly protested against Baba Ramdev’s comments on Rahul Gandhi, with both parties threatening to ban the yoga guru from entering Maharashtra.

“The daughters of Dalits are not stranded without shelter. Ramdev has insulted the entire Dalit community,” said Nationalist Congress Party executive president Jitendra Awhad.

He termed Ramdev’s statement that Rahul Gandhi visits the homes of Dalits for honeymoon and picnic as “shocking”.

Congress alone can develop Telangana: Manmohan Singh

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday claimed that formation of Telangana state was not possible without the Congress and said that it is only the party which can take the new state on the path of development and prosperity.

“I want to assure that your struggle and sacrifices for formation of Telangana state will not go in vain. We will together make a Telangana state which the whole country will be proud of,” he told an election rally in Bhongir in Nalgonda district, about 50 km from here.

Delhi Daredevils to nurture cricketing talent in Dubai

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As part of their endeavour to promote cricket and identify and nurture talent at the grassroot level, Delhi Daredevils will be associating with UAE-based G Force Cricket Academy to train budding talent in the city.

In a first of its kind initiative, the Daredevils support staff would be holding five-day clinics in the country spread over the next one year.

Kim, Kanye to have three weddings

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Socialite Kim Kardashian and singer Kanye West will get married as many as three times!

The duo will tie the knot first in Southern California and then twice in France, reports radaronline.com.

“Typically, the US recognizes citizens getting married in France, but dealing with a foreign government and paperwork could be a nightmare. So just to make sure it’s legal, Kim and Kanye will first be having a civil ceremony in Southern California,” said a source.

Man jailed for causing death of Indian-origin woman in UK

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A man has been jailed for two years for causing the death of an Indian-origin woman in Britain after she finished her relationship with him.

Stalker Ryan Dey was arrested in November last year, a month after the death of 29-year-old Kamaljit Sidhu in Birmingham.

Dey was accused of harassing and stalking his former girlfriend for several months before she leaped from a bridge to her death.

Birmingham Crown Court was told how lorry driver Dey had been seeing Sidhu for around 18 months when she tried to end the relationship last October.

No achievement of Congress in Himachal: BJP MP Anurag Thakur

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The Congress government in Himachal Pradesh did not have any development model and was not able to “digest” the good work done by the previous BJP governments, BJP parliamentarian Anurag Thakur said Saturday.

“The Congress can’t list out a single achievement in its last 15-month tenure. It is not able to digest the good work done by the BJP governments which made the state famous at the international level,” Thakur said at an election rally in this town, part of the Hamirpur parliamentary constituency from where he is re-contesting.

‘Partition impacted on several languages’

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Languages are fluid, ever changing with cultural exchanges, getting crushed during political turmoil, yet connecting with people from different sides of the border, said literary experts Saturday while discussing the impact of partition on languages like Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi and Sindhi.

Knight Riders elect to bowl against Kings XI

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Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to field against Kings XI Punjab in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium here Saturday.

Squads:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Jacques Kallis, Gautam Gambhir (captain), Manish Pandey, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Suryakumar Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Morne Morkel.

Ramdev apologises for his ‘honeymoon’ comment

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Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday clarified his comment that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi went to the houses of Dalits for a ‘honeymoon and for picnics’.

“If any section of the society feels hurt from the use of this word (honeymoon), I duly apologise for it,” said Ramdev.

Compensation for families of poll staff killed in Jharkhand

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The families of eight people, who were killed in a landmine blast in Jharkhand’s Dumka district Thursday on their way back from a polling booth, would get Rs 20 lakh each as compensation, an official statement said.

“The kin of five security personnel and three polling staff killed during election duty April 24 will be given Rs 20 lakh each. The district administration has sent a proposal in this regard,” the district authorities said in the statement Saturday.

Five people were also injured in the attack when the bus they were travelling in hit a landmine planted by the Maoists.
(IANS)

Four killed in Afghanistan suicide attack

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At least four people were killed and seven others injured Saturday in a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan.

“A terrorist detonated his explosive-laden rickshaw next to a police van in Ghazni city killing four people including himself, two police and a civilian,” deputy provincial police chief Assadullah Insafi told Xinhua.

Seven people, including four policemen and three civilians, sustained injures in the attack, and some of them are in critical condition, he added.

The official blamed the attack on Taliban militants.
(IANS)

MH370: Obama offers support as search enters 50th day

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US President Barack Obama today promised fresh support to Malaysia in tracking down the plane missing for past 50 days even as a robotic mini-submarine failed to locate any wreckage despite scouring about 95 per cent of the search area in Indian Ocean.

Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, leading Malaysia’s efforts to determine the fate of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board, said he spoke to Obama briefly after he arrived here for an official visit.

Man killed, six injured by Delhi bus

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A 55-year-old man was killed and five others were injured Saturday when they were hit by a low-floor city bus here, police said.

The accident took place at the Azadpur Market Chowk in north Delhi around 10.30 a.m. when the bus run by a private operator was going towards Old Delhi.

A witness told police that the bus first hit an auto-rickshaw, injuring two people travelling in it, and rammed a cycle-rickshaw. Three people riding the cycle-rickshaw were also injured.

A man walking down the street was killed in the accident.

One of those days which we need to forget quickly: Kohli

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A dejected Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli wants to “forget” the humiliating defeat against Rajasthan Royals even though he conceded that poor application was responsible for being shot out for 70 in an IPL encounter here today.

“Looks like we didn’t arrive on the field today,” Kohli said at the post-match presentation ceremony.

Breast cancer survivors meet at Delhi hospital

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A group of 30 breast cancer survivors Saturday counseled and shared their experiences with women who were battling the disease at a hospital here.

The survivors sopke about their journeys and methods like meditation, yoga and spirituality that may provide some help to patients at the “Breast Cancer Support Group Meet”. Meet was organised by the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals.

Need to improve living standards of backward Muslims: Mulayam

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SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today said there was need to improve the living standards of backward Muslims and promised to give them reservation facility like Dalits if his party came to power at the Centre.

At an election rally here, he said participation of Muslims in craftsmanship and other technical works was maximum, but despite this they were lagging far behind in the mainstream of development.

He said that for the progress of the country there was need to improve their living standards.

Congress women leaders lash out at Ramdev over Dalit remark

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Three women leaders of the Congress Saturday hit out at yoga guru Baba Ramdev over his remarks on party vice president Rahul Gandhi on dining with the Dalit community.

Kumari Selja, former union minister for social justice and empowerment, came down heavily on Ramdev for saying that Rahul Gandhi’s meetings with Dalits at their homes were akin to a picnic or a honeymoon.

“These are extremely objectionable comments and we strongly condemn them. The remarks about Dalits and women show his (Ramdev’s) mentality.

‘Very sad’ PM’s family gets divided between BJP, Congress (Roundup)

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he felt “very sad” at his step-brother joining the BJP even as his family literally got divided between the opposition party and the Congress, with another step-brother joining the Congress road show of party candidate Amarinder Singh in Amritsar Saturday.

Manmohan Singh said he felt “very sad” at his younger step brother Daljit Singh Kohli joining the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Now ‘Dawat-E-Ishq’ to release on Teacher’s Day

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Yash Raj Films’ (YRF) upcoming movie “Dawat-E-Ishq”, which was slated to release in June, will now hit the screens on Teacher’s Day Sep 5.

A source close to the project says producer Aditya Chopra felt the need to add a couple of songs to the film. Since the additional shoot would take some more time, they chose to push the release date.

Also, early September has emerged to be a good time for YRF over the past few years.