Month: August 2014

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Averring that no one is “untouchable”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said her Trinamool Congress would consider and discuss the matter if a proposal for a tie-up came from her long-time foe CPI-M.

Congratulating Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar and the Congress for rallying together against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the recent Bihar by-polls, the Trinamool supremo said her party would think on similar lines if such a situation emerged (if the BJP gained in strength) in her state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps himself informed through multiple sources, and has fostered a lot of decentralization in the NDA government contrary to wide perception about him centralizing power, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Friday.

Releasing books “Narendra Modi: The Game Changer” and “Being Modi” here, Jaitley also said that Modi started talking to people directly after the media “vilification campaign” against the then Gujarat chief minister over the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar was also present at the function.

Accusing the Narendra Modi led BJP government of selling out the country’s assets by embracing FDI across sectors, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday warned that such policies would put Indian economy in grave crisis.

“You can never make me do anything which is anti-people. I left the United Progressive Alliance as I was opposed to FDI in retail. I cannot put the livelihood of 50 crore Indians in danger,” Banerjee said.

Stating that the only option which the Modi government believed in is to sell of the country’s assets and raise fares.

The Islamic State minlitants advancements have forcibly displaced 850,000 people in one month, the International Organisation for Migration(IOM) said Friday.

The total number of people who have been evacuated their homes since January have increased to 1.6 million.

Most of those who have fled have found refuge in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, the IOM, a non-governmental organisation, said.

A number of UN peacekeepers were injured Friday when their vehicle hit a landmine in northern Mali, a UN spokesman said.

“The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) reported that around 12 noon, the mission’s military vehicle hit a landmine in Aguelhok of Kidal region,” Xinhua quoted UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric as saying at a daily briefing.

“A number of peacekeepers have been wounded and of which three are seriously injured,” Dujarric said, without giving the exact number of the injured.

“An evacuation is being arranged,” he said.

The number of Syrians forced to flee their country as a result of the civil war that began in 2011 topped three million Friday, UN refugee agency said.

Journey out of Syria is becoming tougher as many people are forced to hefty sums ($100 per head or more) at armed checkpoints proliferating along the borders, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement.

Nearly half the Syrian population have been driven out of their homes, including around 6.5 million internally displaced people, the statement said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Japan Saturday morning on his first bilateral visit outside the Indian subcontinent.

Modi and his entourage will touch down at Kyoto airport where Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will receive the Indian head of government.

Abe will be hosting a dinner for his Indian counterpart later Saturday.

This is Modi’s third official bilateral visit after becoming prime minister in May this year. He made bilateral visits to South Asian neighbours Bhutan and Nepal after becoming prime minister.

Accusing the CBI of carrying out propaganda against her Trinamool Congress in its Saradha chit fund scam probe ahead of the bypolls to two assembly seats, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday warned the agency of a “dangerous situation” if it tried to protect the “real culprits”.

Coming down heavily on the Central Bureau of Investigation, which has been closing in on the Saradha money trail, Banerjee, also the Trinamool supremo, claimed that central agencies had tried the same “conspiracy” ahead of the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year and the 2008 panchayat polls.

A sector commander level flag meeting was held Friday between Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers on the international border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Jammu district, officials said.

BSF sources told IANS here that Deputy Inspector General (Jammu range) B.S. Kasana and the Rangers’ Sialkot sector commander, Brig. Mateen, represented their countries in the meeting, which was one of the longest, lasting four hours from 4.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., at Octroi border outpost in Suchetgarh area of R.S. Pura sector.

The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the central government on a PIL seeking direction that passengers coming on international flights from Ebola-affected countries in African be screened to ensure that they are free of deadly virus.

A bench of Chief Justice R.M.Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman was urged for direction that the government should take immediate steps for the screening of passengers on the flights from affected countries and to take adequate steps to prevent and cure the deadly epidemic.

All the BJP councillors in the national capital have been asked to advertise the work done in their respective areas, a party statement said Friday.

Delhi unit president Satish Upadhyay has notified all the elected representatives that it is their “responsibility” to “apprise the people about the achievements of the corporations and the central government”.

A Delhi Police constable is in a critical condition in a Delhi hospital after jumping off a flyover in a bid to commit suicide, police said Friday.

Anil, posted in east Delhi’s Khajuri Khas police station, jumped off the Yamuna Bazar flyover near Kashmere Gate in north Delhi Wednesday evening.

Eyewitnesses told the police he was in an auto-rickshaw with two friends, including a woman, just prior to the incident.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said India’s strategic partnership with the US is an important pillar of its foreign policy.

“This partnership is not only relevant for the attainment of India’s national, regional and global aspirations, it is also an important contributor to peace, stability and prosperity in Asia and the world,” he said during an interaction with the Japanese media ahead of his visit to that country.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan at a function today called for a heightened road safety regime.

“Trauma is the most common cause of death for those under 45 years, with traumatic brain injury accounting for about half the mortalities. It is time we developed an integrated trauma support system in our pubic health care architecture”, said Harsh Vardhan.

A-31-year old trainee IPS of 2013 batch died after fallen in swimming pool at Sardar Vallab Bhai Patel National Police Academy SVPNPA of Shivrampally on Thursday night hours,

According to Rajendranagar police, On Thursday night at about 2330 hrs, the complainant Shaik Abdul Samad, (49) Sub Inspector in SVPNPA Resident of Site A-Campus, S.V.P N.P.A, Shivarampally of Rajendranagar is the in charge of Officer Club at N.P.A, Shivarampally.

The HRD ministry has sent a letter to the Delhi University registrar asking for a para-wise reply to the allegations of irregularities and anomalies against the VC levelled by Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA).

The ministry of human resource development (HRD) letter dated Aug 25 reads: “…It is requested that para-wise comment on each of the issues is sent at the earliest on the alleged anomalies and irregularities on the functioning of the university, as per the complaint put forward by DUTA.”

During his interaction with the Japanese media, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Friday that he approaches his meeting with the President of United States Barack Obama, scheduled to be held in Washington next month, as a challenge to realise the true potential of the relationship between India and the US.

Attacking BJP, Samajwadi Party today alleged that the saffron party is banking heavily on “communalism” to go to bypolls on one Lok Sabha and 11 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, slated for September 13 next.

“The important responsibility to Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath to campaign for the coming bypolls…And… The controversial video on love jehad of the MP, being played around to incite communal passions,… Have proved one thing …, the organisation is active in disturbing communal amity,” SP spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said in a statement.

British Home Secretary Theresa May Friday announced that Britain’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) has changed the country’s threat level from international terrorism from “substantial” to “severe”.

This means a terrorist attack is highly likely, although there is no intelligence to suggest that one is imminent, Xinhua quoted the home secretary as saying in a statement.

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma on Friday apologized for his atheist tweet on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.

“All tweets I put on Ganesha were in my usual manner but unintended by me to hurt anyone’s sentiments…but if they did I sincerely apologize,” tweeted Verma.

The apology came after his earlier tweet on the microblogging site sparked a controversy and fueled criticism from across the nation demanding strict action against him.

Lawyer and political activist Shehzad Poonawalla even lodged a complaint against him to the Delhi Police and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

Prior to leaving for Japan Aug 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday spoke to the Japanese media and stated that FDI (foreign direct investment) influx will happen on its own, as the foreign capital investment policies are with minimal conditionalities.

“I feel that with the right signal of policy stability and genuineness of intent by the government, FDI influx will happen on its own, as India is an excellent investment destination,” Modi replied to a question put to him regarding his efforts at attracting FDI in India.

Social activist Medha Patkar Friday attacked the Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s ambitious river inter-linking project, saying the claims of the central government are “not only wrong but false”.

Patkar said: “The inter-linking of rivers is not just drawing lines on the maps… so much of uthal puthal (disturbance) will be there.

“The claims of surplus water and so on and so forth made by the government are not only wrong but a lie.”

Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Friday said the Lok Nayak hospital will soon be turned into a model one with upgraded medical facilities.

Jung was speaking after visiting the hospital and inspecting its medical and infrastructural facilities including the out-patient department which was made fully air-conditioned recently and the paediatric wing.

He also visited a special “kids play zone” which too was set up recently.

Police Friday summoned the son of Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda for questioning in a case of rape and cheating Kannada actress Maithreyi has filed against him.

“We have sent notice to Karthik’s house in the city, asking him to appear before our investigation team soon in connection with the case booked against him under section 376 (rape) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” a police official told IANS here.