A woman resident of the city on Saturday filed a complaint with Delhi police against an immigration officer who allegedly verbally sexually harassed her at Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital.
“I have filed a complaint with the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Indira Gandhi International Airport, situated at Mehram Nagar, New Delhi, today,” the woman told PTI here.
Karnataka legislators on Monday gave themselves a hefty hike in salaries and allowances with the Chief Minister’s monthly salary set to jump from Rs 30,000 to Rs 50,000.
The salaries of the ministers will go up from Rs 25,000 to Rs 40,000 per month.
The sumptuary allowance has been increased to Rs three lakh per month for both Chief Ministers and the ministers.
The salary of MLAs will go up from Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000 per month under the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances (Amendment) Bill.
The Jammu and Kashmir state fire and emergency services department have launched massive dewatering operations in Srinagar to prevent flood-like situation in the state.
Earlier on Monday, the Ministry of Home Affairs is in touch with the state government and closely monitoring the situation of increasing water levels in River Jhelum at Srinagar.
No breach of embankment has been reported.
However, as a precautionary measure, to assist the state government authorities, two teams of NDRF have been deputed and another four teams kept stand-by.
At least 16 people were killed today when a bus went off a mountain road in southeastern Peru, plunging 1,000 meters into a ravine, police said.
The bus belonging to the Sanchez line was on a road linking the cities of Nazca and Puquio in the region of Ayacucho when the accident occurred, highway police chief Orfiles Bravo told RPP radio.
“It apparently went off the road and has fallen some 1,000 meters (3,000 feet)” he said.
“There are 16 dead and 49 injured,” he added.
Earlier officials had given a toll of 12 dead and 20 injured.
Ousted Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) leader Prashant Bhushan has indicated to form a new political party after he and Yogendra Yadav were expelled from the national executive.
According to reports, all the volunteers will meet on April 14 to take a concrete decision over the matter.
The meeting is expected to be attended by several members of the party’s national executive and national council.
Earlier on Saturday, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were ousted from the party’s national executive.
Guinea closed its border with Sierra Leone today as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola, an official said.
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 10,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Liberia currently has no Ebola patients, and Sierra Leone has seen a fairly steady decline in cases in recent weeks.
But the disease remains stubbornly entrenched in Guinea more than a year after the outbreak started and authorities are now ramping up efforts to eliminate the disease.
Death toll in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir reached 15, after a house collapsed due to a landslide.
As of now, fifteen bodies have been recovered. The rescue operation is on and one more person who is still trapped in the debris is feared dead.
According to Senior Superintendent of Police, Budgam, a landslide hit Hajam Mohaalla of Laden village of Charai-i-Sharief yesterday.
Seven animal smugglers were arrested and eight cows and thirty-five buffaloes were rescued from Alwar and Bharatpur areas of the state in separate incidents, police said today.
Acting on a tip-off, the police intercepted a truck at Shahjahanpur toll plaza, officer Vikas Kumar said.
However, the truck did not stop and was chased by the police team which was successful in nabbing the three accused, Kumar said.
Boko Haram was unable to disrupt elections in Nigeria but its allegiance to Islamic State shows the group has an agenda that reaches well beyond Africa’s most populous country, a UN envoy said today.
Mohammad ibn Chambas, the UN envoy for West Africa, told the Security Council that while Boko Haram fighters staged attacks on election day in Bauchi state, northeast Nigeria, “they didn’t have an impact on the voting process.”
“Boko Haram was unable to disrupt the electoral process,” he told the 15-member council.
The prosecution rested its case today in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the ethnic Chechen facing the death penalty for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Prosecutors yielded to the defense after summoning 92 witnesses to the stand over the past weeks as they built a case against the 21-year-old as an active and willing participant in the bombings that ripped through crowds gathered near the finish line of the famous race on April 15, 2013.
Two undercover federal agents in the investigation of Bitcoin market Silk Road extorted and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the virtual currency for themselves, the US said today.
The US Department of Justice said Carl Mark Force and Shaun Bridges kept a large amount of the Bitcoin from undercover transactions made as part of efforts in 2013 to find evidence against Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht, or “Dread Pirate Roberts.”
The Jammu and Kashmir state fire and emergency services department have launched massive dewatering operations in Srinagar to prevent flood-like situation in the state.
Earlier on Monday, the Ministry of Home Affairs is in touch with the state government and closely monitoring the situation of increasing water levels in River Jhelum at Srinagar.
No breach of embankment has been reported.
However, as a precautionary measure, to assist the state government authorities, two teams of NDRF have been deputed and another four teams kept stand-by.
US Secretary of State John Kerry today said he and his global counterparts were going to work deep into the night seeking to resolve the remaining “tricky issues” as a deadline loomed within hours.
“There still remain some difficult issues,” Kerry told a CNN reporter as he walked in his luxury lakeside hotel in the Swiss town of Lausanne.
“We are working very hard to work those through. We are working late into the night and obviously into tomorrow.”
The BJP today termed as a grave threat to national security the “surrender and rehabilitation policy” of militants introduced by the previous Omar Abdullah government and demanded immediate scrapping of the policy.
While taking part in the discussion over the Grants of Home Department in Legislative Assembly (LA), BJP MLA from Nowshera Ravinder Raina said, “the surrender and rehabilitation policy is a grave threat to the national security and this policy must be immediately scrapped”.
Madras High Court today lambasted Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Secretary Vijaykumar for TNPSC allegedly failing to consider candidates under reserved list for post of Village Administrative officers despite its repeated orders and observed that rule of law, the foundation of governance, needs to be respected and followed unfailingly.
Saudi-led naval forces imposed a blockade on Yemen’s ports as coalition airstrikes today repelled an advance on the southern port city of Aden by Shiite rebels and forces loyal to a former president.
The move to block ports appeared aimed at preventing the rebels, known as Houthis, from rearming, and comes after the coalition achieved full control of the skies and bombed a number of rebel-held airports.
The rebels are supported by Iran, but both Iran and the Houthis deny Tehran has armed them.
Students of some Burdwan University affiliate colleges today blocked the G T Road for sometimes in protest against alleged obscene gesture to girl students by outsiders during a demonstration inside the campus.
General Secretary of BU, Aminul Islam said “Our activists stopped the outsiders and drove them out.
The students were protesting disparities in second year B Com, BSC marksheet results and also first year revuew results.
VC Smriti kumar Sarkar said a committe will be formed to examine the charges.
With an aim to provide energy access to people with greener and sustainable alternatives, a Lok Sabha MP has planned a host of development activities in his constituency based on renewable energy.
Second-time Lok Sabha MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo of Biju Janata Dal has supported a study to assess the potential of low carbon development and clean energy access in his constituency Bolangir in Odisha.
“The study is currently under progress and is likely to provide key inputs for future development plans of the constituency.
Ousted Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) leader Prashant Bhushan has indicated to form a new political party after he and Yogendra Yadav were expelled from the national executive.
According to reports, all the volunteers will meet on April 14 to take a concrete decision over the matter.
The meeting is expected to be attended by several members of the party’s national executive and national council.
Earlier on Saturday, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were ousted from the party’s national executive.
A message was today doing rounds on the social media that AAP’s Bijwasan MLA Devendra Sehrawat has accused party’s Delhi unit leader Durgesh Pathak of organising volunteers against him in his constituency, a charge refuted by the latter.
The message on social media by Sehrawat, addressed to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, read that Pathak tried to organise a meeting of volunteers who were against him in the Bijwasan Vidhan Sabha.
Pathak, however, refuted the charges saying no such meeting had been called by him.
Iran’s state TV says two land mines left over from the 1980s Iraq-Iran war have killed five Iranian border guards and a female shepherd near the Iraqi border.
The TV says the guards were on a regular patrol today near the Iranian border town of Qasr-e Shirin, about 540 kilometers (340 miles) west of the capital, Tehran, when one of the mines went off.
The second explosion, which killed the woman shepherd, was also in the same area today. Such explosions occasionally take place and to this day cause casualties.
Madras High Court today directed Puducherry government to file a status report on existing vacancies and the time from within which they have to be filled with regard to anganwadi workers on a PIL filed in this regard.
Expressing shock and grief over the loss of human lives due to landslides and floods, PDP President Mehbooba Mufti today asked the party cadres to come to the rescue of the needy in the state.
“PDP cadres have been asked to come to the rescue of the needy as and start community kitchens and other facilities in respective areas so that the people get the much-needed succor amid trying circumstances,” Mehbooba said here today.
The Anantnag MP expressed shock and grief over the tragic loss of human lives due to land sinking in forest foothills of Laldan area in Chadoora, Budgam.
The Pakistan government today deferred by 30 days the execution of an ex-MQM activist convicted for target killings, amid allegations by him that the murders were carried out on party chief Altaf Hussain’s order.
Former MQM activist Saulat Mirza, who has accused the party chief Altaf Hussain of ordering him to carry out target killings in Karachi, was scheduled to be hanged on April 1 at Machh jail in Baluchistan province.
Jail superintendent Ishaq Zehri said they received an order from President Mamnoon Hussain today to delay the execution for 30 more days.
Before the tour of Mr. Narendra Modi, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu, CM of A.P. is likely to visit China in the month of May to persuade investors to invest money in the State. He will be accompanied by Amitabh Kanth, Secretary, Development. Mr. Naidu will also visit Beijing and Shingai where he would address “Make in India round table conference” on the opportunities of investments in India.
–Siasat News