Kolkata, June 02: A worker of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who was injured in firing by a policeman during the May 30 civic elections died early on Tuesday, even as Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee continued to defend her remark that the victim was a “notorious criminal.”
Ms. Banerjee’s comments drew sharp criticism not only from the CPI(M), but from leaders of other political parties.
Singapore, June 02: A 41-year-old Indian resident was killed, while two others were seriously injured in a series of knife-attacks here,reported on Tuesday.
Shanmuganathan Dillidurai from Chennai and a father of two, who has been working in the construction sector here for the past two years, was found dead with knife wounds in suburban Singapore.
Dhaka, June 02: Bangladesh has signed an accord to finalise transhipment deal with India to allow Indian goods to be transported to its northeastern Tripura State.
Bangladesh Shipping Secretary Abdul Mannan Hawladar confirmed the signing of the accord on Monday. “I have just signed the agreement declaring Ashuganj as a new port of call,” he told the official news agency BSS. Through this accord, heavy Indian consignments for the Palatana power Project in Tripura will be transported through Bangladesh.
Bangalore, June 02: Minister for information technology and biotechnology, Katta Subramanya Naidu, on Tuesday said that the state expects to ink memoranda of understanding relating to investment to the tune of Rs11,000 crore in IT projects, and Rs1,353 crore in biotechnology projects at the two-day Global Investors’ Meet (GIM) beginning on June 3. These projects are expected to create 50,000 jobs in the state.
Tokyo,June 02: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced Wednesday at a general assembly of his Democratic Party of Japan that he would step down as premier.
Mr. Hatoyama also asked Ichiro Ozawa, the powerful secretary general of the party, to resign over his funding scandals. Mr. Hatoyama said Mr. Ozawa accepted his request.
Mr. Hatoyama’s resignation comes amid a steady decline in approval ratings for his cabinet and mounting calls for him to step down within the Democratic Party of Japan, especially those members who are to contest an upcoming upper house election in July.
Washington, June 02: Praising India’s strong track record in the field of nuclear proliferation, a top US diplomat has said that India has a very important role to play in achieving the goals of US president Barack Obama in this regard.
“I think the best thing that we and India could continue to do is follow through on the agreement and then look for other opportunities to demonstrate our shared commitment to curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction and improving the safety and security of existing nuclear material sites,” the under secretary of state for
Tokyo, June 02: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced Wednesday at a general assembly of his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) that he would step down as premier.
Hatoyama said he will resign because of his own political funding scandal and the departure of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a junior coalition partner, over the issue of the US military presence on Okinawa.
Hatoyama also asked Ichiro Ozawa, the powerful secretary general of the party, to resign over his funding scandals. Hatoyama said Ozawa accepted his request.
As expected by many, the serial terrorist Israeli army attacked on May 31st 2010, the “Freedom Flotilla” ships with gas bombs and live fire, murdering at least 19 humanitarian international activists, 16 of them Turks including one MP, and injuring 29 others. The Israeli navy, then, kidnapped the 700 humanitarian activists and their ships to Israel.
London, June 02: Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris 13 years ago, may have been killed for her plan to expose the nexus of Britain’s arms traders and landmine manufacturers, a leading lawyer has claimed.
The Princess of Wales may have been killed because she was preparing to expose landmine dealers, said Michael Mansfield, lawyer of Mohamed Fayed, father of Diana’s boyfriend Dido who was also killed in the accident.
Mansfield said that he believed the car crash in 1997 was ‘more than a mere accident’ as soon as he heard about it.
Lucknow, June 02: By clearing three more subjects in the Class X Uttar Pradesh Board examinations this year, a 55-year-old primary school teacher from Allahabad has successfully managed to pass 58 subjects till date. Fighting the fear of examinations in his own novel way, Ram Lakhan Yadav has appeared
9 times in High School and 14 times in Intermediate examinations of the UP Board. In all, he has cleared 58 subjects.
New Delhi, June 02: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday skipped a meeting of the cabinet committee on political affairs that decided on imposing President’s rule in Jharkhand, but denied any friction in the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
“There are no differences between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress. We are absolutely comfortable,” the Trinamool Congress chief told reporters here, downplaying her absence from the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
New Delhi, June 02: The South Eastern Railway has distributed compensation of Rs 58.5 lakh among the victims of the Jnaneswari Express accident. The railways has decided to give Rs 5 lakh compensation to the kin of the dead, Rs 1 lakh to those with serious injuries and Rs 50,000 to people with minor injuries.
“We have decided to give Rs 25,000 in cash to the victims. The remaining amount will be given through cheques,” said Dinesh Kumar, Additional Divisional Railway Manager of Kharagpur Division.
New Delhi, June 02: India and Pakistan resolved the issue relating to the initial filling of Baglihar dam in Jammu and Kashmir with the neighbouring country deciding not to raise the matter further.
The decision was arrived at the talks of Permanent Indus Commissioners of the two countries who are meeting here.
A World Bank appointed expert has already given a decision in favour of India.
Ahmedabad, June 02: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence awarded to three convicts in the 2002 Akshardham terror attack in which 32 people were killed, and said it was a criminal conspiracy of mass killing of Hindus by Pak-based outfits to avenge the post-Godhra riots.
A division bench of Justices R M Doshit and K M Thakar, while pronouncing the verdict, rejected the appeal of six convicts, three of them awarded death sentence, against the judgement by the special POTA court here.
New Delhi, June 02: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised the nation on Tuesday that his government would not flinch from frontally battling Maoist violence, communalism and terrorism.
He was releasing the United Progressive Alliance’s annual report card, marking the end of its first year in its second tenure.
New Delhi, June 02: Indian Olympic Association secretary general Randhir Singh lashed out at the BCCI for not sending teams to this year’s Asian Games in China and said IOA will write to the Cricket Board tomorrow asking it to reconsider the decision.
“I’m very, very disappointed. It really hurts because we were really keen to have cricket in this multi-discipline events,” Randhir said.
“On behalf of IOA, we will write a letter to the BCCI tomorrow and ask them to reconsider their decision,” he said.
Jerusalem, June 02: Facing mounting international outrage over its raid on an aid flotilla aiming to break its siege on Gaza, Israel has said it will expel all activists seized from the ships and dropped threats to prosecute some of them.
A spokesman for Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said on Tuesday that all activists 682 people from 35 countries “would be deported immediately” in an operation officials said they hoped to complete in 48 hours.
Kabul, June 02: Afghan commandos and NATO troops recaptured a remote district near the Pakistan border overrun by the Taliban last week, NATO and the government said Tuesday.
The militants seized the district of Bargi Matal in rugged Nuristan province on Saturday, driving out Afghan security forces after days of fierce fighting.
On Monday, NATO jets bombed the troubled region in what NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said was an operation in support of its Afghan counterparts.
On Tuesday, the defence ministry said the district had been recaptured.
New Delhi, June 02: Contradicting Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s statement that he had got clearance for his controversial yatra in the Telangana region from Veerappa Moily, the latter denied denied giving any such permission to the Andhra Pradesh leader.
Reddy, MP from Kadapa and son of late Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhara Reddy, claimed that he had got the clearance for his tour when he met Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily, who is AICC in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, here this morning.
Hebron, June 02: Israeli Arab on Breaking the Silence tour to Hebron says was asked to remove ‘Muslim indicators’ for own personal safety. ‘This event is a reminder of Hebron’s prevailing policy of institutionalized ethnic separation backed by Israel’s police, state’s authorities,’ say Association for Civil Right in Israel.
A police officer instructed an Israeli Arab student to remove her head cover. The student, a resident of Jerusalem, was on Shuhada Street in Hebron with a guided tour organized by Breaking the Silence organization.
New Delhi, June 02: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin is now in the Capital to get her Indian visa extended since the validity of the travel document expires in August.
Taslima, who has been in and out of the country after she was dramatically bundled out of West Bengal in November 2007 in the wake of protests by radical Muslim groups, came from London in the wee hours of Sunday and was immediately whisked away to a safe location.
The 47-year-old doctor-turned writer is also trying for a permanent residency in the country. Her visa is valid till August 16.
Muzaffarnagar, June 02: In a throw back after six years to the Gudiya case, a community panchayat has asked a Muslim woman, who had remarried, to go back to her first husband, who returned after remaining missing for five years.
Roshan got married with Irshad eleven years ago and had two children. Irshad then went missing for five years. In the meantime, Roshan got married to another man Gaffar.
Bangalore, June 02: The bullet allegedly fired at the Art Of Living (AOL) ashram in Kanakapura on Sunday was neither an act of terror nor an assassination attempt. It is not also likely to be a result of rivalry between ashram inmates.
This is what has emerged from investigations so far,which means both home minister P Chidambaram and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s theories have fallen flat. But Unfortunately, this also means that the investigators have not been able to pinpoint who had fired the bullet, why, and from where.
London, June 02: What do you want – a sliver of human head, a piece of smokers’ lungs or a slice of human hand? All that and much more are now available through a mail order service set up in Germany.
The service has been started by controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who is the inventor of a system known as plastination in which fluids are removed from dead humans or animals and replaced with hardened silicon. This allows body parts to be preserved indefinitely.
Riyadh, June 02: A Saudi Islamic scholar has sued to block an education ministry move to allow female teachers to teach young schoolboys in private schools, Arab News reported Tuesday.
Shariah law scholar Youssef al-Ahmad said he went to court to block the new policy after high officials ignored his letters arguing that women teaching boys is haram, or forbidden, in Islam, the newspaper said.
“When I received no reply, I went to court,” he said.