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The 53-year-old filmstar surrendered before TADA Court yesterday and was later shifted to the high-security jail in central Mumbai. He has to serve 42 more months in jail after his conviction in the 1993 bomb blast case was upheld by the Supreme Court which, however, reduced his sentence by one year (to five from six) in March.
"The issue of shifting Dutt to another jail has not yet been discussed," said Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) Meera Borwankar. Another senior officer told PTI the prison department is currently involved in gathering information such as number of convicts, security conditions, presence of inmates linked to underworld in various jails in the State like those located in Taloja (Navi Mumbai), Yerwada (Pune), Thane, Nagpur and Nashik.
"We will go through this information and then take a call on whether or not to shift the actor (to some other jail). If things permit, he may be kept in Arthur Road Jail. However, the chances of shifting him to Yerwada Jail appear to be more bright," the officer added.
Asked about the activities of the actor in the cell where he has been kept, the officer stated, "last night, he (Dutt) read some spiritual books he brought along with him. He also did physical exercise this morning. However, the actor appeared restless and kept to himself." Dutt had sought permission from the TADA Court to carry with him to jail copies of Bhagwad Gita, Ramayan
and Hanuman Chalisa.
"I met my officers in special cell this morning'Sreesanth is cooperating with investigations,' Kumar was quoted by CNN-IBN, as saying.Kumar also said that no other names had surfaced in the investigation so far.
Investigators believe that Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev accessed Inspire magazine, and the material had instructions on bomb-making, a law enforcement official told CNN.
The two, identified as Ghanshyam Mahanta and Ramjan Mahanta, were picked up from Anandpur area in Odisha's Keonjhar district by CBI sleuths in the early hours, Anandpur police station inspector in-charge Abhay Shankar Kar said.
While Ghanshyam was arrested from Gayalamunda village, Ramjan was nabbed from nearby Bhaludhera, he said, adding that the duo was taken to Bhubaneswar.
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial appointed Justice Syed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi to investigate the matter and submit a report to the court.
However, no deadline has been given to Naqvi to complete the probe. Earlier, caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi had written a letter to the Chief Justice, asking him to appoint a judge to conduct the probe.
Five to six prisoners had brutally assaulted Sarabjit in a well-coordinated attack on April 26.
Temperamental paceman S Sreesanth, spinners Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were arrested by the Delhi Police yesterday on the charges of spot-fixing in at least three matches of the ongoing IPL season.
"Nobody can deny what happened. We wont sit and allow this to happen. What is impact of it.. let's see what happens. Allegations have to be proved, players too have rights. IPL is still credible, there are allegations and we will get to the bottom of it," BCCI President N Srinivasan told NDTV.
"This is a clear indication of risk. They are Ranji and Test players. It is not as if they did not know what's wrong and still went ahead. It looks greed has taken over. It seems three players have fallen pray," the BCCI chief said.
Srinivasan outlined what their endeavours are in curbing corruption and also accepted their limitations in doing the job. "We do not have resources of a state, of a government, of police or an agency. We function on certain limitations. We engage the services of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit. We have a Working Committee meeting and we will look into all aspects. We will hear from our own Anti-Corruption Unit on that day. We will wait to get all the information."
"I congratulate the Delhi Police. Whenever they did good work, I appreciate," Shinde said.
Meanwhile, Sreesanth and 13 others, including two cricketers of the Rajasthan Royals franchise, were sent to police custody for five days by a Delhi court for being quizzed in connection with the spot-fixing case. They have confessed to their involvement in spot fixing.
The MSBSHSE has promised to rectify the mistake in the chapter ''India and its neighboring countries'' before the start of the new academic year.The Arunachal team led by Member of Parliament Takam Sanjoy met Chavan at his Delhi residence and submitted a protest letter to him, demanding a thorough investigation to find out the truth behind the 'Missing Map' of Arunachal Pradesh from the textbook.
The team also demanded that all books circulated throughout Maharashtra numbering 70 lakhs should be withheld till investigation to unearth the truth is completed. Sanjoy alleged sabotage of such publication by anti-national elements who are inimical to the nation's democratic set up.
Indian pacer S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila and bookies were sent to police custody for five days by a Delhi court for being quizzed in connection with the IPL spot-fixing case.Rajasthan Royals player Ankeet Chavan's residence wore a deserted look on Thursday morning.
His parents refused to comment on his alleged role in the spot-fixing scandal that hit the cash-rich Indian Premier League on Wednesday.Ankeet's family is in a state of shock.
When rediff.com visited his house in Mumbai a few mediapersons had gathered outside waiting for his parents' reaction, but they refused to open the door.One of his family members said, "It's not the right time to speak. As of now we would not like to comment on anything."
Chidambaram's comments yesterday came three days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the constitution of the high-powered Group of Ministers(GoM) to finalise a plan of action to secure the autonomy of the CBI.
"We will give CBI functional autonomy and we will assure CBI will have a large degree of functional autonomy in matter of investigation," said Chidambaram, who donned a hard hat and an orange colour construction worker suit, after he visited a construction site of the new Crossrail project in east London along with his British counterpart George Osborne.
According to the FIR registered by police, Sheikh and his son Shahrukh were intercepted by four to five men travelling in a red pick-up truck and a motorcycle yesterday morning. The armed men then bundled them into the pick-up.
Sheikh said the kidnappers did not talk to him or his son while they were in captivity. The men, who were armed with sophisticated weapons, assaulted Sheikh and dumped him on Sheikhupura Road, 40 km from Lahore.
The abductors did not harm Shahrukh and dumped him several kilometres from the point where his father was thrown out of the pick-up. Sheikh told police that the kidnappers were wearing 'shalwar-kameez' and were fluent in Pashto. They also spoke Urdu.
District Judge I S Mehta enlarged Liyaqat on bail on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 with a surety of the like amount. The court imposed several conditions on Liyaqat while granting him bail and directed him not to leave the country without its prior permission.
Liyaqat (45) was arrested on March 20 while crossing the Indo-Nepal border in Gorakhpur with his family. Liyaqat had said that he had come to surrender under the Jammu and Kashmir government's rehabilitation policy.
Delhi Police, which arrested him soon after he had crossed the border, alleged that Liyaqat was involved in the conspiracy to carry out terror attacks in the capital ahead of Holi.
The Home Ministry had on March 28 issued a notification facilitating NIA to take over the case after his arrest had generated conflicting versions from Delhi and J&K Police.
The three cricketers were produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma at his residence adjacent to the Saket court complex yesterday. Sreesanth and his IPL teammates Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, who were arrested in Mumbai, were brought to the court complex with their faces covered along with 11 bookies and middlemen from Mumbai and Delhi.
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"I'm bewildered, I'm angry and I'm upset at the false suggestions I've been involved in any wrongdoing," Tait said in a statement after his name cropped up on social media sites following the arrest of three Rajasthan Royals players for allegedly bowling manipulated overs after striking deals with bookies who had underworld connections.
Tait, who also turns up for the Rajasthan franchise, was immediately cleared by the Delhi Police which stated that no foreign player was involved in the scandal. India pacer S Sreesanth and spinners Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were the players arrested for alleged spot-fixing yesterday.
"While I welcome the recent statements from police clearing me of any involvement, for a few hours I was deeply distressed by the rumours that were rapidly circulating about me, most of which were aired in the social media space," said Tait.
"Not only were they without foundation, they highlight the danger of a medium that deals with innuendo rather than fact, the result of which has brought my name into question.
With time served, he will be eligible for parole in March 2041. Stani-Reginald strangled 24-year-old Thakkar to death with a cable, stuffed into a suitcase and dumped in the canal off the Parramatta River on March 21, 2011, when he was aged only 19, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
"This is an international problem. It is very much my hope to continue to work with all the various parties involved, to find a solution that brings peace to Syria, stabilises the region, stabilises those chemical weapons," Obama said yesterday in a joint news conference with the visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Ruling out any unilateral action by the United States against the Assad regime, Obama said that "It's not going to be something that the United States does by itself. I don't think anybody in the region, including the Syrian Prime Minister would think that US unilateral actions would bring about a better outcome for Syria."
Obama said that US and the international community needs to continue to strengthen capacity of the Syrian opposition that are on the ground fighting to protect themselves from the Assad regime. He also stressed on continuing to mobilise the entire international community to put more and more pressure on Assad so that he recognises that he is no longer legitimate and that he needs to go.
The BSE benchmark Sensex today extended gains for the fourth straight day by adding over 54 points in early trade on continued foreign funds inflow, amid a firming trend in the Asian region.
The 30-share barometer rose by 54.25 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 20,301.58, a level last seen in January, 2011 with stocks of IT, oil and gas, realty, auto and capital goods sectors leading the gains. The index had gained 555.66 points in the previous three sessions.
Similarly, the wide-based National Stock Exchange index, Nifty, moved up by 8.55 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 6,178.45. Brokers said sentiments on the domestic bourses continues to be buoyed by sustained buying by foreign funds and retail investors on hopes of a rate cut as inflation eased.
Besides, a firming trend in the Asian region supported the upside, they said. Stocks of ITC Ltd rose 0.21 per cent to Rs 337.50 ahead of fourth quarter earnings, to be released later today.
Meanwhile in Asia, Japan's Nikkei up by 0.35 per cent, in early trade today, while Hong Kong's market remained closed. The US Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.28 per cent lower in yesterday's trade.
New York officials say they have busted a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring. Officials allege that three of the 16 Palestinian immigrants charged had links to known terrorists. The state's attorney general said investigators had recovered only "a fraction" of the proceeds from sales of more than a million untaxed cartons.
The amount of money involved remains unclear, but records show the suspects deposited at least $55m
Read the full report on BBCImage: Law enforcement personnel stack boxes of confiscated cigarettes in New York Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
US President Barack Obama has ruled out any unilateral American action against Assad regime, asserting that his administration would continue to work with international partners and the Syrian opposition.
"This is an international problem. It is very much my hope to continue to work with all the various parties involved, to find a solution that brings peace to Syria, stabilises the region, stabilises those chemical weapons," Obama said yesterday in a joint news conference with the visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Ruling out any unilateral action by the United States against the Assad regime, Obama said that "It's not going to be something that the United States does by itself. I don't think anybody in the region, including the Syrian prime minister would think that US unilateral actions would bring about a better outcome for Syria." Obama said that US and the international community needs to continue to strengthen capacity of the Syrian opposition that are on the ground fighting to protect themselves from the Assad regime.
He also stressed on continuing to mobilise the entire international community to put more and more pressure on Assad so that he recognises that he is no longer legitimate and that he needs to go.