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"Naxalites are holding their influence in tribal areas on the issues of forest and land. In the new Land Acquisition Bill various options are made available for farmers, tribals and others. Considering this we can hope that the influence of naxals among them will gradually wane," Ramesh said.
The Land Acquisition Bill was passed recently by Parliament. It seeks to provide fair and just compensation to farmers and to those who lose livelihood on account of acquisition.
Three passengers alighted the auto-rickshaw from Suryapur under Baruipur police station.
After hitting a bumper on the road near Krisnachandrapur, the three-wheeler got a jolt and the bomb kept in the bag went off. The passenger who was holding the bag died and the driver got injured.
The other two passengers fled. The bag also contained two fire arms which were seized, the police said.
"Worried over falling stock due to BJP remaining out of power in the last 10 years, RSS forced BJP to declare Narendra Modi in place of L K Advani as Prime Ministerial candidate," Paswan told reporters.
"But, it will not help RSS as there is not even the remotest chance that the BJP will come to power after the 2014 elections," the LJP chief, who is a partner of Lalu Prasad's RJD in Bihar, said. Blaming Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Paswan said.
"His constant support for L K Advani and opposition to Narendra Modi provided an opportunity to RSS to play its communal card by getting him anointed as PM nominee."
The explosive device went off with a big bang at the site in the mountainous area of Darra, 20 kilometres northeast of Khar, the main town of Bajaur Agency.
The blast killed one person and wounded five others, officials said, adding the injured have been admitted to a hospital. About a dozen tribesmen and members of the agency administration were digging at the site in Salarzai tehsil when the blast occurred, they said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the explosion. The members of the Salarzai Peace Committee have started investigation into the blast.
The girl was abducted from Talwara Migrant camp in Reasion Thursday evening by Assistant Sub Inspector Mahesh Mehta,Satvir Singh, personal assistant to Reasi SSP, and Special Police Officer Karnail Singh, a senior police official said.
On a complaint of the girl's parents yesterday, policeraided a house in Marhi area and arrested the ASI and SPOwhile Satvir managed to flee, the official said, adding thegirl was also rescued.
"We have launched a hunt to nab Satvir," Reasi SSP M SChouhan said.
Actor who plays WikiLeaks founder in The Fifth Estate says he received long email plea day before filming began.
Since 1947, Israel has pushed for peace with Arab neighbours but has been met with violence, says Israeli journalist.
A UN report expected next week will "overwhelmingly" confirm that chemical weapons were used in Syria last month, the secretary general says. Ban Ki-moon made no comment on who was to blame for the 21 August attack in the Ghouta area of Damascus, as that is not part of the report's remit.
But he did say Syria's president was guilty of "crimes against humanity". The US and Russian foreign ministers are continuing their talks on a plan to make safe Syria's chemical weapons. A spokeswoman for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva would head into the night, adding: "They are working on some real substance."
We have talks about talks on Syria but no answer to the main question: Will the United States launch a military attack? Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart announced Friday that while negotiating a solution to the crisis over Syria's chemical weapons, they also would try to restart parallel talks on the broader issue of ending the Syrian civil war.
The mind-numbing prospect of yet another round of negotiations in the next few weeks signaled a potentially bigger endgame for the United States and Russia in the hastily arranged meeting they began on Thursday in Geneva and continued Friday.
The leader of al-Qaeda has issued a message marking the 12th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks. In the audio message, Ayman al-Zawahiri talks of the need for small-scale attacks - and even a boycott - to damage the US economy.
The message may be seen as a sign of diminishing ambitions and a more realistic assessment of what al-Qaeda's central organisation can achieve. Zawahiri's message also praised the bombings in Boston in April.
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