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A Mumbai NGO today asked Maharashtra Government to ensure that former Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh, now an MP from Uttar Pradesh, is made to vacate his official residence without any further delay.
The NGO, Police Reforms Watch, has strongly objected to Singh seeking six more months to vacate the residence in upscale Bandra despite the fact that he owns another flat in Mumbai.
"It is very unfortunate that the former Mumbai Police Commissioner has clung to his official residence since the last 22 years and has thus deprived other officers posted in that region the use of the premises.
"He should immediately vacate his official residence so that it sets a good example for the police force," Dolphy D'Souza, Convener of PRW, said while speaking to reporters.
According to the NGO, it works for police reforms and accountability in Maharashtra. It also facilitates advocacy and interactive engagements at the level of Government, police and citizens.
The BJP MP from Baghpat, who resigned from police service in January this year and joined politics, should follow the example of former Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, he said.
Charges against Indian Olympic official Rajeev Mehta and wrestling referee Virender Malik have been dropped due to lack of evidence, reports PTI.
Mehta was charged in a drunken driving case while Malik was accused of sexual assault. Both were attending the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Patel's suggestion comes as a bid to give an impetus to the 'toilet for each household' drive in the state and to spread awareness about the issue.
"Right from a candidate of Village Panchayat to even Member of Parliament (MP), all must first prove that they are having toilet facility in their house. If you want to contest any form of election in Gujarat, you must have toilet facility, otherwise, they should not be allowed to contest," Patel said.
He said as parliamentary affairs minister he prefers to stay within the LoC or the Line of Control. His other retort was when Congress MPs raised the point of order on the Insurance Bill today, Naidu quipped, "On your statement there is no point and therefore no order is needed."
Quite naturally, there was a loud thumping of desks from the treasury benches.
joint sitting of both houses over the Insurance Bill. Politically, the BJP wants that the Congress defeat the Insurance Bill in the Rajya Sabha since this will enable the BJP and the floor managers to approach the President
of India for a joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha and get it passed. A notice of three working days is enough to summon a Joint Sitting of Parliament.
Aamir Khan has posed in the buff for the poster with just a transistor covering his modesty and has now been slapped with a legal notice.
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The move is a slight climbdown by the Centre following the massive protests by Civil Services aspirants and Parliamentarians who have accused the UPSC of bias against those from rural, Hindi and regional language background.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh said in the Lok Sabha that all the aspirants who appeared for the Civil Services Examination from 2011 would get one more more attempt in 2015.
The UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination is scheduled for August 24. But it is still to be seen if the move is acceptable to the UPSC as well as protesting aspirants. Read more
Glasgow Police Spokesperson says the alleged assault in the Rajeev Mehta case has nothing has with drunk driving. Mehta, secretary general of the Indian Olympic Association and a senior member of the Indian contingent at the Commonwealth Games, and wrestling referee Virender Singh Malik, were arrested in Glasgow on Saturday evening. Mehta was addressed for drink driving.
Chowdhary is Prof. Emeritus of Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan and former Keeper (Art) at Rashtrapati Bhavan (1972-87).
The 'In-Residence Scheme for Writers and Artists' was launched by the President of India on December 11, 2013 with the aim of providing writers and artists an opportunity to stay in Rashtrapati Bhavan and be a part of the life there.
"It would have been better had there been our government in the state then we would have got work done authoritatively. It would have been even better if the government would have been run by Varun, in that case Pilibhit should have benefited most," the Women and Child Development Minister said while addressing a meeting in Takia village yesterday.
On projecting Varun as the state's chief ministerial candidate, Maneka said, "it is a matter of future."
While Mehta was arrested for allegedly driving above the legal alcohol limit, Malik was held for allegedly being involved in sexual assault in a hotel.
This was shorthand for grouping the four largest (in GDP terms) emerging market countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, when grouping countries as "rich' and "poor' was beginning to appear vaguely antediluvian.
Thus far, as boring economic memes go, the acronym has been rather sticky but harmless. Read
"We agree that rape is heinous but it is also equally reprehensible to make (baseless) allegations of rape," an editorial in 'Saamana' said. "What we have said is clear, the rape victim should lodge the complaint immediately. If complaint is lodged after six months or a year, the medical evidence in such cases is invalid and the case assumes a different colour," the editorial said.
Claiming that the controversial Marathi editorial was distorted in translation, 'Saamana' said, "now, it is just a one-sided attack by those who don't want to understand what someone said or wrote."
"Creating jobs for some other country, while people are still hungry, doesn't make sense... If I was in the position of feeding my own family or creating jobs for someone else, what would I do? What would you do?," International Fund for Agriculture Development President Kanayo Nwanze said.
"The bottom line is that every government has the responsibility to ensure that it can feed its own people," he said while replying to a question whether he supports India's tough stand in the World Trade Organization.
The author, however refused the offer and shared bits of the conversation between her and Colors on Twitter.
The channel had apparently, said that Tasleema would get a chance to show herself to the world and will also be paid for it.
Tasleema tweeted, "Colors tv called.Wants me in Bigg Boss.I politely refused.Said,'u'll get chance2 show urslf 2world&u'll get money'.Then I impolitely refused.''
Bigg Boss' is likely to go on air in September this year and the show's pattern is such that it aims to get celebs with a controversial past.
Pandher was acquitted in the Rimpa Haldhar case but he remains an accused in some of the other cases relating to the Nithari killings. However, his domestic help and prime accused, Surinder Koli, was convicted for multiple cases of rape and murder.
Bangalore's new Police Commissioner MN Reddi has opened a twitter account (@cpblr) for ease of communication with people, and to step up information gathering. Most of his tweets these days are about his team's action to ensure women's safety. In the last two days, according to his tweets, police have booked 350 men for eve-teasing, and detained two alleged rapists under the powerful Goonda Act.
"We do not wish to tell you what to do or to interfere in your work,' he told a packed Nepali Constituent Assembly (CA) this afternoon. "But we wish to applaud your imagination of an inclusive, federal, democratic and republican (FDR) Nepal of which all sections of Nepalis can feel a part, a vibrant bouquet with all the divergent aromas of this great country of yours.' Read more
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu was forced to make a statement on the issue saying that India will raise the issue with the Sri Lankan government. While, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said she condemned the incident and would summon the Lankan envoy.
The trawlers, each carrying 16 fishermen, had gone to the sea for fishing a few days ago, but contact between the liaison unit of the Association at Kakdwip and them was snapped during a storm last night, the state government aided Association's Secretary Jaykrishna Halder said.
Efforts are on to locate them and the Coast Guard has been alerted, Sunderban Development Minister Manturam Pakhira said.
Meanwhile, two other trawlers- 'Suryanarayan' and 'Maharudra'- capsized near Jambu Dwip in the Bay of Bengal during the storm last evening. Of the 32 fishermen on board, 25 were rescued and seven others are missing, Halder said.
The rescued fishermen are being treated at a local hospital. Five other trawlers set off from Raidighi in the same district managed to reach Dhamra Port in Odisha. All the fishermen were safe, he said.
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Mohammad Saiful Hasan Badal, the Deputy Commissioner of the district, said 44 passengers had been rescued from the vessel, identified as the Pinak-6. No deaths had yet been reported.
Teams from the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority and the army were engaged in the rescue operation.
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday accused Sri Lanka of trying to create fissures in India's federal polity as she demanded an unconditional apology from Colombo for the insinuations against her.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi hours after the controversy broke out, leading to a furore in Tamil Nadu's political circles, she said that it also depicted him in a 'disrespectful manner.'
She said it was brought to her notice that the article, titled 'How meaningful are Jayalalithaa's love letters to Narendra Modi' had been published in the website of the ministry of defence and urban development of Sri Lanka.
Modi was at the temple of Lord Shiva for about 45 minutes on a day which is considered pious as it was a Monday that falls in the month of 'Shravan'. He donated 2500 kgs of chandan (sandalwood) to the Pashupatinath Temple trust.
The Hindu temple is located on the banks of the Bagmati River in Deopatan, a village 3 km northwest of Kathmandu. It is dedicated to a manifestation of Shiva called Pashupati (Lord of Animals).
It attracts thousands of pilgrims each year, mostly from India. There are a lot of Indian pujaris at the temple. There is a tradition of keeping four priests and one chief priest at the temple from among the Bramhins of south India for centuries. According to legend, the temple was constructed by Pashupreksha of the Somadeva Dynasty in the 3rd century BC, but the first historical records date from the 13th century. The ascetic Pashupata sect was likely related to its foundation.
The article triggered widespread public and political outrage in the state prompting Sri Lanka to remove it and issue an unqualified apology to the two leaders.
"It is a moral outrage and a criminal act. United Nationsshelters must be safe zones not combat zones," a statement issued by Ban's spokesman said.
The team was in the Tamil Nadu capital to participate in the J M Haroon cricket tournament to promote the sport.
More details are awaited.
Only royalty are allowed to sit inside the temple other than priests.
On the second day of his visit to Nepal, Modi will also meet Nepal's President Ram Baran Yadav and leaders of various political parties before leaving for India.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said he and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will talk to leaders of the Congress and opposition parties tomorrow on various aspects of the bill that seeks to raise the FDI cap in the Insurance sector from 26 per cent to 49 per cent.
Naidu told PTI that the government does not want to move the Insurance Law Amendment Bill 2008 bill for consideration in the Upper House today. "The government would like to move the bill for consideration thereafter, preferably day after tomorrow (Tuesday)," Naidu had said yesterday.
Sandeep Singh, a father of two, was with his friend Baldey Singh when he was hit by a pickup truck late on Tuesday night.
Sandeep was rushed to the hospital where he is in a critical condition.
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