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The lady investigating officer in the sexual assault case against journalist Tarun Tejpal has filed a complaint that he had threatened her during the probe. Panaji police today registered non-cognisable offence of criminal intimidation under section 506 of the Indian Penal Code against Tejpal, following the complaint by Sunita Sawant, the police officer.
Tejpal was interrogated by Sawant between November 31, 2013 till December 10, 2013 while he was in police custody, and he threatened her during the interrogation, she alleged.
Sawant had mentioned this before sessions court during the hearing on Tejpal's bail plea, and the judge had noted it in the order dismissing his plea, a senior police officer told PTI.
Tejpal, founder-editor of Tehelka magazine who was accused of sexual assault by a woman colleague, is currently lodged in Sada sub-jail.
The tremor hit at around 7.16 pm today, was also felt in neighbouring Meghalaya, Nagaland, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura, officials at the Regional Seismological Centre here said.
The epicentre of the 5.1 magnitude quake measured on the Richter Scale was recorded at a depth of 33 km in Manipur along the international border with Myanmar. The exact location was traced to be in 93.9 E Longitude and 23.9 N Latitude, as per the IMD report.
Manipur and all states in the northeast are categorised under zone V on the country's Seismological map considered to be highly active.
Dismissing a question on whether he was worried at the prospect of BJP's Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister, Omar said, "It does not matter whether he is the prime minister or the president or (holds) any other position. Constitutionally, he cannot revoke Article 370 without calling into question the accession of J&K to India. Now as the prime minister of India, if he wants to rewrite accession to India, he is welcome to it. But I do not think any PM would be as foolhardy as that," he said.
The 75 posts have been created on the basis of International Civil Aviation Organisation standards meant for aircraft and helicopter operations, an official spokesperson said, adding it has also been decided to pay salaries to the new recruits as per industry standards to attract talent.
MPs have reportedly asked for advance notice on flight delays, special assistance from check-in to boarding and priority security clearances, besides lounge access and complementary snacks -- privileges that they are offered by national flag carrier Air India but not private airlines, reports NDTV.
Union minister Praful Patel sought to downplay the demand to airlines, saying if an MP "is given a little respect, I don't think this should be blown out of proportion."
Sule went on to say that Mirje has worked for the rehabilitation of gang-rape surviors. She also added that the leader had apologised for her remarks.
The riot victims and their lawyer H S Phoolka are also backing a SIT probe.
On the allegation that inclusion of civilians in the Adarsh Society, meant for Kargil widows and defence personnel, was proposed by Chavan, the governor said the agency proceeded on a "sheer assumption and conjecture".
"The correspondence collected by the CBI itself discloses that the main accused have been engaged in correspondence with various authorities for allotment of land much prior to June 2, 2000," he said in an order provided to former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi under RTI Act.
Party General Secretary Ambika Soni was present during the meeting besides senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Janardan Dwivedi and Ahmed Patel, Political Secretary to the Congress chief.
After the meeting, party sources said that a decision on continuance or otherwise of Bahuguna as chief minister will be taken soon.
Bahuguna has been under pressure ever since he was appointed. The flash floods that hit Uttarakhand last year and the massive rescue and rehabilitation work they entailed also brought his leadership skills into question.
According to police sources, a two-pronged investigation is going on in the case. Investigators are trying to zero in on the robbers to nab them and recover the money, the sources said. They are also trying to find out the source of the huge amount of cash which was robbed yesterday.
The police is also investigating hawala money trail in the case, they said. The sources said Rajesh Kalra, whose name had alsocropped up as a bookie in Hansie Cronje match fixing case, andhis partner Gurgaon-based businessman Rahul Ahuja, to whom thecash belonged, are not showing "very keen" interest in thecase.
Bhullar is convicted in the 1993 Delhi blasts case.
Laying focus on party discipline, he said, "Elder brother Alagiri's effigies should not be burnt."
Read: 'Alagiri threatened me that Stalin will die in 3 months'
Karunanidhi explained yesterday the reason behind the sudden suspension of Alagiri from the party for indiscipline. In an television interview, Karunandihi said Alagiri used "harsh words' against his younger brother Stalin.
"Alagiri came to my house on January 24 and complained regarding Stalin and troubled me and used harsh words. Alagiri told me Stalin will die in three months. No father can tolerate such words against his son," Karunanidhi had said.
The case is based on a public interest litigation, which seeks a probe into the source of foreign funding received by the AAP.
The home ministry was ordered by the court in November to investigate the allegations.
Since his provocative instruction on Sunday, MNS workers have continuously targeted toll booths in Mumbai, Pune and other parts of the state. Over of them have been arrested so far.
Thackeray now has 97 cases registered against him across the country.
He had said on Sunday, "I am ordering my workers to ensure that no toll tax is charged at any booth in Maharashtra. If anyone asks for toll tax, then phod dijiye, pitiye (attack, thrash them), whatever be the consequences."
Image: A protest against increasing cases of sexual assault
In a fresh twist to Slym's death in mysterious circumstances, police said the three-page handwritten note found in the hotel room from which the 51-year-old executive plunged to his death, was written by his wife Sally.
Police said Slym could have taken the "extreme step" after reading the note by his wife of 30 years that mentioned "domestic problems".
Obama said that America would help veterans get the support they need. "Our freedom, our democracy, has never been easy."
"We won't be safer if people around the world believe we strike their countries without regard for consequences. American diplomacy, backed by threat of force, is why Syria's chemical weapons are being eliminated."
"We can pursue our individual dreams, but still come together as one American family. Because of this law, no American can ever again be denied coverage for a preexisting condition."
"Diplomacy is reducing Iranian nuclear weapon. We must give diplomacy a chance to succeed. I will veto an Iran sanction bill."
"As commander-in-chief, I have used force when needed to protect the American people, and I will never hesitate to do so as long as I hold this office. But I will not send our troops into harm's way unless it's truly necessary."
He said he will "cut red tape" to help states get factories built, and this "Congress can help by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to American natural gas."
"Let's get immigration reform done this year. America does not stand still - and neither will I," he added.
"Say yes. Give America a raise. This will help families. It will give businesses customers with more money to spend. Support a proposed bill that would hike the base rate nearly 40 per cent," he said.
"The US economy poised for 'breakthrough' after recession. US is the No 1 investment hub and not China," he said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has met with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana. Ban's office tweeted that the two met for about 55 minutes Tuesday. The U.N. chief is in Cuba for a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
The U.N. office said it would provide details on the meeting shortly. Ban met Monday with Cuban President Raul Castro, the younger brother of Fidel. Ban's office said the two discussed the U.S. embargo on Cuba and the human rights situation on the island. Ban's office says it's his first visit to Cuba.
The number of US airmen embroiled in a nuclear cheating scandal has doubled to several dozen, officials speaking on condition of anonymity say. Thirty-four US Air Force officers in charge of launching nuclear missiles were suspended earlier this month. They are accused of cheating in monthly proficiency tests.
The US Air Force said some staff had texted answers to the routine tests to others, while others had known about the cheating but failed to report it. The ranks included captains.
The allegations emerged during investigations into alleged drug use by personnel at other bases. It was not immediately clear whether the additional 30 or so airmen implicated were alleged to have participated in the cheating or were involved in an indirect way.
President Vladmir Putin warned Europe to keep its hands off Ukraine on Tuesday, as Brussels sent its top foreign policy envoy to Kiev to try to mediate in the 10-week stand-off between President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition on the streets.
Russia's intervention in Brussels followed Yanukovych's biggest concession to the opposition, the sacking of his hardline prime minister and government and a promise to repeal draconian laws criminalising protest and freedom of speech.
Putin met EU leaders for the first time since November's clash between the Kremlin and Europe over the future of Ukraine triggered the crisis in Kiev. Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, took part in the meetings with Putin in Brussels then travelled to Kiev to try to mediate between the opposing sides. "The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are," Putin said.
"I am not sure Ukraine needs intermediaries." He pointedly noted that European leaders would complain if Russia sent envoys to mediate in the Greek crisis of the past four years.
In a sudden turnaround this week, the Mexican government will provide vigilante groups fighting a drug cartel in western Mexico a path to become recognized, moving away from earlier calls for the groups to disarm.
The state of Michoacan, long a flashpoint in Mexico's drug war, has of late been the scene of fighting between a cartel calling itself the Knights Templar and so-called "auto-defense" groups that have armed themselves and patrolled the streets. The vigilante groups grew from complaints that the government was not doing enough to protect citizens from the drug cartel.
The government acted this month, sending federal forces to the region and ordering the vigilante groups to lay down their weapons. But Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto appears to have abandoned that call, and instead announced a plan wherein the vigilante forces -- if they meet certain criteria -- can become part of a government-sanctioned Rural Defense Corps.
The battle between cricket's haves and some of its have-nots ended in a tense '" and probably brief '" stalemate on Tuesday after the first day of a board meeting in Dubai as important as any the International Cricket Council (ICC) has had in years.
Cricket Australia (CA), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) were keen on implementing a number of resolutions that would drastically restructure the governance and finance distribution models of the ICC, concentrating control and power in their hands; the boards of Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were in the opposition. Ultimately both sides claimed little victories.
The four smaller boards managed to defer voting and signing on the resolutions, moving one of the board officials to say it was "a big thing that we managed to get the resolution to not go through'. But an ICC news release after the meeting said there had been "unanimous support for a set of principles relating to the future structure, governance and financial models of the ICC'.
BJP MP Anurag Thakur today welcomed the Delhi High Court's decision to issue notices to him and his brother Arun Dhumal on a defamation case filed by industrialist Vakamullah Chandrashekhar, saying it would give them an opportunity to clarify their stand on the issue.
The defamation suit was filed following allegations levelled by Anurag and Arun, sons of former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister P K Dhumal, over financial dealings between Chandrashekhar's firm and present CM Virbhadra Singh and his family members.
Addressing a series of rallies in Sujanpur area of Hamirpur district, Anurag said once the matter had come before the court everything would become clear, and claimed since they were on the right side the decision would be in their favour. He requested the Delhi High Court authorities to hold day to day hearings in this important case to decide "who is right and who is wrong".
Police in a North Carolina town are searching for a shooter who sprayed a church playground with gunfire, hitting four youths playing basketball and critically wounding a 12-year-old boy. The Reverend James Gailliard at Word Tabernacle Church in Rocky Mount said the shooting took place Monday shortly before 6pm, as neighborhood teens played basketball on courts behind the sanctuary.
The pastor said he heard more than 15 gunshots and then comforted a boy shot in the head until the authorities arrived. The child was taken to a hospital by helicopter, where he remained in a critical condition. Police said the others shot '" who were aged 13, 17 and 19 '" were treated and released. The shooting came just over a week after a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed nearby.
MNS workers vandalise Bandra-Worli Sea Link; 16 arrested
Wary of ticket-hunting shady elements, AAP screens aspirants
Do not pay ransom to terrorists: UNSC asks nations
SC to examine law validity for prior approval to probe bureaucrats
SC commences hearing on fresh interpretation of term juvenile
Azam calls upon madrasas to help make Mulayam PM
Congress MP Sanjoy Singh files nomination for RS polls
Assam: One injured in blast, huge cache of ammunition recovered
Rahul's Rajya Sabha choices expose his hollow words on TV
Karunanidhi lashes out at Alagiri for saying Stalin would die in 3 months
Kumari Selja quits as minister, to work in party
Pak court rejects Musharraf's medical report as `inconclusive`
Kiran Reddy harps on 'comprehensive' T-Bill as AP seeks more time
Congress-NC alliance in trouble, Omar may quit