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BJP MP Varun Gandhi, who was on his first visit to his constituency Sultanpur after winning Lok Sabha polls, had to face protest by a section of lawyers after he reportedly came late at a function and tried to leave in haste.
A welcome function was organised by the bar association for Varun, however, he reached late and instantly took over the microphone saying he had little time therefore he should be allowed to address the gathering.
Some lawyers got agitated over it and started shouting anti-Varun slogans asking him to "leave".
Following the protest by a section of the lawyers Varun had to return without giving the speech.
"A special search operation will be launched tomorrow for tracing the missing students by lowering the water level to the minimum. 450 out of 600 jawans engaged in rescue operations will conduct special search operations in a 3-km stretch towards Pandoh Dam," Rural Development Minister Anil Sharma said.
The UAV was used for the first time today to trace the missing students, but did not succeed in its mission.
Of the total case, 27 were reported during the past 24 hours across the state, predominantly from North coastal districts -- Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Vissakhapatnam and East Godavari, Additional Commissioner Disaster management M Jagannadham said. "So far, 87 deaths have been reported due to heat wave in 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh since April this year. We have received reports that the heat wave may continue for next three days," Jagannadham told PTI.
Tuni in East Godavari district was hottest in the state today with maximum temperature recorded at 45 degrees Celsius, nine degrees above normal.
Shammi Atwal was killed last October when the men raided his cash and carry warehouse and then pushed him under a lorry as he chased after them. The six men were found guilty of manslaughter and conspiracy to rob following a trial in May and sentenced at the Old Bailey court in London.
Judge Nicholas Hilliard ruled that the men '" five of whom are Lithuanian nationals and one British -- would each serve half their sentence in jail, and would be tagged for the rest of their respective terms.
Farhan Sheikh and Reiniks Kivers were handed 13-year prison sentences for manslaughter, with a nine-year sentence for conspiracy to rob to run concurrently.
The Congress was able to win only one seat in Haryana these polls. Ever since the declaration of the election results, Hooda's political rivals such as former Union minister Kumari Selja and former All India Congress Committee general secretary Birender Singh have been pressing the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi that the chief minister should be removed with an eye on the coming assembly polls which are due later this year.
A reliable Congress source told rediff.com that a change of leadership was not feasible or practical. A new chief minister will not be able to make any impact on the ground at this late stage as assembly polls are barely four months away, he said.
Senior party also pointed out that they had a learnt a lesson in the recent Lok Sabha elections when the Congress appointed Ashok Tanwar as the new state unit chief on poll-eve. Tanwar did not have sufficient time to organise the state unit. Moreover, he also got busy with his own election. Instead of a leadership change, the Congress leadership is making efforts to end the factionalism in Haryana Congress.
It is in the process of accommodating different groups in the campaign and election committees which are to be set up soon so that they can sink their differences and work unitedly for the elections. The Congress had recently dissolved the state executive committee as well as the district and blocks panels to enable the party leadership to restructure these bodies before the state polls.
At the same time, Rahul Gandhi called Hooda, Tanwar, Selja and Birender Singh for a meeting on Thursday where he heard out everybody's viewpoint and asked them to sort their differences in a follow-up meeting with AICC general secretary incharge of Haryana Shakeel Ahmed.
The term of Reddy, who passed away on May 9, was scheduled to end on June 21, 2016. Chief Electoral Officer of Andhra Pradesh Bhanwar Lal said that after the bifurcation of the undivided Andhra Pradesh, the seat has been allocated to Andhra Pradesh (new) as per a notification issued by the Rajya Sabha secretariat. Notification would be issued on June 16 and the last date for filing nominations is June 23.
Scrutiny will be on June 24 and last date for withdrawals is June 26. Counting would be taken up at 5 PM on July 3, he said.
"In a similar situation in Bihar, the then Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of our party had given the status of Leader of Opposition to Adbul Bari Siddiqui of the Rashtriya Janata Dal though his party did not have the numbers to claim it," party general secretary K C Tyagi said.
The JD-U, which has only two members in the Lok Sabha,is of the view that the main opposition party needed to be given the Leader of Opposition status to be on the panel to consider key appointments like the central vigilance commissioner, head of the National Human Rights Commission and the Lokpal.
"At the Centre, the requirement is all the more. There are legal and constitutional requirements, which have to be fulfilled. That is why we are demanding that a leader of the Congress should be given the Leader of Opposition status in Lok Sabha," Tyagi said.
This was the army chief's first substantial meeting with the PM and it came on a day when there were ceasefire violations by the Pakistan army along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, who was also present in the meeting, is to visit the state tomorrow to review the security situation.
The principal M N Krishnan Kutty, who was among the seven persons booked on June 10, was not arrested on Wednesday as he was ill, police said. Kutty was arrested last night and later granted bail, they said.
The six persons arrested on June 11 included four students, lecturer and staff Editor Gopi and magazine designer Rajeev.
The 45-year-old actor's condition remains critical but stable, reported E! News.
"While Tracy remains in critical, but stable, condition, he continues to show signs of improvement. His medical team remains optimistic that his recovery is progressing. Megan (Morgan's partner) remains by his side and is relaying the countless good wishes and prayers that his family, friends and fans have been sending their way." Morgan's representative said.
Sinha was jailed after allegedly assaulting the General Manager of JSEB's Hazaribagh Branch Dhanesh Jha and locking the gate of his office in protest against the electricity crisis in Hazaribagh and neighbouring Ramgarh district.
He has been in judicial custody since June 3 and has refused to furnish a bail bond.
The youth has lost his vision and is battling for life.
More details are awaited.
Shah succeeds Narendra Modi as GCA president. Modi had submitted his resignation from the post of the president after becoming PM.
"The length of National Highways in the country is one lakh kilometre. I have asked officials to come out with a plan to plant 200 crore trees along these stretches which in turn would create jobs for the unemployed on the one hand and protect the environment on the other," Road Transport, Highways, Shipping and Rural Development Minister Nitin Jairam Gadkari said in New Delhi.
A similar scheme could be implemented under MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act) along the village and district roads and state highways. That has the potential to employ 30 lakh youth, he said while inaugurating a conference on "Regeneration of Rivers".
"The prime minister would be embarking on the 'carrier at sea' by helicopter and is likely to witness a host of exercises by the frontline warships and aircraft of the navy," a defence ministry spokesperson said. This is the prime minister's first visit outside Delhi after taking over on May 26.
The meeting, according to sources, will be attended by Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher and Revenue Secretary Rajiv Takru.
"Issues such as impact of imposition of minimum alternate tax and dividend distribution tax on SEZs; issues of conflict between revenue and commerce department will come up for discussion in the meeting," a source told PTI. Besides other things, the issues concerning inter- ministerial differences, especially between the finance and the commerce ministries over tax sops and loss of revenue are also likely to come for scrutiny at the meeting.
Modi also condemned the attack at the Karachi airport on Sunday night that left 28 people including 10 terrorists.
Setting aside speculation in Pakistan that he wasn't entirely pleased with his India visit, Sharif wrote to Modi earlier this week saying, about their May 27 meeting, "I must say that I have returned much satisfied with our meaningful exchange of thoughts on matters of bilateral and regional interest."
His letter was delivered to Modi's office by the Pakistan high commission.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has asked people to stay away from the coasts. The high tide at 1.03 pm was 4.24 metres.
On Thursday, coastal roads stretching from Mahim and Dadar up to Worli were flooded with water after a burgeoning high tide choked the drainage system.
Photos of Mumbai flooding here
"We have prepared a Cabinet note to help farmers with compensations such as subsidised diesel and cheaper loans," he said.
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Agitators are seen shouting slogans and climbing on to police barricades on 11 Ashoka Road. The Congress says it will continue to protest against the government over the power situation in the capital.
Delhi has been facing up to six hours of power cuts after a dust storm damaged transmission cables.
"Is it just a coincidence that the defence minister is visiting J&K, for his 1st visit, to review the security situation tomorrow?" Omar wrote on micro-blogging website Twitter.
Omar said that the ceasefire violations in the Rajouri and Poonch areas were significant as some of shells had landed in civilian areas.
"Significant ceasefire violation in Rajouri and Poonch with reports of some shells having landed in civilian areas. Some livestock loss," he further tweeted.
The BJP government in Goa stoked a controversy by sanctioning a Rs 90 lakh junket for six MLAs, including the sports minister, to Brazil, where the FIFA World Cup began on Thursday night.
It has been pegged as a "study tour." But the delegation did not include any experts in the field of sports.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had defended the decision to send MLAs on the junket.
The Congress has sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to Circle Officer Mahesh Mishra, the trio ofdoctors -- Adip Kotpal, owner of the private hospital, itsmanager Kirshan Kumar and one Ramkumar -- were yesterday arrested in the district's Mirapur town.
The three doctors have been taken into custody for sheltering accused Monu after admitting him at their private hospital for treatment without informing police.
Three sitting and three former Rajya Sabha MPs have been booked under sections 420 and 13 (1)D.
The sitting MPs are D Bandopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress, Brijesh Pathak of the Bahujan Samaj Patry and
Lal Ming Liana of the Meghalaya People's Front.
The former MPs are Bharatiya Janata Party's JPN Singh, Renu Bala of the Biju Janata Dal, Mehmood A Madni of the Rashtriya Lok Dal.
All the MPs arranged fake tickets and boarding passes and got full fare reimbursed. Most of them violated the rules at least three to four times, reports CNN-IBN.
The 30-share barometer rose 110.69 points, or 0.43 per cent, to 25,686.90 with stocks of realty, capital goods, power, PSU, metal and oil & gas sectors leading the gains. The index had jumped 102.32 points in the previous session.
Twitter's stock has fallen about 42 pc this year amid mounting concerns the company's user base is stalling after years of strong growth, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Also hours after Rowghani's departure, another veteran executive announced on Twitter her own plans to leave the company. Chloe Sladden, head of North American media, was in charge of aligning the social-media company with television.
The Indian army has also retaliated to the firing.
More details are awaited.
"Obama is now as unpopular as Bush. Fifty-one per cent have an unfavourable view of Bush; 51 per cent feel the same way about Obama," said the CNN/ORC International poll.
"Obama's favourable rating is now at 47 per cent -- a new low for him, and virtually identical to Bush's 46 per cent favourable rating, a significant improvement over his 2009 numbers," it said.
"This marks the first time in a CNN poll that a majority of Americans have an unfavourable view of Obama," said CNN Polling director Keating Holland.
But the White House also insisted it had no intention of sending ground troops.
The remarks came after the cities of Mosul and Tikrit fell to Sunni Islamist insurgents during a lightning advance.
Escalating violence in Iraq sent the price of oil to a three-month high as traders bet that advances made by insurgents could disrupt supplies from one of the world's largest oil exporters. Brent crude futures rose 2% to $112.12 a barrel, the highest price since early March. The initially calm response to Sunni militants' overruning of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, on Tuesday turned to alarm as Isis, the al-Qaida splinter group, announced its intention to take Baghdad.
The prospect of rising oil prices because of the turmoil in Iraq prompted concerns about wider price rises that could force central banks to increase interest rates to curb inflation. That move in turn could put the brakes on economic recovery in the US and the UK.
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have vowed to march on Baghdad, as Iraq's parliament failed to agree the declaration of a nationwide state of emergency.
"We will march toward Baghdad because we have an account to settle there," said the armed group's spokesman on Thursday in an audio recording posted on the internet.
The statement could not be independently verified. In a sign of ISIL's confidence, he even boasted that its fighters would take the southern Shia cities of Karbala and Najaf, which hold two of the holiest shrines for Shia Muslims, following the fall of cities in the Sunni north.
Its boasts come as Iraq's parliament failed to reach a quorum on Thursday to vote on a nationwide state of emergency. Most of those boycotting parliament were from the country's Sunni and Kurdish factions, who oppose giving extraordinary powers to the Shia prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
In Brazil, they use the expression "futbol arte" to describe the type of soccer which made the country's world champion team of 1970 so easy on the eye. But no longer -- football has changed, and Brazil has changed too.
When it won the World Cup in 1994, the national team's style of play was dubbed "futebol d fora" -- a tougher, more pragmatic approach. And, after a year of violent protests, rubber bullets and tear gas, the romantic ideal of Brazil often portrayed in glossy travel magazines seems hard to imagine.
Thursday marks the start of an opportunity for Brazil to redefine itself after a difficult 12 months preparing for arguably the world's largest and most popular event.
A Major was among two armymen who were injured tonight in a mine blast along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
One jawan accidentally stepped on a mine in Shamla belt of Bhimbher Gali forward area of Poonch district resulting in the blast this evening, defence spokesman said tonight.
The jawan sustained injury in his leg while the officer suffered minor splinter injuries, he said adding the duo have been shifted to hospital where they are stated to be out of danger.
The injured armymen have been identified as Major (first name not immediately available) Bhatia of Engineers and Naik Sukhdev Singh of 7-Sikh regiment, reports said.
The 2014 Fifa World Cup officially got under way on Thursday with a colourful opening ceremony before hosts Brazil kicked off against Croatia.
A cast of 660 dancers paid tribute to the country's nature, people and football with a show around a "living" ball on the Arena de Sao Paulo pitch. The final act saw a performance of official World Cup song "We Are One" by Jennifer Lopez and rapper Pitbull.