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21:16   Fresh CIC notice to political parties' chiefs
The Central Information Commission has issued fresh notices to the chiefs of all the six national parties for not responding to Right to Information queries on their functioning, finances and other issues.

In the Full Bench hearing scheduled on June 20, the CIC has clubbed cases of 17 RTI applicants of similar nature, including activist R K Jain.

'Take notice that the above complaints/appeals (copy enclosed for the respondents) in respect of RTI requests filed by the aforesaid complainants/appellants have been listed for hearing before a Full Bench of this Commission comprising Information Commissioners M Sridhar Acharyulu, Sudhir Bhargava and Bimal Julka...,' the notice said.

Jain, whose RTI queries regarding functioning and finances of political parties had remained unanswered, has named the then chiefs of the national parties in his complaint because in such proceedings the liability is of individual who was holding the position when the RTI application was being handled by the public authority.

The fresh notices are issued to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party president, president/general secretary of the Nationalist Congress Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party and general secretaries of the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Communist Party of India.

Besides, central public information officer of the Election Commission has also been asked to appear during the hearing.
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20:38   Family of driver killed with Mansour files case against US
The family of a Pakistani driver killed along with Taliban chief Mullah Mansour in an American drone strike in Balochistan province today registered a police case against the United States government, demanding justice.

Mansour and Muhammad Azam were killed on May 21 when US special forces targeted their vehicle with a drone in Noshki district of Balochistan province while allegedly returning from Iran by road.

A senior police official said that Azam's brother Muhammad Qasim had filed a First Information Report against the US government at the Mal Levies station in Noshki district.

"His brother has in the report claimed that Azam was not a terrorist and the father of four children and the sole bread earner of the family," the official said.

"The family wants action to be taken against the US officials responsible for the drone strikes," he said. "We want justice," Azam's uncle, Haji Khuda-i-Nazar, told Dawn News on Sunday.

"We want to bring the perpetrators of the drone strike to justice. My nephew Muhammad Azam was innocent and had no links to any terror group."

Pakistan government has described the drone strike as a violation of its sovereignty.
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19:52   2 Navy officers booked for mowing down youth
Two Navy officers and a civilian were booked after the car they were travelling in mowed down a pavement dweller, police said today.

The incident took place last night when the two officers and an acquaintance, allegedly in an inebriated state, were heading for the Naval base in Visakhapatnam.

One of the officers who was driving the car lost control over the vehicle and it mowed down Nandi Raju, 20, at Asilmetta junction, Sub-inspector of 2 Town police station S Ramesh said.

The youth, who sustained severe head injuries, was killed on the spot, following which his father filed a complaint with the police, he said.

It is suspected that the trio was in inebriated state, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic) K Prabhakar said.

Blood sample of the officer who was driving the car has been sent for medical examination to ascertain if he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident, the ACP said.
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19:30   TN driver held in Kuwait returns to India
R Mariappan, a driver from Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, who was in a Kuwait jail, landed in Mumbai on Sunday.

Mariappan's plight was highlighted by Rediff last week.

He is currently on board the Nagercoil Express to Tirunelveli. He will be back in his village on Tuesday morning. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com

Read his story HERE
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19:18   AAP MLA arrested
Delhi Police arrests Hari Nagar Aam Aadmi Party MLA Jagdeep Singh for assaulting a contractor on May 21. More details awaited.
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18:39   Kiran Bedi takes oath as LG of Puducherry
JUST IN: Kiran Bedi takes oath as Lt. Governor of Puducherry.
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18:18   Iran demands social media hand over data on its citizens
Iran has set a one-year deadline for foreign social media to hand over data on their Iranian users, state news agency IRNA said today.

It said the decision was taken yesterday at a meeting of an Iranian committee on the use of cyberspace headed by President Hassan Rouhani that serves as an IT regulator.

'Foreign social media active in the country must transfer to Iran all the data they hold on Iranian citizens' within a year, IRNA said.

The measure will affect, in particular, Telegram, an instant messaging app with more than 20 million users in the Islamic republic, a country of 80 million people. IRNA said the committee had also decided to work to develop homegrown social media to compete with foreign networks.

Authorities in Iran, where Facebook and Twitter are officially banned although users can gain access with easily available software, have for years tried to impose curbs on Iranians using social media.

Rouhani, a moderate cleric, has repeatedly pointed to the ineffectiveness of any measures to limit access to social media.
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17:31   Will never let India walk on wrong path, Modi says in Vikasparv rally
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing Vikasparv rally in Davangere, Karnataka. Here are a few excerpts from his ongoing speech.

- People sitting in air-conditioned rooms in Delhi have no idea that despite sweltering heat why people gather here in a huge number. I want to thank people for coming here giving momentum to the development process in the country.

- Within few days after taking charge in office, we were asked to give audit of the work done by our government. We were asked for an audit because there are a few people in the country who talk about democracy but cannot accept the mandate given by the people.

- I was surprised that people in the country are burdened with many redundant laws. We removed over 1,200 such laws.

- People criticise me for not doing 'big things'. The previous governments did big things for big people and took large advantages.

- I met the CMs of drought-affected states and told them that Centre & State together will work shoulder to shoulder to tackle this situation.

- Surveys have highlighted that biggest achievement of this government is Swacch Bharat campaign, shows that campaign has gained momentum.

- When people like you give me so much love and affection, there is no need for me to walk on the wrong path. I will never let the country walk on the wrong path, I assure you of that.
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17:18  
BJP RS candidates: Bharatiya Janata Party nominates Union ministers Venkaiah Naidu, Birender Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Piyush Goyal as candidates for Rajya Sabha polls.
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16:39  
JUST IN: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Davangere (Karnataka), will shortly inaugurate Ujwal scheme of the Union government.
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16:08   Trinamool scouting for options to register protest against EC
Alleging that 'atrocities' were inflicted on Trinamool workers by a section of Election Commission officials and central forces in the recently concluded assembly elections, the party leadership is scouting for options for registering protest against the poll body.

"A section of the Election Commission and some of its officers especially those who were controlling the central forces created havoc during the polls. It is because of them that we have got five-six per cent less votes in Kolkata and nearby areas.

"The officers in-charge of central forces had created a separate command all together. This is unprecedented. We will move to bigger platforms to seek justice against the atrocity that was unleashed on us during the polls," a senior TMC leader said on condition of anonymity.

"They have acted in a big brotherly manner against us. Just a day before the April 30 elections, the central forces threatened voters and asked them not to come out for voting on the following day,' the TMC leader said.
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15:34   Large cache of arms, ammunition seized in Rajouri
A large quantity of arms and ammunition was seized by the security forces from a militant hideout in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.

"Based on specific information, the Rashtriya Rifles battalion at Samote, along with troops of Territorial Army and police personnel, seized a large cache of arms and ammunition from a hideout in Khangar Forest of Rajouri district," Udhampur-based Defence spokesman Col S D Goswami said.

The cache, found yesterday, included one AK-56 rifle, two pistols, one underbarrel grenade launcher (UBGL), one 7.62 mm barrel, six magazines of AK-47, three rounds of rocket- propelled grenade, two anti-tank rifle grenades, two UBGL grenades, two Chinese-made hand grenades, 120 rounds of AK-47, eight rounds of Pika, 30 rounds of pistol and 166 rounds of .303 rifle.

"The timely recovery of the cache has prevented any untoward incident in the area, thereby thwarting the evil designs of the terrorists. The army has been conducting relentless operations to ensure peace and stability in the region," Goswami said.
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14:39  
JUST IN: Harkirat Singh, Grandson of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh passes away in hospital after he shot himself.
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14:34   Attack on African nationals: Delhi police arrests 5 people
The Delhi police has arrested five people in connection with the recent attacks on African nationals in the capital.

Earlier in the day, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had directed the Delhi Police to take strict action against the attackers and step up patrolling in the areas inhabited by the community following an appeal by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

In fresh cases, two women -- one from Uganda and the other from South Africa -- and two Nigerian men have filed complaints of physical assault and criminal intimidation.
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13:57   Jats threaten another 'violent' stir from June 5
Akhil Bharatiya Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti president Yashpal Malik said on Sunday that they will hold a Jat Nyay rally (justice for Jats rally) in Haryana from June 5 as the Haryana chief minister has not fulfilled the promises he made to Jats on February 22.

We will be holding a rally as promises by the Haryana CM have not been fulfilled. We were promised that the ones who were arrested during the Jat quota stir will be released and compensation will be given to (the kin of) those who were killed and injured, Malik said.

Apparently threatening that the protests may turn violent like the previous one, he said the protestors are free to take their call.

We will hold a peaceful protest but, if police retaliates or tries to stop us using violence, then protesters are free to take their call, he said.

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13:45   Delhi police helps woman deliver inside PCR van
A woman gave birth to a baby boy in a Delhi Police Control Room van on Sunday morning.

Aarti was at the Subzi Mandi railway station when she cried out for help.

The PCR van (sugar 46) of the Delhi Police received a call about the woman being in pain. The PCR staff immediately rushed to the spot and was on its way to Hindu Rao Hospital, when Aarti gave birth to the baby.

According to the police, Aarti was travelling in the Dadar Express with her father and mother-in-law.

She was coming from Gwalior and was on her way to Panipat.

The woman and her baby are safe.
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13:16   Army jawan shoots himself in Pathankot
An Army jawan shot himself dead at around 6 am in Pathankot, Punjab, while he was on duty.

A Court of Inquiry has been ordered.

Further details awaited.
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12:59   Why didn't Obama mention Pearl Harbor in Hiroshima: Trump
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday questioned why United States President Barack Obama did not mention the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during his trip this week to Japan.

'Does President Obama ever discuss the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor while he's in Japan? Thousands of American lives lost. #MDW,' tweeted Trump.

According to CNN, Obama did not publicly mention the surprise 1941 attack that pulled the US into World War II while on his historic trip to Japan, during which he became the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima.

"Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder the terrible forces unleashed in the not-so-distant past. We come to mourn the dead ... their souls speak to us and ask us to look inward. To take stock of who we are and what we might become," Obama said during his visit to the city's Peace Memorial Park.

Earlier in the week, in a joint press conference with Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he had no plans to visit Pearl Harbor.
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12:40  
JUST IN: Grandnephew of Bhagat Singh Abhitej Singh Sandhu dies in a road accident in Rampur Bushahr area near Shimla (Himachal Pradesh).
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12:37   Two Indian nationals killed in Nepal's Siraha brick pile collapse
Two Indian nationals, including a woman, were killed when a pile of brick collapsed at the Sagar Brick Factory at Golbazaar Municipality in Nepal's Siraha district this morning.

Rajendra Upadhyaya, inspector of Golbazaar Area Police Office, said the deceased have been identified as Alina Khatun, 35, and Ashraf Ali of India's West Bengal state, reports the Himalayan Times.

Upadhyaya informed that critically injured Khatun and Ali breathed their last on the way to a hospital in Lahan.

He also said that another injured identified as Rahilya Khatun, 35, was seriously injured in the incident and is receiving treatment at the Bhumija Hospital in Golbazaar.
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11:57   Kiran Bedi to be sworn-in as LG of Puducherry today
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Indian Police Service officer Kiran Bedi will be sworn-in as the Lt. Governor of Puducherry today.

The post is lying vacant since the exit of Veerendra Kataria in July 2014. Lt. General AK Singh, presently the LG of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, was holding the additional charge of Puducherry till now.

Bedi said that her focus at the moment is to put the Union Territory on the tourist map of India, as it is a great destination and deserves no less attention than Goa, or any other popular tourist spot in the country.

"It's all about taking Puducherry to greater prosperity and putting it on the tourist map of India. Puducherry deserves it, no less than Goa. Puducherry was part of my Union Territory cadre as a police officer and I always longed to come here because Puducherry was a great destination," Bedi said.

Asserting that she was to see a prosperous Puducherry in all respects including tourism, agriculture, health and fisheries, Bedi said that the Union Territory had amazing resources and the potential to become a great tourist destination.

Bedi, the first woman IPS officer in the country, is a recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award for her contribution in building positive relationship between police and the people. She is the fourth woman incumbent in Puducherry Raj Nivas.

Her appointment acquires added significance as a new government is going to take oath in the Union Territory in a couple of days.
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11:37   Scheduled to undergo an open-heart surgery, Sharif running govt from UK
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is scheduled to undergo an open-heart surgery in a United Kingdom hospital on Tuesday, is overseeing the affairs of his government from London, the media wing of PM House assured the nation on Saturday.

'The prime minister is being informed regularly about the overall situation of the country and in this regard both the military and principal secretaries are ... regularly providing assistance to the prime minister who is also in direct contact with his cabinet colleagues and issuing necessary orders,' it was quoted as saying by the Dawn.

The spokesperson for PM House, however, conceded that the prime minister being the chief executive of the country had to relinquish his duties during the period when he would be undergoing the surgery.

Read HERE
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11:20   Attack on African nationals: Sushma speaks to Rajnath, Telangana CM
Amid the emerging cases of attacks on African nationals in the country, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj spoke to Home Minister Rajnath Singh and New Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung and was assured of swift action.

'I have spoken to Shri Raj Nath Singh ji and Lt Governor Delhi reg attack on African nationals in South Delhi yesterday. They assured me that the culprits will be arrested soon (sic),' Swaraj tweeted.

Swaraj also spoke to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao regarding an attack on a Nigerian national in Hyderabad.

She also said that a sensitisation campaign will soon be launched in areas where African nationals reside.

Earlier today, the Ministry of External Affairs announced that it would arrange the transportation of the body of Masunda Oliver, the African national who was brutally killed in the national capital, back to his home to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

'In the unfortunate death of Mr Masunda Oliver, the government will assist his family to travel to India to receive his mortal remains. We will also arrange for his mortal remains to be transported to DR Congo at our expense,' Ministry of External Affairs official spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted.

Meanwhile, four more isolated cases of alleged attacks on African nationals have emerged from the national capital.

The Delhi Police said that all the four isolated incidents of alleged attacks happened last Thursday in Mehrauli area.

Following the death of the Congolese student, the government kicked into action while assuring that they were committed to the security of national nationals in the country.
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00:56   Italian marine arrives home after 4 years in custody in India
An Italian marine who Indian prosecutors accuse of murdering two fishermen during an anti-piracy mission returned home on Saturday after four years in custody in New Delhi.

Salvatore Girone, who was held in custody at the Italian embassy in the Indian capital, is one of two marines arrested in 2012 over the fishermen's deaths during the operation to protect an Italian oil tanker. The other marine, Massimiliano Latorre, is already back in Italy after suffering health problems.

The marines say they fired on the fishing boat because they thought the Italian ship they were assigned to protect, the Enrica Lexie, was under attack. 

Indian prosecutors accuse them of murdering the fishermen. The Supreme Court ruled earlier this week he was free to go home at least until Italy's dispute with India over jurisdiction in the case, which is now in international arbitration, is over.
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00:15   Sarah Palin assails Obama for Hiroshima visit
Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, savaged US President Barack Obama for what she termed his "apology lap" in Hiroshima, a Japanese city destroyed by a US atomic bomb during World War II.

Addressing a large Donald Trump campaign rally in downtown San Diego, Palin accused Obama of "dissing our vets" with his visit to Hiroshima '" the first by a sitting US president and one designed to honor the memory of all who were lost in the war.

Palin said Obama's visit suggested that the president believes that "the greatest generation was perpetuating the evil of World War II." She added, "Our commander in chief suggesting - actually, lying in suggestions - to the world that we were wrong to prove that we would eradicate evil in World War II."

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