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Karnataka had sought a review of the CRA order which orders the release of 9000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu.
However, in the Supreme Court today, Karnataka filed an affidavit stating that 9000 cusecs of water had already flown into Tamil Nadu. Although the entire 9000 cusecs of water was not released physically to Tamil Nadu as per the order of the CRA, water had flown into TN as part due to excess water from the northeast rainfall.
And his next disclosure, which he has announced for October 16, is likely to focus on BJP president Nitin Gadkari, according to a report on NDTV.
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Airline sources said the airline management, in an internal mail, has said that due to operational reasons, all flights across its network would be cancelled till October 20.
The mail came a day after Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Aggarwal appealed to all employees, striking over non-payment of salaries for seven months, to return to work to resume flight operations soon. The employees are insisting that the salaries be paid first before they resume duty.
The defence ministry has also decided that all future acquisitions of attack helicopters will be made for the army while the IAF can retain its two squadrons of Mi-35 attack helicopters along with the soon-to-be-procured 22 Apache choppers.
"We have received a letter from the defence ministry and we have been given the attack helicopters by the government,"said Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh.
Kejriwal was arrested this afternoon in Delhi with his supporters, including some with special needs, as they marched towards the Prime Minister's house. Kejriwal's supporters punctured a tyre of the bus that was leading him away, prompting his transfer to another vehicle.
Kejriwal wanted the PM to meet differently-abled people today, but was refused an appointment. Sources in the Prime Minister's Office said that the request for the meeting was made this morning, and that Dr Singh had a full day.
The channel, in a sting operation, said the NGO, Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, run by Khurshid and his wife Louise forged signatures of senior officials in several districts of Uttar Pradesh depriving the physically challenged who were eligible for grants under a scheme.
Louise Khurshid, however, has denied the allegations and said it was "devoid of any merit, and is false, malicious and baseless".
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An unrepentant Radadiya says, "I was never going to shoot anyone. I took the gun for my own protection." The party has also served a disciplinary notice against the MP.
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"We had filed four cheque bouncing cases, totalling Rs10.5 crore against KFA, Mallya and four directors of the carrier a couple of months back. As they failed to appear for hearing today, the magistrate issued an NBW against them," an airport official said from Hyderabad.
The spokesperson also said that the money was to be paid towards airport charges and the airline had not been paying it for months.
Pakistani police say they have arrested 3 suspects in the attack on 14-year-old peace activist.
The incident happened near a toll plaza at Karjan village last night, when the politician's car stopped at the toll booth. In a police complaint, the toll booth employees have said that the attendant asked for the MP's identity card and the driver showed him a photocopy, reports NDTV.
When the toll attendant asked for the original, they said, Radadiya angrily stepped out of the car with the gun in hand and pointed it at the attendant, even allegedly threatening to kill him.
Footage from a CCTV camera installed at the toll plaza corroborates this. On camera the bearded MP, dressed in white, is seen strutting around the car with the gun, occasionally raising it and pointing it at people, clearly agitated.
Radadiya denies none of this. Except that he claims that about 15 people had surrounded his car and so he had to grab the gun for self defence. "Are people free to attack us? I acted in self defence. Where is the police on a highway?" he asked.
With an injured air he recounted to NDTV how his car was stopped at the plaza despite him being an MP. "MPs don't have to pay toll," he said, clearly astonished that he was stopped. The attendant's due diligence also did not agree with the MP, who said indignantly, "When I got down I was called a bogus MP. If a person calls me a bogus MP, they say my card is false, what do I do?"
He soon slammed the phone down on NDTV.
Also read: Police arrest two in Gurgaon toll shooting case
In his defence, the MP told NDTV that he was angry after the toll attendant called him a bogus MP and told him that his ID was a fake and had allegedly threatened him.
The march started from Janpath but was prevented by police after 100 metres at the Rajpath crossing.
Mr Khurshid has insulted the office of Law Minister BR Ambedkar was once in this seat. A case should be registered against Mr Khurshid and his wife. Till he is declared innocent, he should be out of the Cabinet," he said.
Both Mr. Khurshid and his wife are very powerful people. They will be able to cleanse the evidence. They can put pressure on witnesses. They should be arrested to prevent this," Kejriwal said.
News just coming in says Arvind Kejriwal has also been arrested.
Arvind Kejriwal along with disabled people had marched towards the Prime Ministers residence demanding dismissal of Law Minister Salman Khurshid and his arrest following allegations by India Against Corruption (IAC) of financial irregularities in a trust run by him.
The activist had sought time from the
Prime Minister but his office refused to give him and the disabled
people an appointment, Kejriwal said.
The main road had been blocked for the last few hours and the police said despite repeated requests asking the IAC volunteers to move, they said they would rather court arrest. Consequently, they were force-lifted and arrested.
Whether or not that begrudging assistance will keep the European project afloat remains to be seen, but the deep crisis has broadened the gulf already felt between citizens in the different member states and a Brussels long seen as too distant and bureaucratic.
But the creation of the organisation is credited with helping to bring peace and stability to the war-torn continentby bringing together arch-enemies France and Germany and herding them down the same path. Despite recurring difficulties, the EU has become the biggest common market in the world, allowing free circulation of goods, people, services and capital.
Over the years, the pioneering project has swelled toencompass 27 countries which not long ago sat on either side of the "Iron Curtain".
However, the 2012 award is likely to go down as one of the questionable choices, like the awards for Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, the International Atomic Energy Agency (after the the US had already gone to war in Iraq), and Barack Obama, who won after less a year in office as President. More
@mathieuvonrohr Seriously: Awarding the Nobel peace prize to the EU, who actually secured peace, certainly a much better than idea than giving it to Obama.
@AsmaIMalik Next year, the Nobel peace prize will be awarded to planet earth for not self-imploding #NobelPeacePrize
In the inter-war years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee made several awards to persons who were seeking reconciliation between Germany and France. Since 1945, that reconciliation has become a reality. The dreadful suffering in World War II demonstrated the need for a new Europe. Over a seventy-year period, Germany and France had fought three wars.
Today war between Germany and France is unthinkable. This shows how, through well-aimed efforts and by building up mutual confidence, historical enemies can become close partners. In the 1980s, Greece, Spain and Portugal joined the EU.
The introduction of democracy was a condition for their membership. The fall of the Berlin Wall made EU membership possible for several Central and Eastern European countries, thereby opening a new era in European history. The division between East and West has to a large extent been brought to an end; democracy has been strengthened; many ethnically-based national conflicts have been settled. The admission of Croatia as a member next year, the opening of membership negotiations with Montenegro, and the granting of candidate status to Serbia all strengthen the process of reconciliation in the Balkans. In the past decade, the possibility of EU membership for Turkey has also advanced democracy and human rights in that country.
The EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest. The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to focus on what it sees as the EU's most important result: the successful struggle for peace and reconciliation and for democracy and human rights. The stabilizing part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.
The work of the EU represents "fraternity between nations", and amounts to a form of the "peace congresses" to which Alfred Nobel refers as criteria for the Peace Prize in his 1895 will.
Founded with the Treaty of Rome in 1957 with a community of six nations seeking greater economic integration, the bloc has expanded to 27 including east European states added since the Cold War.
Norway is not a member, having decided against it in the early days and then had a subsequent attempt to join rejected by the electorate. It is not quite clear what the Nobel award committee will say about the cris affecting the 17-nation eurozone at the heart of the EU.
In a shocking and bizarre statement, the Congress leader said, "I don't feel any hesitation in saying that 90 per cent of the girls want to have sex intentionally but they don't know that they would be gang raped further as they find some lusty and pervasive people in the way ahead."
The Congress has now sent a disciplinary notice to Goyat to explain his statement and has also distance itself from him. More on CNN IBN. He has also be cautioned against making any statement.
The government has carved out more money for women's welfare measures in the budget. And for the first time, women outnumbered men in the number of literates added to the country in the last decade.
And yet, as the first International Day of the Girl Child was celebrated on Thursday, news of a string of rapes in a northern state. Read
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"There is a fine balance required to be maintained between the right to information and the right to privacy, which stems out of the fundamental right to life and liberty. The citizens' right to know should definitely be circumscribed if disclosure of information encroaches upon someone's personal privacy. But where to draw the line is a complicated question," he said.
Readthe report on rediff.com
Last year's prize came as a surprise to many observers, split as it was among three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and grassroots activist Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni media freedom campaigner Tawakkul Karman, a symbol of the Arab Spring. Will this year's winner of the coveted prize also come out of the blue?
Read the report on cnn.com.
But the prize has already stirred up debate. Read the report on Reuters.
Read the report on the Indian Express.
This is an irrevocable and unconditional bank guarantee towards the expenses for IPL series-6 including making payments to BCCI to players and support team costs. If DCHL fails to come up with the guarantee its IPL contract could be revoked, said the banker. The 6th edition of the IPL is expected to be played out in April-May next year.
The letter, received yesterday, specified timings atwhich the places will be bombed, sources said, adding that it mentioned Mantralaya, Vidhan Bhavan, MLA hostel, Manora Hostel and Nagpur Vidhan Sabha as the targets.
The state secretariat officials informed about the threat letter the police, who sounded a high alert in south Mumbai. A check was carried out all important places and vehicles, including those parked at the places mentioned in the letter, were thoroughly checked, police said.
As the timings mentioned in the letter for the attacks passed by, police said it appeared that the letter was a hoax. However, checking has been stepped up and the letter would not be taken lightly, police said.
Pictured: The Secretariat in flames in June
In September, he was charged under the sedition law, for sending offensive messages under the Information Technology Act and under the law for Prevention of Insults to National Honour. The complainant took particular exception to Trivedi's cartoon showing the national emblem with three wolves instead of lions and the words Bhrashtameva Jayate (only corruption triumphs) instead of Satyameve Jayate.
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Meanwhile, the CMO continues to be in hiding. While speaking to CNN-IBN from an undisclosed location, he said the situation was still the same and that he was under a threat. "The situation is the same as earlier. They came at night. They were trying to kill me and pressuring me to change the report," he said.
Uttar Pradesh minister Vinod Kumar Singh has resigned from his post after it was alleged that he was instrumental in the abduction of the district chief medical officer of Gonda.
After remaining silent on the issue for more than 24 hours, the ruling Samajwadi Party was forced to act, and has now asked the minister to quit. However, Vinod Kumar Singh told CNN-IBN that he reisgned on moral grounds.
The BSE benchmark Sensex today fell by nearly 66 points in early trade as Infosys' second quarter results failed to cheer the market. The 30-share index, which had gained 173.65 points yesterday, fell by 65.90 points, or 0.35 per cent, to 18,738.85 with stocks of IT, capital goods and power sectors leading the fall in first five minutes of trade.
Similarly, the wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty declined by 13.20 points, or 0.23 per cent, to 5,694.85. Selling pressure sparked after below-market-expectations September quarter earnings by IT major Infosys, mainly influenced the trading sentiment, brokers said.
Funds and retail investors booking profits at prevailing higher levels also aided the fall in Sensex.
Seven Royal Marines have been arrested on suspicion of murder, the Ministry of Defence has said. The arrests by the Royal Military Police related to an incident in Afghanistan last year, when 3 Commando Brigade was based in Helmand.
The MoD said the incident followed an "engagement with an insurgent" and no civilians were involved.
IT major Infosys today reported a 24.29 per cent jump in consolidated net profit to Rs 2,369 crore for the second quarter ended September 30. The company's revenues were up 21.7 per cent to Rs 9,858 crore in the second quarter from Rs 8,099 crore in the year-ago period, Infosys said in a BSE filing.
Company CFO V Balakrishnan will be giving up his position as CFO from October 31, after six years at the helm of the company's finances. However, he will continue as a member of the board and will be responsible for three key businesses -- Infosys BPO, Finacle and the India Business Unit.
The company had posted a net profit of Rs 1,906 crore for the July-September quarter of the previous fiscal (2011-12). For FY2012-13, the company said it expects its rupee revenue to be at least Rs 39,582 crore (a year-on-year growth of 17.3 per cent).
AFP: A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua today, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no immediate tsunami alert issued.
The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 0701 IST, was 247 kilometres southwest of Nabire in Papua and 108 kilometres north of Dobo in the Aru Islands, USGS said. It hit at a depth of 24 kilometres.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre website said there was no current warning or advisory in effect. "There is no tsunami potential. The quake was felt in towns of Nabire, Wamena in Papua and the city of Ambon in Maluku islands," Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology andGeophysics Agency duty officer, Fauzi, told AFP.
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