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A district court in Beitiah, Bihar, today ordered registration of case against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his comments blaming "Bihari" migrants for the recent case of gangrape of a girl in New Delhi.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Manoj Kumar Singh of West Champaran district issued the order on a complaint filed by an advocate against the chief of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
The CJM ordered the town police station to register a case against Thackeray under CRPC 156 III (police officer's power to investigate cognisable case).
Shivanand Tiwari of the JD-U compared Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which is the BJP's ideological mentor, to Akbaruddin Owaisi, a politician in the news for delivering hate speeches in Andhra Pradesh.
"There is no difference between them (Bhagwat and Owaisi), both are two sides of the same coin...both create hatred in society in order to boost their vote banks," said Tiwari, a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar.
"All (setting up of counters) is being done to operationalise the announcement of new visa agreement," sources said here.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik had agreed last year to launch new visa regime to promote people-to-people contact between two countries. Under the new regime, those above 65 years of age are exempted from police reporting with multiple entries for them. This new regime will take effect from January 15, 2013.
Reacting to the ongoing controversy and countrywide criticism over the statements, Dubey said, "Bapujee never made such statements. He just asked his women followers to avoid such situation anyhow."
"He was only suggesting that women should try their level best to come out from such situation by using diplomatic ways. We request the media not to distort the statement, this will dissolve such a sensitive issue," said Dubey. "Yes, he said that the girl had made a mistake by taking an empty bus in night. If she had taken 'Matra-Diksha', the God has might save her anyhow," she added.
Asaram Bapu has landed himself in a controversy over his remark that the December 16 Delhi gang rape victim is as guilty as those responsible for the barbaric sexual assault on her.
"I am saying this because both are fundamentalist in nature and they want to take us back to the 18th century," the Congress leader told reporters here last night after addressing a meeting for Raghogarh Municipal elections in Madhya Pradesh.
Singh said that "only fundamentalists want to prescribe a dress code for women and by doing this they want to hide their own misbehaviour". The Congress General Secretary said that the day was not far off when the RSS would want to ban jeans, computer and mobile phones for women.
Taking a dig at the Sangh, he said "if the RSS was so fond of Indian culture, then why do its swayamsevaks wear shorts which are of western origin. "It would be much better if they start wearing the Indian dhoti," Singh said.
He said that Indian culture teaches us that a household, where women are respected, remains happy and where the women are not respected, there can be no happiness.
The Congress General Secretary said that in contrast to this, RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat had described marriage as a social agreement under which men work while women stay inside their homes.
However, the BJP refused to give any commitment to the JMM on sharing power in the mineral-rich state, sources say. The BJP leadership is convinced that the JMM can't be in power in Jharkhand without its support. Details here.
Some reports said the event was held in Rajasthan. Dubey said Asaram was trying ta drive home the point that incidents like the gangrape of the girl could have been avoided by reciting mantras, by reciting names of Gods.
"If she (the victim) would have taken God's name or recited a mantra God inside her might have suggested her to how to avoid such crimes," she said, seeking to explain Asaram's remarks.
"He was giving that idea to his devotees. He was citing the gang rape incident to say one should use commonsense to avoid such incidents," she added.
A joint-secretary level officer of the Ministry will investigate the veracity of the claim by the software engineer that even after reaching the spot here on the night of December 16, the police were arguing over jurisdiction of the case and were hesitant to lift the 23-year-old girl, losing crucial time, a senior Home Ministry official said today.
The probe will also look into the counter-claim by the Delhi Police and check the log books of the Police Control Room vans which came to the spot where the girl and her friend were dumped by the six men after the gang rape.
With this the death toll this winter has risen to 175. Met office officials here said Muzaffarnagar was the coldest place in the state with minus 0.7 degree celsius which was seven degrees below normal. Cold wave conditions prevailed over most parts of the state with maximum temperatures remaining below normal by seven to 15 notches. Night temperatures fell markedly in Lucknow and Allahabad divisions. Agra recorded .6 degree celsius, Najibabad (Bijnore) 1.s0, Lucknow and Aligarh 1.4 each and Kheri 1.6, the Met department said.
The delay in disposing such cases might be one of the factors for rise in crimes against women, said CJI Kabir in a letter to all the chief justices of high courts, and added that the time has come to deal expeditiously with such cases. The CJI said the high court chief justices should get in touch with the state governments for appointment of judicial officers but in the meantime some court should be designated as fast-track courts to exclusively deal with offences against women.
Anderson put in an amazing performance to the sound of Emilie Sande's 'Read All About It' and landed a respectable score of 18.5 out of 40.
Looking all relaxed and graceful in black, she was a natural on the ice and appeared to really enjoy herself.
She was so disappointed to land in the bottom two -- and even more shocked when she left the show after wobbling her way through the skate off.
Stepping off the ice in white, she said that she wobbled because her dress fell off. Insisting that it really was her nipple's fault, she said afterwards that she felt sad to leave the show, as it was really fun. She felt sad that she just stumbled in her dress, and her boobs fell out.
More women than men said they had been accused by work colleagues of "being in a strop" first thing in the morning, the survey found. The poll also said that men get up earlier, hit the ground running and are more on the ball when they arrive at work.
More than half of the 2,000 adults quizzed said they cannot bear to talk to anyone until at least 8am '" over an hour after the average wake-up time of 6.49am, the Daily Express reported.
The survey by the makers of the Zombie Underground game app also found that almost a third dodge conversation with their colleagues first thing in their morning, while a fifth even ignore their children.
"Waking up knowing you have a long and stressful day ahead of you can put you in a bad mood before you have even stepped out of bed," spokesman Jon Lucas said. "And it seems many people are dealing with their bad moods by ignoring those around them and avoiding all conversation. But you never know, having a chat with someone could help pull you out of your dark mood," Lucas said.
This information has been included in the charge-sheet, which was filed by the police on Thursday in a Delhi court. According to highly placed sources, the six men, after throwing carpenter Ramadhar Singh out of the bus, drove around with the intention to abduct and rape a woman. They spotted a girl in a black dress waiting at a bus stop near the IIT flyover. Read more
"Why this delay in taking action. Why this lenient attitude when there is a universal condemnation of his (MIM MLA's) highly objectionable comments. It is the Congress which helped MIM to grow. They still share power in Hyderabad Corporation. Is this the reason why they are soft?," senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu asked while talking to reporters here.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) had recently withdrawn its support to Congress both at the Centre and Andhra Pradesh but both parties continue to share power in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
Insiders say that there will be no tremors if Gadkari's name is indeed announced for another term.
It is believed that Sushma Swaraj does not want to head the BJP as she does
not want to relinquish her position of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. As for Arun Jaitley -- the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha has reservations if the BJP lost Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal in 2012, it could well lose Karnataka.and Jharkhand in 2013.
The responsibility for losing state elections normally comes to rest with the party president and Jaitley does not want to put himself up for criticism
And then, there's Rajnath Singh. Top BJP leaders speculate that he will be useful for the UP election campaign and he too does not want to put himself up for criticism. The choice therefore remains Nitin Gadkari.
He said one must remember that full respect for human rights of all and on all occasions, inclusive of gender equality and gender justice, are prerequisites of a modern, progressive, society.
"A recent event on the eve of the New Year gave all of us occasion for remorse and sorrow. It made us, as a people, hang our heads in shame. "The expressions of anguish and anger, fully justified, must now be speedily translated into comprehensive correctives in laws, procedures, societal norms and values, and social behaviour," Ansari said, addressing NCC Republic Day Camp 2013 in Delhi.
It is for the first time that a lawyer came forward to defend the five accused amid resolutions of various advocate bodies in the city not to represent them. Advocate Mohan Lal Sharma appeared in the court and told Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal that he had received calls from relatives of some of the accused to defend them.
He told the court that he was unable to take signatures of the accused in 'vakalatnama' (a person's authority letter to an advocate to represent him in court) as he could not go to Tihar Jail and sought the magistrate's permission to take the the same in the court itself.
The metropolitan magistrate, however, refused him the permission and asked him to go to Tihar Jail for the purpose. Even as the court rejected Sharma's plea, two more lawyers offered their services as amicus curiae to the court.
Later the five accused - Ram Singh, Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Akshay Thakur, could not be produced in the overcrowded courtroom, jam-packed with media persons, lawyers and police personnel, due to paucity of space.
The magistrate thereafter asked the people present in the court to make space for the accused to enter it, but despite some space having been made for them, the police refused to bring in the five saying they would bring them only after the court is completely cleared.
The accused are likely to be produced in-chamber now. The accused were to be produced in court in response to the production warrants issued against them for today. The court had issued the production warrants after taking cognisance of the charge sheet filed against them by the police.
Many seniors feel that the BJP has lost the momentum to make any impact in the 2014 polls thanks to its internal squabbles. Obviously, this has affected the morale of party men, who are trying to remain hopeful that the BJP will emerge victorious if the peoples' movement against the UPA2 gets stronger.
Social organisation 'Parivartan' wants to adopt and take care of the girl, who faced torture at the hands of her own father and brother, who allegedly raped her for the last two years, organisation's members said today.
The 19-year-old girl was last month found crying at Dombivili station in Thane district by her friends. She told them that her father had repeatedly raped her for the last two years and since the last two months her brother was also sexually abusing her, but she could not muster courage to complain against them. Her mother was already living separately after divorcing her father.
Obviously, rapes happen in Bharat and not just India.
"All auction will be held in March," Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said after the EGoM meet here. On CDMA auction, he said the bidding for the 800 MHz band will take place in all the circles. Meanwhile, sources said the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has proposed 30-50 per cent price cut in CDMA spectrum price and the Cabinet will take a final decision on the issue. "Cabinet will decide on CDMA spectrum price cut. The auctions will begin on March 11," said a source.
In a first of its kind case involving a politician in India, the Delhi High Court made public the result of the DNA test report, rejecting 87-year-old Tiwari's last ditch attempts to keep it a secret. Read more
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In a statement, JIH said it welcomed the government's decision to set up committees to review the present anti-rape law and find out measures to make the society safe for the women against the backdrop of the gangrape of a 23-year-old in Delhi.
If you sniff at Raj's tirade, remember the sombre P Chidambaram also made a similar statement in 2010. Read
For over 20 years almost Rs 20 crore earmarked for building night shelters and to provide other welfare assistance to the national Capital's poor and homeless was siphoned off with impunity. And when the scam was busted, there seems to have been an organized bid to shelter the guilty. Read more
"Only 5-6 people are not the culprits. The victim daughter is as guilty as her rapists... She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop... This could have saved her dignity and life," Asaram said.
"Can one hand clap? I don't think so," he quipped. Read more
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Fog started to descend at the airport around midnight and general visibility dropped to below 50 metres and runway visibility to 50 metres at the third runway around 3 am, while visibility was around 1000 metres on main runway (28/10), airport officials said. But the situation changed within 40 minutes and visibility at main runway dropped to 125 metres at one end forcing the authorities to implement low visibility procedures.