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A correspondent from Delhi reports: Congress's Cuddalore MP KS Azhagiri met Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat today to press for the early notification of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's final award.
The water resources ministry is awaiting a response from the law ministry. Rawat rold Azhagiri that his department would act after it gets the requisite response from the law ministry.
Since the next hearing of the Cauvery case in Supreme Court is on February 4, a quick response from the central government is expected.
A correspondent from Delhi reports: Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal and National Executive Member Prashant Bhushan are all set to 'expose' the connivance between Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and electricity companies.
The press conference by Kejriwal and Bhushan will be held at the Deputy Speaker Hall, Constitution Club Annexe on Friday.
India has pledged $1 million to the African-led International Support Missions to Mali, which is witnessing violence by militants.
Unequivocally condemning terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, official spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs said the fight against the scourge of militancy should be unrelenting.
He also said India has pledged $1million at the donors' conference which was held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, earlier this week.
The money raised at the conference will go into a United Nations trust fund for AFISMA and for training and equipping the Malian army.
A court in New Delhi today issued summons against activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on a criminal defamation case filed against him by the political advisor of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly making "baseless" allegations against her.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shailender Malik summoned Kejriwal as an accused for March 20 on the complaint which said he had used "false and filthy" language against the chief minister in a television show.
"Due to politically motivated and malafide reasons, mischievous and absolutely false and baseless allegations have been intentionally made in a filthy and foul language through convoluted information to gain scandalising impact, at a platform where the same could not be rebutted, as Sheila Dikshit or the office of the Chief Minister of Delhi was not represented.
Ram Parmar reports: The Palghar judicial magistrate on Thursday accepted the closure report filed by the Palghar police in the sensational Facebook controversy where two Palghar women commented on the bandh after the death of the Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray in November 2012.
The Sena had had filed a protest petition before the Palghar court praying to take cognisance of the offence and also to issue summons to the two girls, Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Srinivasan,which was rejected by the court on Thursday and accepted the police closure summary report.
Amid a raging row over Kamal Haasan's film "Vishwaroopam", the Centre today decided to have a "relook" at the Cinematograph Act and set up a committee to make the law more robust to ensure movies do not get stuck after clearances by the film certification board.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari noted that the Act needed to be revisited to remove uncertainty with regard to a movie even after it has been cleared by the Central Board of Film Certification.
He told reporters that he has asked the Information and Broadcasting Secretary to form a committee to have a relook at the Act and see if there is a need to amend it. Tewari said the Committee will look into whether there is a need to make the "statutory architecture or the regulatory framework" of the Act more "robust" to ensure that the CBFC decision is implemented by the states.
Head of Pakistan's anti-corruption watchdog was today served with a contempt of court notice by the supreme court for writing a letter to the president in which he had complained about the apex court's alleged interference in ongoing investigations into several scams.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issued the notice to National Accountability Bureau Chairman Fasih Bokhari and summoned him to personally appear in court on February 4. Bokhari was directed to submit a reply before the next hearing.
Emphasising on the need to revisit the existing law, Tewari tweeted, "Time Cinematograph Act revisited to ensure implementation integrity certification decisions Otherwise each state would be its own censor (sic)."