A helicopter carrying Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan "disappeared" for around fifteen minutes today, sending officials in a tizzy before it landed safely in Katni, an official said.  

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On the eve of the fifth phase of assembly elections, several crude bombs were found from different parts of the city during random check by the Kolkata Police.

Four persons have been detained in connection with therecoveries, a senior police officer said.

While 14 crude bombs were seized from the terrace of a local club premises in Chelta Police Station area, 10 were found kept inside a bag lying in the backyard of a club in the Tiljala area, the officer said.

"The bombs have been defused and we are conducting check in the neighbourhood as well. Bomb Disposal Squad and sniffer dogs are being used for the purpose. We have detained four people for questioning," he said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned former Air Force Chief S P Tyagi in connection with its probe in the AgustaWestland VVIP choppers deal on Monday.

Air Marshal J S Gujral(retd has also been summoned by the CBI tomorrow in connection with the case.

Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate had also sent summons to Tyagi for questioning on the VVIP Chopper deal. The summons were issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

The former Air Force chief has been accused of swinging the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal in favour of AgustaWestland, and had admitted during his interrogation by the CBI in 2013 that he had met middleman Guido Ralph Haschke at a farmhouse party in Delhi.

The Kerala high court today dismissed an appeal filed by Central Board of Secondary Education challenging its single judges order granting permission to Muslim girls to wear the hijab (veil), a customary religious dress, while appearing for All India Pre Medical Test-2016.

A division bench, comprising Justice P N Ravindran and Justice Sunil Thomas, observed that no ground had been made out to interfere with the April 26 order of the single judge.

It further said the CBSE in principle has accepted the ruling of the single judge in its April 26 memorandum wherein it directed the candidates wearing hijab to appear for the test at 8.30 am.

In his order, Justice Muhammed Mushtaq had permitted all candidates who, based on the religious practice, want to wear headscarf and full-sleeved dress to appear for the test but on condition that they be present at the hall an hour before the exam for frisking, if necessary, by women invigilators.

In its appeal, the CBSE said the single judge had ignored the likelihood of millions of students being affected by its direction, particularly in view of the fact that arrangements for the conduct of examination had been completed.

The CBSE had contended that since the judgment creates necessity for additional women invigilators, it would find conduct of the examination with such additional women invigilators trained to honour religious sentiments extremely cumbersome, unmanageable and unworkable at this extremely belated stage.

Fourteen soldiers lost their lives while serving in Siachen Glacier, the highest battlefield in the world, just in last four months, a number which is more than the deaths that occurred during each of the last three previous years.

As per the data provided by the Army's Northern Command, nine soldiers lost their lives last year, eight in 2014 and 10 in 2013.

As many as 41 soldiers have died from 2013 till March 31, 2016, at the glacier in Jammu and Kashmir.

Giving further details, Defence Ministry spokesman Col S D Goswami said, "Troops being posted in high altitude areas are trained in 'Basic & Advance' skills in mountains and snow bound areas. Troops posted in Avalanche Prone Areas' are subjected to series of training in the field formation area."

He said medical equipment exists in all posts to cater for emergencies and best quality of winter clothing and equipment is procured to prevent weather related casualties.

Modern means of conveyance like snow scooters are utilised to ensure timely reaction to any eventuality and reduce fatigue, he said, adding that a number of specialized equipment have also been deployed in the avalanche prone areas.

The spokesman said weather conditions prevailing in the sector are closely monitored by the Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment stations at Sasoma and Srinagar.

The weather warnings issued are religiously followed in terms of restrictions on operation and administration related movement, he said.

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Visakhapatnam will be the joint venue for Mumbai and Pune Indian Premiere League teams, said IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla, after a Governing Council meeting on Friday.

Earlier, the Supreme Court on Wednesday had rejected the pleas of Mumbai Cricket Association and Maharashtra Cricket Association against the Bombay high court's order to shift the Indian Premier League matches out of drought-hit Maharashtra.

The Bombay high court had on April 13 ordered shifting of all IPL matches scheduled in Maharashtra after April 30 to another state in view of the severe drought in the state.

Kings XI Punjab, who were scheduled to play three of their home games in Nagpur in May had accepted the high court decision to shift their matches out of the state.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday began its investigation into the alleged sting operation in which former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat was purportedly seen talking to middlemen in a bid to strike a deal with dissident Congress MLAs.

The CBI questioned a journalist as part of its preliminary inquiry.

CBI sources said Umesh Kumar, the journalist allegedly involved in the sting operation, was questioned by the agency for nearly two and half hours at the CBI headquarters in New Delhi.

"The CBI has asked me to provide raw footage of the sting which I will give tomorrow," Umesh said, coming out of the CBI office.

The sources said the preliminary inquiry was registered on the instructions of the state government which is under President's rule and further notification from the central government.

Reacting to the development, Rawat said, "We're ready for any kind of probe, I've also said it earlier."

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh tweets: Today I lost my youngest daughter in her fight against Cancer. Thanks for sharing my grief. May her Soul rest in Peace.


Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's daughter Karnika Singh died due to cancer in New Delhi today.  Karnika (37) is the youngest among his four daughters. She was admitted in Max Hospital, Saket, a few days ago and breathed her last at around 5 am. She had undergone treatment for the disease in the US as well.


Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi along with senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad visited Singh at his residence located in 64 Lodhi Estate.


Karnika's body has been taken to Wadhwan in Gujarat via road for the last rites. Karnika's mother, Asha, who was Singh's first wife, had also died due to cancer in 2013.


Pic: Digvijaya Singh with his family during his son's graduation ceremony at Columbia university, USA.

The Central Information Commissioner has directed universities of Delhi and Gujarat to respond to all RTI applications with regards to PM Narendra Modi's educational qualifications. The CIC also directed the PMO to make available specific details of  the PM's degrees to Delhi University to facilitate their search and disclosures.



Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday wrote a letter to Central Information Commissioner M Sridhar Acharyulu, stating he had taken exception to the Central Information Commission (CIC) hiding information pertaining to the educational qualification of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


I have learnt that you have curtailed the disclosure of information related to the degree of PM Narendra Modi there are allegations that Mr Modi has no degree. In the light of this, the people of the country want to know the truth. But you have refused to make information about his degree public. Why did you do that? This is wrong, Kejriwal wrote.


In his election affidavit, PM Modi had claimed that he completed a distance education course in political science from Delhi University in 1978. The Delhi University had also rejected an RTI plea seeking information on Modi's bachelor of arts degree.


Earlier, Gujarat University had refused to divulge information related to the PM's masters degree, saying that the marksheet and other details were personal information.


Following this, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has asked the CIC to make public details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's educational qualification.


In a letter to the CIC, the Delhi CM has requested the agency that information about PM's educational degrees should be brought in the public domain to eliminate any confusion over the issue.

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Just in: The Enforcement Directorate summons former Air Chief SP Tyagi for questioning on the VVIP Chopper deal. The summons were issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.


The former Air Force chief has been accused of swinging the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal in favour of AgustaWestland, and had admitted during his interrogation by the CBI in 2013 that he had met middleman Guido Ralph Haschke at a farmhouse party in Delhi.

Intensifying his attack, BJP President Amit Shah today targeted Congress chief Sonia Gandhi once again over the VVIP chopper scam asking her to explain a "number of relaxations" given to AgustaWestland which, he alleged, compromised India's interests.


Posing questions to Gandhi before the media, he said reports of bribery in the deal appeared in the Italian media soon after the it was finalised but the then UPA government went ahead with it instead of invoking a tender clause, which enabled it to be put on hold.


The deal was "put on hold" only in 2013 after corruption was "proved", he said adding the Congress chief should answer who was behind the delay.


Shah said the tender for the purchase of choppers allowed only original equipment manufacturers (OEM) but AgustaWestland was allowed to compete even though it was not an OEM.


"I want to ask the Congress President as to who was behind the change? Who ensured that the company was found technically qualified? Who was behind the changes in the tender conditions?" he asked at a press conference.


Raising another question, he said when the deal was done, one of the conditions was that the field evaluation trial of the choppers would be carried out in India but it was later changed and the firm was allowed to do so in its premises.


"Conditions were changed abruptly. Did it not play with India's interests? Did it not compromise the seriousness of trial? Did the then Defence Minister give the permission? On whose behest did it happen? Sonia Gandhi should answer it too," he said. \


He also refuted the claim of Congress that all the money given by AgustaWestland under the ban guarantee has returned to India and said only a part of it has been encashed.


"Congress chief should herself answer these questions be appearing before people, by appearing before the media," he said. The Congress should come out of the mindset of "thief scolding a cop".


Yesterday, Shah attacked Gandhi and asker to name the bribe takers in the Rs.3,600 core chopper deal but Congress hit back saying his demand was a "no confidence vote" in the Modi government which has "failed" in its job of investigating it properly in last two years.

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DMK leader Kanimozhi has said her father and party president M Karunanidhi will fulfill all promises made in their manifesto for the May 16 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.


"Kalaignar (Karunanidhi) will implement all the promises made. He promised farm loan waiver earlier and had implemented it. This time, among others, he has assured waiving student loans and he will certainly do it," she said.


Addressing an election meeting in Vellore last night, Kanimozhi said Karunanidhi is the "only leader" who can implement prohibition in the state. For Tamil Nadu to prosper, DMK has to come to power, she said.


"If farmers have to prosper, DMK has to come to power. If Tamil Nadu should get industries and youths jobs, DMK has to come to power," she said.

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"As I was getting out of my car at Haji Ali some activists from the AIMIM charged towards me with lathis and knives. In order to protect us, the police took our car ahead of the dargah."

But, says Trupti Desai, the woman who has changed the laws for women to enter temples, says her fight to open Haji Ali to women is not over.

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A majority of the people in Delhi favour a permanent implementation of the Delhi government's odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution, a survey report said today. 

The Bombay High Court has ordered the demolishing of the 31-floor Adarsh Housing Society building. The order to raze the building comes after the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) passed an order to demolish the scam-hit society in 2011, following which its members approached the Bombay High Court challenging it.


The Environment Ministry had on January 16, 2011  directed the Society to demolish within three months the "unauthorised" 31-storey building in South Mumbai for violating coastal regulations.


About 103 members of the Society filed a petition in the High Court in 2011 challenging the ministry's order on the grounds that it is "wrong in law".


The court has now passed an order for the building to be demolished.

The high-rise meant to house families of Kargil martyrs came under the scanner following reports that flats were doled out to politicians, top defence personnel including two former Army chiefs and bureaucrats as well as their kin.

JNU authorities have sent the Delhi Police the report of a five-member panel on the controversial February 9 event during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.


The report was sought from the Chief Proctor's Office by Delhi Police's anti-terrorism unit, Special Cell, which is probing the sedition case registered in connection with the event on the campus against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.


"The special cell had contacted us for a copy of the report and we have sent the same," a senior university official said.


JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested in connection with the sedition case in February, triggering widespread protests. They are now out on bail.


On basis of the recommendations of the probe panel, JNU had earlier this week announced punishments against several students in connection with the event.


While Kanhaiya has been slapped with a penalty of Rs 10,000 on grounds of "indiscipline and misconduct", Umar, Anirban and Kashmiri student Mujeeb Gatoo have been rusticated for varying durations. Financial penalty has been imposed on 14 students. Hostel facilities of two students have been withdrawn and the university has declared the campus out of bounds for two former students.

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's daughter Karnika Singh died due to cancer in New Delhi today.  Karnika (37) is the youngest among his four daughters. She was admitted in Max Hospital, Saket, a few days ago and breathed her last at around 5 am. She had undergone treatment for the disease in the US as well.


Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi along with senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad visited Singh at his residence located in 64 Lodhi Estate.


Karnika's body has been taken to Wadhwan in Gujarat via road for the last rites. Karnika's mother, Asha, who was Singh's first wife, had also died due to cancer in 2013.


Pic: Digvijaya Singh with his family during his son's graduation ceremony at Columbia University in 2011.

To pre-empt chances of violence during fifth phase of polling in West Bengal tomorrow, a strong contingent of 90,000 personnel of central and state police forces have been deployed in three poll-bound districts of the state.

Election Commission officials said they have deployed around 680 companies of central police forces and over 20,000 state police personnel in over 53 constituencies of South 24 Parganas, Kolkata South and Hooghly districts going to the hustings tomorrow in the fifth phase of polling.

In two parts of the first phase of polling on April 5 and 11, only 400 companies of central forces were available as polling was simultaneously going on in neighbouring Assam.

From the second phase onwards, over 700 companies of central paramilitary forces have been pressed into service. After polling ends in one phase, they move on to take up confidence building measures for the next phase, officials said.

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The US Supreme Court has approved a change in Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, so judges across the country now have the authority to issue warrants for remote electronic searches outside their district. That means that a judge can grant an FBI agent in, say, New York, permission to hack into a computer in San Francisco, or potentially any city in the world, in order to further their investigation.  Read more

The Indian Olympic Association is finally getting its act together. India's lone individual Olympics gold medallist Abhinav Bindra has accepted the offer of being the IOA brand ambassador. Bindra says he is all set to accept the offer and felt humbled.

After the flak the IOA faced with the appointment of Salman Khan, it approached Sachin Tendulkar and music maestro AR Rahman, to become goodwill ambassadors of Indian contingent for 2016 Rio Olympics.


This comes after superstar Salman Khan's appointment as goodwill ambassador created furore, with top athletes like Milkha Singh and Yogeshwar Dutt criticising the move.

Tendulkar and Rehman have yet to respond.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today visited External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who was admitted at AIIMS in New Delhi after she complained of chest congestion.


Gandhi spent some time in the Cardio-Neuro Centre of the hospital where Swaraj is undergoing treatment since April 25.


Swaraj has had a good rapport with Gandhi and his mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi since she was the Leader of Opposition in the last Lok Sabha.


The premier hospital had yesterday said that Swaraj continued to show rapid improvement and would be discharged soon. AIIMS has also set up a medical board for formulating a combined treatment strategy for the minister.


Both Sonia and Rahul had, last year in Parliament, walked up to the minister to ask about her well being when she was unwell.

Two secondary school students accused of carrying out a bomb attack on a Gurudwara in the German city of Essen nearly two weeks ago are radical Islamists and sympathisers of the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda, authorities said.


The two allegedly detonated a fire extinguisher filled with explosives at the entrance of the Nanaksar Satsang Sabha Gurudwara on the evening of April 16.


Before setting off the explosion, the two 16-year-old secondary school students unsuccessfully tried to break into the gurudwara through the entrance door, North Rhine Westphalia Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger said yesterday in a report presented to the home affairs committee of the state parliament in Duesseldorf.


They have admitted carrying out the attack, but denied that the operation was motivated by religion, the report said. They told their investigators that they did it "just for the kick of building fireworks".

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The Gujarat government today declared a 10% reservation in government jobs and higher education institutions in the state for the economically-backward class from all non-reserved castes.


The new quota will be in addition to the existing 49% reservation for Schedules Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC)

Fridays announcement came nine months after the politically and economically influential Patidars, staunch supporters of the ruling BJP, began an agitation for reservation under the OBC category.

The quota benefits will be available to the members of all the upper caste communities, including Patidars, Brahmins, Kshtriyas and Lohana among others, with annual income less than Rs 6 lakh.

The Gujarat government will bring out an ordinance in this regard on May 1, the foundation day of the state.

Former Air Chief SP Tyagi, who has denied any role in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, met officials of the company in Italy while in office and also enjoyed an evening at the opera, an Italian court judgement has revealed.

During one of those trips, Air Marshal Tyagi, referred to as "Shashi Tyagi" and "Marshall Tyagi" in  the documents attached to the Italian Court of Appeals, visited the world famous Teotro Alla Scala Opera in Milan, allegedly at Agusta's expense, a top official of the helicopter maker said in court.

The former air chief has denied allegations that he tailored specifications to help Agusta win the 3,600 crore deal to supply a dozen choppers to India for use by top leaders including the prime minister. Agusta and its Italy-based parent company Finmeccanica were allegedly in touch with his cousins, who are named among Indians who received kickbacks.

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Pic: The Teatro alla Scala in Milan where the former air chief allegedly watched an opera paid for by Agusta officials

This is one motion that will get 'ayes' across party lines in both Houses of Parliament.

A 100 per cent salary hike for MPs.

Our sources tell us that the parliamentary panel report recommending a pay hike for Members of Parliament was approved by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley yesterday and submitted to the Prime Minister's Office.


A joint committee of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members has prepared a report recommending the following changes in the pay structure for MPs:

-- Monthly salary to be hiked from the present Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh,
-- Constituency allowance raised from Rs 45,000 to Rs 90,000
-- Secretarial assistance plus office allowance raised from Rs 45,000 to Rs 90,000.
-- Dearness allowance would be in addition to the salary.
-- Furniture allowance doubled to 1,50,000.
-- The report recommends that all MPs be given broadband BSNL connections of Rs 1700 per month installed at the MP's official residence in his constituency. BSNL will create a wi-fi zone for MPs at with a range of 500 metres.


If this comes into effect, it will cost the exchequer Rs 250 crore per year.


The pay panel, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yogi Adityanath, also recommended around 75 percent raise in pensions and an automatic mechanism for salary hike for MPs.

Consequently, the pension for former MPs has also been increased from Rs 20,000 to Rs 35,000.

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Uproar in Rajya Sabha by Congress MPs as Subramanian Swamy stands to say he has given breach of privilege motion against Congress senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad.


With Rajya Sabha being adjourned yesterday due to disruptions, the limelight is now on BJP leader Subramanian Swamy who challenged the expunging of his comments by the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, calling the decision as arbitrary, unreasonable and against the House rules.

The Bharatiya Janata Party MP sought breach of privilege proceedings against the Leader of the Opposition -- Ghulam Nabi Azad -- for falsely saying that the United Progressive Alliance government had blacklisted Finmeccanica, the manufacturer of AgustaWestland choppers.

The BJP MP made certain comments targeting Congress members on Thursday while speaking on the issue of minority institution and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien expunged them following vociferous protests from the opposition MPs.

He had told Swamy that he was unnecessarily provoking others and asked him to refrain from it.

An unrelenting Swamy tweeted today, I have filed a notice in the RS challenging the expunging of my words by the deputy chairman since it is arbitrary, unreasonable and against the RS rules.

In another tweet, he said, Today I will seek to move a Breach of Privilege against Ghulam Nabi Azad for his falsely stating in the RS that the UPA had blacklisted Finmeccanica.

Swamis barbs at Congress have sparked protests in the House since he made his entry as a nominated member and the Chair has expunged some of his remarks, mostly aimed at party chief Sonia Gandhi.

Azad on Thursday said Swamy is just two days old in the House and his remarks have already been expunged twice. There are 365 days in a year, how many times are you going to expunge his words, he asked the Chair.

The Congress leader said Swamy does not know the difference between street language and parliamentary words. He does not allow his hair to grey so he can learn and mature.

A militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara in north Kashmir early today. The militant, who was holed up in a mosque since last night, was killed as he tried to escape, an army official said.


Security forces had launched an operation in Kanthpora village of Lolab following information about the presence of militants in the area.


"After a brief exchange of firing, at least one militant took shelter in a local mosque," the official said.


The operation was yesterday hampered by local residents who pelted stones at security forces. Several policemen, including an officer, were hurt in the stone pelting, a police official said.

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Naming a chief ministerial candidate, early announcement of other candidates and handing over the charge of poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh to Priyanka Gandhi were some of the key suggestions that Congress workers made to election strategist Prashant Kishor's teams that camped for two days in politically crucial districts of Varanasi, Allahabad and Gorakhpur. 

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, wanted by the Indian law for money laundering and other cases, has said he remains an Indian patriot, but has no plans to leave the UK. In an interview to the Financial Times, he says he is ready to settle hundreds of millions of pounds owed to banks after the collapse of his company, Kingfisher Airlines.

The common man is no stranger to the tardy pace of work at government offices, but it seems the BMC doesn't spare even VIPs this frustration '" not even Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's niece. 

The Indian Olympic Association has written to Sachin Tendulkar, requesting him to be India's goodwill ambassador at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Chinese activist Lu Jinghua, who alleges that she was about to board a flight to New Delhi at New York's JFK airport on Monday when she was told that her visa had been cancelled, says India is the first country to deny her entry after China. 

By January 2017 the BSF is planning to install the tallest national flag at the Attari-Wagah joint check post as part of their efforts to expand the visitors gallery at the landmark site. 

The Centre will release the next batch of 25 declassified files relating to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the national capital today. 

Security forces have gunned a militant in the Lolab area of Kupwara district in Jammu-Kashmir. A search operation is underway to ascertain if there are more militants. Security officials said that an AK47 was also recovered after the encounter.  

Officials wound back an initial tsunami threat issued after a large earthquake struck off the coast of the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu on Sunday.

A former senator of Pakistan's Awami National Party has been named as one of the suspects involved in the assassination of prominent Sikh lawmaker Sardar Sooran Singh, who was gunned down by contract killers allegedly hired by his miffed Hindu rival after he failed to secure a ticket for polls.

Pakistan today said the F-16 jets provide precision strike capability to its on-going campaign against terrorism, a day after top American lawmakers expressed concern over the decision to sell eight fighter jets to Pakistan, saying the aircraft could be used against India.

US Consul General in Kolkata Craig L Hall today said the US government is very clear that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India.

At least 11 persons, including a woman and a child, were injured in a blast allegedly triggered by ULFA militants in Tinsukia town in upper Assam tonight, police said.

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