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SP threatens to pull down Maya’s statues
BJP in a fix over Sushma’s statement
U’khand Assembly adjourned indefinitely
Security agencies see Jihadis’ hand behind blasts
Bulletproof engines to counter ultras
Hoax emails: Cyber cafe owner sent to police custody
1 held for hoax bomb call
Japanese embassy in Delhi gets terror alert
PM calls on President
Israel
had warned of ISI network in South Karzai to visit India next week
Govt mulls panel for ex-servicemen
Centre to act tough with wage board violators
Setu Project
Porous border threat to nation: AASU
Class X student held for kidnapping schoolmate
Police varsities in Punjab, Gujarat soon
Bihar transport officer held for graft
Mild quakes hit M’rashtra
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India confident of
IAEA, NSG vote New Delhi, July 30 “The India specific safeguards should go through the IAEA when it meets. We do not foresee any major problem on this front. Of course, as far as the NSG is concerned, let us go step by step,” officials involved in negotiations with the NSG countries said. Meanwhile, the preliminary draft of the note that the US plans to circulate among the NSG has been reportedly exchanged with India though the final draft is likely to be given after the August 1 meeting of the IAEA board. India is insisting that the draft should neither make any mention of nuclear testing nor contain any additional conditions outside the Indo-US Joint Statement issued on July 18, 2005, in Washington during the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Though most NSG countries have no objection to India joining them in undertaking nuclear trade, some of them are against granting any special favour to New Delhi, which is not a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT). They are of the view that conditions should be attached while giving ‘exemption’ to India. The officials said the US should be more realistic and not change the draft at the last minute. However, they were upbeat that the intense lobbying done by them with the assistance of some key ministers has started yielding results. “We are quite confident that the NSG also will give waiver without much hitch though some of its member countries are taking their own time in finalising their stand on the matter they are fully entitled to do so,” the officials admitted. Meanwhile, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar is currently in Vienna, making last minute efforts to ensure that the safeguards agreement is approved by consensus. As part of the exercise to mobilise support for the nuclear deal, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is in Tehran for the NAM ministerial meet, had meetings with his counterparts from Algeria, Egypt and Ghana which are members of the IAEA board.
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SC ruling on suicide by married women New Delhi, July 30 “The mere fact that a woman committed suicide within seven years of her marriage and that she had been subjected to cruelty by her husband or any relative of her husband, does not automatically give rise to the presumption that the suicide has been abetted by her husband or any relative of her husband,” a bench of Justices R.V. Raveendran and Mukundakam Sharma said. The apex court passed the observation while acquitting a woman convicted for abetting the suicide of her daughter-in-law. Under Section 113-A of the Indian Evidence Act, a court may presume, on proof of circumstances, if the victim had committed suicide within seven years of marriages that her husband or any other relative had subjected her to cruelty. “One of the circumstances which has to be considered by the court is whether the alleged cruelty was of such nature as was likely to drive the woman to commit suicide or cause grave injury or danger to life, limb or health of the woman,” the bench said. In the instant case, the deceased Shanti Bai had committed suicide by setting herself ablaze. The prosecution claimed that Shanti Bai had resorted to the extreme step as she was unable to bear the harassment by her in-laws. On the basis of the evidence the trial court in Madhya Pradesh convicted the deceased’s mother-in-law Munni Bai for abetting the suicide and sentenced her to three years RI, which was affirmed by the High Court, upon which she appealed in the apex court. The apex court after perusal of various evidence and records noted that there was nothing on record to prove the prosecution’s claim that the mother-in-law abetted the suicide of her daughter-in-law. Accordingly, it ordered her acquittal.
— PTI
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HC concerned over illegal Bangladeshis
Guwahati, July 30 “The Bangladeshis in question incorporated their names in voters’ list on the basis of which they must have cast their votes. Thus, the petitioners and such other large number of Bangladeshis present in Assam, have a major role in electing the representatives. They have become the kingmakers,” the court order noted. Delivering the judgement while disposing off 23 writ petitions filed by 61 persons adjudged as Bangladeshis by the Foreigners’ Tribunals, Justice B.K. Sharma observed that in some of the cases, the petitioners themselves stated before the police during investigation that they were occupying and living in government and forestland. Underscoring the need for a strong political will “unmindful of political gains” derived from the presence of illegal migrants, the court said “it is the national interest and not the individual or political interest of any particular party which must prevail under all circumstances”. It also referred to the Supreme Court verdict while quashing the controversial Illegal Migrants Act or the IM (DT) Act, saying that a clear message had already been given by the apex court to be translated into action by both the state government and the Centre. The court noted several common features in all the cases that had been used as a ploy to hoodwink the administration, police and even the court. The illegal Bangladeshis had made use of copies of voters’ list at random for indicating any name resembling theirs. “It is very easy to pick up any voters’ list, find out names and particulars resembling theirs, obtain certified copies of the same and dump them at the writ court taking it for granted that the writ court will swallow the same, unmindful of requirement of Section 9 of the Foreigners’ Act-1946,” the court order stated.
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Meat Scam
Chandigarh, July 30 Setting aside the COI and the subsequent disciplinary attachment order issued by the Headquarters Western Command on June 28, 2007, a Division Bench comprising Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice M.C. Garg held yesterday that the COI could not admittedly stand as the Army Rule 180 has been violated. Counsel for the petitioner, Maj K. Ramesh (retd) told The Tribune that the Army Rule 180 is to be complied with whenever the character or military reputation of an officer is involved and the rule gives him the right to cross-examine any witness. Based upon the findings of COI, which had also indicted the then director-general supplies and transport Lt-Gen S K Sahni, the Army had ordered disciplinary action against Brig P.S Gill, Brig S K Handa, Col Pramod Kumar and Lt Col V K Pant. They were asked to report to the Headquarters 1 Armoured Division, Patiala, in July last year. Disciplinary action entails possible trial by a general court martial. The officers concerned had then moved the court, and a Division Bench comprising Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice S N Aggarwal had then granted a stay on the attachment order. The Bench had then observed that the COI, on the basis of which the Army had issued attachment orders, had been set aside by the court earlier when Gen Sahni had approached the court challenging the proceedings against him. The court also directed that the promotion results in respect of Brigadier Gill for the rank of Maj-Gen be declassified by the Army, as the embargo placed on him due to the disciplinary attachment now stands lifted. Brigadier Handa is reported to have now retired. The court, on request by the respondents, gave the Army liberty to assemble an additional COI where witnesses who had deposed before the said COI could be summoned and the officers involved could cross-examine them. The additional COI would have fresh members since the original members have now retired. The petitioners would also be entitled to call in fresh witnesses if required. Based upon complaints, the Army had, in 2005, ordered a COI into alleged irregularities in the procurement of frozen meat for troops based in the northern sector. The COI had held the then director-general supplies and transport Lt Gen S K Sahni and several other senior officers, including the two brigadiers, blameworthy for their alleged acts of omission and commission. Disciplinary action was ordered against Gen Sahni, but the COI was quashed in January last year with directions to the Army not to proceed against him on the basis on the COI. The Army, however, was free to initiate fresh investigations and the case is still in progress.
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SP threatens to pull down Maya’s statues
Lucknow, July 30 Speaking to the media, SP national president and former Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav asked the Chief Minister to immediately remove her statues installed in the state capital or else his party would demolish it by using bulldozers, just the way she had recently razed a sports stadium to the ground by using around 60 bulldozers. Clarifying that his party was not averse to statues of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder Kanshi Ram, Yadav, however, was not ready to accept Mayawati's cast figures. He charged the BSP supremo of having insulted the Indian culture by putting up statues of a living person. Not stopping at that, Yadav demanded that Mayawati should reimburse the money that the state government had spent on installing her statues. Yadav asked the state government to immediately rebuild the recently demolished symbolic four-stone columns on the traffic island near the SP party office in the state capital. According to him the four columns represented veteran Samajwadi leader Dr Ram Manohar Lohia's four-pillar administrative concept called 'Chau-khamba raj'. Dr Lohia's concept wanted funds to be equally distributed to the gram panchayats, zila parishads, state governments and the central government. "The four pillars at the crossing were a tribute to his philosophy,” pointed out Yadav. "By demolishing the pillars, Mayawati has shown great disrespect to a Samajwadi stalwart like Lohia and the Samajwadi cadres will never tolerate this," said
Yadav.
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BJP in a fix over Sushma’s statement New Delhi, July 30 The BJP allies in the NDA, the JDU, the BJD and the Shiv Sena, had distanced themselves from her conspiracy theory almost immediately after she declared this in a press conference here on Monday. They refused to blame the government for those blasts and described these as her personal views. The BJP took two days to react to her accusations, but on Wednesday the party tried to play it down and distanced itself from her statement, even as its critics in the Congress and the CPM have raised serious questions over her surmise. NDA spokesperson Swaraj had said, “I see a conspiracy to divert the attention from the cash for votes scandal.” On being pressed further she had said, “There is something called circumstantial evidence.” She was asked categorically whether she was accusing the government of complicity in the blasts and she had replied, “I have said what I had to say. You are free to interpret it.” Later another BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also supported her contention. But BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley refused to comment when asked about it. But BJP spokesman Prakash Jawadekar tried to clear the air today by declaring, “These are her personal views. The party’s views are those which L.K. Advani expressed in Ahmedabad when he said this was neither an attack on any party nor even on any one state, but on the nation as a whole.” Privately, BJP sources suggested that she was merely hinting at terrorists’ links with the Samajwadi Party. But the BJP spokesman was clearly uneasy fielding newspersons’ questions. The Congress in the meantime has mounted a strong attack on the BJP and Sushma Swaraj for this. Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said here today, “Sushma Swaraj has exhibited outrageous, irresponsible and blatant opportunism in accusing the government of organising the blasts. It shows that they have no faith in India.”
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U’khand Assembly adjourned indefinitely
Dehra Dun, July 30 As the house assembled in the morning, the entire opposition, comprising Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) members, was on its feet demanding the reason behind police inaction in nabbing those involved in the gang rape of a Dalit girl, allegedly by ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders. They also rapped the government for the murder of two Dalits in Almora district. Opposition members also raised slogans against the state government, which forced the Speaker Harbans Kapoor to adjourn the house thrice. When the house assembled again, the scene was no better and the sloganeering continued. Amid the din, the report of the select committee of the Uttarakhand Universities Bill was tabled. Later, on a resolution moved by parliamentary affairs minister Parkash Pant, the Speaker, with a voice vote, adjourned the house indefinitely. Although the purpose of the state government to push the Uttarakhand Universities Bill was defeated, it could draw some consolation in tabling the select committee report. The Bill, aimed at increasing the control of the state government over the universities, has drawn strong criticism. After much ruckus in the state assembly in May, the Bill was again referred to the select committee. However, there was no consensus in the select committee as Congress and BSP members opposed it. Outside the assembly, hundreds of Congress workers, led by senior leader Suryakant Dhasmana, who were moving towards the residence of the Maj. Gen. B.C. Khanduri (retd) to stage a dharna were also arrested.
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Security agencies see Jihadis’ hand behind blasts
New Delhi, July 30 Two men - Rasool Khan and Mohammad Sufiya - wanted by the Gujarat police for the murder of former Home minister Haren Pandya, are believed to be the masterminds of the blast and are now based in an upscale area of Karachi. They hail from Hyderabad. Prior to fleeing to Karachi, the duo was involved in recruitment of youth for the jihadi activities in Hyderabad and other parts of the country. Sources said it was a matter of concern that a number of Indian youth were being lured into terror outfits. Intercepts of telephone conversations from Pakistan indicate that there are many Indian youth have visited Rasool Khan’s home in Karachi. An activist of banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) Riazuddin Nasir, during his interrogation this year had told the police that he had met Rasool Khan in Karachi. The dates and time of attack in Bangalore and Ahmedabad could have been fixed by Rasool Khan. The central investigating agencies have found some things very peculiar. Like it could be possible that two teams have formed. But how did they keep in touch and from where did they pick up the material required to make the bombs. It is believed that the teams assembled the bombs separately in the cities they attacked on Friday and Saturday last. The central Security agencies have found a common link in Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad blasts - a wooden box in which the explosives were packed. Forensic experts probing the three cases have found the similarity in the wooden boxes used in Hyderabad on August 25 last year and the serial blasts in Jaipur and Ahmedabad. Sources said the devices comprised explosives put inside the wooden box that had three compartments. It was covered with copper plates on the fourth side.
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Bulletproof engines to counter ultras
Guwahati, July 30 It was on May 15 that train services on this route was suspended following a series of attack by the armed militants belonging to the Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Garlosa or Black Widow), who are fighting for a separate state for the Dimasa tribe. On May 15, a train driver was killed and two others were injured when the militants attacked a train, prompting the Railways to suspend services in the section unless there were proper security arrangements for its staff engaged in the area. “We are providing bulletproof glass cover to eight engines that are being deployed on the Assam Hill Section where passenger trains services are being resumed after about 75 days,” NFR spokesperson Samir Goswami said while giving details of the resumption of railway services on the section, here today. “While one train each will run on the Assam Hill Section and Haflong- Badarpur Sections from Tomorrow under tight security, two trains will run from two ends between Lumding and Silchar,” Railway official said. He said it was for the first time in the country that the Railways had been forced to fortify its engines with bulletproof glasses and other such materials to run services safe through an insurgency infected section.
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Hoax emails: Cyber cafe owner sent to police custody
Kolkata, July 30 Kaushik Basu, the cyber cafe owner and a resident of Salt Lake, was arrested last night and charged with waging war against the country, threat to cause death or grievous hurt and criminal intimidation by anonymous communication which, according to the police, are serious offences. Basu posted the e-mail to a news channel and a newspaper office, stating important places like Park Street, Salt Lake and some landmark buildings like Assembly North Gate and the high court would be blown up after 10 pm. The mail, which was sent from a hoax email ID khalidm50@rocketmail.com, was found by the cyber crime department of the Kolkata police to have originated from Basu’s computer. He was immediately arrested. The police this morning arrested one more person, Sabitri Dandapat, the maid servant of the Basus, who ran the cafe in Kaushik’s absence. The police, however, has not yet produced Sabitri before court.
— PTI
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1 held for hoax bomb call
Bangalore, July 30 Abdul Rashid, alias Abdul Rahim, an executive with ICICI Bank, had allegedly made several hoax calls from his LG mobile creating panic among people, who received his calls. Ever since the serial blasts rocked Bangalore on Friday last, schools and various other institutions in the city kept receiving calls saying bombs were hidden on their premises. Some of the schools and colleges could function only partially on Monday because of such calls. The police is now trying to ascertain how many of these calls were made from Abdul Rashid’s mobile phone. The arrested prankster has been charged under Sections 505, 506 and 507 of the IPC. He was today produced in court, which sent him in remand. Rashid, who also falsely alerted the police control room last afternoon, told it that the news of the bomb blast that he heard on the TV prompted him to make the hoax calls.
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Japanese embassy in Delhi gets terror alert New Delhi, July 31 As a result of the e-mail threat, the Japanese embassy and its cultural centre has been closed temporarily. “The embassy has forwarded an e-mail to us which says after the serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad the next target will be Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar market,” a senior Delhi police official said. Security has been stepped up at the embassy, sources said, adding that the capital was already on a high alert following the serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad last week. The official said the special cell, an expert wing to combat terrorism, was studying the e-mail. — Agencies
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PM calls on President
New Delhi, July 30 A spokesman for the President said the internal security, coming SAARC Summit in Colombo and other issues of national and international importance figured during the 45-minute meeting. The meeting assumes significance as it came two days after Manmohan Singh visited Ahmedabad, which was rocked by serial blasts on Saturday. On Friday, Bangalore had witnessed serial explosions. The Prime Minister will be travelling to Colombo on Friday for the SAARC summit.
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Israel
had warned of ISI network in South New Delhi, July 30 Although the serials blasts last weekend occurred far away in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, a Tamil Nadu town - Tirunelveli, 600 km south of Chennai - seems to have come on the radar of investigators and central intelligence agencies. They believe that the key to the blasts may be available in South India. An Israeli warning in the nineties about Pakistan’s foreign spy agency ISI’s growing tentacles in South India is now being heard loud and clear. A Palestinian student, who studied in South India, had then given a detailed account of the ISI’s network in the southern states to Israeli intelligence agencies. Israel’s tipoff on the the birth of Muslim terrorist groups in South India was ignored by New Delhi, because India had yet to begun building strategic relations with Tel Aviv at that time. The intelligence agencies probing the Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts are now concentrating on a terrorist ring that calls itself ``Believers in One God’’, whose mastermind is said to be Pakistan-trained P. Ali Abdullah, who was arrested in 2003 and is now lodged in the high-security Puzhal jail. After the blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, another little known terrorist organisation, Indian Mujhadeen, claimed responsibility for the same. India’s security agencies believe that the group inserted `India’ in its name to confuse investigators, and may be to hide its foreign roots. It is now becoming clear that the ISI-backed jehadi groups have for long been concentrating in South India to set up their base. High-ranking sources in India’s external espionage agency, RAW, said the Palestinian’s interrogation had revealed the presence of Islamic extremist cells enjoying the support of the ISI’s local ``sleepers’’ in South India, particularly Tamil Nadu.
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Karzai to visit India next week New Delhi, July 30 Karzai’s three-day visit from August 3 comes within a month of the suicide bomb attack at the Indian embassy in Kabul in which more than 50 people, including four Indians, were killed. Karzai had blamed the ISI for the July 7 attack on the embassy. He said the attack was "carried out by Pakistan's intelligence and military departments". Indian’s National Security adviser M. K. Narayanan had also stated that there were specific intelligence inputs that suggested Pakistan's involvement in the attack. Pakistan, as expected, denied the charges and asked India to provide evidence of its involvement in the attack. Karzai's tour is likely to be followed by a visit by external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee to Afghanistan to formally inaugurate the Zaranj-Delaram road link being constructed by the Border Roads Organisation. The road, which has already been completed, will provide Afghanistan a direct access to the Iranian Chahbahar port and a trade link with India. Karzai will hold extensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh besides meeting other top Indian leaders.
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Govt mulls panel for ex-servicemen
New Delhi, July 30 The measure will expedite issues of rehabilitation, welfare and help resolve grievances of retired soldiers, martyrs and their families. Nearly 60,000 personnel retire from the three wings of the armed forces every year and most of them are in the productive middle age group. There are nearly 14 lakh ex-servicemen and over 2.5 lakh widows. When this figure is projected considering each ex-serviceman’s minor children, dependent parents, brothers and sisters, it could affect the livelihood of close to one crore population. In view of the vast population of ex-servicemen, the government last year created the post of secretary in the defence ministry to deal exclusively with issues related to the ex-servicemen
welfare. Deepa Jain Singh, who has undertaken an exhaustive study on the welfare of ex-servicemen during her short four month stint as secretary, said a capsule on the subject was soon to be introduced at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy,
Mussourie. It would sensitise the young IAS probationers to the vital issues related to the ex-servicemen welfare before they assume responsibility as district magistrates across the country. This is a step toward fulfilling the Prime Minister’s ambitious skill development mission, she added. Speaking on the occasion, additional secretary Neelam Nath asked the secretaries of the District Sainik Boards to hold meetings at least once every month with the district collectors to resolve grievances of ex-servicemen at the grassroots level. She said the DGR was about to complete a countrywide database of ex-servicemen at the Zila Sainik Board, the Rajya Sainik Board and the Kendriya Sainik Board. The Director-General Resettlement, Major-Gen
S.G. Chatterji, said his office would serve as a nodal single point interface between the retiring and retired service personnel, widows and their dependents and the outside agencies for all issues related to resettlement and welfare measures.
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Centre to act tough with wage board violators
New Delhi, July 30 “If there is a need for an amendment to the 1958 Act, it will not be opposed. We will address the issue to bring the amount of penalty imposed on the management for failing to implement the recommendations of the wage board to the present level,” Union labour minister Oscar Fernandes said today. The Indian Journalists Union put forth a demand in this regard at a meeting with the minister. “I understand at the present level any management finds it much easier to pay a Rs 500 per day penalty than implement the increase in wages as recommended by the board,” he told the national executive of the union. Members of the union demanded an interim relief of 40 per cent, calling the present wage board recommendation of 30 per cent as “inadequate”. They also demanded an amendment to the Working Journalists Act to bring about a commensurate increase in the quantum of penalty, besides abolishing the contract system. “We are pressing for shelving the contract system which is a danger to freedom of the Press,” said IJU secretary-general K. Srinivas Reddy. He also demanded that gratuity be paid to journalists and non-journalists after serving a minimum period of three years, as against the present day period of five, seven or in some cases 10 years. — PTI
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Setu Project
New Delhi, July 30 The Centre said the expert committee headed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman and director general Tata Energy Research Institute R.K. Pachauri will consider the issue of taking an alternative route to Ram Setu, also called Adam's Bridge, that will not disturb Ram Setu while completing the Sethusamudram project. Appearing for the Centre, senior advocate Fali S. Nariman, produced the letter written by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar which said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had appointed the expert panel headed by Pachauri while responding to the suggestion of the Bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan that the government should consider if an alternative alignment between Dhanushkodi and Rameshwaram island could be taken to save the 35-km-long Ram Setu. The response from the Prime Minister Office (PMO) said the suggestion of the Supreme Court for alternative alignment, including a canal cutting through the portion between Dhanushkodi and land end on Rameshwaram island, had been given serious consideration. The committee will submit its report to the government after considering all aspects-environmental impact, geological feasibility, economic viability and safety measures against natural calamities.
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Porous border threat to nation: AASU
Guwahati, July 30 AASU leader Dr Samujjal Bhattacharrya said, “The large stretch of unfenced India-Bangladesh border in Assam has not only encouraged illegal migration from Bangladesh to Assam, but also converted the state to a corridor for Islamic militants posing serious threat to the internal security of the country.” While referring to a recent Gauhati High Court order directing detention of suspected illegal migrants till they were deported from the state, the AASU leader said the government should set up detention camps to lodge lakhs of illegal Bangladeshi migrants that had swarmed the state. The students body lambasted the political parties including the Congress, the Asom Gana Parishad
(AGP), the BJP and the Left parties, for ignoring the alarming problem of infiltration from Bangladesh. “These political parties are ignoring the issue as they are desperate for the support of those illegal migrants who have managed to enroll their names in the voters’ list,” AASU president Sankar Prasad Rai said. “Assam is the only state in the country where illegal migrants can become voters and go onto contest elections. The fact has been exposed by the Gauhati High Court in its judgement citing the case of one Md Kamaruddin who had a Pakistani passport but contested the 1996 Assembly elections in Assam from Jamunamukh constituency,” the AASU leader added. The students’ organisation urged the Central government to facilitate immediate updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for easy detection and deportation of illegal migrants in the state.
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Class X student held for kidnapping schoolmate
Dehra Dun, July 30 According to police officials, Subodh Singh, a student of class X of Indian Public School situated at Rajawala village at Selaqui, 15 km from Dehra Dun, kidnapped Salman Ahmed, a class III student of the same school. Subodh Singh took the young child to a bathroom of the school and tied his legs, hands and mouth on the evening of July 28. He got himself admitted to the sick room of the school. The school authorities tried to locate the missing child while Subodh Singh rang up the school principal to demand a ransom of Rs 50 lakh. After the principal expressed his inability to pay such an amount, Subodh Singh then demanded Rs 10 lakh. S.S.Kushwaha, Station Officer of Sahaspur police station, said that Subodh Singh panicked and freed the child the next morning on July 29. The child told the school authorities about his ordeal. The police arrested Subodh Singh under Sections 386/342 of the IPC and seized his mobile phone.
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Police varsities in Punjab, Gujarat soon New Delhi, July 30 The steps come close on the heels of Union government’s decision to set up a national police university in the national capital, officials of the Home ministry said. Gujarat has decided to set up a state-level police university and similar steps have also been taken by Punjab to set up a state-level university. All such police training institutes will be affiliated to the universities within the respective states. For the national police university, the Union Cabinet has already given its nod and the land for the university has been identified. The institute is expected to come up by the end of 2010. The National Police Academy, the CRPF Academy, the BSF Academy, the Internal Security Academy are likely to be brought under the ambit of the proposed national university. The police universities will offer courses on various aspects of the policing and the security at the graduate, post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels.
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Bihar transport officer held for graft
Patna, July 30 Pintu Singh, owner of a crusher mill, had complained to the bureau that Naresh Paswan, District Transport Officer (DTO), Nawada, was seeking a bribe of Rs 50,000 from him for allowing to ferry 50 to 60 trucks carrying stone chips per month from Jharkhand to Bihar through Nawada, the inter-state border of the two states, he claimed. After verifying the complaint, a trap was laid and the DTO was allegedly caught while accepting a bribe of Rs 45,000 from Pintu, the ADG said. He would be produced before the Special Vigilance Judge here tomorrow, he added. — PTI 
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Mild quakes hit M’rashtra
Mumbai, July 30 The tremor measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale was reported at 12.41 am with its epicentre at Koyna in Satara district. No casualties were reported so far. Koyna is the site of a major dam which has a history of earthquakes since the 1960s. Met department officials said the tremor was felt in Pune and parts of western Maharashtra. There was, however, panic in many areas.
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