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Punish rapist or we’ll ask citizens to skip
Goa: Russia
No arrest even after 24 hrs
Victim identifies rapist’s photo
Meghalaya to slap ban on bandhs
RJD stir cripples life in Bihar
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Save Sarabjit, kin urge Obama
After glacier gaffe, IPCC’s latest: ‘Amazon blunder’
Sania calls off engagement
Krishna talks to Oz minister
PC: Accepting Lakhvi’s hand in 26/11 not
enough
BSP rigged Vidhan Parishad poll: Oppn
Rape Case Amitabh bats for Pak cricketers Telangana panel by next week: PC
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Punish rapist or we’ll ask citizens to skip
Goa: Russia
New Delhi, January 28 “Three such cases have happened in recent days. If no action is taken, we shall have no option,” Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin told reporters on the margins of a function to felicitate former governor and Union minister Bhishma Narain Singh on receiving “Order of Friendship,” the prestigious Russian state award. Kadakin was responding to a question whether Moscow had any proposal to issue a travel advisory. He, however, clarified that so far there has been no such advice
to Russians. “We want to see how the events unfold in Goa because we expect the Indian state to take immediate steps to get the culprits involved in this terrible crime.” He said Russians never thought that such a thing could happen. The criminals behind the crime should be “caught and severely
punished.” The envoy said he had faxed his country’s view in the matter to Home Minister P Chidambaram and expected the government to act fast. His country would also see how the state government reacted. Asked whether the Centre had shared with him any information that had been passed on to it by the state government, he said the Embassy had no information. Replying to a question, the envoy confirmed that Russia’s national security advisor would be visiting India next week for talks with Indian officials on security-related matters. The visit was part of the regular exchanges between the two countries. He said the visiting NSA would meet his Indian counterpart Shiv Shankar Menon, who he said had done a lot to promote Indo-Russian
friendship. Asked if Russia was satisfied with the sites allotted to it by the Indian Government in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu for setting up nuclear plants, he said two sites had been given in Haripur in West Bengal and Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu. Two units were nearing completion and Russia would set up four or six more units in case it had enough
territory there.
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No arrest even after 24 hrs
Mumbai, January 28 According to the description provided to the police, Aman was accompanied by another man, also said to be an Indian tourist. Arambol beach on Pernem taluka is less than an hour’s drive from Maharashtra’s Sawantwadi district and it is feared that the attacker may have
already escaped. Sketches of the youth were circulated among hotel owners and shack operators, the police said. The medical examination of the victim confirmed sexual assault, the police added. Meanwhile, the Goa Government had sent a report on the incident to the Centre, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat told reporters in Panjim today. The incident had also resulted in the state's politicians trading charges against themselves. Tourism Minister Mickey Pachecho of the NCP hit out at Home Minister Ravi Naik of the Congress, for what he called, the poor law and order situation in Goa. The Congress party leadership, he said, should crack the whip on its ministers “who could not handle their portfolios,” Pachecho has been quoted as saying without
naming Naik. Accused from UP
PANAJI: The accused involved in the rape of a nine-year-old Russian girl was today identified by Goa police as a man from Uttar Pradesh working for a local pharma firm and both he and his colleague who had also been implicated in the crime were absconding. DIG Ravindar Yadav said Aman's colleague Anil, who allegedly engaged the girl’s mother in a small talk on the beachside during the crime when the girl was playing in the water, has also been implicated in the case. DIG Ravindar Yadav said a group of 10 men working for the pharma firm had gone to the beach and the two accused broke away and went to an isolated beach stretch where the victim and her mother were spending some time. Ravindar Yadav said the police, which released the photograph of Bharadwaj believed to be around 30 years, was confident of arresting the two accused soon.
— PTI
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Victim identifies rapist’s photo
Panaji, January 28 “The victim and the mother have confirmed that the image shown by the media of the wanted person, is one of the accused,” Vikram Varma, representing the girl, told PTI. Varma said the police would be informed about the identification. The police had zeroed in on one Aman Bharadwaj, working as machine operator in a pharmaceutical company at Dhargal Industrial Estate. Deputy Inspector General of Police Ravindra Yadav said the accused was absconding after reporting for duty at 8 am. The picture of the accused was available from the company office, which was circulated to various police stations, railway stations and the exit points of the state.
— PTI
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Meghalaya to slap ban on bandhs
Guwahati, January 28 Chief Minister D D Lapang led coalition government was apparently emboldened by the recent Gauhati High Court verdict which was delivered in response to a PIL filed by a group of prominent citizens, terming “bandhs” called by different organisations in Assam and Meghalaya as illegal. Though the High Court verdict did not say anything specific about the media, publishing news about these
bandhs, the government took a Cabinet resolution to restrain the media from publishing any news item related to
bandhs, office picketing and hartals called by any NGOs, political parties or any group of people. The decisions have evoked sharp reactions from different quarters in the hill state. Already Meghalaya Editors and Publishers Association
(MEPA) had lodged a protest with Deputy Chief Minister and Law Minister Binod M Lanong against the decision. The MEPA views the decision of the state Cabinet as an attempt to interfere with the freedom of the Press. Meanwhile, four frontline civil society organisations in the hill state have termed the ban as “suppressing the voice of democracy”. These
organisations, led by Khasi Students Union (KSU), are holding a public rally on February 1 to tell people on the “unwarranted decision of the Cabinet to gag people’s movement against wrong policies and decisions of the government”. “We have decided not to be cowed down by such kind of pressure tactics aimed at preventing us from registering protest against any wrongdoings of the government,” KSU general secretary Hamlet Dohling said.
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RJD stir cripples life in Bihar
Patna, January 28 His ally Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP and the CPI had also extended their support to the shutdown. Although the statewide bandh was organised to protest against the Centre as well as the state government’s apathy towards rising prices of essential commodities, hoarding and black marketing, the political observers termed it as an attempt for political revival by Lalu Yadav and his party after their long hibernation period post Lok Sabha polls. The RJD and its ally LJP both geared up their party men and sympathisers across the state to be prepared for the coming assembly elections by making them come to the streets to enforce the shutdown today. In view of the past terror-wielding record of RJD, the business establishments preferred to keep their shutters down, vehicular traffic (private vehicles) remained off the road and the educational institutions too either remained closed or recorded a very thin attendance.
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Save Sarabjit, kin urge Obama
New Delhi, January 28 “I have written a letter to Obama with whom I studied in Harward Law School. He has the willingness and capability to fight for human rights. We hope he can get Sarabjit released,” lawyer Surat Singh told reporters here. He said he would be writing all heads of nations, including Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, seeking the release of Sarabjit. Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur said she expects Obama to take a compassionate view of the issue and get her brother released. “I am waiting for him to join our family,” she said. Sarabjit was convicted in Pakistan in the case of 1990 serial bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that killed 14 persons.
— PTI
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After glacier gaffe, IPCC’s latest: ‘Amazon blunder’
New Delhi, January 28 According to the reports, the panel’s prediction of huge depletion of Amazon forests was based on unverified data. The daily said the UN panel’s forecast about the loss of Amazon forests was based on writing in a journal, which was not peer-reviewed. The claim has brought further embarrassment to the UN body on climate change, especially after its admission of mistake in giving the 2035 date for “meltdown” of Himalayan glaciers. Yesterday, the UN body was forced to defend itself on conclusions concerning recent trends in economic losses from climate-related disasters. IPCC chairperson RK Pachauri could not be contacted for comments on the latest gaffe. Officials at TERI, an organisation headed by him and based in Delhi, said he was out of country and that the IPCC would issue a statement later this evening. Interestingly, the newspaper report suggested that IPCC did not do enough independent research and had drawn in its conclusions from a report prepared by the WWF, an advocacy group. It said two authors of the WWF cited in the IPCC report were not even Amazon experts. While one of them, P F Moore, was a policy analyst, the other, Andy Rowell, was a freelance journalist and an environment activist.
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Sania calls off engagement
Hyderabad, January 28 The announcement came at a time when Sania is going through a rough patch in her career and a sharp dip in her world ranking. The recent setback was her elimination in the initial rounds of the Australian Open. The 23-year-old Hyderabadi tennis sensation had got engaged to 24-year-old Sohrab, who comes from an influential business family in the city, on July 10 last year. The news about their break-up has shocked the sports community as she had recently announced that she would quit tennis after her marriage, which was scheduled for
February. “We were friends for years but found ourselves incompatible during our engagement period. I wish Sohrab the very best in life,” Sania said in a brief statement without further elaborating reasons for the break up.
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Krishna talks to Oz minister
New Delhi, January 28 Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said the Indian High Commissioner in Australia was currently visiting Brisbane, and was meeting community leaders and members of the Queensland Police authorities to discuss and deal with the recent attacks, and to ensure that remedial measures were urgently undertaken. She noted that External Affairs Minister SM Krishna had met Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on the margins of a conference in London yesterday, wherein he had conveyed that these attacks were particularly worrisome as the Indian community was being singled out and it was becoming increasingly difficult to accept these attacks as mere opportunistic crime devoid of any racial motives. He said there had been no visible progress so far into most of the investigations into previous attacks, including the murder of Nitin Garg. Krishna further said it was the responsibility of the Australian authorities to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to book at the earliest and immediately put effective measures into practice, to prevent any further attacks. The Australian minister informed Krishna that a high-level Working Group had been set up under his overall charge to deal on an urgent basis with the issue.
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PC: Accepting Lakhvi’s hand in 26/11 not
enough New Delhi, January 28 Chidambaram’s re-buff comes just a day after Pakistani investigators admitted LeT role in the 26/11 attacks saying that “…. He (Lakhvi) was only one of the 26/11 masterminds”. Chidambaram said: “…There are others. We know their names and we think Pakistan also knows their names. If they do not bring others to trial, then I would have to conclude reluctantly and regrettably that they are still dragging their feet.” India wants several people, including Hafiz Saeed, founder of LeT and now chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa to face the trial. The Interpol also issued a red corner notice for his alleged role in the Mumbai attacks. Islamabad, however, claims that India had only shared information about Saeed, but did not share evidence. The Pakistan Federal Investigating Agency, in its report to the court conducting the trial of seven accused, including Lakhvi, states that there is “sufficient incriminating evidence on record against those arrested for orchestrating the Mumbai attacks.” India has asked Pakistan to identify state actors involved in Mumbai attacks, but Pakistan has not mentioned any role of state actors in its reports. Lakhvi has been named as the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks by Pakistan. Abu-al-Qama has been identified as the terrorists’ handler, who trained Kasab and the nine others who attacked Mumbai. Zarar Shah has been named the Lashkar’s facilitator in the reports and is also an expert in computer networks. Reports identify Shahid Jamil Riaz as a crew member of one of the boats used by Kasab and gang to travel from Karachi to Indian waters. Jami Ahamd has been identified as the man who partially financed the Mumbai terror plot and Muhammad Younas Anjum has been named the chief financer of the terror strikes.
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BSP rigged Vidhan Parishad poll: Oppn
Lucknow, January 28
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50K for info on tainted
ex-IPS
officer
Tribune News Service
Jaipur, January 28 Tandon has been absconding for the last 13 years. A SOG team constituted to nab him has failed to arrest him even after intense search operations in New Delhi, UP and Uttarakhand.
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