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3 Tihar officials suspended
PM to visit Bangladesh in Sept
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None ready to treat me: HIV+ girl to PM
Telecom ex-Secy to depose before JPC on July 12
Jaya govt orders probe into Chennai teen’s death
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3 Tihar officials suspended
New Delhi, July 4 The authorities also recommended disciplinary action against the transferred jail superintendent, SC Bhardwaj. “The inquiry report has been submitted to the Delhi Government and the Ministry of Home Affairs as Bharadwaj is Delhi, Andaman Nicobar Island Civil Services (DANICS) officer,” said RN Sharma, DIG (Prisons), adding that assistant superintendents Jitender Pal and Krishan Kumar and head warden Satvir have been suspended with immediate effect. The irregularities in Tihar came to light on Thursday when inspecting trial court judge Brijesh Kumar Garg visited Tihar jail number 4 and found Kalmadi having a cup of tea and snacks in the office of jail superintendent Bhardwaj’s office. Vishal and Vikas Yadav, who are serving life terms for the murder of Nitish Katara, were found strolling in the jail’s garden beyond the permitted time. Addressing a press conference, Sharma said even Kalmadi has accepted to having tea saying that he was waiting for the van to arrive and take him for medical examination. Regarding Vishal and Vikas Yadav, Sharma held that while Vikas was coming back to his cell after taking a telephone call at 12:10 pm along with other inmates, Vishal was outside his cell performing “pooja” in the jail temple.
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PM to visit Bangladesh in Sept
New Delhi, July 4 He told Sheikh Hasina that he attached the highest importance to India's relations with Bangladesh and that a strong and productive partnership between the two countries was in the interest of the two peoples and the people of South Asia as a whole. During his visit to Dhaka, he said he wished to renew contacts with "old friends". Sheikh Hasina said she personally and the people of Bangladesh were waiting eagerly to receive him and there were high expectations from the visit, which, she hoped, would be a historic one. Earlier today, New Delhi announced that the PM would pay an official visit to Bangladesh in September, ending months of speculation about his long-pending trip to the neighbouring country. The announcement came just days after the PM's off-the-record comments on the situation in Bangladesh while interacting with senior editors triggered hostile reactions in the neighbouring country.
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None ready to treat me: HIV+ girl to PM
New Delhi, July 4 But it is not the infection that’s killing the 17-year-old; it’s the stigma. Today, she got a chance to tell the tale of discrimination on account of HIV before a 600-strong, high-profile gathering chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “I have a hole in my eardrum but no doctor is ready to treat me. When I went to see the doctor, he told me to rest at home and said I was anyway going to die. But I want to live and study,” she said As people listened in shock, Sheeba made a simple request to her high-profile audience (among them UPA chief Sonia Gandhi), speaking on the behalf of the infected community. Please start a scholarship scheme for HIV positive children who want to study, Sheeba told the PM today. Sheeba has to travel 17 hours by train to Mumbai to get second line expensive anti-retroviral drugs for her treatment, which is not available in Madhya Pradesh where she and her mother live. “She has no energy left to travel. “We need second line treatment in every state if not in every district. My daughter had lost 10 kg in one month. Her condition has been deteriorating since she was 7, when we first detected the infection. Doctors have always discriminated against her. When we went to show her eardrum, the doctor on duty refused to see her and said HIV+ people have to just wait to die,” said Sheeba’s mother, who is also infected. Sheeba got the infection from her mother, who in turn got it from contaminated blood. Azad mum on HIV Bill
New Delhi; Six years since the first draft of the HIV and AIDS Welfare and Protection of Affected Persons Act was drafted, the government today steered clear of it, not mentioning a word at the high-profile national convention of parliamentarians on HIV/AIDS response. As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi promised linkages between HIV/AIDS strategies and MNREGA and National Rural Health Mission, over 200 People Living with HIV (PLHIVs) demonstrated for their rights outside the conference venue, Vigyan Bhawan. Later, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad met six HIV positive protesters (they had been seeking an appointment for one and a half years), only to say that the HIV/AIDS Bill, with its current treatment proposals, could not be brought before Parliament as it would require huge budgets which the Centre might not be in a position to provide. Azad was non-committal on the fate of the Bill, which the Health Ministry had itself vetted earlier, said Anand Grover of Lawyers Collective, whose experts the government had engaged in 2006 to draft the Bill. The Bill has since seen eight drafts - it remained pending in the Law Ministry for three years and since March 2010 it has been awaiting the Health Ministry’s nod. Azad called gay relationships a disease which had come to India. He said: “This disease has afflicted our country as well. It is unnatural that men should have sex with men. It should not happen but it is happening and we have a considerable number of men having sex with men, which is an area of concern.”
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Mamata warns Maoists
Kolkata, July 4 She said she was ready to meet Maoists and tribal leaders at Lalghar and Jangalmahal across the table but she would not allow them to play political games at the cost of poor villagers. Mamata invited Maoists for cooperating with the district administration in the development programmes in the tribal-dominated areas. The Chief Minister today met senior officials and the police in the Writers’ Building and reviewed the law-and-order situation in the Maoists-affected areas. Earlier, she talked to members of the 19-man special committee which was set up to finalise the list of the under-trial prisoners to be released from jails.
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2G Scam
New Delhi, July 4 Special CBI Judge OP Saini asked the jail superintendent to produce Behura before the JPC after the court received a communication from the prison authorities apprising it of the JPC’s permission to the ex-bureaucrat to depose before it in connection with the Spectrum allocation scam. “A letter dated June 25, 2011, has been received from Tihar Jail, regarding appearance of accused Siddhartha Behura before the JPC on July 12 at 11 am for giving oral evidence. The letter is accompanied by photocopy of a letter dated June 17, 2011, received from the Lok Sabha Secretariat, Parliament House, New Delhi, on the subject cited above as well as photocopy of a letter dated June 24, 2011, written by Behura, seeking permission to appear before JPC,” the court said. The Judge allowed Behura to appear before the JPC and exempted him from personal appearance before it. — PTI
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Jaya govt orders probe into Chennai teen’s death Chennai, July 4 The CB-CID launched the probe into the death of 13-year-old Dilshan, allegedly shot by a jawan as he trespassed into the Army residential area, to pluck almonds, triggering protest by locals who demanded action against the guilty. After visiting the spot with top police officials and senior army officers, Additional Director General of Police R Sekar told reporters that the CB-CID had taken over the probe. The Army, in a brief statement, maintained that "there was no armed guard located at the compound at any time." The statement further said that the Army would extend all cooperation to local police in the joint investigation to "identify the culprit and bring the individual responsible to justice". — PTI
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New Delhi, July 4
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