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After inputs from FBI, CBI cracks down on hackers
Bitter regional divide casts shadow over RS poll in AP
Two ULFA couriers killed in blast
Gujarat judge held for sexual harassment
Infant dies, SIT chargesheets two for UP riots
No anti-UPA wave in country, says Pawar
Cong, BJP in copyright tussle over Rahul ad
Start exchanging pre-2005 currency notes, RBI to public
India, Pak in touch to settle trans-LoC trade stand-off
Pawar: No anti-UPA wave sweeping country
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SC takes cognizance of Bengal gang rape, puts govt on notice
New Delhi, January 24 As soon as
three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam assembled for the
hearing, it expressed shock over the incident and took cognizance of the
matter. The Bench also comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and MY Eqbal
passed the order and directed district judge of Birbhum in West Bengal
to visit the place and file a report before it within a week. The
gangrape of the 20-year-old woman was allegedly ordered by a village
head at a kangaroo court in Labhpur, about 200 km from Kolkata, as
punishment for falling in love with a man from a different religion.
She was gangraped by 13 persons after a 'salishi sabha' or kangaroo
court decided to punish her on January 21. She was raped after she
expressed her inability to pay the fine. — PTI
Now, 13-day police remand for accused
Suri: A local court on Friday
remanded the 13 accused to 13-day police custody, a day after they were
remanded in 14-day judicial custody. Assistant Public Prosecutor Phiroj
Pal said the police sought their remand since the rope with which the
girl and her paramour were tied to a tree and beaten and the clothes
they were wearing at the time of the incident on Jan 21 at Labhpur were
not found.
Victim stable
Suri: Sources in the Suri hospital said
medical tests were being conducted on the victim. She was now stable and
eating food.
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DMK suspends Karuna’s son for
opposing tie-up with DMDK
Chennai, January 24 "The statement is reflective of the high command's stand," party general secretary K Anbazhagan told reporters on the action against Alagiri, who is also a former Union minister. Karunanidhi, who is favourably disposed toward an alliance with DMDK, had recently distanced himself from Alagiri's remarks against any such alliance besides his criticism of DMDK founder Vijayakant, who also hails from Madurai. In a veiled warning to his son on January 7, the DMK president had said that those going against party diktat on key issues like alliance would face disciplinary action, including expulsion. Incidentally, today's decision to temporarily suspend the Madurai MP from the party came hours after he met his father at the latter's Gopalapuram residence. The timing of the disciplinary action assumes added significance as it comes just ahead of the DMDK meet on February 2 in which Vijayakanth is expected to announce the party with which he would tie up for Lok Sabha poll. DMK leaders feel that the action would send the "right signal" and soothe ruffled feathers of the DMDK leadership. DMDK chief Vijayakanth was offended when Alagiri said he would "never consider captain (as Vijayakanth is addressed by party supporters) as a politician." The actor-politician's party is being aggressively wooed by both the DMK and BJP for an electoral tie-up. On Alagiri's suspension, Anbazhagan said while there were enough platforms and fora within the party to air divergent views and grievances, he had not chosen to use them. "Considering that his continuance in the party is not proper and that it could affect party discipline, Alagiri is being temporarily removed from all party posts including primary membership," Anbazhagan said in the statement. - PTI
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After inputs from FBI, CBI cracks down on hackers
New Delhi, January 24 Sources in the CBI said agencies of India, China, Romania and the US were jointly acting in a major offensive against cyber criminals who were allegedly hacking into websites based in the US and duping people financially. Sources said the CBI received inputs from the FBI on the basis of which the agency registered a case under the provisions of the Information Technology Act. The CBI also carried out searches and arrested one person from Pune for alleged violation of the Act, they said. Sources refused to share information on victims or the amount that could have been compromised by them.
- PTI
Joint operation
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Uddhav dubs AAP item girl of politics
Mumbai, January 24 “Clowns and mad men have always been part of Indian politics. First there was Raj
Narain, then Lalu Prasad Yadav did his tricks… Now someone new has come and his name is Arvind
Kejriwal," Uddhav Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece
Saamna. The Aam Aadmai Party, which had came to power by accident, held Delhi to ransom for two days, Thackeray said. The Shiv Sena leader went on to say that critics of Rakhi Sawant who had performed “item numbers” in films should now honour her as she would make a better Chief Minister than
Kejriwal. Sawant later sent out a message on Twitter thanking Uddhav
Thackeryay. “Thanks to Uddhavji for giving me this compliment (sic)," Sawant tweeted on the networking site.
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Bitter regional divide casts shadow over RS poll
Hyderabad, January 24 In an embarrassment to the ruling party, some legislators from Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions, jointly referred to as Seemandhra, are planning to field at least two rebel candidates. The elections will be held to fill six posts from the state. The Seemandhra MLAs are in a rebellious mood as they are unhappy with the party high command’s decision to divide the state. In the 294-member Assembly, the Congress has 146 legislators, 97 from Seemandhra and 49 from Telangana while nine members were disqualified for voting in favour of the no-confidence motion against the government last year. Given its present strength, the Congress can win three seats, while it is planning to slot its surplus votes to Telangana Rashtra Samithi, a potential electoral ally. However, the calculations of the ruling party can go awry if the rebels throw their hat in the ring. Senior Congress leader from Rayalaseema and former Minister JC Diwakar Reddy and another rebel leader and MLC KVV Satyanarayana Raju are likely to enter the fray as rebel candidates. Their entry might force the Congress central leadership to initiate disciplinary actions against legislators supporting them. The rebel camp is pinning hopes on support from their Seemandhra colleagues. They are also hopeful of support from the 23-member YSR Congress Party. Several Congress MLAs, including minister G Srinivasa Rao, had reportedly signed the nomination papers of Raju. “I am certainly in the fray,” asserted senior legislator Diwakar Reddy.
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Two ULFA couriers killed in blast
Guwahati, January 24 Elaborate security arrangement had been made ahead of the Republic Day celebrations amid boycott call from several insurgent groups. The powerful blast took place near Gorompani under the Umrangso police station around last night. The car bore the registration number of Nagaon and the owner has been identified as Mohammad Moinuddin, who was not in the car at the time of blast. A PAN card bearing the name of Sahabuddin of Lanka, Nagaon, was recovered from the pocket of one of the deceased. Police are ascertaining the identities of the two killed in the blast.
— TNS
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Gujarat judge held for sexual harassment
Ahmedabad, January 24 Police said the complaint against Bulsar labour court judge DS Chaudhary, a tribal, was registered by an employee of the labour court and Chaudhary was in inebriated condition when he was arrested. The victim had reportedly told the police that she was being harassed by the judge for the past one year, but yesterday he followed her to her house in Dharampur. She said she had taken a bus from Bulsar to Dharampur when the judge followed her in his car. She said the judge refused to go even after her father asked him to leave, which forced her to lodge a complaint. The police registered the compliant in front of two judges. They recovered two liquor bottles from his car and booked him for violating prohibition Act. —
TNS
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Infant dies, SIT chargesheets two for UP riots
Muzaffarnagar, January 24 Superintendent of Government Health Centre of Kairana, Charan Singh said a team had been sent to probe into the child’s death. 34 kids living in relief camps have died in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts between September 7 and December 20. Meanwhile, the SIT probing the riots today filed a chargesheet against two persons accused of murder. The SIT filed its first chargesheet in the case in September in which eight persons were killed, in a local court against Kunwar Pal and Jogender, who have already been arrested, police said. Police had registered cases against 110 people but so far only two have been arrested. The SIT has also named 37 others, but the police are yet to apprehend them. — PTI
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No anti-UPA wave in country, says Pawar
Mumbai, January 24 Addressing mediapersons after filing his Rajya Sabha nomination papers, Pawar said: "Even though the main contest will be UPA versus NDA (in the Lok Sabha polls), one has to accept the strength of regional parties in their respective states. Their help will be required for formation of the next government.” The highlight of the general election would be participation of new voters in large numbers, he said. “The winning combination will be the beneficiary of the support of new voters,” he added. To a query on a possible Third Front government, Pawar said: "It was too early to speak about it.” He expressed confidence that people would vote a strong and stable government in the interest of the country to improve and strengthen economy. On Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Maharashtra Samajwadi Party president Abu Asim Azmi’s statements supporting him for prime ministership, Pawar said: “Let anybody say anything... I am not available.” He said the NCP contested limited number of seats and the party knew its limitations. When asked about the Congress not projecting Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate, Pawar said the party had never projected anybody as PM before polls. —
PTI
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Cong, BJP in copyright tussle over Rahul ad
New Delhi, January 24 The ad carrying the slogan was in the newspapers today, prompting the BJP to remind the Congress that the same slogan had been used earlier by its PM candidate Narendra Modi for his electioneering in Gujarat. Caught on the back foot, Congress spokesperson Shobha Oza said that no party had a birth right over any slogan. “Words in a dictionary are the same. Many people would have used some of them in similar ways at some point of time. That doesn’t mean those words belong to them. By that logic, no one should have had any right over the phrase “Aam Aadmi” because our slogan “Congress ka haath aam aadmi ke saath” is nearly 10 years old,” Shobha said. She was responding to queries about why Congress’ advertising managers used a slogan which had earlier been used by
Modi.
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Start exchanging pre-2005 currency notes, RBI to public
New Delhi, January 24 The step has been taken as there are concerns if the public starts refusing to accept pre-2005 notes for day to day transactions, normal day-to-day economic activity would be impacted. The Tribune in its story yesterday had pointed out some of these concerns. If the notes can be exchanged right away then the whole anxiety over the deadline of March 31 would dissipate. “Members of public may initiate the process of exchanging notes at bank branches at their convenience,” the RBI said in a statement. The RBI also for the first time gave its rationale for withdrawing the notes. It said the removal of older currency notes from circulation was a standard international practice. The central bank is already withdrawing pre-2005 bank notes in a routine manner through banks as they have fewer security features than those printed subsequently. The RBI circular issued today also tried to allay public concerns saying the volume of such notes that are being withdrawn from circulation was not significant enough to affect the public. “The notes printed prior to 2005 will continue to be legal tender,” it said, adding that even after July 1, any number of these old series notes can be exchanged by people at bank branches where they have accounts.
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India, Pak in touch to settle trans-LoC trade stand-off
New Delhi, January 24 Sources here said the Indian High Commission in Islamabad was in constant touch with the Pakistan Foreign Office to settle the issue so that normal trade and travel could be resumed between the two countries. Indian High Commissioner TCA Raghavan has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary and other senior officials in this connection over the past two days. Pakistan is insisting that India release the truck driver, identified by sources as Mohammed Shafi, while New Delhi says he would face the full force of the Indian law for the crime he has committed. Meanwhile, relatives of 27 Indian truckers, who are not being allowed by the Pakistani authorities to return home, are a worried lot since they are unable to even communicate with them. The Indian authorities say the Pakistani trucker had sought to smuggle
in 100 kg of heroin concealed in his vehicle full of nuts coming from the Pakistani side, fully aware of the fact that the driver would be solely responsible for the consignment he is carrying. Pakistan argues that the Indian allegation is ‘unsubstantiated’ and that this is not the first time the Indian authorities have resorted to such a practice. The incident has come days after the two countries decided to reduce barriers to cross-border trade during Pakistan’s Minister of State for Commerce Khurram Dastgir Khan’s visit to India. There is some concern on whether the trade stand-off could also cast a shadow over the second edition of the ‘India Show’ in Lahore from February 14-16, being organised by FICCI to promote bilateral economic relation.
For normal trade and travel
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Pawar: No anti-UPA wave sweeping country
Mumbai, January 24 Addressing mediapersons after filing his Rajya Sabha nomination papers, Pawar said: "Even though the main contest will be UPA versus NDA (in the Lok Sabha polls), one has to accept the strength of regional parties in their respective states. Their help will be required for formation of the next government.” The highlight of the general election would be participation of new voters in large numbers, he said. “The winning combination will be the beneficiary of the support of new voters,” he added. To a query on a possible Third Front government, Pawar said: "It was too early to speak about it.” He expressed confidence that people would vote a strong and stable government in the interest of the country to improve and strengthen economy. On Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Maharashtra Samajwadi Party president Abu Asim Azmi’s statements supporting him for prime ministership, Pawar said: “Let anybody say anything... I am not available.” He said the NCP contested limited number of seats and the party knew its limitations. When asked about the Congress not projecting Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate, Pawar said the party had never projected anybody as Prime Minister before elections. —
PTI
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The Supreme Court today took suo motu cognizance
of the gangrape of a young tribal woman by 13 villagers in West Bengal's
Birbhum district and issued notice to the state government.
Cracking the whip, the DMK today suspended its Madurai strongman and Karunanidhi’s son MK Alagiri from all party posts and primary
membership.
