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Malaysian woman raped, accused
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Post-poll rumblings in Left parties
Shun violence, join mainstream: Centre to Assam ultras
BJP leader shot dead in Greater Noida, mob torches vehicles
‘BJP humiliated Munde, wanted to leave party’
U'khand fake encounter: Kin of convicts meet DGP
Villagers lynch BSF jawan after youth shot along B’desh border
Integrated plan needed to fight
Naxals: Rajnath No final dates yet for Modi’s visit, says US
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Malaysian woman raped, accused
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Jaipur, June 7 The accused identified as Punit Jain and aged around 30 was arrested in the wee hours yesterday. The woman was in touch with Punit Jain regarding a project which she had wanted to set up in the city, DCP (East) Amandeep Singh Kapoor said. They were together for the last couple of days before she was raped
on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, he said. The woman had arrived here from Jodhpur on May 21 for a business trip. “On Thursday, she had dinner with Jain after which he took her for a long drive. The woman alleged that he offered her cold drink laced with some drug and then raped her in the car,” Kapoor said. “A pistol was also recovered from Jain’s car,” he said, adding that he
(Jain) is under police custody at the Jawahar Circle police station and being interrogated.
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Mumbai Metro to roll today
Mumbai, June 7 Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has said he would inaugurate the service, which is expected to ease traffic congestion on the city’s roads and provide much-needed relief to commuters using the overburdened suburban railway, only if the operator —- Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL) agrees to stick to the “original” tariff quoted in the tender. Debashish Mohanty, a Director of MMOPL, however, said they would go ahead with the launch of the service tomorrow even if the CM does not come for the inauguration. “I have agreed to inaugurate the Metro service on the condition that the company sticks to the tariff mentioned in the tender. If it wants to go for a hike, it should approach the tariff fixation committee justifying the reasons,” Chavan said. He said the MMRDA has moved the Bombay High Court against the hike and the matter would come up for hearing on Monday. MMOPL is a joint venture company of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Infrastructure, Veolia Transport and the MMRDA. “It has to be the CM’s decision (whether to inaugurate the service or not). We have invited him and are awaiting confirmation,” Mohanty said. He said MMOPL, as the Metro Railway Administrator under the Central Metro Act, was within its rights to fix the tariff.
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Post-poll rumblings in Left parties
NEW DELHI, JUNE 7 The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is currently analysing in detail the reasons behind the humiliating defeat in the recent Lok Sabha polls. The central committee of the party is examining the results amid reports of differences over the leadership and accountability. The CPM advocates it is run by a collective leadership in implementing policies and programme finalised by its party congress, yet there are questions about the leadership since the party recorded one of its worst performances, winning just nine seats in the Lok Sabha with a vote share of just 3.2 per cent. The leadership of general secretary Prakash Karat is being questioned by some sections within the party, although the efficacious strength of those who rally against him is yet to be ascertained. There were reports that Polit Bureau member and MP Sitaram Yechury had offered to quit the high decision-making body, which his detractors interpret as a strategy to corner Karat. By April next, Karat’s tenure as the general secretary ends. An amendment to the party constitution now lays a three-term limit. Karat was elected in 2005 replacing Harkishan Singh Surjeet and re-elected twice, at Coimbatore in 2008 and Kozhikode in 2012.Although Yechury hopes to be a successor, the odd at present are stacked against him. Senior Polit Bureau member S Ramachandran Pillai is being mentioned as the next general secretary. A senior Left leader, who preferred anonymity, said while resignation may not be the solution “someone has to take the responsibility for the defeat”. Interestingly, the CPI too faced a severe drubbing with the party managing to get just one MP elected in the 16th Lok Sabha and its vote share dropping below one per cent – 0.8 per cent to be precise. Party national secretary D Raja said the CPI national executive and council will meet in Delhi from June 19 to 21 to analyse the poll results.
Debate over 'worst-ever show'
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Shun violence, join mainstream: Centre to Assam ultras
Guwahati, June 7 Rijiju was accompanied by Union Joint Secretary Home (in charge of Northeast) Sambhu Singh. Hamren police district SP Nityananda Goswami and his PSO, Ratul Nunisa, were being shot dead by the ultras. Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has ordered suspension of four PSOs of the SP who had fled for their life, leaving the SP and the PSO behind in the grip of ultras. Gogoi also asked the chief secretary to order an inquiry into the killings. "Don't kill your own brothers and sisters. Come to mainstream. You are doing a great disservice to your own people," Rijiju urged the militants.
Integrated plan needed to fight Naxals: Rajnath
Lucknow: An integrated action plan was required to combat Naxalism, separatism or terrorism and his ministry was working on it, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said. “Whether it’s Naxalism, separatism or terrorism, a comprehensive integrated action plan is needed and my ministry has started work on it. We accept the challenge and based on this efforts will take balanced action,” Rajnath said.
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BJP leader shot dead in Greater Noida, mob torches vehicles Greater Noida, June 7 The assailants came on two motorcycles and held the pistol at Pandit's temple and mouth and shot him dead when he was returning home from his brother's shop at Bramhpuri around 8.30 pm, police sources said. Thereafter, they fired several rounds and one bullet hit the victim's chest. Pandit, a former district BJP vice-president, fell bleeding. The assailants then fired in the air to scare away the people in the area and fled abandoning a motorcycle which went out of control and skidded sideways. The villagers and BJP workers reached the spot and set ablaze 16 vehicles near Dadri Kotwali on GT Road. They also stoned buses and other vehicles. The police fired in air to control the mob which fired at the police team, the sources said. District Magistrate AV Rajamouli deployed additional forces from neighbouring districts. An injured Vijay Pandit was taken to Dadri's Mohan Swarup Hospital from where he was shifted to Yashoda Hospital in Ghaziabad where doctors declared him dead. One bullet hit Vijay Pandit in the mouth, another in the chest and one behind the ear, police sources said. "The situation is now under control. A Political Action Committee (PAC) has been deployed," said Brijesh Kumar Singh, SP (Rural). Two policemen were injured in skirmishes with the mob, police sources said. BJP MP Mahesh Sharma demanded the arrest of the killers and alleged there was jungle raj in the city as criminals were striking at will. The killing of the BJP leader has "exposed" the law and order situation, he alleged. — PTI
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‘BJP humiliated Munde, wanted to leave party’
Mumbai, June 7 Paying tributes to
Munde, who died in a road accident last week, Phundkar spoke of how the BJP leadership humiliated him in recent times. “Mundeji was humiliated by the BJP leadership till his last days. He was about to join the Congress which offered him and his two supporters a ministerial berths. But I stopped him from leaving the
BJP,” Phundkar said in his speech. Recollecting how the BJP continued to humiliate
Munde, Phundkar said, Munde regretted staying on in the BJP. Moving his resolution to pay homage to
Munde, Phundkar demanded a CBI inquiry into the accident. Phundkar’s revelations have sent shock waves in the Maharashtra unit of the
BJP. While Munde, who belonged to the backward Vanjari tribe, fought to establish his hold over the party since the death of his brother-in-law Pramod
Mahajan, he faced resistance from the Brahmin lobby and the RSS which backed Nitin
Gadkari. Sources said a section of the BJP is demanding action against Phundkar even though the OBC lobby in the party is said to be supporting him. Some BJP leaders were willing to come on record after Phundkar’s statement in the Legislative Council on Friday.
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U'khand fake encounter: Kin of convicts meet DGP
Dehradun, June 7 During the meeting, the families said they were the victims of injustice and the Uttarakhand Police must comeprovide justice to the policemen behind the bars. Pooja, a young daughter of sub-inspector Chandal Pal, said, "I know my father is innocent and he has been a victim of wrong investigation in the case and I have come here to seek justice, as my father used to work for the police department." With visible grief on her face, Neha Nautiyal, wife of sub-inspector Saurabh Nautiyal, who is also one of the convicts in the case, said, "Our whole family has been living in uncertainty for last 2 years since my husband is in jail but now the future is looking very dark after the courts judgment." DGP BS Sidhu, assured all possible help to the family members ans said: "The police personnel of Uttarakhand have decided to donate one-day salary for the family members of the 18 convicted policemen to meet their daily needs."
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Villagers lynch BSF jawan after youth shot along B’desh border
Agartala, June 7 The BSF personnel initially fired in the air to disperse the mob and then opened fire in self defence in which a villager, Ismail Mia, was killed and 10 persons were injured in the village, 2 km from the border, the DIG said. “Our jawans opened fire in self defence in which one villager died and 10 others were injured. In a retaliatory attack, one BSF jawan, Sandeep Kumar, was lynched by the locals ,” Rawat said. West Tripura District Magistrate Abhishek Singh said a magisterial level inquiry was ordered into the incident and stern action would be taken if anybody is found guilty.
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Ranchi Mumbai Mumbai RAJAHMUNDRY (AP)
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A BSF jawan was lynched after a man was killed in firing by border guards as they came under attack from villagers while chasing smugglers close to the Indo-Bangladesh border in
Tripura, but the villagers gave a different account of the events. When the BSF personnel were chasing smugglers last night, villagers of South Ramnagar attacked the border guards with lathis and choppers, BSF DIG BS Rawat said today.
