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29 arrested in arson attack after tiger kills teacher in Madhya Pradesh

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 25 Oktober 2014 | 08.20

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh police on Saturday arrested 29 people over an arson attack after a school teacher was mauled to death a tiger in near Bandhavgarh National Park in Katni district on Friday.

The mob had attacked forest personnel, including local forest range officer while keeping some of them hostage, besides policemen and local journalists. They said forest officers were overlooking the fact that some tigers had turned into man-eaters. Two motorized vessels and a dozen vehicles owned by the department were also set on fire, said officials. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were issued to bring situation under control. Amod Lakda (55), posted at Karchulia village's government middle school, was attacked by the tiger in the buffer area near a water tank inside Khitouli range. He was a native of Chhattisgarh's Jashpur area.

Villagers claim this was the fourth incident of an attack by a big cat. Forest officers had been ignoring their pleas to shift the tiger. They say the matter was taken with chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, but in vain.

"Extensive damage has been caused to forest department property. The death of a teacher following tiger attack provoked people to go berserk," said Narendra Kumar, chief wildlife warden.

Meanwhile forest officers have launched hunt for the tiger for shifting it to a safe location.

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Woman commits suicide over dowry harassment in Muzaffarnagar

MUZAFFARNAGAR: A woman allegedly committed suicide over dowry harassment by her husband and in-laws in neighbouring Shamli district, police said on Saturday.

The woman was found hanging from the ceiling at her house on Friday, they said.

The woman got married to Kunwerpal ten years ago and is survived by two children. She was allegedly being harassed by Kunwerpal for dowry.

A case of abetment to suicide and dowry harassment has been registered against Kunwerpal and two of his family members, a police official said.

The accused are absconding and a search for them has been initiated, he added.

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Tharoor leads sanitation drive in his constituency

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Days after facing party action for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday led a cleanliness campaign at Vizhinjam near here and said no political meaning should be read into it.

Tharoor, who was removed as AICC spokesperson based on the complaint from Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee for lavishing praises on Modi and endorsing the "Swachh Bharat" campaign, removed garbages at a spot near Vizhinjam harbour in his parliamentary constituency.

Defending his active participation in the cleanliness drive, Tharoor said, "This is not the prerogative of any political party and the message of keeping one's surroundings clean was first given by Mahatma Gandhi."

"Gandhi had said sanitation was more important than independence. But for Gandhi, cleanliness of body and mind was equally important, which meant that ridding the heart of hatred and violence was also important," Tharoor said when asked whether his action would be dubbed as violation of party's warning.

The second-term Congress MP from Kerala capital said the AICC had also called upon Congress workers to join a month long cleanliness drive from Gandhi Jayanthi day on October 2.

When reporters asked whether he was joining the "Swachh Bharat" campaign, he said "You can call it by any name but what is important is to keep the country clean. You see, the local people around me. They include several Congress workers ...What is important is to make the country clean, irrespective of party politics," he said.

Tharoor had yesterday tweeted, "Vizhinjam beach, a splendid site ruined by filth and garbage; which I will clean with the help of the local residents tomorrow."

Congress leaders in the state chose to refrain from making any comments on Tharoor's move. However, in a dig at Tharoor, KPCC general secretary Ajay Tharayil said the party had decided to ignore his move.

Earlier this month, Tharoor was removed as a party spokesperson by AICC based on the complaint from KPCC against his repeated adulatory remarks about Modi.

He has, however, persistently held that his praise of certain initiatives of Modi did not mean that he ever backed the BJP's Hindutva agenda or that he was moving closer to the saffron party.

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PM Modi inaugurates Reliance Foundation Hospital

MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the revamped Sir Hurkisondas Nurrotumdas Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai.

Located in south Mumbai, the hospital in its 90th year was rebuilt by the Reliance Foundation, led by its chairperson Nita Ambani, into a modern 19-storey tower with two heritage wings, the foundation said in a statement.

Nita Ambani termed it "a historic day" in the life of the hospital which was re-dedicated to the people of Mumbai.

"Narendra bhai, we assure that this hospital will become a centre of good health and global levels of health care, respect for life, modern technology combined with love and compassion, with dignity to all," Nita Ambani said.

"This will not be just a hospital but an institution of care," she said, adding that words like religion, caste, social strata, age and gender will not interfere with the kind of treatment patients receive.

"We won't just treat health, we will also respect life," and at this institution quality will meet affordability, she added.

Founded in 1925 as Mumbai's first general hospital, it has a rich heritage — it saw the freedom struggle and the Second World War, and Mahatma Gandhi was among its frequent visitors.

The hospital celebrated its silver jubilee with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as its chief guest and the golden jubilee celebrations were graced by Jayaprakash Narayan.

Now in its 90th year, the prime minister is inaugurating its new avatar, the foundation said.

The hospital has collaborations with Johns Hopkins, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Southern California. It is also equipped with robotic surgery and online video conferencing facility for global consultations.

The hospital's outreach programme currently covers over 310,000 individuals providing preventive and primary healthcare on a digital platform virtually free of cost. It has also initiated steps to adopt nearby areas as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

It has also adopted water recycling and rainwater harvesting programmes, making it one of the greenest health care facilities of its size in the country.

The 345-bed, multi-specialty tertiary care hospital has six thrust areas: cardiac sciences, nephro-urology, neuro sciences, oncology, orthopaedics and spine, and women and child health.

Earlier, Mukesh Ambani, his wife Nita and other family members welcomed Modi near the entrance to the hospital, along with Maharashtra Governor C.V. Rao.

Present at the inauguration were Kokilaben Ambani, Amitabh Bachchan, Gulzar, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Paresh Rawal, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Praful Patel, Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Sonali Bendre, union minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra BJP leaders Devendra Fadnavis, Vinod Tawde and other celebrities.

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Amit Shah to address Madhya Pradesh BJP meet on Thursday

BHOPAL: BJP national president Amit Shah will be in Bhopal on Thursday to inaugurate the two-day "Sankalp Adhiveshan (pledge convention)" of state party workers to be held at the Dussehra Maidan in BHEL area. Madhya Pradesh BJP president Nandkumar Singh Chouhan said that 23,000 BJP workers will gather for the convention to get guidance from central and state leaders before the urban civic body polls scheduled for November.

"This will be a unique convention with our workers and office bearers before the municipal corporation, municipality and nagar parishad elections," the state BJP chief said. The BJP has 2,500 town centre offices from where 5,000 office bearers will reach Bhopal for the meeting. There will also be 17,000 polling booth heads of the party who will join the convention. In addition all MLAs, MPs, district office bearers and state leaders have been invited for the conference.

"Giving the whole event a family gathering atmosphere will be 12,000 BJP homes in the state capital. Families of BJP leaders and workers in Bhopal will play host and lodge the invitees in their residences. The municipal ward offices of the party will turn into control rooms and help in making the arrangements," Nandkumar Singh Chouhan said. "The present ward councillors have been given the responsibility of working out the lodging arrangements. Staying for two days in a BJP house will send a strong family bonding message to our workers," he added.

While Amit Shah will give the inaugural speech, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will give the valedictory address on Friday and conclude the meeting. Union ministers Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu, Narendra Singh Tomar and Thavar Chand Gehlot have agreed to address the meet. Newly appointed state party in-charge Vinay Sahastrabuddhe will be unable to attend because of prior engagements abroad.

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Veteran Tamil actor SS Rajendran dead

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 24 Oktober 2014 | 08.20

CHENNAI: Tamil cinema's yesteryear actor SS Rajendran, who was battling for life at a private hospital, breathed his last on Friday. He was 85.

"He was admitted to Meenakshi Hospital on Thursday in critical condition. He passed away this morning due to issues related to lung infection," a family source told IANS.

Earlier this year, Rajendran was hospitalized again for lung infection.

Rajendran, who made his cinematic debut with 1952 Tamil film "Parasakthi", has also starred in films like "Ratha Kanner", "Rangoon Radha" and "Sivagangai Seemai".

Having acted in over 50 Tamil films, Rajendran was treated on par with legends such as MG Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganeshan.

For nearly two decades, Rajendran was actively involved in politics. He was known as the first actor-legislator of Indian politics.

Under the establishment of SSR Pankajam, Rajendran's wife Pankajam and he had built a cinema theatre, film studio and recording theatre.

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Canadian couple accused of spying in China held in near isolation

BEIJING: A Canadian couple accused of spying near China's sensitive border with North Korea has been kept in near isolation for more than 80 days, their son said, and they have repeatedly been denied access to legal counsel.

Treatment of the couple, who are being held without charge at a remote facility in the border city of Dandong, has seriously strained China's ties with Canada ahead of a planned visit by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for a multilateral summit next month in Beijing.

Kevin and Julia Garratt were allowed to meet briefly for breakfast last week — the first contact they had with each other during their detention.

"It's not their physical health I'm concerned about, it's more their mental health," said their son Simeon Garratt. "You put anybody in a situation like that for 80 days, where you can't talk to anybody else and with no outside contact, and you don't know what could happen. It's not about food or water."

The Vancouver couple had opened a cafe called Peter's Coffee House in Dandong in 2008. State media has reported they are suspected of stealing national security secrets, but no formal charges have been made and it is unclear what exactly they are accused of.

Kevin Garratt told a congregation in Canada last year that he ran a prayer and training facility frequented by North Koreans, many of whom became Christians before returning to the isolated country.

Hundreds of Christian aid workers near the North Korean border have been detained or forced to leave in a crackdown this year.

Both Kevin and Julia are under 24-hour surveillance by two guards. Canadian consular officials visit with them every two weeks, Simeon Garratt said. They are frequently interrogated, he said, though the subject of the questions is unknown.

"Their daily routine is to wake up, have breakfast and wait to find out whether they'll be interrogated that day or not," he said.

The Garratts' children communicate with their parents through written letters sent through Canadian consular officials. But not all of them get through. A coffee-maker and other supplies sent by the Garratt's younger son was also never delivered.

Authorities have repeatedly denied the family's requests for access to legal counsel since the Garratts were detained August 4, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

The source added that authorities had said re-applying would almost certainly be fruitless.

"They remain detained and isolated from their family and legal counsel, and in conditions that are nothing short of demeaning and withdrawn from meaningful human contact," the person said. "Under such circumstances, any human being under the pressure of isolation could easily incriminate themselves."

The Canadian embassy in Beijing could not be immediately reached for comment.

It is unusual for foreigners to be charged with violating China's state secrets law — a serious crime that is punishable by life in prison or death in the most severe cases.

In September, Canada ratified a foreign investment protection agreement with China after a two-year delay in a move that could help ease tensions with China.

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Uttar Pradesh records slowest GSDP growth amid Bimaru states: Assocham study

LUCKNOW: An industry study on the gross state domestic product of the four BIMARU states suggests UP has clocked the slowest compounded annual growth rate of about 6.9% among BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) states. The study, a compendium of the states' performance over nine years, between 2004-5 and 2012-13, has been compiled by Assocham.

According to the study, Bihar has registered the highest growth rate at 9.3%, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 8.8% and Rajasthan at 8.2%.

The report says that though UP's share to the Indian economy remained highest during this period, its share has dipped from 8.8% to 8.1% from the start to the end of the study period. The other states, however, have maintained status quo.

UP's performance has been laggard in the agriculture and allied sector, clocking a CAGR of 2.9%, and below the national growth rate of 3.7%. The share of agriculture and allied sector in UP's GSDP (Gross State Domestic Product) has dipped from 29.7% as of 2004-05 to 21.9% as of 2012-13. "On the industrial sector front, UP has registered just 6.9 per cent growth rate during the said period while India clocked 7.4 per cent CAGR in the industrial sector," the Assocham study said.

The share of industry sector in UP's economy has dipped from 23.3% as of 2004-05 to 23.2% as of 2012-13, it has increased considerably in other BIMARU states of Bihar (from 13.8% to 19.2%), in MP (27.1% to 27.9%) and in Rajasthan (30.6% to 31.3%). Though, nationally the share of industry sector has declined from 27.9% to 26.7% during this period.

In the services sector too UP has also clocked slowest growth rate of nine per cent during 2004-05 and 2012-13, which is not only below other BIMARU states but also the national average of 9.6%. Bihar has registered highest growth rate of over 10 per cent followed by Rajasthan (9.7%) and MP (9.6%), the Assocham study added.

UP recorded the highest growth in terms of services sector's contribution to the state economy as it rose from 47% to about 55% in 2012-13. At 4.8%, UP has also registered slowest per-capita income growth rate during 2004-05 and 2012-13, while Bihar topped with 7.6% CAGR amid other BIMARU states followed by MP (7%) and Rajasthan (6.1%). Nationally the per-capita income grew by 6.2% during this period.

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Venkaiah Naidu adopts Hudhud affected village in Andhra Pradesh

NEW DELHI: Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu has adopted Chepala Uppada village of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam district for rehabilitation and development in the aftermath of recent cyclone Hudhud that ravaged north coastal districts of the state.

This fishermen village and the surrounding hamlets were severely affected by the cyclone.

Naidu has decided to donate his one month salary besides a contribution of Rs 25 lakhs from MPLADS funds for rebuilding of Chepala Uppada village and adjoining hamlets.

Resources will also be mobilized from other sources like Trusts and NGOs in this regard, according to a close aide of Naidu.

Nellore based Swarna Bharati Trust offered Rs 10 lakhs for rehabilitation of this village.

Over the last two days, Naidu has extensively toured the cyclone-affected areas of north coastal Andhra Pradesh for an assessment of the ongoing rehabilitation efforts.

He convened a meeting of representatives of over 20 central government departments and agencies at Visakhapatnam and reviewed the measures being taken for restoration of different kinds of services to the public.

Naidu also reviewed the progress on the rehabilitation front with Collectors of Visakhapatnam, Vijayanagaram and Srikakulam districts.

He also discussed the situation with Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu.

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant(VSP) management handed over a cheque of Rs five crore to Naidu for rehabilitation of Hudhud affected areas.

Four grand children of Naidu also contributed Rs 5,000 each to AP chief ministers' Relief Fund.

During his discussions with AP chief minister, the Union minister suggested that a separate entity may be created for integrated development of Visakhapatnam with representation from the Centre for promoting 'Smart City' features.

Naidu spoke to finance minister Arun Jaitely over phone and urged him to direct the concerned authority for speedy settlement of insurance claims and rescheduling of bank loans of all the cyclone-affected people and Jaitely assured him that needful would be done.

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Black money scandal a broken BJP promise, says Trinamool

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress on Friday blamed the BJP-ruled Centre for playing the politics of blackmail on the black money scandal. "Who is the Government trying to protect in the black money scandal? Is it playing politics to blackmail the culprits? BJP ministers not being transparent," Trinamool Congress said in a statement.

Trinamool demanded, "BJP Government must come clean on black money and reveal names in one go. The selective leaking, rumour mongering and innuendo will not do." Claming that the black money scandal is another one in the long list of promises made by BJP and now broken, it alleged, "So, finally... the cat is out of the bag. Looks like the BJP is petrified about belling 'the black money cat'."

Earlier the Trinamool Congress had dubbed the alleged BJP u-turn on the blackmoney scandal as shocking. It said, "Betrayal of anti-UPA corruption sentiment. Shows BJP and Congress are part of same cosy Delhi nexus. Legalistic arguments about black money by Government are a cop-out. What concrete steps has BJP taken? Setting up toothless Committee not enough."

On October 17, chief minister Mamata Banerjee had targeted the BJP for raising the infiltration bogey, "Infiltration is a central subject. It is not our responsibility. Borders are manned by central agencies like Border Security Force or Seema Suraksha Bal — they are responsible for infiltration," Mamata told reporters. "How much fencing has been completed on the borders? I personally remember that I had to write to Centre for a SSB guard at Pashupati market along the Bengal-Nepal border," she added. "It is the Centre's responsibility to check illegal migration. If any infiltration has taken place, it is their responsibility," she said. Admitting that "some infiltration" has indeed taken place, she explained that the state government would take action whenever "we are informed", but "they do not inform".

The other issues on which Mamata had critised the Centre are:

1) 33,000 blocks country-wide which benefitted from the 100-day work scheme is being cut down to 2,000 odd. Why?

2) Rs 900-crore of NREGA funds is yet to be given to us.

3) JNNURM projects are non-functional for the want of a new name? Do we suffer due to it?

4) The land acquisition act was passed by the UPA-2; but the BJP government hasn't framed rules. So land acquisition even for rehabilitation and railway work is stopped.

5) IAS-IPS officers are being given extension at Central posting without the state in loop.

6) The Centre has scrapped all UN-bound all-parry delegation even without informing the parliament.

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Gunmen kill eight Shia Muslims on bus in southwest Pakistan: Police

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 23 Oktober 2014 | 08.20

QUETTA: Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Shia Muslims in the southwestern city of Quetta on Thursday, killing eight of them, just days ahead of the holy month of Muharram, police said.

The latest sectarian violence happened at a fruit and vegetable market on the outskirts of the city, capital of restive Balochistan province.

"At least nine Hazara Shias were sitting in a minibus after buying vegetables when two gunmen opened fire on them with automatic weapons, killing eight of them and wounding another one," senior local police official Imran Qureshi said.

City police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema also confirmed the incident and casualties.

The Islamic month of Muharram, considered particularly holy for Shias, is due to begin on Saturday or Sunday depending on the sighting of the new moon.

It has frequently been marred by violence in recent years. Clashes between Sunnis and Shias led to at least 11 deaths in the city of Rawalpindi, close to the capital Islamabad, last November.

Ethnic Hazaras, who are predominantly Shia, are among the worst hit because their Central Asian features make them stand out.

The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that as many as 200,000 had fled Baluchistan over the past 10 years, either relocating in the country's major cities or seeking asylum abroad.

At least 24 Hazara pilgrims were killed in June when their bus was targeted by suicide bombers.

Two devastating bombings in Quetta targeting the city's Shias killed nearly 200 people last year and were claimed by LeJ, which has links to al-Qaida.

Vast and sparsely populated but rich in resources, Baluchistan has long been racked by a separatist insurgency that has strong leftist secular elements and reveres Communist icons like Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

But it has also been steady radicalised over the years. Analysts believe the military establishment is tacitly backing militant groups in order to undermine the influence of separatists.

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North Korea warns South over planned high-level talks

SEOUL: North Korea issued a fresh warning on Thursday that planned high-level talks with the South might have to be scrapped because of what it called Seoul's arrogant and provocative behaviour.

"Inter-Korean ties are now standing at the crossroads," the North Korean delegation that would participate in the proposed dialogue said in a lengthy statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.

The choice facing both sides was to "make the seeds of hard-won inter-Korean dialogue sprout or allow the confrontation to reach an extreme phase and spark off a war", the statement said.

The two Koreas agreed to resume high-level talks during a surprise visit to the South by a top-ranking North Korean delegation earlier this month.

Seoul has proposed an October 30 start date, but the only response from Pyongyang so far has been to warn the talks might not happen at all.

Thursday's statement suggested the peace overtures had been instigated by Pyongyang in good faith, only for Seoul to spurn the opportunity.

It blamed the South for a series of minor military skirmishes on the land and sea border this month, and slammed Seoul's refusal to prevent "human scum" floating anti-North leaflets across the border using giant helium balloons.

The launches by South Korean activists have been repeatedly condemned by the North, which tried to shoot down some of the balloons earlier this month triggering an exchange of heavy machine gun fire.

Military talks on October 15 to address rising tensions broke down with the North accusing the South side of behaving "very arrogantly."

Pyongyang has issued several warnings about the prospects for resuming the high-level dialogue, to which Seoul has simply responded by repeating its offer to meet on October 30.

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Seven killed in cracker shop fire in Rajasthan's Barmer

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JAIPUR: Seven people were brunt alive while two are feared to be trapped under debris after a firecrackers shop and godown housed in the same building caught fire in Barmer district's Balotara town, some 600 km from Jaipur, early on Thursday.

A preliminary enquiry into the incident suggests that the shop was closed when the incident took place, but some miscreants were bursting crackers near the shop's godown at nearly 1 am in the gross violation of the Supreme Court's directions. Police suspect that a firecracker landed in a garment shop and spread to the the firecracker's godown housed in the same building which led to the mishap.

Barmer SP Hemant Sharma said that the fire broke out in the two storey building housing a garment shop and a firecracker godown and shop.

"We are yet to determine how the fire took place. The bodies of seven people have been taken out of the godown, while two are still missing. The deceased persons are in the age group of 30 years and 50 years," said the officer.

Sources said that when the fire took place in the garment shop, the people staying in the building hid themselves in one of them rooms in the building where firecrackers were kept.

"But the fire spread to the whole building soon. The entire town was shaken by the explosions one after another," said a police officer.

Fire tenders were rushed to the spot; however, the rescue operation is still going on.

"We had doused the fire by 8 am, but the building was completed gutted. There is debris all around," said the officer.

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Rajnath Singh set to visit Israel next month

JERUSALEM: Union home minister Rajnath Singh is set to visit Israel next month, amid a flurry of bilateral engagements signalling deepening of ties.

Singh is expected to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on November 6 while other relevant meetings were being worked out for the high-level four-day trip, senior diplomatic sources here told PTI.

It will be the first visit of an Indian home minister to Israel since June 2000 when LK Advani visited Tel Aviv which marked an upsurge in bilateral cooperation.

Singh's visit comes close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with his Israeli counterpart Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York last month.

During that meeting, Netanyahu had said that "sky is the limit" in terms of prospects of cooperation between the two countries, seeking "greater and greater" ties with India.

Netanyahu was among the first global leaders to call Modi to congratulate him over his victory in polls.

Meanwhile, Israel's National Security Advisor Joseph Cohen yesterday concluded his three-day visit to Delhi where he met Singh, his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval and senior diplomats at the Ministry of External Affairs.

Cohen is said to have discussed "common challenges" faced by the two countries and their solutions during his meetings conveying his country's "willingness to expand cooperation in all fields and in any level".

The two sides will also be holding their annual foreign ministry consultations in the first week of November with a delegation of officials led by secretary (east), Anil Wadhwa, visiting Israel.

India is Israel's largest purchaser of defence equipments and the Jewish state is the second largest supplier of arms and armaments for New Delhi, next only to Russia.

The two countries also have a Joint Working Group on counter-terrorism.

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Six farmers commit suicide in Maharashtra's Vidarbha

NAGPUR: An activist on Thursday blamed official apathy for the suicide by six farmers in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region.

Four of them were from Yavatmal district and one each from Akola and Amravati districts, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti president Kishore Tiwari said. The deaths occurred on Wednesday.

"The farmers voted overwhelmingly for the BJP in both the Lok Sabha and assembly elections hoping their suffering will be mitigated," Tiwari told IANS.

He said the Bharatiya Janata Party promised during the election campaign to address issues such as debts, market prices of cotton and soyabean, and compensation for crop failures.

But continuing official apathy has forced the farmers to take their lives, Tiwari said.

The activist urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Vidarbha. He said the monsoon was delayed by two months this year and a dry spell after Sep 15 had hit the crops badly.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 3,146 distressed farmers committed suicide last year in Maharashtra — the highest number for any state.

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Security beefed up in Kashmir ahead of PM Narendra Modi's visit

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 22 Oktober 2014 | 08.20

SRINAGAR: Security has been beefed up here and across the valley as separatists called for a general strike tomorrow against the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in strength and are conducting random checking of vehicles at dozens of places in the city and elsewhere, a senior police officer said.

Special checking points have been set up at various places in the city including entry and exit points as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order.

The move was aimed at foiling any attempt by militants to strike in the city ahead or during the Prime Minister's visit, he said.

The Prime Minister on Tuesday said that he would spend Diwali, the festival of lights, in flood-hit Srinagar.

"Will be in Srinagar on Diwali, 23d October & will spend the day with our sisters & brothers affected by the unfortunate floods," Modi tweeted on Tuesday.

This will be his fourth visit to Jammu and Kashmir since taking charge as Prime Minister in May.

While the announcement of the Prime Minister generated hope among the flood survivors of a comprehensive package from the centre to rebuild their lives, two factions of Hurriyat Conference have called for a general strike and peaceful protests against the visit of the Prime Minister.

"Government of India acted as the mute spectator amid worst ever floods in Kashmir and did nothing to mitigate the sufferings of the affected on ground...we will not allow anyone to rub salt into our wounds," hardline faction of Hurriyat led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani said in a statement.

It said when Modi had not even felicitated Muslims on Eid, his celebrating Diwali in the Muslim-majority state is "unacceptable".

Shabir Ahmad Shah led faction of Hurriyat Conference also called for a general strike on Wednesday and asked people to hold peaceful demonstrations against Modi's visit.

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CBI arrests Railway Board official on graft charges

NEW DELHI: CBI on Wednesday arrested a Railway Board official for allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs five lakh from a Mumbai-based tour operator for adding coaches in trains for tourist purposes.

CBI sources said Ravi Mohan Sharma, an Indian Railway Traffic service officer of 1997 batch was arrested at his residence here while allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs five lakh from a tour operator.

The sources said the bribe was allegedly paid by the Mumbai-based operator through hawala channel

They said the alleged bribe was paid to facilitate the running of special trains and additional coaches for tourist purposes.

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Delhi Metro services will be curtailed by only one hour on Diwali

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro services will be curtailed by only one hour on Diwali on Thursday, with the last trains leaving various terminal stations at 10pm, it was announced on Wednesday. It was stated on Tuesday that the last trains that day will depart from the terminal stations at 8pm, instead of the normal 11pm.

But this was extended on Wednesday till 10pm "in view of the larger public interest", an official statement said.

The terminal stations include Dilshad Garden, Rithala, Jahangirpuri, Huda City Centre, Noida City Centre, Dwarka Sector-21, Vaishali, Kirti Nagar, Inderlok, Mundka, Mandi House, Badarpur and New Delhi.

But between 8 and 10pm on Diwali, the trains will run every 30 minutes or so.

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Ready for assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir: Bharatiya Janata Party

SRINAGAR: BJP on Wednesday said it was ready for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir any time the Election Commission decides on holding polls in the state.

"As far as BJP is concerned, we were ready yesterday, we are ready today and we are ready anytime for the elections. We have no objections," BJP leader and MoS in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh told reporters here.

Singh, however, said the timing of the elections in the state was the prerogative of the Election Commission of India.

"When elections are to be held, it is the prerogative of the Election Commission of India. It is an independent institution. It will not be fit for me to comment on that. If anyone does, he must be wiser than us," he added.

Barring National Conference, all political parties in the state have called for holding assembly elections in the flood-hit state as per schedule.

Ruling National Conference has sought deferring the polls in order to focus on relief and rehabilitation of the flood victims in the state.

The Election Commission visited Kashmir last week to assess the situation in the flood-hit areas of the state in order to take a final call on the poll schedule.

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No platform ticket between October 24 and 29 in Delhi: Northern Railway

NEW DELHI: In view of safety of passengers and to avoid over-crowding at platforms and foot-over bridges during Diwali and Chhat festivals, Northern Railway has decided to restrict sale of platform tickets at the five major stations, including New Delhi and Nizamuddin.

Platform tickets at New Delhi, Old Delhi, Nizamudin, Delhi Sarai Rohilla and Anand Vihar stations will not be sold between October 24 to 29, said a senior Northern Railway official.

The official said this has been done to curb rush at busy platforms during the festive season.

However, for persons coming to stations just to assist senior citizens, physically challenged, medically sick, ladies traveling alone or with children, platform tickets will be sold on demand.

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Police release sketch of suspect who set woman on fire on a train in Kerala

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 21 Oktober 2014 | 08.20

KANNUR: The railway police, probing the death of a woman who was set ablaze inside a vacant train compartment on Monday, have released a rough sketch of a youth believed to be in the age group 22 to 25, who has committed the crime.

According to the police, the incident occurred on Monday morning around 4.30am on the Kannur-Kayamkulam Executive Express.

According to those in the know of things, the police have got some vital clues about the suspect.

A middle-aged woman and a youth were seen arguing for long as they were walking on the platform and was heading to the train that was to depart later. Those who were present at the platform had given a brief description of the youth and with their help the railway police and the Railway Protection Force prepared the sketch that has now been made public.

According to the police, the two of them boarded the 13th compartment of the train much before the departure time. After a while, people noticed fire in the compartment and the youth rushed out of the train and disappeared into the darkness.

By the time police officers came to the compartment, the woman had suffered serious burn injuries as she was doused with alcohol. She died on Monday night at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital and on Tuesday afternoon, her body was handed over to her relatives after conducting the post mortem.

She has been identified as 45-year-old Khadeeja and a resident of Kondotti in Malappuram district.

CPM leader KK Shailaja said this was yet another case of attack against women in the train.

"For long we have been pleading for the posting of police inside the train compartments and in the railway platforms. This has fallen on deaf ears as neither the state government or the Railways have done nothing against this requests that has come from numerous women's organisation," said Shailaja.

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Pak Taliban fires its spokesman over allegiance to Islamic State

ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has fired its spokesman after he along with five other commanders declared allegiance to the Islamic State terror group, which has been vying for supremacy with the al-Qaida in the region.

Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid last week said that he along with five other Taliban commanders have accepted the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, chief of the Islamic State which has seized hundreds of square miles in Iraq and Syria.

According to a Taliban statement, Shahidullah's actual name was Abu Omar Sheikh Maqbool and the group had allowed him to use the nom de guerre designated for its spokesperson.

The Taliban made it clear that he was no more a spokesman and Sheikh Maqbool was removed and another "brother" was named to replace him but still the decision was not made public.

The group said Sheikh Maqbool was still using it despite declaring support and allegiance to Al-Baghdadi.

The statement also said TTP chief Mulla Fazlullah owed allegiance to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

There was no immediate reaction from the former spokesman, who had fled the group's former stronghold in Miramshah, North Waziristan, following the launch of operation Zarb-i-Azb by the Pakistani military in mid-June.

There were reports that he first went Shawal valley and later fled to his native Orakzai tribal region.

Islamic State (IS) is a splinter group of the al-Qaida which has distanced itself from the outfit, chiding it for its aggressive and brutal expansion.

Recently, reports said that militants from groups affiliated with once feared al-Qaida network are abandoning their outfits to join the dreaded Islamist State. The influx has strengthened the Islamic State.

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UN chief urges resumption of Israel, Palestine talks

UNITED NATIONS: UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has called on the Israelis and Palestinians to return to the negotiation table.

Ban made the appeal Monday while meeting Israeli defence minister Moshe Yaalon here, Xinhua quoted the UN spokesperson's office as saying.

While stressing the vital importance of the Israelis and Palestinians returning to dialogue to resolve their issues, Ban said "there was no time to lose if hope was to be kept alive".

The Israelis and the Palestinians resumed peace talks in July 2013 after a three-year hiatus.

The talks were deadlocked in March this year and collapsed in April, with both sides accusing the other of failing to keep its commitments. Israel wanted the Hamas- controled Gaza Strip demilitarised while Hamas demanded a lift to the blockade on the enclave.

During Monday's meeting, Ban welcomed Israel's support in setting up a temporary mechanism for facilitating the reconstruction of Gaza but demanded positive initial steps be sustained.

Last month, the UN brokered an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority to allow the necessary construction materials into the Gaza Strip under the UN monitoring.

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Idols of Jain Tirthankaras belonging to 4th century unearthed

HYDERABAD: As many as twelve idols of Jain Tirthankaras dating back to the 4th-5th century, have been found at Keesaragutta on the city outskirts.

"Twelve panchaloha (five metal) idols of the Jain Tirthankaras were unearthed during the course of conservation work on October 18, while the pathways were being laid between two temples near steps at a depth of one foot," director of Archaeology and Museums (Telangana), B Srinivas, told reporters here.

"Twelve idols of varying sizes, along with loose circular prabharahs (aura), circular parasoles of different size, pedestals and broken elephant have been found. All the bronzes (idols and other artifacts) are in Kayotsarga (standing) posture with a hook behind to accomodate chhatras (parasole) and 'prabhavali'," he explained.

Prabhavali is an aura around the deities. "Srivasta symbol on the chest is seen prominently on some of the idols and faintly on others. Choornakuntala is seen on the head of the idols. On the basis of iconography, the Jain bronzes can be dated back to 4th-5th century AD," Srinivas said.

Keesaragutta, also known as Kesaragiri in Keesara mandal of neighbouring Ranga Reddy district of Telangana, is a hill range about 300 feet high from the planes with flat and undulating areas over the top of the hills, and was enclosed by a fort wall constructed during the Vishnukundin period.

"This is for the first time that the idols of Jain religion have been recovered in Keesaragutta, which proves that Jainism co-existed along with Hinduism at Keesaragutta during the time of Vishnukundins in 4-5th century," the official said, adding that chemical treatment would be conducted on the idols.

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Nitin Gadkari's political advisor is new Madhya Pradesh BJP in charge

BHOPAL : Union minister Nitin Gadkari's former political advisor and BJP vice-president Vinay Sahastrabuddhe has been appointed the new in charge for party affairs in Madhya Pradesh. Sahastrabuddhe regarded as an RSS strategist and intellectual tactician will succeed Ananth Kumar who was general secretary in charge of the state BJP for eight years. The post fell vacant after Ananth Kumar was sworn-in Union minister for chemicals and fertilisers in the last week of May.

Vinay Sahastrabuddhe is contemporary of Nitin Gadkari and was closely associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Maharashtra. While in the ABVP he worked with both late BJP senior leader Pramod Mahajan and Gadkari. He was appointed political advisor to Gadkari when the latter was national president of the BJP.

Also known to be a crucial part of the BJP intelligentsia, Sahastrabuddhe works quietly on the party's manifestos before elections. In 1998, Shastrabuddhe started the Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini - an intellectual training wing of the BJP which educates politicians and ministers of party's governments. Three years ago, Sahastrabuddhe founded the Public Policy Research Centre, a BJP aided research wing. He is also regarded an advisor and close aide of BJP national president Amit Shah.

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WWII vintage bomb found in Andaman islands

Written By Unknown on Senin, 20 Oktober 2014 | 08.20

KOLKATA: An unexploded bomb of World War-II era was found by tribals living in an island of Andaman after which it was disposed off safely by defence commandos, officials said on Monday.

Last week, locals had spotted the bomb in Tamaloo village of Car Nicobar island and the matter was reported to the defence tri-service Andaman Nicobar Command.

"Although it was a very old bomb but the fuses were still intact and it posed a risk to the local population. So a team of our Marine Commandos (MARCOS) were sent to dispose it off in a safe place," Command's PRO R P Deshpande told PTI from Port Blair.

MARCOS is a special operations unit of the Indian Navy which are trained to conduct highly specialised operations.

They took the bomb to a beach, far away from the civilian population, where it was detonated using plastic explosives in a pit yesterday, the official said.

In 1942 during WWII, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were captured by the Japanese Forces but in 1945 these islands were again re-captured by British forces.

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Terror suspect was indoctorinated

MUMBAI : The 24-year old suspect Anis Ansari, arrested for `chatting' with his friends on Facebook about jihad and attacking the American school in BKC, was indoctrinated by hearing lectures of Al-Qaida preachers, said sources. The anti-terrorist squad (ATS) is also trying to join the dots to find if he too was planning to fly out of the country to join the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. Sources said that one month ago Ansari had applied for a passport.

On Saturday, the ATS arrested Ansari, a software engineer working for a multinational company in Speez in Andheri. Ansari is accused of creating fictitious account on the facebook and chatting jihad and uploading pictures and videos of the Syria crisis and planning to carry attack on American school of Bombay at BKC.

Ansari who has been booked under the charges of criminal conspiracy read with IPC section of 302 of murder and information technology act told police that he was indoctorinated hearing the jihadi lectures of Nouman Ali, Ahmed Farooque and Abu Bakar Bagdadi on the internet.

``There are innumerous chat by him on the ISIS particularly in one of the chat he specifically mentions that he would carry attack on the American school.'' Said an officer. Now the ATS has formed a core team of cyber experts who are trying to identify who are his friends on the chat group discussing the Jihad. ``We are in the process of identifying those others with whom he was chatting, we want to investigating whether any of them are members of any terror group particularly the Indian Mujhaheedin (IM)'' said ATS chief Himanshu Roy.

Ansari, co incidently is a resident of Kadir building at Pipe road kurla where the Indian Mujhaheedin founder members-Riyaz Bhatkal and his brother Iqbal Bhatkal grew up and graduated to terrorism. Ansari has three more younger siblings. While his father is retired, mother is a housewife. Shockingly when the police broke this news to them, his father told police that he knew he would bring him trouble and told police that he will not even engage a lawyer to defend his son in the court.

ATS officials have intimated his company and have seized his office as well home computer to extract the incriminating material from it. ``We have got his custody till October 26, now we are interrogating him to find whether his jihadi thoughts were just a fantasy or he was planning something.'' Added Roy.

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Prisoner hurls human excreta at judge in Tamil Nadu

MADURAI: A prisoner allegedly threw human excreta at a judge at Sattur in the Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu on Monday.

Sources said Packiaraj of Vembakottai, an undertrial, was brought to the judicial magistrate II court for remand extension on Monday morning. He was allegedly involved in a robbery case.

He was produced before Judge Mariappan. Suddenly, Packiaraj hurled a bag, which he had been carrying, at the judge. It was later discovered that the foul smelling substance that fell on a court employee standing near the judge was human excreta.

Immediately, the police were summoned and an FIR was filed against Packiaraj.

Advocates, who were perturbed over the prisoner's actions, wanted to know how the authorities allowed him to carry the excreta with him.

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Spanish nurse cleared of Ebola

MADRID: A Spanish nurse who became the first person outside Africa to be infected with Ebola on Sunday tested negative for the virus, Madrid said, as Liberia's president made an impassioned plea for all nations to help fight the disease.

Teresa Romero, who was hospitalized in Madrid on October 6, will have to undergo a second test before she can be declared free of the deadly virus, the Spanish government said.

Romero, 44, contracted the tropical fever after caring for two Ebola patients who died at Madrid's Carlos III hospital, in the first known case of transmission outside Africa.

She will be given another test "in the coming hours", according to a statement from Spain's special Ebola committee, which added that her "health was... developing favourably".

"I am very happy today because we can say Teresa beat the disease," Romero's husband Javier Limon said in a video filmed at the hospital where he is being kept under observation with 14 other people who had contact with Romero before she was diagnosed.

The worst-ever outbreak of the deadly virus has so far killed more than 4,500 people, almost all in west Africa, with close to 2,500 deaths registered in worst-hit Liberia.

Isolated cases among health workers in the US and Europe have sparked fear that the epidemic could turn global and prompted Western countries to ramp up their response.

Liberian President Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said a generation of Africans were at risk of "being lost to economic catastrophe" because of the crisis, warning that the "time for talking or theorising is over".

"This fight requires a commitment from every nation that has the capacity to help, whether that is with emergency funds, medical supplies or clinical expertise," she said in an open letter to the world published by the BBC Sunday.

EU meeting

The deadly virus, for which there is currently no licensed treatment or vaccine, spreads via contact with bodily fluids.

Some countries have managed to get a handle on the outbreak, with Africa's most populous nation Nigeria expected to be declared free of the deadly virus on Monday after 42 days without registering any new infections.

Also on Monday, European Union foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg to try and devise a new strategy to combat the outbreak, including by freeing up more funds and sending skilled staff to Africa.

Ahead of the talks, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the bloc should consider sending "a civilian EU mission" to west Africa.

"This would offer a platform to (EU) member states" to send medical staff to the region, he said at a health forum in Berlin.

One EU diplomat said Britain, which already has a navy ship bound for Sierra Leone laden with medical staff and supplies, hoped to "galvanise EU action on Ebola".

"There is a real sense that this is a tipping point and we must get to grips with it now," said the diplomat. "If we can deal with it in the country, we don't have to deal with it at home."

Another diplomat said there are plans for three nations to spearhead global aid to the worst-hit countries: the United States for Liberia, Britain for Sierra Leone and France for Guinea.

A global UN appeal for nearly $1 billion (785 billion euros) has so far fallen short, with only $385.9 million given by governments and agencies, with a further $225.8 million promised.

'We made mistakes'

With panic spreading in western countries about the tropical disease, US President Barack Obama on Saturday cautioned Americans against "hysteria".

US media have been reporting on a string of false alarms among a public spooked by the news that two American nurses at a Texas hospital had contracted the virus after treating a Liberian patient who died from Ebola on October 8.

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday apologised over its handling of the case.

"As an institution, we made mistakes in handling this very difficult challenge," the hospital said in a "letter to our community" that was published in Sunday's Dallas Morning News.

The United States, Britain and Canada were joined by France this weekend in screening air passengers from Ebola-hit zones ahead of a review of EU practices this week.

Belgium's prime minister said it would start screening passengers from west Africa on Monday, while France dismissed a call by unions representing Air France cabin staff to suspend flights to Guinea.

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, speaking during a visit to Beijing, warned that halting the airline's daily Paris-Conakry flight would encourage riskier forms of travel that could spread the virus even faster.

Obama has also played down the idea of a travel ban on flights from west Africa.

As of October 14, 4,555 people had died from Ebola out of a total of 9,216 cases registered in seven countries, the Geneva-based World Health Organization said.

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RSS sticks to 'love jihad' agenda despite U-turn in Meerut case

LUCKNOW : Even as the BJP's claimed "love jehad" case of Meerut boomeranged following girl's statement that she was forced to make it a case of love jehad, RSS was quick to cite Jharkand love jehad case and claimed that the issue has plagued Hindu society for the past 15 years.

However, quickly correcting it, RSS general secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi said that though the issue should not been seen on communal lines but a social problem where innocent girls are conned into marriage and later exploited. He said that since love jehad is a issue concerning the society, it is the issue of the RSS also. There has been a awareness over the issue in the past a few years but more was needed to be done, the senior RSS functionary said and added that the administration should take stringent action in such cases in a bid to discourage those involved in such social crime.

The administration should be more serious on the issue in order to curb it. Retracting from her earlier statement, the 22-year-old girl from Kharkhauda police station in Meerut made a statement before the authorities that she had gone with the accused boy on her own will and that she was forced to make it a case of love jehad following the pressure from her parents. The BJP, interestingly, had then latched on the issue and had even made it by-poll issue with one of the three star campaigners Mahant Adityanath raking up during his speeches. In Jharkhand, national shooter Tara Shahdeo filed an FIR claiming that her husband Ranjit Kohli aka Rakibul Hasan had forced her to convert to Islam. The case was being investigated. Kohli had been arrested in the matter.

Similarly, the senior sangh functionary Bhaiyyaji Joshi claimed that "honour killing" was wrong and that sangh had been protesting against any such crime that was against the society. Interestingly, RSS has time and again refrained from giving its views on the issue seen as a bid not to annoy khaps that are dominant in states like Haryana, Rajasthan and West UP region.

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Assembly elections 2014: NOTA secures third place in Naxal-hit Gadchiroli

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 19 Oktober 2014 | 08.20

GADCHIROLI: The NOTA (None of the Above) option received the third highest number of votes in Gadchiroli constituency, the hotbed of Naxals, during the assembly election in Maharashtra.

As many as 17,510 votes went in favour of NOTA at the end of the final 24th round of counting, as per the statistics provided by the returning officer here.

Dr Deorao Holi of BJP won over his nearest rival Bhagyashree Atram of NCP here. Holi polled 70,185 votes while Atram got 18,280 votes.

NOTA emerged third with 17,510 votes.

There was reportedly a large scale campaign by the OBCs and an organisation of non-tribals in the district before the elections to boycott the polls and vote for NOTA.

They were apparently disappointed over the reduced reservation to OBCs and an official notification which mentioned about recruiting only Scheduled Tribes (ST) in Panchayats (Extension of the Scheduled Areas) Act or PESA villages.

These organizations had distributed pamphlets among voters appealing them to boycott the polls.

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Assembly elections 2014: BJP's Anil Vij is first winner from Haryana

CHANDIGARH: BJP's Anil Vij on Sunday became the first winner in the Haryana assembly elections.

Vij won from the Ambala Cantt assembly seat.

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Assembly elections 2014: Rahul Gandhi congratulates BJP

NEW DELHI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday congratulated BJP for its success in Maharashtra and Haryana elections and said people in both the states have voted for change.

"We accept people's verdict. Congress will work hard on the ground to once again earn people's confidence," Rahul said.

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Assembly elections 2014: NOTA secures third place in Naxal-hit Gadchiroli

GADCHIROLI: The NOTA (None of the Above) option received the third highest number of votes in Gadchiroli constituency, the hotbed of Naxals, during the assembly election in Maharashtra.

As many as 17,510 votes went in favour of NOTA at the end of the final 24th round of counting, as per the statistics provided by the returning officer here.

Dr Deorao Holi of BJP won over his nearest rival Bhagyashree Atram of NCP here. Holi polled 70,185 votes while Atram got 18,280 votes.

NOTA emerged third with 17,510 votes.

There was reportedly a large scale campaign by the OBCs and an organisation of non-tribals in the district before the elections to boycott the polls and vote for NOTA.

They were apparently disappointed over the reduced reservation to OBCs and an official notification which mentioned about recruiting only Scheduled Tribes (ST) in Panchayats (Extension of the Scheduled Areas) Act or PESA villages.

These organizations had distributed pamphlets among voters appealing them to boycott the polls.

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Anti-nuke activist Udhayakumar quits AAP

MADURAI: Noted anti nuclear activist and convener of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy S P Udhayakumar has quit Aam Aadmi Party, saying he was doing so as he felt it was not paying attention to people of south Tamil Nadu.

In a Facebook post, Udhayakumar, who had joined AAP in March this year, said he was quitting the party as he felt the party high command had not paid attention to the problems of the people of south Tamil Nadu.

He also said that as an anti-nuclear activist he had to move with people from various sections of society and hence could not identify himself with one party.

Udayakumar recalled he had joined AAP after consulting people protesting against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant and fishermen in the region. The locals had felt AAP would help take their protests forward, but their hopes were belied. He said he had informed party leader Arvind Kejriwal of his decision when he recently met him at New Delhi. Udhayakumar said he had hoped that AAP would provide an alternative to BJP and Congress, but it was not so.

"Whatever it may be working for the people is what is important. For good or bad, let the wheel turn," he said. Udhayakumar had contested the Lok Sabha elections, but lost his deposit. Several cases are pending against him for organising protests against KNPP. Recently The Tamil Nadu government had informed the Supreme Court that sedition charges against Udayakumar and others could not be withdrawn. It said 349 cases were registered against PMANE members, of which 101 couldn't be withdrawn as they related to serious crimes like laying siege through sea and violence against private individuals and government servants. PMANE had spearheaded the agitation against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, commissioning of which was delayed due to anti-nuclear protests, doubting safety of such plants. The first unit of KNPP had attained criticality on July 3 last year.

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