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SC clears Justice Katju over Gandhi, Bose remarks

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Katju

New Delhi: Supreme Court on Monday said that prima facie comdemnation of Justice Markandey Katju by parliament for describing Mahatma Gandhi as a British agent and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as a Japanese agent did not violate his right to free speech and expression or in any way dent his reputation.

An apex court bench, headed by Justice T.S. Thakur, while agreeing to further hear the matter, appointed senior counsel Fali Nariman as amicus curiae as Justice Katju’s counsel Gopal Subramaniam told the court that he could not have been condemned by parliament without being given an opportunity to be heard.

Justice Katju , a former judge of Supreme Court and former chairman of the Press Council of India, in one of his blogs, had described Gandhi as a British agent and Netaji as a Japanese agent.

The Rajya Sabha and The Lok Sabha had passed unanimous resolutions condemning and deploring his statement.

(IANS)

82 percent rise in corruption complaints; Railways tops: CVC

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Railways

New Delhi: An unprecedented over 64,000 corruption complaints were received by the Central Vigilance Commission last year, a rise of 82 percent than the preceding year.

The Commission received 64,410 complaints, including 2,048 brought forward, during 2014. Despite the manifold increase in the volume of work being handled by the Commission, there has been no increase in the staff strength, the CVC said in its annual report 2014, which was tabled in Parliament recently.

The anti-corruption watchdog had received 35,332 complaints in 2013. There has been a rise of 82.29 percent in the corruption complaints in last year.

“It is for the first time that the Commission had received such a high number of corruption complaints,” a senior CVC official said.

Of the total of 64,410 complaints received by the CVC, 36,115 were vague or unverifiable, 758 were anonymous or pseudonymous and 24,012 were for officials not under CVC.

There were 1,214 verifiable complaints which were sent for inquiry or investigation to Chief Vigilance Officers (CVOs) who act as distant arm of the CVC, and CBI.

Railways has topped the list of government organisations against whom maximum number of complaints of alleged corruption–over 12,000–were received by the CVOs in last year.

As many as 12,776 complaints of alleged corruption against Railways employees followed by 6,836 against bank officials, 3,572 against Delhi government employees and 3,468 against Income Tax officials were received in 2014, as per the annual report.

About 45,713 complaints of corruption were received by the CVOs against government employees. Of these, 32,054 were disposed and 13,659 were pending. A total of 6,499 complaints were pending for more than six months, it said.

A total of 3,378 corruption complaints were received against officials working in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, 2,917 against employees working under Urban Development, 1,494 against those in Steel Ministry and 1,303 against Department of Telecommunications employees, the annual report said.

The CVC tendered advices in 5,867 cases during 2014. These include Commission’s advice of initiation of major penalty proceedings in 624 cases and minor penalty proceedings in 270 cases as its first stage advice. Similarly, Commission advised imposition of major penalty in 542 cases and minor penalty in 229 cases, it said.

There was a vacancy of 58 employees, as against the sanctioned strength of 296 in CVC, the annual report said.

The CVC had received 37,039, 16,929 and 16,260 complaints in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively, according to its annual reports for respective years.

Similarly, 14,206 and 10,142 complaints were received in 2009 and 2008, respectively. In 2007 and 2006, the Commission had received 11,062 and 10,798 complaints, respectively. Also, 9,320, 10,735, 11,397 complaints were received by it during 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively, as per the annual reports.

(PTI)

Rape-accused Asaram called a ‘saint’ in Rajasthan school textbook

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Asaram Bapu

Jodhpur: Rape accused Asaram features in a chapter on saints in a Class III textbook in the district, sharing space with Vivekananda, Mother Teresa and Ramakrishna Paramhans.

Yoga guru Ramdev is also included in the list of saints in the moral education and GK textbook ‘Naya Ujala’ which is taught in many schools of the district.

The chapter also has pictures of Guru Nanak, Kabir, Meerabai and Shankaracharya and the children have been asked to identify them including Asaram, who is in a Jodhpur jail after being arrested in a rape case.

The book has been supplied by a Delhi-based publisher Gurukul Education Books.

Asked about the inclusion of Asaram’s name, a representative of the publishing house said when the book was published, there was no case against Asaram.

“Now we are withdrawing the books from the market and are preparing a new edition of the book sans Asaram”, he said.

When officials of the education department were asked about the book, they expressed ignorance about the matter.

However, they said notices would be issued to the school authorities where the textbook is part of the curriculum.

Asaram is in jail since August 2013 on charges of sexual assault. He was arrested after a 16-year-old girl lodged a police complaint, alleging that the self-styled godman sexually assaulted her at his ashram in Jodhpur.

(Agencies)

Movie Review: Drishyam is a perfectly crafted masterpiece sans any loopholes

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Drishyam

Director: Nishikant Kamat
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Shriya Saran, Ishita Dutta, Rajat Kapoor, Mrinal Jadhav, Kamlesh Sawant et al
Music: Vishal Bhardwaj & Sameer Phaterpekar

‘Drishyam’ has been made & re – remade in every South Indian languages possible and all the versions have ended up winning appreciative accolades galore. And now comes the Hindi version directed by an already reputed director named Nishikant Kamat, who needs no special introduction. Incidentally speaking this particular movie’s original version in Malyalam also had the same name ‘Drishyam’. Its other versions were ‘Drishya’ in Kannada, ‘Drushyam’ in Telugu and its most recent version was ‘Paapnasam’ in Tamil.

The re – directed & re – plotted scenario, to suit the Mumbaiyya sensibilities, of director Nishikant Kamat’s ‘Drishyam’ kick starts with Vijay Salgaonkar (Ajay Devgn) waiting at Pandolem police station in Goa. The story, then goes into a flashback mode in which it mirrors all the events that led Vijay in the present day situation. Vijay Salgaonkar is a middle class hard working businessman, running a cable TV business. His life revolves around movies and his family consisting of his wife Nandini Vijay Salgaonkar (Shriya Saran), his teenage daughter (Ishita Dutta) and his younger daughter. Life goes on pretty smoothly for the Salgaonkars, till one day his elder daughter bumps into a notorious Sam in a school camp. Despite repeated warnings, Sam doesn’t stop pestering her, so much so that he even plants a hidden camera in her washroom. Grabbing this ‘opportunity’ with both hands, Sam demands sexual favour from Vijay’s daughter in return for the MMS being deleted. And when Nandini intervenes, he asks for a sexual favour from Nandini instead. Raging with anger & helplessness, Vijay’s daughter hits Sam with a rod that results in him collapsing on the spot. The mother & daughter get furthermore shocked when they learn that Sam was the only son of none other than IG Meera Deshmukh (Tabu). Frightened & helpless they narrate their ordeal to Vijay when he returns back from his office. Vijay then hatches a master plan that will help his family to get rid from the clutches of the police. After this begins the cat & the mouse game between Vijay & Meera.

Director Nishikant Kamat has excelled in his directional skills and crafted a picture perfect masterpiece almost akin to all the versions. He has taken great pains & care to keep the legacy of the film’s ‘vision’ & all the versions alive. Adding & abetting him in his directional journey was the film’s ever perfect script with not even an iota of a loophole. He has created a perfect ambience oriented suspense to keep the cine goers interest alive from the starting point to the finishing line. In fact the entire, behind the scenes, team of the captain of the ship Nishikant Kamat deserves a special noteworthy mention. And his team comprises of Vishal Bhardwaj & Sameer Phaterpekar (music), Aarif Shaikh (editor), Avinash Arun (cinematographer) & above all Upendra Sidhye (script writer).

Performance wise it is but natural that the top most scorers are Ajay Devgn & Tabu. Their incidental & instinctive battle of histrionics is just seen to be believed. The Southern actress Shriya Saran succeeds in holding her fort amongst the 2 powerhouse performers namely Ajay Devgn & Tabu. That apart the other actors like Ishita Dutta, Rajat Kapoor, Mrinal Jadhav & Kamlesh Sawant too have acquitted themselves perfectly in their respective roles.

Tail Piece: Films like ‘Drishyam’ are made just once in a while. So guys just go for it at the earliest opportunity that you can avail of. Period!

Movie Review: ‘Janiva’ is a bold & meaningful film

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janiva

Banner: Blue Eye Productions & Angel’s Production
Producer: Milind Vishnu, Arvind Kumar, Reshma Vishnu & Srman Jain
Director: Rajesh Ranshinge
Cast: Satya Manjrekar, débutantes Vaibhavi Sandilya, Anuradha Mukharjee, Devdutt Dani, Sanket Agarwal along with Kiran Karmarkar, Renuka Shahane, Atul Parchure, Indira Krishnan, Usha Nadkarni & Kishore Kadam

Director Rajesh Ranshinge, after creating ripples of successful waves on the small screen for almost a decade, has now stepped into the Marathi movies arena with a bold & meaningful film like ‘Janiva’ which means realisation. It underlines not only the trauma that a rape victim undergoes but also how a common boy metes out appropriate justice to the rape victim in his own way.

Sameer Deshpande, a common boy, is a tech savvy guy and always reaches out to help people in distress in his own way. He also runs a band with his 5 friends who also lives a carefree & lively life like him. Sameer gets disturbed once when he comes to know of a rape victim living a life like a vegetable since the last 3 decades. Her rapist has already served a sentence of 7 years but Sameer feels that this is not the right justice as compared to the 30 years trauma that the victim has undergone. So Sameer decides to take the law in his own hand. And then begins a long drawn out court battle.

Rajesh Ransinghe has handled the subject very sensitively displaying his directional expertise. But somewhere along the line he misses the boat precisely because the movie lacks conviction especially for the Marathi audiences who are so used to the tamasha & lavani oriented commercial trappings. He has indeed handled the court scenes brilliantly including extracting a finest performance from the senior actors like Renuka Shahane, Kishore Kadam & above veteran actress Usha Nadkarni. The lack of commercial trappings & romantic angle may not go down well with the cine goers. Yet the producers team headed by Milind Vishnu & director Rajesh Ranshinge deserves full marks for pulling a leaf out of real life and turning it into a an offbeat & a realistic film.

Performance wise it is the senior actors like Renuka Shahane & Kishore Kadam who walks away with all the honours as a defence lawyer & public prosecutor respectively. Satya Manjrekar, as the main protagonist, gives a good account of himself but he still has miles to traverse before he turns into a reliable actor. Other notable performances have been delivered by Indira Krishnan & Kiran Karmarkar as Sameer’s parents and of course veteran actor Usha Nadkarni as the rape victim’s Nurse & Caretaker.

Tail Piece: A good viewing for lovers of good cinema. Besides it will go down well with the festival circuit audiences.

Modi government blocks over 850 porn sites in India

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New Delhi: The Modi government has given an unpleasant surprise to the porn lovers across the country by blocking nearly 857 porn sites.

This came on light on Saturday, when scores of porn lovers took to social media platforms to express their disappointment after seeing blank pages while surfing for porn.

Confirming the same, one porn lover took to Reditt and posted a screenshot with the message “blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India”.

Internet service providers namely Vodafone, MTNL, ACT, Hathway and BSNL have blocked the porn sites, as per reports.

The unhappy internet users took to Twitter and other social media sites to vent out their anger. #PornBan was the trending topic on Twitter yesterday.

(Agencies)

 

Australia A hammer India A by 10 wickets, win series 1-0

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Virat Kohli

Chennai: Australia hammered India A by 10 wickets on the fourth day of the second and final four-day cricket match to pocket the series 1-0 at the M.A. Chidambaram stadium here on Saturday.

India ended Friday’s play at 267/6 in their second innings, a lead of only 53 runs. And they needed a huge effort from their tail-enders to bail them out to a possible draw.

But on expected lines, they were bowled out for 274 as Indian origin pacer Gurinder Sandhu bagged three quick wickets and left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe got a four-wicket haul in the innings.

As a result, Australia needed only 60 runs to win, which they did without losing any wickets. Cameron Bancroft, who scored 150 in the first innings, remained not out on 21, while captain Usman Khawaja was not out on 41.

Earlier in the day, Baba Aparajith managed to add only two runs to his overnight score of 28, while the other not out batter Shreyas Gopal failed to open his account — both were dismissed by right-armer Sandhu. Varun Aaron (1)fell to the paceman as he edged an away moving delivery to wicket-keeper Matthew Wade.

Spinner O’Keefe, who on Friday rocked the Indian top-order with wickets of Virat Kohli, skipper Cheteshwar Pujara and Shreyas Iyer, removed Shardul Thakur to end the Indian innings for 274.

A target of 60 runs was a cakewalk for the Australians as their openers raced to 62 in just 6.2 overs.

Brief Scores: India A 135 & 274 (Abhinav Mukund 59, Shreyas Iyer 49; Steve O’Keefe 4-88, Gurinder Sandhu 3-76) vs Australia A 349 and 62/0. Australia A win by 10 wickets.

(IANS)

BJP raking up Hindu terror issue to polarise country: Congress

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Ghulam Nabi Azad

New Delhi: The Congress Party on Saturday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) allegations of coining the term ‘Hindu terrorism’, saying that Home Minister Rajnath Singh is quoting the ex-UPA home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s comment ‘out of context’ and also alleged that the BJP Government was polarising the nation in the name of religion.

“The comment of the then Home Minister is being quoted out of context. It is a deliberate attempt on the part of the government, it is the deliberate attempt on the part of the BJP, it is the deliberate attempt on the part of Home Minister, for various reasons- to divide the country, to take up the debate between two religions, to divert the attention of the people from its failure to effectively counter the threat of terrorism, to abuse and to use the parliamentary forum, to abuse and defame its opponents, particularly the Congress Party,” Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad told the press conference.

“Congress Party has always been against terrorism, be it Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, north eastern states or the states sharing borders with our neighbours. We have seen our sitting Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi martyred to terrorism. We have seen the death of Ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at the hands of terrorists. We have seen many leaders, MLAs, MPs, etc losing their lives to extremism and terrorism. But BJP does not need to lecture us,” he added.

The former Minister of Health and Family Welfare insisted, “I would like to say that since this BJP Government has come into power, there is so much polarization in the country, across the country. Even in Jammu and Kashmir, there might have threat of terrorist, there might have been terrorism, but there was never a polarization. The moment BJP became part of the coalition government, the polarization in a big way has hit Jammu and Kashmir.”

Earlier, hitting out the Congress, the Home Minister said the term ‘Hindu terrorism’ coined by the previous UPA government had weakened the fight against the scourge by diverting the direction of probe into the incidents of terrorism.

(ANI)

WikiLeaks: US spied on Japanese government and companies

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WikiLeaks published what it says are four NSA documents showing the US spied on Japan

WikiLeaks published what it says are four NSA documents showing the US spied on Japan

by Independent

The WikiLeaks website has published documents that allegedly show the US government spied on Japanese officials and companies.

The documents include what appear to be four US National Security Agency (NSA) reports marked top secret that reveal internal Japanese discussions on international trade and climate change policy.

A notation on one of the reports indicates it was shared with Australia, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand.

WikiLeaks also posted an NSA list of 35 Japanese targets for telephone intercepts including the Japanese cabinet office, Bank of Japan officials, Finance and Trade Ministry numbers and fossil fuel departments at Mitsubishi and Mitsui.

The Japanese government had no immediate response.

WikiLeaks has released similar reports of US spying on Germany, France and Brazil.

Take over all Vyapam cases, SC tells CBI

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Supreme Court

New Delhi: The Supreme Court directed the CBI to inform it in three weeks about taking over the probe of most of the 185 cases related to the Vyapam scam on Friday

A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu, asked the Department of Personnel and Training to inform it by the next hearing on August 7 about filling of vacancies in the CBI as the agency had complained that a shortage of manpower was hindering the probe.

The task of appointing lawyers to prosecute the cases in various special CBI courts in Madhya Pradesh should be completed within six weeks, the Bench told the CBI. “We have so much of faith in you. You take up the cases. Whether it is in Bhopal, Jabhalpur or any other place, you will have your own counsel for prosecution,” the Bench said.

(Agencies)

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