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Siddaramaiah meet Rahul Gandhi to discuss about political developement

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Former Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah, who is in New Delhi met Congress Supremo Rahul Gandhi and discussed the political developments in the state.

Reports said that, in the meeting which went on for about thirty minutes, the two leaders examined the proposition for filling vacant ministerial posts in the Congress-Janata Dal (S) coalition government and different posts.

Siddaramaiah is additionally the chairman of the co-ordination committee of the coalition government in the state. He informed Rahul about the political development in the state after the formation of the coalition government.

Error of judgement, says team probing police delay in Alwar lynching case

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A high-level team, set up by the Rajasthan Police on Monday, to probe why policemen took three hours to reach a hospital only four kilometers away with a badly injured man accused of smuggling cows, admitted local personnel made an “error of judgment”.

An Assistant Sub-Inspector was suspended for the undue delay and action taken against four constables.

The high-level police team formed on Monday morning on directions of state Director General of Police O.P. Galhotra visited the location where Rakbar alias Akbar was brutally bashed by a mob in Alwar on Saturday night.

The team met his relatives, spoke to local residents and policemen to thoroughly investigate the matter.

Special Director General N.R.K. Reddy said police reached the location of the incident on time but failed to gauge the extent of injuries sustained by the victim. He also added that police first took the cows to a “gaushala” (cow shelter) and then took the victim to hospital where he was declared brought dead. “Rakbar alias Akbar died due to serious internal injuries and further investigations are on in the case,” he said.

The panel was to also investigate whether the policemen callously stopped on the way to the hospital to have tea while Rakbar lay bleeding in their vehicle and was eventually declared dead.

Galhotra had said the team will find out why so much time was wasted in transporting Rakbar after he was beaten up in Alwar district on Saturday.

The team also includes senior officers P.K. Singh, Hemant Priyadarshi and Mahendra Singh Chaudhary.

Later on Monday, police sources said ASI Mohan Singh had been suspended for negligence and delay, while action has also been taken against four constables.

The policemen apparently reached the site of the attack at 1 a.m. but the victim reached the hospital only at 4 a.m., said a police official.

It has been alleged that the policemen stopped on the way to have tea.

Naval Sharma, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Gau Raksha cell chief in Ramgarh, quoted the FIR to say that the police reached the site at 12.41 a.m. and the victim was taken by them by 1 a.m.

However, surprisingly, police reached the hospital at 4 am. The post-mortem report says the victim died at 3.40 a.m.

A social worker in the region, Vijay Kumar, told IANS that Akbar and Aslam were taking bovines from the fields at midnight. When the animals cried out, some villagers came out and thrashed Akbar.

As it was raining heavily, Akbar fell on the muddy field and his companion Aslam escaped. By then, police reached the spot after being alerted about the attack.

However, as the victim was covered in mud, the police refused to take him in their vehicle and asked the villagers to clean him.

The villagers poured water on him. Dharmendra, who was later taken as an accused by the police, brought clothes from his house.

Vijay Kumar says the policemen were drunk and they too might have beaten him as the victim had earlier records of cow smuggling.

According to him, when Akbar died, police came to the village to arrest the witnesses to save their skin.

The cows, meanwhile, were shifted to a ‘gaushala’ at 3.26 a.m. in a three-wheeler — just before the man died.

Alwar Superintendent of Police Rajendra Singh told the media: “We will investigate the matter thoroughly and take action against the accused.”

Four killed in LPG cylinder blast in UP

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At least four persons have been killed and 12 injured after an LPG cylinder exploded at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra district, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place in Daadhki village in Iradatnagar around midnight apparently due to leakage in the gas cylinder.

The deceased have been identified as Kamal Singh, 45, Girraj Singh, 61, Mahaveer, 40, and Om Prakash, 27.

Of the injured, the condition of three is critical, a police officer told IANS, adding the injured have been admitted to S.N. Medical College in Agra.

The explosion took place at the house of Himmat Singh. His daughter Meera was cooking when she noticed the gas leakage, and the pipe to the cylinder catching fire.

She raised an alarm, hearing which many people came to the rescue but before they could do anything, the cylinder exploded.

Due to the impact of the explosion, the two-storey house of Singh was flattened.

Karnataka takes lead in renewable energy, says IEEFA

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Karnataka is the new national leader in renewable energy generation, US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said on Tuesday.

It has overtaken Tamil Nadu that had long been India’s top renewables market.

With a population of more than 60 million, Karnataka has a total of 12.3 gigawatts (GW) of renewable capacity installed till March, after having added five GW in 2017-18 alone, it said.

IEEFA’s report “Karnataka’s Electricity Sector Transformation”, talks about a trend driven by state and national energy policies that have encouraged less reliance on imported energy and how declining costs have helped build momentum around the uptake of renewables, especially solar.

“Tamil Nadu until this year was the frontrunner in the race to renewables and still leads in wind energy capacity,” IEEFA’s Director of Energy Finance Studies Tim Buckley told IANS.

The report notes that solar tenders in Karnatacoal-fireden near record low bids of Rs 2.82-3.06 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) ($41-44/MWh), materially less than the average Rs 3-5/kWh for domestic thermal power tariffs and the Rs 5-6/kWh tariffs required for imported coal fired power.

And it points out that in June, Karnataka introduced reverse auctions for wind-powered electricity, with an upper cap of Rs 3.45/kWh, following the success of similar auctions in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu in 2017, when tariffs fell by as much as 50 per cent to as low as Rs 2.43/kWh.

In a “likely pathway” for Karnataka, based on IEEFA modelling through 2028, the report says Karnataka is set to move from being a net importer of electricity to having a net balance, and it could become a net exporter, a possibility currently constrained only by insufficient interstate grid capacity.

Renewables will account for 23 GW or 60 per cent of capacity (43 per cent of generation), up from 12.3 GW or 46 per cent in 2017/18.

Hydro, which accounts for 3.6 GW or 13 per cent of current capacity, continues to provide much-needed dispatchable energy to balance the state’s growing, but variable wind and solar.

Thermal power’s market share, currently at 10 GW (38 per cent of capacity and 49 per cent of generation), will remain steady, but “needs to better incorporate more flexible, peaking capacity”.

IEEFA conducts research and analyses on financial and economic issues related to energy and the environment.

Mirwaiz Umer placed under house arrest

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Senior Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was put under house arrest on Tuesday to prevent his participation in a seminar organized to mark the completion of one year in prison of separatist leaders booked by the National Investigation Agency.

A police party came to the city outskirts Nigeen residence of the Mirwaiz in the morning and informed him that he cannot move out.

Mirwaiz Umer was scheduled to attend a seminar in Abi Guzar area here organized by the joint residence leadership (JRL) separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer, and Yasin Malik.

Ghaziabad Authority seals 84 buildings

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After a five-story building collapsed here on Sunday, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has started sealing the illegal constructions and till Tuesday they have sealed 84 buildings.

“The GDA regularly checks the buildings for various criteria, including the material used and the age of the building. If a building fails to meet our criteria, we seal it,” a GDA official requesting anonymity told IANS.

“The drive to seal the illegal constructions will continue,” he said.

On Sunday, a five-story building collapsed in Akash Nagar here, killing two, including a six-year-old child, and injuring eight.

The National Disaster Response Force personnel are continuing to look for possible survivors and more bodies.

The building was being constructed in violation of rules without the approval of the GDA.

File details related to appointment of Lokpal: SC to Centre

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to file a detailed affidavit giving “all particulars” of the steps being taken for setting up a search committee for suggesting probable names for the appointment of Lokpal.

Describing the affidavit filed by the Centre which was read out to the court as “insufficient”, a bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice R. Bhanumathi and Justice Navin Sinha directed the Department of Personnel and Training to file a fresh affidavit with full particulars in four weeks time.

At the outset of the hearing, Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the court the meeting of the selection committee held decided to set-up the search committee and in the next meeting, they would suggest names for the search committee.

Venugopal said that the process would take time as people to be included in the search committee have to be expert in law, finances, fighting corruption and other areas.

He also said that after finalizing the names for the search committee they will be vetted by the Intelligence Bureau and it is a time-consuming process.

He told the court that 50 percent members of the search committee will have to be from the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes.

Accusing the Centre for dragging its feet in not carrying out the legislative mandate to appoint anti-corruption watchdog Lokpal, counsel Prashant Bhushan appearing for NGO Common Cause, told the court that in last four and half years the selection committee has only senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi in the category of eminent jurist.

He said only option available to the court is either initiate contempt proceedings against the people who are engaged in delaying the entire exercise or take recourse to Article 142 of the Constitution and in the exercise of its powers appoint a search committee and then appoint a Lokpal from the names suggested by the search committee.

8 militants charged over Dhaka cafe terror attack

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Charges have finally been pressed against eight militants over Bangladesh’s most horrific terror attack in 2016 that left 22 people, mostly foreigners, dead.

Monirul Islam, chief of Bangladesh’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, on Monday submitted the charge sheet against the accused in a case before a court in Dhaka, Xinhua news agency reported.

Of the accused, he said six Neo-JMB (an offshoot of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB), operatives are now in jail while the two others are on the run.

Five gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe in Dhaka’s diplomatic area Gulshan on July 1, 2016.

They then brutally killed the hostages with guns and machetes, and used the victims’ phones to publish images of the bodies on the social media.

Nine Italians, seven Japanese, two Bangladeshis, an Indian and a Bangladeshi-born US citizen were among the 20 people hacked to death by the attackers.

The gunmen also murdered two Bangladeshi police officers in the early hour of the attack.

Around 12 hours later, Bangladesh Army commandos stormed the restaurant. Five attackers were killed.

Islamic State (IS) had then claimed responsibility for the Dhaka cafe attack. But Bangladeshi authorities rejected the claim, saying operatives of a banned local militant outfit plotted the attack to boast about their existence.

Since the deadly cafe attack in Dhaka in 2016, Bangladeshi police have tightened anti-militant drive and conducted series of large-scale operations against militants, killing and arresting scores of militants.

Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-Canadian, and Sarwar Jahan, identified as Neo JMB chief who was killed during a raid later, have been blamed as the mastermind of the brutal attack.

Chowdhury was also killed in a police raid.

Improved access to all Metro stations in Bengaluru soon

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Urban commuters will soon be provided with improved access to the metro train. ‘Wicked Ride’ was one among the four winning startups to have developed and demonstrated their solutions to last-mile connectivity to urban mass transit networks in ‘STAMP (station access and mobility programme) challenge’ launched by World Resources Institute (WRI)-India Ross Center in 2017.

Under the second phase of STAMP 2018, WRI-India pledged to provide an undisclosed financial grant and technical support to Wicked Ride to scale up its operations and implement a perfect last-mile solution from the metro station at a conference organized on Saturday.

Blue print of DyCM’s exclusive act for B’lore unraveled

A three-tier ‘empowered’ ward committees, multiple municipalities and greater Bengaluru at the top will ensure that urban governance is operational, according to the blueprint of an act for Bengaluru, which was declared by Bengaluru Development Minister G Parameshwara.

The delegates were informed that Greater Bengaluru Governance Bill would ensure accountability from political and executive.

Failed government seeking communal polarisation, says Congress on Meghwal’s remarks

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The Congress on Sunday said that Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwals remarks that more incidents of lynching would take place with the rise in popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, indicated that a “failed” government was trying to polarise the society.

Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala said that every time a Minister makes such loathsome comments, he/she is “rewarded with a better portfolio”.

“The tragic part is that Modiji trains his Ministers to say more bitter, more provocative and more divisive things every day. Every time a Minister makes a remark which is per se against all sensibilities as also the very concept of humanity, then he/she is rewarded with a better portfolio by the Prime Minister.

“This emanates on account of the entire DNA of a failed Prime Minister who has let the country down and is now trying to divide it on communal lines,” he said.

Surjewala said that the Congress would continue to take the discourse back to farmers, jobs, atrocities on Dalits and minorities, failed economy, to the way GST and demonetisation had hurt the businesses and to issues affecting the people.

“We will not be deterred by the provocative, communalising, divisive traps being set by the Prime Minister. But it shows the mentality of a failed Modi government to polarise the society,” he said.

Meghwal had on Saturday said : “The more popular Modiji becomes, the more such incidents will happen. Prime Minister Modi gave several schemes, their effects can be seen, this (lynching) incident is just one reaction to it.” he said.

The minister was reacting to the killing of a Muslim man lynched by a mob of cow vigilantes on Friday night in Rajasthan’s Alwar over rumours that he was smuggling cows.

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