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Rs 3 cr worth garments seized by customs in Bengal

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Nasheman News : Customs officials on Thursday seized garments worth Rs 3 crore after intercepting a trawler which attempted to smuggle out goods to Bangladesh through the Sunderban riverine route.

An official said the department’s preventive and intelligence branch acted upon a report that fishing trawlers were being used to smuggle various goods to Bangladesh. 

“The route being taken by the smugglers was narrowed down to a specific area near Patharpratima zone in the Sunderbans,” said the official.

Acting on a tip-off, the department’s marine vessels with officers were deployed at Namkhana. They spotted the trawler early on Thursday.

After being chased by customs’ officials for about 12 km, the trawler moved towards the right bank of Ramganga river and its crew jumped off it and ran away into the forest.

“On a preliminary examination of the seized trawler, about 300 gunny bags containing garments worth Rs 3 crore were recovered,” official said.

He said efforts were on to trace the owner and crew of the trawler.


Srinivas Reddy is new Telangana Speaker

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Nasheman News : Pocharam Srinivas Reddy was unanimously elected the Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly on Friday.

The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader was elected unopposed as no other nomination was received for the post.

The main opposition Congress and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) extended their support for the Speaker’s election.

Pro-tem Speaker Mumtaz Ahmed Khan announced Srinivas Reddy’s unanimous election. 

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, Congress leader Uttam Kumar Reddy, AIMIM MLA Ahmed Balala and TRS MLA E. Rajender conducted Srinivas Reddy to the chair.

Later Chandrashekhar Rao and leaders of other parties in their speeches congratulated him on becoming the Speaker of the second Assembly of the new state. 

Srinivas Reddy, whose real name is Parige Srinivas Reddy, is popular as Pocharam Srinivas Reddy. Pocharam is the name of his native village in Kamareddy district.

According to the affidavit submitted by him, 66-year-old Srinivas Reddy is an agriculturist.

He has served as Agriculture Minister in KCR’s earlier cabinet, and was re-elected to the Assembly from the Banswada constituency in the December elections.

He also served as a minister in the cabinet of N. Chandrababu Naidu in undivided Andhra Pradesh. He had quit the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 2011 to join the TRS, which was then fighting for separate statehood for Telangana.

During his student days, Srinivas Reddy had participated in Telangana movement of 1969. 

He began his political career in 1976 and became the president of Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society of Dasipet village. In 1983, he joined TDP floated by actor-turned-politician N.T. Rama Rao.

Srinivas Reddy was first elected to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly in 1994. He was re-elected in 1999, 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2018.

Gaganyaan: Crew module, crew service module design to be finalised soon

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Nasheman News :  The design for the crew module and crew service module for India’s Gaganyaan first manned space mission, slated for launch in 2022, are in the finalisation process, a top official of the Indian space agency said.

“We have set up a new centre called Human Space Flight Centre and the work relating to Gaganyaan is being managed from there. 

“The design work relating to the proposed manned mission is underway and will be finalised soon,” K. Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told media.

“The design for crew module (that would carry the Indian astronauts) and crew service module will be finalised soon,” Sivan said.

“We are not designing these for the first time. We already have the necessary infrastructure,” he added.

The ISRO had already flight tested its crew module and its recovery some years back.

Last year, ISRO tested the crew escape system. The test was over in 259 seconds, during which the crew escape system along with crew module soared skyward, then arced out over the Bay of Bengal and floated back to Earth under its parachutes about 2.9 km from Sriharikota.

The crew module reached an altitude of nearly 2.7 km under the power of its seven specifically designed quick acting solid motors to take away the crew module to a safe distance without exceeding the safe g-levels.

On the selection of astronauts, Sivan said that will be the responsibility of the Indian Air Force (IAF), but there is time as the manned mission is slated for 2022, he added.

UP sand mining case: ED summons IAS officer Chandrakala

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Nasheman News :The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday summoned senior IAS officer B. Chandrakala for questioning in connection with an illegal sand mining case in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.

Chandrakala, the former District Magistrate of Hamirpur district, has been summoned for questioning to the ED office in Lucknow, a senior agency official told IANS. 

A CBI FIR on which the ED based its case has alleged that Chandrakala as the Hamirpur District Magistrate had granted several lease in violation of the Allahabad High Court orders which had ratified an e-tender policy.

Beside, Chandrakala, the financial probe agency has also summoned three more people, including the Samajwadi Party MLC Ramesh Kumar Mishra for questioning on January 28.

The ED summon comes a day after it registered a case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case in connection with its ongoing probe into illegal sand mining and role of bureaucrats and politicians in Uttar Pradesh.

On January 5, the CBI had raided Chandrakala’s homes in Lucknow and Noida and seized two bank accounts and one locker, besides recovering some documents. Mishra’s house in Kanpur was also searched.

It was on January 2, when the CBI had registered the case against 11 people, including Chandrakala, miner Adil Khan, geologist/mining officer Moinuddin, Mishra and his brother, besides Sanajy Dikshit who contested the 2017 Assembly polls on the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket and his father.

The then Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had granted the mines leases to 14 people in 2013 in Hamirpur district against the High Court’s order.

On January 7, the CBI released a list of 22 leases cleared by the Samajwadi Party chief, who was also the Mining Minister during that period, and was later succeeded by Gayatri Prasad Prajapati.


New Chief Justice of Pakistan sworn in

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Nasheman News :  Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa took oath as the 26th Chief Justice of Pakistan at a ceremony here on Friday.

Chief Justice Khosa is scheduled to retire on December 21, 2019, Dawn news reports.

President Arif Alvi administered the oath to Justice Khosa before an audience of top government and military officials, Supreme Court judges, senior lawyers and dignitaries at the Aiwan-i-Sadr (Presidential Palace).

Justice Khosa has, over the course of his nearly two decade long career, decided about 55,000 cases. A special bench headed by him has decided over 10,000 cases of a criminal nature since 2014.

At outgoing Chief Justice Saqib Nisar’s full court reference on Thursday, Justice Khosa introduced the agenda for his tenure: “To attend to the causes that contribute towards delay in disposition of cases at all levels of the judicial hierarchy.”

Justice Khosa had observed that there are 1.9 million cases pending before all courts across the country compared to just 3,000 judges and magistrates. 


Trains, flights hit as visibility drops in Delhi

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Nasheman News :At least 10 trains were delayed and several flights diverted due to a dense fog cover over the national capital causing visibility to remain at zero for a few hours on Friday morning.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the visibility in Palam area dropped to zero between 4.30 a.m. and 6.30 a.m, and later remained less than 50 metres till 8.30 a.m. It only improved after 9.30 a.m. to 50 metres, the required range for an aircraft to land 

An Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) official told IANS that due to the low visibility, flight operations were badly affected between 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. . 

“At least five flights were diverted and departures were affected till 10 a.m.,” he said. 

Trains that were delayed due to the dense fog cover included the Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Express (by over six hours), Gaya-New Delhi Mahabodhi Express and Howrah-New Delhi Poorva Express which were both held-up by more than five hours. 

The minimum temperature in Delhi on Friday was recorded at 4.8 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, while the humidity level was 100 per cent.

The city will witness shallow to dense fog throughout the day, the Met said. 

The air quality in Delhi and adjoining areas turned ‘severe’ as the amount of moisture in the air prevented dispersal of particulate matters PM2.5 and PM10.

The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi was recorded at 411, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

Thursday’s maximum temperature settled at 22.2 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average while the minimum was recorded at 4.2 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average.


3rd ODI: India opt to bowl vs Australia

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Nasheman News : India skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bowl against Australia in the third and final one day international (ODI) of the series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) here on Friday.

India made three changes in their playing eleven as all-rounder Vijay Shankar, who makes his ODI debut, replaces Mohammed Siraj while Kedhar Jadhav and Yuzvendra Chahal comes in for Ambati Rayudu and Kuldeep Yadav respectively.

Meanwhile, Billy Stanlake, Adam Zampa replace Jason Behrendorff and Nathan Lyon in the Aussie team.

The series is currently tied at 1-1.

Playing XI:

Australia:

Alex Carey (Wicket-keeper), Aaron Finch (Captain), Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Billy Stanlake, Peter Siddle, Adam Zampa

India:ARohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (Captain), MS Dhoni (Wicket-keeper), Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal

Justice Maheshwari, Justice Khanna sworn in as SC Judges

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Nasheman News :  Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice Sanjiv Khanna were on Friday sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court.

They were administered the oath by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.

With their swearing in, the apex court now has 28 judges against its sanctioned strength of 31.

Before their elevation to the top court, Justice Maheshwari was the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court and Justice Khanna was a Judge in the Delhi High Court.

President Ram Nath Kovind had appointed them as Supreme Court Judges on Wednesday after the government accepted the top court collegium’s recommendation on their elevation. 

The collegium decision of January 10 triggered a controversy as it had revoked its December 12, 2018, decision to recommend the elevation of Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajendra Menon to the Supreme Court.

Justice Khanna was elevated to Supreme Court superceding three senior most judges of Delhi High Court and he stood at number 33 of the all India seniority of the High Court judges.

Kashmir Valley braces for heavy snowfall

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Nasheman News : The weather office on Friday said that heavy to very heavy snowfall will occur in the Kashmir Valley starting from Saturday.

Sonum Lotus, Director of the regional MET Office, said the snowfall will gradually become heavier and stronger in intensity till January 23rd.

Divisional administration have warned people not to move around in avalanche prone areas, store enough edibles and other essentials as both surface and air connectivity is likely to remain disrupted during this period.

Srinagar recorded minus 0.7 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam minus 10.3 and Gulmarg minus 10.0 as the minimum temperatures on Friday.

Leh and Kargil towns recorded minus 15.6 and minus 19.2 degrees Celsius.

Jammu city had 5.3 degrees Celsius, Katra 6.3, Batote 2.5, Bannihal 0.7 and Bhaderwah minus 0.8 as the night’s lowest temperatures.

Government curtails tenure of Asthana, 3 other CBI officers

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Nasheman News : The Central government on Thursday curtailed the tenure of Special CBI Director Rakesh Asthana, who had a bitter fight with ousted agency Director Alok Verma and who himself faces corruption charges, with immediate effect.

Along with him, the tenure of three other top officers — Joint Director Arun Kumar Sharma, DIG Manish Kumar Sinha and SP Jayant J. Naiknavare, who were considered close to Verma during the fight with Asthana — was also reduced.

Naming the four officials, an official notification said the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the proposal of Department of Personnel and Training for “curtailment of tenure” of the Indian Police Service officers working in the rank of Special Director, Joint Director, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and Superintendent of Police (SP).

The government on October 23 had sent Asthana on forced leave divesting him of his powers along with Verma after their clash levelling mutual allegations of corruption against each other.

Asthana had levelled serious charges against Joint Director Sharma with Central Vigilance Commission alleging that he and his family operates shell companies in partnership with dubious individuals.

Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Sharma was appointed Joint Director (Policy) in March after Verma took over as Director in February.

Sharma was also appointed the officer supervising the investigation of a bribery case registered against Asthana on October 15.

DIG Sinha was also supervising the probe into an allegation of bribery against Asthana.

Verma, who approached the Supreme Court against the order, was ousted as CBI Director on January 10 by a three-member selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and two of its members including leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, and Chief Justice of India-nominated Justice A.K. Sikri.

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