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New Delhi: The Supreme Court directed Karnataka on Tuesday to release 6000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu per day from Wednesday till September 27.
The Cauvery Supervisory Committee had on Monday ordered Karnataka to release 3,000 cusecs water per day to Tamil Nadu between September 21 and September 30.
The order had been criticised by farmers and political parties in Tamil Nadu as “insufficient” and “disappointing.”
(Agencies)
New Delhi: A 21-year-old woman was brutally stabbed to death in broad daylight by her 34-year-old stalker, who attacked her nearly 22 times as passersby looked on in north Delhi’s Burari area.
The accused, identified as Surender Singh, carried out the frenzied attack when the victim, Karuna, was walking through the area at 9 AM. She was a teacher at Novel Reaches School, police said.
Scooterists and passersby looked on as Singh dragged the girl, who fell down as she tried to save herself, and relentlessly attacked her. Singh stabbed the woman 22 times.
A man tried to approach but backed off and left from there.
Some onlookers later caught Singh and handed him over to the police.
Singh had been stalking the girl for a year but she resisted his advances, said a senior police officer.
The victim used to learn computer at a training centre owned by the accused and he fell in love with her, police said.
The victim’s family had lodged a complaint against the stalker six months back but both the families reached a compromise and the accused had stopped stalking her, said the victim’s family.
However, he attacked her today and brutally killed her, police said.
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Srinagar: Two days after the terror attack in Uri, Pakistani troops today violated the border ceasefire in the same sector of Kashmir, targeting Indian army positions with small firearms.However, there was no damage in the incident, army said.
“Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing by small arms towards Indian positions in Uri sector this afternoon,” an army official said.
He said the firing from across the Line of Control took place between 1.10 pm and 1. 30 pm.
The official said while there were no reports of any casualty in the firing, further details of the incident were awaited.
The ceasefire violation comes two days after four Jaish- e-Mohammad militants stormed an army base in Uri Sector, killing 18 soldiers and injuring several others. All the four militants were also killed.
The terror attack has heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.
(PTI)
Bengaluru: The Cauvery Supervisory Committee in its seventh meeting held in New Delhi today under the Chairmanship of Union Water Resources Secretary Shri Shashi Shekhar directed Karnataka to release 3000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu from 21st to 30th September 2016. The supervisory committee took into consideration the interest of all the participating states, the inflow position, rain fall picture, daily inflow of water in the reservoirs of Karnataka, the drinking water of needs Karnataka and the need of samba crop in Tamil Nadu.
The committee took a detailed presentation from the Chief Secretaries of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Puducherry and the representative from Kerala. The committee tried to reach to a conclusion but Tamil Nadu and Karnataka did not agree to a particular figure of release of water which was based on scientific facts.
It has also been decided that Central Water Commission will draw up a new protocol of online collection of data related to rainfall and flow of water on real time basis which may be shared simultaneously with all the concerned states. The cost of developing this protocol will be shared by the three states and UT of Puducherry.
The supervisory committee will meet frequently to access the situation and needs in the future. The next meeting will be held in sometimes in October. The committee will meet once in every month from February 2017 onwards.
Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu Dr P Rama Mohana Rao, Chief Secretary of Karnataka Shri Arvind Jadhav, Chief Secretary of Puducherry Shri Manoj Parida and representative from Kerala, Chairman, Central Water Commission, DG National Water Development Agency and Senior officials from Union Water Resources Ministry attended the meeting.
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Bengaluru: A group of journalists, inlcuding Nasheman’s Editor-in-Chief Mr. Rizwan Asad held a candlelight protest against the killing of 18 Indian soldiers in a militant attack in Uri, Jammu & Kashmir.
Holding neighbouring Pakistan responsible for the attack, the protestors called on Narendra Modi “to make a very strong condemnatory statement exposing Pakistan”.
Erode/Mysuru: Bus and truck services to Karnataka from Sathyamangalam, about 60 km from here, remained suspended for the 12th consecutive day on Sunday in the wake of the Cauvery row.
Buses, including private and state-run, were not operated, while trucks with Tamil Nadu registration were not allowed beyond the state border. As a result, the Bannari-Thimbam ghat road near Sathyamangalam wore a deserted look.
Officials of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation and police said operation of buses and trucks were stopped to avert any untoward incident. The services might resume only after September 20, they added.
Meanwhile, some Karnataka state transport buses on Sunday operated from Mysuru to Sathyamangalam. Karnataka registration trucks were provided police escort up to Pulinjure check post at Karnataka border.
Suspension of truck services has affected transportation of turmeric, textiles, eggs, oil, vegetables and other essential commodities to Karnataka.
Protests by Kannada groups against the Supreme Court order to the Karnataka government to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu had turned violent on September 12, with two persons getting killed in police action in Bengaluru.
Tamil Nadu registration vehicles were also torched and damaged, even as commercial establishments owned by Tamilians were targeted in Karnataka.
In Tamil Nadu, restaurants owned by Kannadigas and Karnataka registration vehicles were attacked by fringe outfits in some places on September 12.
(Agencies)
New Delhi: A man threw ink on Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today while he emerged from his meeting with Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung at the latter’s residence in the national capital.
“They are trying to divert people’s attention when the Aam Aadmi Party government is doing its work in Delhi,” Sisodia, whose red shirt bore the stain of the ink attack, told reporters.
The attacker, who has been identified as Brajesh, said he threw the ink to protest the absence of senior Delhi government officials from Delhi, when it was facing a severe dengue and chikungunya epidemic.
“The people of Delhi are hassled while these leaders are away on trips,” he told reporters.
Jung had summoned Sisodia from Finland where the senior Aam Aadmi Party leader, also Delhi’s Education Minister, was attending a conference on education. Sisodia returned from Finland as scheduled on Sunday despite the Lt Governor’s order to cut short his visit.
Jung’s summon had come in the wake of widespread criticism over senior Delhi government officials missing from the national capital.
Refuting the Opposition’s allegation that he was “holidaying” in Finland, Sisodia had said it was not a “sin” to study the schooling system of other countries to fix the problems in Delhi’s education system.
“I am not holidaying in Finland, I am on a tour to understand the education system here. Is coming to Finland a sin? Eating ice-cream a sin? Which book says that? I am working here for 26 lakh children for which Delhi Government is responsible. I am accountable to their parents,” he told a TV channel from Helsinki.
(Agencies)
Ahmedabad: Minutes before the arrival of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the city airport on Friday, Dalit agitation leader Jignesh Mevani was taken into preventive detention by officials of the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB), Ahmedabad. Deputy commissioner of police, DCB, Deepan Bhadran said Mevani was detained from the airport following an “input”, which he did not disclose. “He was detained following a specific input. He is being questioned and will be released soon,” Bhadran said.
The events unfolded around 8.15 pm at the arrival point of the airport where Jignesh’s cousin Viral was waiting to receive him. Jignesh who was coming from Delhi where he attended a rally.
“As soon as he (Jignesh) came out, around 25 policemen in plainclothes asked him to sit in their vehicle. When I asked them to let me talk to Jignesh, they told me that it was a police matter and I should not interfere,” said Viral.
Following the assault on seven Dalits by gau rakshaks in Una taluka of Gir-Somnath district on July 11, Mevani and his friends formed two groups — Dalit Atyachar Ladat Samiti and Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch (RDAM) — to hold protest events and campaign for Dalit empowerment in Gujarat.
He had given a call to gherao the office of Dholka Prant Officer in Ahmedabad district on Saturday, demanding a written undertaking from the state government to give possession of hundreds of acres of land allocated to Dalits, “only on paper without physical possession”, under the provisions of the Agriculture Land Ceiling Act.
Last Wednesday, at a public event in Vejalpur area of Ahmedabad, he had announced to launch a “rail roko andolan” at different places in Gujarat and also claimed that 20 national and state-level activists would join him.
In the same programme, he had also cited a number of reasons to why Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Limkheda function on September 17 (Saturday) “could be disrupted”.
On Friday, before leaving Delhi for Ahmedabad, Mevani had sent text messages to his friends here, stating that he had announced at Jantar Mantar that the rail roko andolan would be launched on October 1 from Modi’s former assembly constituency Maninagar in Ahmedabad. In the text message, he added that those who could not join the agitation could indulge in pulling the chain of the train.
Meanwhile, around 100 Dalits gathered outside the DCB headquarters in Raikhad area of Ahmedabad, shouting slogans for Mevani’s immediate release.
Police also detained around 400 members of Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti across Gujarat on Friday, a day before the PM’s events in the state to mark his 67th birthday. Patidar agitators have threatened to stage protest in Navsari during the PM’s event, after they did not get permission to meet him to push for their demands.
(Agencies)
Bengaluru: An NIA court here today sentenced 13 members of Laskar-e-Toiba and Harkat-ul-Jihad-E-Islami to five years imprisonment for plotting to eliminate politicians, police officials and journalists in 2012.
After the accused pleaded guilty, Special Judge for NIA cases C Muralidhar Pai pronounced the verdict and said since they had already spent three-and-a-half years in jail, they would have to serve the remaining one-and-half years term.
He also directed them to pay a total of Rs 31,000 as fine.
The Special National Investigation Agency Court had yesterday completed the final hearing.
In a crackdown ahead of Republic Day in 2012, the 13 were arrested by NIA for allegedly plotting attacks in different parts of the country.
The arrests followed simultaneous searches and raids at 12 locations in six cities – Bengaluru, Tumkur, Mangaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Lucknow, on January 22, with the support of local police.
Circuits for detonating explosives were recovered during the searches.
NIA had recovered alleged “incriminating’ articles, including laptops, unaccounted cash, jihadi literature, videos and certain material for preparation of bombs from these places.
The agency had in 2012 received information that certain individuals from various cities in the country were in the process of organising themselves to commit terrorist acts in different parts of the country.
Of the 13 convicts, four are from Karnataka.
While Syed Mujahid is a resident of Tumkur, Asif Ali alias Arman Saani, Suhail Ahmed alias Sohail alias Hafes Saab and Muhammed Abdul Ahad alias Bade Amir alias Sulaiman are from Bengaluru.
Others included 20-year-old Mohammad Aleem (from Lucknow), Mohammed Obedullah Khan alias Obaid alias Talha and Abu Anas, both from Hyderabad, and Mohammad Hussain Khan alias Jamil, resident of Mazgaon, Mumbai.
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Ahmedabad: A 25-year-old Muslim youth, who was brutally thrashed by cow vigilantes on September 13, died at a hospital here today, police said.
Mohammad Ayyub Mev was admitted to V S Hospital after he was thrashed by unidentified persons on S G Highway on the night of September 13 after his car met with an accident.
A calf which he was allegedly carrying in the car died in the mishap. Ayyub’s brother Imran alleged that he was beaten up on the suspicion that he was transporting cows for slaughter.
“Ayyub’s car met with an accident on SG Highway on the night of September 13. When some bystanders checked the car, they found a calf and a bullock. Due to the impact, the calf died while the bullock was rescued. To save himself from people’s wrath, Ayyub started running,” said inspector P B Rana of Anandnagar police station here.
“Since he tried to run away, some persons caught him and thrashed him. We had lodged a case of attempt to murder against the mob. Now as he has died of injuries we will file FIR for murder. No one is arrested yet,” said Rana, adding the previous FIR did not name any specific person associated with cow protection groups.
However, Ayyub’s brother Imran alleged that assailants were cow vigilantes.”Those who killed my brother were indeed gau rakshaks. My brother was not carrying any cow. Out of some grudge, these gau rakshaks mercilessly thrashed him. We want the police to nab the real culprits,” said Imran.
The BJP-ruled state was rocked by a huge controversy in July when some Dalit youths were flogged in public by cow vigilantes at Una.
(Agencies)