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DDCA official sought sex for selection: Kejriwal

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Arvind Kejriwal

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday accused Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) official of asking for sex in return for selection of cricketers.

“A senior journalist came to me and said his wife was asked to come for sex in return for selection of his son in the cricket team,” Kejriwal told NDTV.

He did not name the journalist.

Kejriwal also said that “apart from the financial irregularities, there were other major wrong things happening including the sex racket”.

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should decide “whether to make DDCA inquiry null and void to protect (Finance Minister) Arun Jaitley”.

(Agencies)

SC upholds Kerala’s liquor policy; bars only in 5-star hotels

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Actor Mohanlal advertises for a brand of whisky in Kerala.

Actor Mohanlal advertises for a brand of whisky in Kerala.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Kerala government’s liquor policy restricting service and consumption of liquor at bars in five star hotels only.

An apex court bench comprising Justice Vikramjit Sen and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh in their judgement pronounced on Tuesday said that petitions challenging the Kerala liquor policy are dismissed and the Kerala High Court judgement sustaining the liquor policy is upheld.

The liquor policy, upheld by the apex court, allows service of liquor at bars in five star hotels only. Under the policy, the sale and consumption of liquor at the bars in hotels below five star is prohibited.

The Kerala government hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict that not only upheld the Kerala High Court’s verdict but also the Oommen Chandy government’s liquor policy.

“We are happy that the Supreme Court’s division bench has upheld our decision. From now on, we will be going ahead very strongly with our anti-liquor campaign programmes as we want this habit to be removed from our society,” Kerala’s Excise Minister K. Babu told reporters just after the apex court’s verdict on Tuesday.

In March this year the Kerala High Court upheld the state’s new liquor policy and dismissed a petition of the Kerala Bar Hotel Owners Association. Following this, the hotel association, led by its president Raj Kumar Unni, approached the apex court against this verdict.

From April 1, only 27 five-star hotels were serving liquor and with Tuesday’s verdict, the status quo would be maintained.

Reacting to the new development, Unni said the government will now decide how and what to do next. “Yes, we will seek legal advice on how to move forward,” said Unni.

Bar owner Elegant Binoy told reporters that the latest verdict is not the end of the world for the bar association.

“What must be noticed is that the liquor policy of the state is an annual exercise and there are just three more months for this policy. From April 1, 2016, there has to be a new policy, so we will wait and see, and before that we also will sit down and discuss what other legal recourse is there before us,” said Binoy.

In August 2014 the Chandy-led Kerala government announced, as part of its new liquor policy, that it was deciding to go in for total prohibition in 10 years and had issued a notice for closure to all the 710 bars, including the 418 ones that had not opened since April 1 that year.

Liquor, however, will be available through 305 retail liquor shops owned by the Kerala government. And, here too, 10 percent of these shops would be closed down every October, the new policy statement anno0unced. By now 78 shops have already downed their shutters.

With assembly polls round the corner, all eyes are on the Left opposition as to what would be its liquor policy, as the apex court on Tuesday pointed out it is the decision of the state government to formulate its own policy.

(IANS)

14-year-old girl gang-raped by armymen on Howrah-Amritsar Express

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Ranchi: A group of inebriated army men allegedly gang-raped a 14-year-old girl on board the Howrah-Amritsar Express after forcing her to drink alcohol, police said on Monday.

Sources said the girl, a resident of Kolkata, boarded the Punjab-bound train at Howrah on Sunday but entered the coach reserved for army personnel by mistake.

One of the jawans got her drunk and two others then raped her when she went to the bathroom.

Social workers found her unconscious on the train when it stopped in Jharkhand’s Madhupur station.

“We have arrested one Mandreesh Tripathi who had offered liquor to the minor,” said Madhupur GRP’s officer in-charge, Arjun Tiwari. Sources said Tripathi has confessed he forced the minor to drink.

The girl was in shock and needed counselling.

(Agencies)

 

Illegal mining: Lokayukta raids Janardhan Reddy’s home, office

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Janardhan Reddy

Bengaluru: Karnataka Lokayukta Police on Tuesday raided mining baron and former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Janardhan Reddy’s home and office.

The raids are conducted simultaneously in at least seven places in Bellary and Bengaluru.

A disproportionate assets case has been registered against Reddy.

Meanwhile, office of Obalapuram Mining Corporation is also being raided.

Janardhan Reddy has been under investigation by both Lokayukta and CBI over his mining deals and the illegal mining activity carried out when BJP was ruling Karnataka between 2008 and 2013.

Reddy spent over two years in jail and has been out on bail.

(Agencies)

Ramdev likely to skip JNU visit, varsity stands by invitation

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DRDO-Ramdev

New Delhi: Yoga guru Ramdev today indicated that he would skip his visit to Jawaharlal Nehru University where he was invited to deliver a keynote address even as the varsity rejected demand of a student group to withdraw the invitation.

“Me or my office has not confirmed for any talk or event at JNU. I would have surely gone to JNU if time allowed to have candid, scientific & logical discussion, even with my ideological adversaries. I will love to talk to students & faculty at JNU, whenever its possible in near future,” he said in a series of tweets.

While the varsity administration maintained that it has not heard of any denial or acceptance of the invitation from Ramdev, it clarified that it stands by the invitation.

“The invitation to Ramdev was extended due to the quality work he has done in the field of Yoga. The administration has no agenda to support any political affiliations. Students have a right to register their protest but we stand by the invite extended to him,” said JNU Professor G N Jha, member of the organising committee.

Terming the move a “silent right-wing onslaught” on the university , Jawaharlal Nehru Students Union (JNUSU) had yesterday demanded that the authorities withdraw their invitation to the yoga guru to attend the ’22nd International Congress of Vedanta’ or face protests.

The three-day convention– organised by the university’s Special Center for Sanskrit Studies in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, USA and the Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth — began here on December 27.

Ramdev has been invited to deliver the key-note address on December 30.

(PTI)

Won’t apologise to Jaitley: Kejriwal

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arvind-kejriwal

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said he will not apologise to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over the DDCA row, and added that the Bharatiya Janata Party was “begging” for it.

“BJP almost begging me for an apology. Sorry. I won’t oblige them. Let Jaitley-ji be cross-examined in defamation cases. Let truth prevail,” Kejriwal tweeted.

Earlier on Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party sought an apology from Kejriwal, saying that Jaitley was not named in the report of the committee appointed by his government to probe alleged financial irregularities in the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA).

“No clean chit ever given by any Delhi government probe. That report confirmed several instances of wrong-doings but did not fix responsibility,” Kejriwal said.

“It didn’t mention anyone’s name and recommended (an) enquiry commission to fix responsibility, which we have done now.”

Earlier in the day, former solicitor general Gopal Subramaniam agreed to chair the Commission of Inquiry to probe alleged financial irregularities in Delhi’s cricket body.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that although the report on the DDCA did not name anyone, it certainly did not give a clean cheat to Jaitley who headed the board for over 13 years till 2013.

“The report has not named anyone in the corruption in DDCA. Then who has done corruption, ghosts,” Sisodia asked.

An atmosphere was being created that Jaitley has been given clean cheat in the matter but the fact is that the commission of inquiry has not even started the probe, he said.

(Agencies)

Rahul Gandhi to be away in Europe for ‘few days’

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Rahul-Gandhi

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today said he will be travelling to Europe for a “few days”, the first time that he has gone public about a trip abroad.

Gandhi, whose foreign trips in the past have led to intense speculation, took to Twitter to announce this.

“I will be traveling to Europe for a few days. A very Happy New Year to everyone,” he said.

“Hope the new year brings much joy and happiness to you and everyone close to you!,” he wished.

Gandhi had been out of the country during New Year on some occasions in the past as well.

His last two trips abroad were much talked about. His around two-month sabbatical after an AICC session in February this year to reflect upon the party’s debacle in Delhi elections and deliberate on a future course for Congress had led to BJP taking potshots at him.

There was a political controversy even over his September visit to Aspen, US to attend a conference.

This is the first time that Gandhi has taken to Twitter to make public his plan to travel abroad.

The party has not assigned any reason for his visit.

When the BJP raised questions about the Congress claim of Gandhi attending the conference in Aspen, the Congress vice president’s office had uploaded photographs of the same on Twitter to counter the attack.

(Agencies)

Bhoopasandra tension: Action should be taken against communal actions of the police, say activists

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Manohar Elavarthi

Bengaluru: Swaraj Abhiyan organized a press conference today at 1:30 PM at the Press Club of Bangalore about the Communal tensions in Bhoopasandra, Bengaluru.

Press Conference was addressed by: Manohar Elavarthi, State Coordination Committee Member, Swaraj Abhiyan-Karnataka, Kaleemulla R, Member, APCR – Association for Protection of Civil Rights, Momin Khan, Bhoopasandra resident and T. Venkatesh, Bhoopasandra resident

Mr. Manohar said “Mr. Baddi Venkatesh of RSS-Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh is spreading communal hate against Muslim community in Bhoopasandra leading to communal tensions in the area. Hindu fundamentalists like him are spreading hate against Muslims and dalits. He should be prevented from entering the area.

Sanjay Nagar Police is acting as a communal and anti-Muslim force. What we need is a secular police force that implements rule of law without discriminating against any community. Immediate action should be taken against communal actions of the police”

Mr. Momin Khan said “Muslims and Hindus are living peacefully together for more than 4 decades in Bhoopasandra. Mr. Baddi Venkatesh, a money lender exploiting poor people with very high rates of interest has got involved in the management of Hanuman temple 4 years ago. He is misleading children and regularly teaching them hatred against Muslim community. He doesn’t belong to our area. Why is he allowed to bring anti-social elements to disturb peace in Bhoopasadra?”

Mr. T. Venkatesh said “My family was taking care of the functioning of the Hanuman temple for over 30 years. The land for the temple was donated by the Muslim community. Muslims helped us in building the temple. Muslims were part of all our festival celebrations including Ganesh festival.

Mr. Baddi Venkatesh is a selfish-outsider trying to benefit by dividing people based on religion and caste. He is the primary reason for removing the Anaganwwadi centre, which was serving the poorest kids of both Hindu and Muslim families out of the temple premises. The temple management should be transferred back into the hands of people who care for people and support communal harmony”

Mr. Kaleemullah R. said “Sanjay Nagar police are supporting illegal actions of Baddi Venkatesh. They never act against offenses committed by Baddai Venkatesh and his goonda associates. They should arrest him and his associates for spreading hatred between communities”

Speakers spoke about their plans to conduct a series of communal harmony programs to strengthen bonds of friendship between different communities in Bhoopasandra.

36 BASE students bag KVPY fellowship

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Bangalore: Once again the students of BASE (www.base-edu.in) bring outstanding results in Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) examination, a Government of India initiative to encourage students to take up research careers in Pure Sciences. 36 students from BASE have qualified in the stage 1 examinations of KVPY program. This prestigious scholarship program is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and administered by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore). Scholarships are provided (up to the pre-Ph.D. level) to the selected students.

Congratulating the students, Mr. Vallish Herur, Director of BASE said, “We are happy that like every year, this time too many of our students have been selected in the KVPY exam. It’s a combined effort of both teachers and students’ altogether that we have such good results and will continue to strive harder.”

KVPY offers scholarships to assist these students realize their potential to the maximum and the funding is provided upto pre-PhD levels.

Dadri lynching: Akhlaq’s fridge had mutton, not beef, confirms UP govt

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Mohammad Akhlaq Beef

New Delhi: A veterinary report filed by the Uttar Pradesh government has revealed that it was mutton and not beef in the refrigerator of Mohammad Akhlaq, who was lynched to death and his son critically injured over rumours that his family had consumed a dead calf’s meat.

 

Akhlaq was dragged out of his home and beaten to death by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri outside New Delhi on September 29 this year. As he and his son were assaulted, the family members kept shouting there was no beef, but the mob did not listen to them.

 

The attack on Akhlaq’s family followed a public announcement from the local temple that the family had slaughtered a calf and eaten its meat. Nearly a dozen people, including the son of a local BJP leader, have been booked for the killing.

According to Times Now, the Uttar Pradesh’ veterinary department has confirmed that the meat found on Akhlaq’s house was ‘mutton’ not ‘beef’. Forensic lab test results, however, are still awaited.

Akhlaq’s murder over beef had triggered massive outrage across the country, with a number of prominent writers returning their Sahitya Akademi awards in protest. A series of controversial statements and visits to Dadri by the BJP leaders kept the issue on the boil.

The chargesheet in the case filed in a magistrate court in Greater Noida last week has named 15 persons, including Vishal Rana, son of a local BJP leader.

(Agencies)

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