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Jet Airways suspends 5 cabin crew over Sonu Nigam’s ‘concert’ on flight

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New Delhi: Jet Airways has suspended five crew members who were part of a chartered flight after aviation watchdog DGCA took serious note of an episode in which singer Sonu Nigam was allowed to belt out Bollywood numbers using the in-flight announcement system.

The incident occurred on a flight from Jodhpur to Mumbai on January 4, when the “errant” crew members allowed Nigam to hold a sort of musical concert on board following a request from fellow passengers, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) sources said.

The matter came to DGCA’s notice after a video of Nigam singing on board the flight went viral on social media.

Action has been initiated against the crew members since allowing a passenger to use the public address system on board a flight amounts to violation of safety norms, the sources said.

“All cabin crew on the flight have been taken off flight duty for inquiry and corrective training to reinforce strict adherence to operating procedures,” Jet Airways said in a statement.

As per a Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) on training and licensing of cabin crew, issued by DGCA in 2010, “the PA (public address) system and interphone system are tools for relaying safety information”.

(Agencies)

Supreme Court asks BCCI to fall in line with Lodha panel recommendations

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The apex court said the recommendations are “straight, rational and understandable” and “deserve respect”.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a stern message to BCCI asking it to “fall in line” with the recommendations of Justice R M Lodha Committee which has suggested a massive restructuring of the country’s apex cricket body.

The apex court said the recommendations are “straight, rational and understandable” and “deserve respect” and “there is no reason to disagree with the committee” which has the most “illuminated and respected members of the legal community”.

While four weeks time was granted to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to respond on the implementation of the recommendations of the Lodha Committee, the court made it clear that since ample opportunity was given to all stakeholders over a long period and their views were taken into consideration before preparing the final report, there should not be any difficulty in accepting the recommendations.

The remarks by a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur came after senior advocate Shekhar Naphade, representing BCCI, said there was a need to consult the 30-odd members of the Board on the recommendations and in view of its legal committee’s meeting on February 7, four weeks be allowed to respond.

However, the bench said, “They all have been heard and have given their views to the Committee. Ask your client to take a strict view of the recommendations. You can’t jump the gun.

You must see the recommendations. These recommendations deserve respect. They have come from the most illuminated and respected members of the legal community. They had invited people and have done extensive deliberations with all stakeholders. The recommendations are straightforward, understandable and rational.”

“The best thing is to fall in line and follow the suggestions to save the trouble,” the bench, which also comprised Justice F M I Kalifulla, said.

“Ultimately any transition and change has to come with whatever problems it has,” the bench said while accepting the Committee’s report which also exonerated former Chief Operating Officer of IPL Sunder Raman of all charges.

The BCCI had submitted that it should not be seen as “obstructionist” and it would come back with “concrete suggestions” after the meeting of the legal committee.

However, the bench said “decks must be cleared for complete reform”.

When Naphade said several technical problems would arise in implementing the recommendations of the committee as BCCI is registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, the bench said it would give the solution for following the suggestions.

“We will find an easy solution. We have simple solutions.

We will accept all recommendations. We will say that since BCCI has difficulties and impediments in respecting and implementing the recommendations, we will direct the same committee to push all recommendations. They will tell you where to get the registration. We will ask the judges (in the committee) to help BCCI in implementing the recommendations.

“We don’t want or intend or dictate a lengthy order. We want and we would end by directing that committee to steer the BCCI in implementation of the recommendations,” the bench said.

Realising the tough stand taken by the bench, Naphade said “I can see the writing on the wall.”

The bench said there was not much complication in the recommendations and if BCCI found any anomaly it can be looked into.

“There is no reason to disagree with the committee,” the bench said while making it clear that some people are going to be affected by the implementation of the Justice Lodha Committee’s recommendations.

The bench, which was hearing the plea filed by Aditya Verma, Secretary of Cricket Association of Bihar, on whose petition N Srinivasan was asked by the apex court to step down as the BCCI President for conflict of interest, posted the matter for further hearing on March 3.

(PTI)

Principal, 4 others of Ryan Intl school arrested

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New Delhi: The principal and four other staff of south Delhi’s Ryan International school were arrested today, five days after a six-year-old student was found dead in a water tank on the campus, triggering outrage.

Besides principal Sandhya Sabu (50), those arrested include class teacher Minakshi Kapoor (38) and drinking water system operator Yogesh Kholiya (23). Maintenance in-charge of the tank Puran Singh Bisht (65) and gardener Ram Narayan (44) were also arrested.

All five were arrested under Section 304 A (causing death by negligence) of IPC.

On Saturday, Divyansh Kakrora, a class I student, was found dead in the reservoir under the ampitheatre of the school.

School authorities had told the police that the boy was last seen before the seventh period, which was around 12.20 PM. They later found him floating in the reservoir and rushed him to a private hospital where he was declared brought dead.

It was the hospital authorities and not those of school who had informed the police about the incident.

After preliminary investigation, the police had registered a case of negligence causing death at the Vasant Kunj North police station. Later in the day, the Delhi government had also ordered a magisterial probe.

The initial postmortem report of Divyansh suggested he died of drowning and no external injuries were found, police said.

The police had questioned the school authorities, including the principal, for five days.

(PTI)

11 sentenced to death for killing woman in West Bengal

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Kolkata: Eleven people were given the death sentence by a West Bengal court on Thursday for killing a woman to grab land.

Aparna Bag was shot dead when she tried to prevent the attackers from grabbing land in Krishnaganj in Nadia district on November 23, 2015.

Two others were also shot but survived the attack.

A West Bengal court on Thursday awarded the death sentence to 11 people charged with murdering the 38-year-old housewife, the Hindustan Times reported.

According to police, one of the accused is still absconding.

Lankeshwar Ghosh, who claimed to be a local Trinamool leader, is the main accused but local party leaders, however, rejected his claim that he has anything to do with the party.

(Agencies)

Four Ikea stores in Karnataka to bring Rs.2,000 crore investment

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Bengaluru: Home furnishings retailer Ikea India on Thursday announced Rs.2,000 crore investment in Karnataka with a promise to incorporate 50 percent women in the workforce.

“We will set up four stores in Karnataka. Each store will come with an investment of Rs.500 crore and create direct employment to 500 people and indirect employment to 1,500 people,” said Ikea India CEO Juvencio Maetzu at Invest Karnataka 2016 Global Investors Meet (GIM).

Considering the state as a key market for the company, Maetzu said Ikea India is committed to invest both in terms of retail and supply chain operations.

Making a strong statement on gender equality at a panel discussion on Promoting Women Entrepreneurship, Maetzu said: “We will continue our world leading gender equality legacy of Ikea by hiring 50 percent women workforce. Gender equality is in our DNA. Gender equality is a basic human right which is non-negotiable for us.”

According to Maetzu, 52 percent of Ikea’s global workforce constitutes women who also make up 48 percent of the company’s managerial ranks.

The company has identified three focus areas in its operations: Co-workers, supply chain and community.

“We have decided that all Ikea stores will have a kindergarten in India. We are now establishing what does it take to support transport, health insurance,” said Maetzu.

Ikea has been sourcing in India for their supply chain for the past 30 years. Currently its sourcing value from India stands at $400 million which it wants to double it to $800 million.

The company has 50 suppliers in India with 45,000 direct employees and 4,00,000 people involved in the extended supply chain.

The first store of the Swedish giant in India will come up in Hyderabad in 2017 followed by stores in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.

(IANS)

Govt denies Tanzania girl was stripped, rubbishes racial attack claim; 5 held

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Bengaluru: Five persons have been arrested for the alleged assault and stripping of a Tanzanian woman here with the Karnataka government today saying it viewed the incident “seriously” but rejected suggestions that it was a racial attack.

As the incident on Sunday night took a serious diplomatic turn, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said five men had been arrested and that Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj spoke to him. A report would be sent to her, he said.

“Case has been registered, five of them (accused) have been arrested. Sushma Swaraj also spoke to me, I will also be sending her a report through my Chief Secretary,” he told reporters at “Invest Karnataka 2016”, a global investors meet, here.

The Chief Minister said he has asked the police to conduct an inquiry on why complaint was not taken immediately.

“I have asked them to take action against officials if there is any fault on their part,” he said.

The 21-year-old Tanzanian woman student was allegedly beaten up and stripped by a mob in a case of “mistaken identity” after a woman was mowed down by a car here.

She was reportedly dragged out of the car in which she was seated along with her three friends when she reached the accident spot mistaking them to have caused the fatal accident though a Sudanese was involved in it, police said.

Swaraj had described it as a “shameful incident” and spoken to Siddaramaiah, seeking stringent punishment for the guilty, while the High Commission of Tanzania had sent a Note Verbale to the External Affairs Ministry on the issue.

Voicing concern over the incident, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today sought a report from the Karnataka government, according to party General Secretary Digvijay Singh, in charge of Congress affairs in the state.

“Rahul Gandhi asks Karnataka Govt to explain and send report immediately,” Singh said in a series of tweets.

But asked if the Congress high command has sought a report, Siddaramaiah said, “Why will high command seek report on everything? It is you people who are saying…”

State Home Minister G Parameshwara told a press meet here that five persons had been arrested and more arrests would follow depending on the inquiry.
The minister, who named the victim, denied that the Tanzanian woman was paraded naked saying, “No such thing happened.”

He also said, “This is definitely not a racial attack” and maintained that the incident was a response to an accident that had happened earlier, in which a Sudanese driving a car in an alleged drunken state had mowed down a woman and injured her husband seriously.

Noting that the government has taken the case “seriously”, he said, “If there are any lapses on the part of police officials, we will take very serious action, including suspension.”

(Agencies)

IIMC students post ‘derogatory remarks’ against Dalit, tribal students; probe ordered

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New Delhi: Days after Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula committed suicide in Hyderabad, a group of students of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in Delhi posted `derogatory remarks` against Dalit and tribal students on social media.

The IIMC has formed a committee to probe allegations of “casteist” remarks against students belonging to the SC and ST community and has asked for a report within three weeks.

The committee was set up after a group of students, including those from SC and ST community, approached authorities alleging that “ill will” and “hatred” against them was being spread by some of their peers after they protested over Vemula’s suicide.

In letters to the Social Justice Ministry and the Tribal Ministry, 17 students have complained against certain social media posts that first appeared on January 18.

The students subsequently threatened legal recourse stating that due to the “prevailing tension” they are not able to focus on studies.

Anurag Mishra, IIMC OSD, refused to comment when asked about the allegations.

However, a faculty member said that a five-member committee, including representatives from the students’ side, was formed this week in a meeting where “both the grieving parties were heard out”. It has been given three weeks time to submit a report on the issue.

The IIMC, run by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, will hold its annual convocation on February 5.

When contacted, one of the students who has been complained against, said that “personal revenge” was being taken against him “misusing” constitutional protection granted to SC and ST community people.

“I have apologised for the post although initially I was not ready to do so. In the region where I come from, words I used in the post are not regarded offensive at all. A propaganda has been unleashed against me,” the student said.

The complainant students have told the authorities that “comments are being passed and remarks made loud” when they pass through the corridors in the college and hostels since they raised the matter.

“In the campus there is an air of worry…We hereby expect proactive action by our able faculties to ensure harmony and amicability on campus as assured,” they wrote.

“We would beg to request a slot in the academic timetable to be allocated for sensitising of all the students by experts in the field of Caste/Tribe reality and affirmative action, to promote amicability and inclusivity on campus,” they added.

Last month, a group of students had organised a protest meet inside the campus over the suicide of Hyderabad University Dalit student Rohith Vemula.

(With PTI inputs)

Owaisi brothers booked, three held for attacks

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Hyderabad: Police on Wednesday booked MIM leaders Asaduddin Owaisi and his brother Akbaruddin Owaisi and arrested three activists of the party for attacks on their political rivals during elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Tuesday.

Hyderabad police have booked Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief and Hyderabad Lok Sabha member Asaduddin Owaisi and his brother and party leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in three different incidents of attacks on political rivals.

The Owaisi brothers and others were booked for unlawful assembly, voluntarily causing hurt, wrongful restraint, criminal intimidation and other charges.

Police said three people were arrested based on the video footage of the incident that occurred near Mirchowk police station in the old city wherein the Congress party’s Telangana unit president Uttam Kumar Reddy and senior leader and legislator Mohammed Ali Shabbir were attacked.

Asaduddin Owaisi with his followers had come to the police station, taking objection to the presence of the Congress leaders, who were there to seek release of their party activist Mohammed Ghouse.

Deputy Commissioner of Police V. Satyanarayana said they were questioning the accused, who will be produced before a court on Thursday.

He said Asaduddin Owaisi was an accused in the case, which has been registered on a complaint by Congress leaders.

Police took action after analysing the evidence and screening the video footage.

The DCP said two teams were working to conduct the investigation and gather evidence.

Police also booked Akbaruddin Owaisi, MIM leader in the Telangana assembly, for the alleged attack on a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jangammet division, also in the old city.

The police officer said an investigation was taken up after BJP candidate Mahender lodged a complaint against the MLA at Chandrayangutta police station.

Another case was booked against Asaduddin Owaisi on a complaint by Mubashiruddin Khurram, a reporter of Urdu daily Siasat, who was injured in an attack by MIM workers.

Meanwhile, another MIM legislator Ahmed Balala, who was arrested on Tuesday for the attack on the son of Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali, was released on bail by a city court.

A separate case against Balala was booked on a complaint by Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) leader Amjadullah Khan Khalid, who was also injured in an attack.

In another incident in Langar Houz, MIM workers allegedly attacked their rivals belonging to the TDP and the BJP.

Director General of Police Anurag Sharma and Hyderabad Commissioner of Police Mahender Reddy reviewed the cases booked against MIM leaders in connection with various incidents of violence.

The opposition parties have demanded immediate action against MIM leaders for the attacks.

Leaders of Congress, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and BJP held a meeting to condemn the attacks and seek immediate action.

The delegation led by Leader of Opposition Jana Reddy also met Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan to demand strong action against MIM leaders.

They said since the governor has law and order powers in the joint capital of Hyderabad under section 8 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, he should invoke the same to intervene in the matter as the TRS government is not taking any action.

The Congress party also wrote to Election Commission of India, urging it to derecognise MIM and disqualify Owaisi brothers from contesting elections.

(IANS)

Deve Gowda lashes out at JD(S) MLA Zameer for his support to Rahman Sharief

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Bengaluru: JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda lashed out at his party man Zameer Ahmed, stating he was unsure which party Zameer was working for.

“I do not know if Mr Zameer is in the Congress or Janata Dal (Secular). He has no moral right to participate in any of our party functions,” Gowda told the media.

Urdu papers, reportedly have carried advertisements denouncing JD(S) to field Ismail Sharief, a Muslim candidate at Hebbal after Congress announced its candidature of Jaffer Sharief’s grandson Rahman Sharief.

“They did this to split Muslim votes. Zameer has said he would do anything to save the party. I am not sure which party he belongs to. He has even refused to campaign for us and I do not know why,” Gowda said.

(Agencies)

Tanzanian girl stripped, paraded naked in Bengaluru by angry mob

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Bengaluru: In a shocking incident, a 21-year-old Tanzanian girl was repeatedly beaten and then stripped of all her clothes and made to parade around the streets of the city naked by an angry mob.

She is a second year BBA student of Acharya College in the city.

The incident occurred on Sunday night after a 35-year-old woman was killed in a road accident in Hesaraghatta. The mob that was angered after a car driven by a Sudanese youth ran over and killed a local resident, waylaid the second car that arrived on the scene a full 30 minutes later, in which the girl was travelling.

She had absolutely nothing to do with the car that ran over the local woman. The angry mob dragged her out of the car and stripped her after she was surrounded and stopped by the mob.

The mob also assaulted a concerned bystander who tried to cover her with a T-shirt.

When the girl tried to escape by getting into a bus, the passengers of the bus threw her back into the arms of the mob, it has been reported.

The four others who were travelling in the car were also beaten and the car was set ablaze.

Meanwhile, when the girl went to the police station to file a complaint, the cops were unsympathetic and refused to register the case and also reportedly asked her to bring in the driver who ran over the 35-year-old woman.

(Agencies)

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