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Mysore: Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs is named Wodeyar heir

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A photograph of Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs with Pramoda Devi Wadiyar.

A photograph of Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs with Pramoda Devi Wadiyar.

Mysore: The Mysore royal family has a new heir in Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs to continue the Dasara traditions of the Wadiyar dynasty and also taking up the legal disputes of palace property with the state government.

He is the grandson of Princess Gayatri Devi (the eldest daughter of the last Maharaja Jayachamarendra Wadiyar and the eldest sister of late Srikantadutta Narasimharaja Wadiyar) and son of Tripurasundari Devi and Swarup Gopal Raj Urs. His adoption as the heir was announced by Ms. Pramoda Devi Wadiyar at a press conference at Amba Vilas Palace on Thursday.

Yaduveer comes from the Bettada Kote family whose association with the Wadiyars of Mysuru goes back to more than 200 years. Yaduveer studied in Vidya Niketan School, Bengaluru up to standard ten and at Canadian International School, Bengaluru to complete his standard twelve, after which he left for the U.S. He is currently doing his BA, majoring in Economics and English at Boston.

(Agencies)

AAP to appoint AIIMS whistleblower Sanjiv Chaturvedi as Delhi anti-corruption chief

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Sanjiv Chaturvedi to head Delhi's anti corruption bureau

Sanjiv Chaturvedi to head Delhi’s anti corruption bureau

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) plans to appoint as Delhi’s top anti-corruption officer a man who was recently shunted out by the central government. Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who was removed as vigilance chief of AIIMS hospital, will head the Delhi anti-corruption bureau.

Chaturvedi, an Indian Forest Service officer who had uncovered several scams while posted in Haryana, was removed from the post of Chief Vigilance Officer at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in August last year. His sacking led to a huge protest by AAP which accused the Modi government of removing him at the behest of some BJP leaders.

Chaturvedi’s removal had also drawn parallels with the repeated transfers of IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had exposed a series of corruption cases in Haryana.

The AAP Cabinet, which will be sworn-in on Saturday at the Ramlila Maidan, is expected to make the decision next week.

(Agencies)

Christian school in Vasant Vihar vandalised, Kejriwal vows tough action

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Policemen stand guard outside the Holy Child Auxilium School in New Delhi on Friday. Photo: Sandeep Saxena, The Hindu

Policemen stand guard outside the Holy Child Auxilium School in New Delhi on Friday. Photo: Sandeep Saxena, The Hindu

New Delhi: In yet another incident which raises concerns over safety of institutions linked to the minorities, a Christian school located in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar was vandalised by some unknown persons late on Thursday.

According to reports, the window of the Holy Child Auxilium School principal’s room was broken and the CCTV cameras installed there were also damaged by some unidentified persons.

The police, which is now probing the matter, has claimed that it may be a case of theft.

Delhi CM-designate and AAP leader Arvind Kjeriwal has strongly condemned the incident and said that such acts won’t be tolerated.

Meanwhile, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani, who studied in this school, is also expected to visit the school shortly.

In view of the incident, all classes were cancelled today and the security has been tightened.

“Certain people came at night, broke the CCTV camera, went into the principal’s room and vandalised it,” Father Dominic Emmanuel, spokesperson of the Delhi Archdiocese, was quoted as saying.

He further alleged that the incident is in line with a series of attacks on churches in Delhi.

After massive protests by Christian groups, Home Minister Rajnath Singh tightened security around churches and other religious institutions.

(Agencies)

Bengaluru-Ernakulam Express derails, 8 killed, several injured

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Derailed bogies of the Bangalore-Ernakulam Expresss near Hosur on Friday.

Derailed bogies of the Bangalore-Ernakulam Expresss near Hosur on Friday.

Bengaluru: In a tragic mishap, at least 8 passengers have been killed and around 60 injured when a Bengaluru-Ernakulam bound Inter-City Express derailed near Hosur in Tamil Nadu during wees hours today.

The mishap took place near Anekal at 7:35 am today. According to Railway officials, nine coaches have been derailed.

Around six ambulances from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have rushed to the accident spot. Even local villagers are assisting the rescue team to help the injured.

The mishap occurred after the engine of the train caught fire and all the bogies got derailed.
Railway authorities have rushed rescue teams to the spot and rescue operation is on.

According to sources, many passengers are still trapped in the derailed coaches.

The injured are being rushed to nearby hospitals.

Helpline numbers

  • Bengaluru: 080-22371166, 080-22156553 and 080-22154554

  • Palakkad: 0491-2556198 and 0491-2555231

  • Thiruvananthapuram: 0471-23221205, 0471-2321237 and 09746769960

  • Ernakulam Junction: 0484-2100317, 0813699773 and 09539336040

  • Ernakulam Town: 0484-2398200

  • Thrissur:0487-2424148, 0487-2430060

  • Aluva:0484-2624143

  • Mobile Nos: 9731666751

  • At accident site: 9448090599

  • Kerala Department of Non-resident Keralites’ Affairs have opened help lines in Bangalore – 080-25305090, Ernakulam – 0484-2371830/2371810 and Thiruvananthapuram -1800-425-3939 (Toll Free), 0471-2770522

The Ernakulam-bound train, a daily train, left Bengaluru city railway station at 6.15 a.m.

About seven ambulances from Tamil Nadu and 10 from Karnataka have been dispatched to tackle the emergency situation.

The derailed coaches are D-8, D-9, D-10, D-11, two AC Chair Cars and two unreserved coaches, railway sources said. Unconfirmed reports say the locomotive of the train also caught fire and that the pantry car rammed into the adjacent D-8 coach.

US police officer who brutally assaulted Indian in Alabama arrested, will be fired; FBI to probe matter

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57-year-old Sureshbhai Patel was partially paralysed in the US when a police officer forced him on ground. Photo: Al.com

57-year-old Sureshbhai Patel was partially paralysed in the US when a police officer forced him on ground. Photo: Al.com

Washington: One of the two police officers who allegedly assaulted the 57-year-old Indian man in Alabama has been arrested and FBI will be conducting a probe into the matter to find out if there were any federal violations in the incident.

Larry Muncey, the Madison City Chief of Police while apologising to the victim Sureshbhai Patel, who was wrongfully assaulted by two police officers, without any provocation just because he did not know English and was unable to answer to their questions, informed that Federal Bureau of Investigation will also be conducting a probe into the matter.

“I sincerely apologise to Mr Patel, Mr Patel’s family and our community. We strive to exceed expectations,” Muncey told reporters at a news conference.

“Additionally FBI would be conducting a parallel inquiry to ascertain if there were any federal violations,” Muncey said after he released audio and videos related to the incident.

“As a result of the investigations, I found that Mr Parkers’s actions did not meet the high standard and expectations of the Madison City Police Department,” he said, adding, that he (Muncey) has proposed termination of officer Parker, who has now been arrested for third-degree assault.

The incident occurred on the morning of February 6 while walking down the sidewalk in the neighbourhood, Patel, a permanent US resident, “was violently assaulted by a police official without provocation, and left partially paralysed,” according to the 11-page lawsuit filed.

A day before, Patel had arrived in the United States to assist his son and daughter-in-law in caring for their 17-month-old child, who was developmentally delayed after a premature birth.

In the video, Patel is seen walking quietly in a sidewalk. He is not seen peeping at any of the houses or garage as was the police told in an non-emergency call it received from a neighbour, after which a police car was rushed to the neighbourhood.

In the video, two police officers are see approaching Patel and asking him questions – like name, address and identity card.

Patel is heard saying “No English” and pointing figure towards his son’s home. Soon one of the police officer, later identified as Parker, is seen violently throwing Patel on the ground and threatening him not to leave. It is at this time it appears Patel was paralysed, apparently by shock.

Moments later when two police officers try to walk him, Patel is not able to stand on his own. Patel was severely injured in the incident, said his attorney Henry F Sherrod.

Patel has been partly paralysed and is currently under treatment at a city hospital.

The incident was condemned by Indian community members across the globe.

In the Meanwhile, an online fundraising campaign has started to help the Patel family with their mounting medical bills.

By yesterday evening nearly USD 12,000 was raised out of the target of USD 12,000. The amount was raised by 278 people in one single day.

The funds raised will be provided directly to the family to help cover medical bills and other fees related to this incident.

Angered by the incident, SAALT (South Asian Americans Living Together) in a statement demanded immediate disciplinary action and termination of the officials concerned.

It asked Madison Police to investigate with expediency and thoroughness the reasons that led to the police encounter with Patel, what occurred during the incident, and the subsequent steps taken by the police department, including a timeline to publicly release the investigation’s findings.

New York-based Indian American attorney Ravi Batra said the local Madison cop dishonored his badge, and violated Sureshbhai Patel’s federal civil rights and state rights.

“The governor of Alabama needs to speak out and mayor of Madison need to retrain their cops while holding Police Chief Larry Muncey responsible,” he said.

“Our federal government, led by President Obama, can move Sureshbhai to Walter Reade hospital – where US presidents go for care, and give him the best medical care to repair his spinal injuries,” Batra said in a statement.

(PTI)

Cricket World Cup launched with quirky opening ceremony

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Fans of Indian cricket team show their support during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 opening event at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Thursday. REUTERS

Fans of Indian cricket team show their support during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 opening event at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Thursday. REUTERS

Christchurch: Children mingled with cricketing greats in “backyard” matches and Maori warriors shared the stage with morris dancers as the Cricket World Cup opened today with a vibrant and quirky ceremony in Christchurch.

Thousands of fans crammed leafy Hagley Park to see the launch of the first World Cup in New Zealand and Australia in 23 years, the formal part of which began with a lone bagpiper and ended with a booming fireworks display –he biggest in the city’s history.

The World Cup is the largest event Christchurch has hosted since an earthquake in February 2011 devastated the city’s centre — only a few hundred yards from where Thursday’s festivities took place, claiming the lives of 185 people.

The physical scars of that disaster still remain in the many vacant lots where buildings once stood but the people of Christchurch showed Thursday the city’s spirit remains undimmed.

Mayor Leanne Dalziell said Christchurch was preparing to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup when the earthquake struck, toppling hotels and wrecking venues, forcing matches to be allocated to other centres.

She told fans Thursday “we’re back!”

New Zealand prime minister John Key said the earthquake robbed Christchurch of the chance of hosting the Rugby World Cup and it was “only fitting” that it should be chosen to host the opening of the Cricket World Cup. He said the opening ceremony was a way of telling the world that Christchurch is “back in business.”

International Cricket Council chief executive David Richardson unveiled the Cricket World Cup trophy, saying it was a symbol of the ICC’s values of excellence, integrity and inclusion.

Hagley Oval, which will host Saturday’s opening match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka, has hosted first class cricket matches since 1867 but was extensively redeveloped since to become the city’s international cricket venue after the earthquake wrecked Lancaster Park.

Thursday’s ceremony, which set the stage for the Cricket World Cup, celebrating the love of cricket and the cultures of the competing nations, equally celebrated Christchurch’s resilience as it literally lifted itself from ruins to host the opening and opening match of cricket’s four-yearly festival.

As many as 80 children were joined by famous players in games of backyard cricket played on four giant ovals, divided into 14 individual grounds representing the 14 nations taking part in the world tournament. Each of the four areas was overlooked by a stage on which cultural performers from Sri Lanka and India, West Indian steel bands, Scottish and Irish dancers and indigenous Maori haka groups — in total more than 1,000 participants, performed for enthralled crowds.

The captains of the teams currently in New Zealand were presented to the crowd.

South Africa captain A.B. de Villiers told fans that while the Proteas had never won the World Cup “we’re as well prepared as we can be and we look forward to taking the trophy home.”

Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza, whose team plays South Africa in its opening match on Sunday, said while the odds were against his team “the good thing about this tournament is the team that plays the best cricket on the day will win the match.”

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said his team’s opening match against New Zealand on Saturday is “going to be a tough contest, it’s going to be an even contest and whoever plays the best cricket will win.”

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, who lives in Christchurch said “having the first game of the World Cup here in Christchurch after all it’s been through is fantastic.”

“I think it’s a wide open World Cup,” he said. “The nature of wickets we’ll see in Australia and New Zealand are pure wickets and that brings in the match-winners. Every team has match-winners and they can turn the game in 10 or 15 overs.”

(PTI)

Alleged embezzlement case: Gujarat High Court rejects activist Teesta Setalvad's anticipatory bail plea

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Teesta Setalvad

Mumbai: A team of Gujarat police reached the Mumbai home of activist Teesta Setalvad after a court today refused to grant her protection from possible arrest in a case linked to the alleged embezzlement of funds.

Setalvad, who has for years fought for the victims of the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat, has been accused of misusing some Rs. 1.5 crore allegedly collected for a museum at the Gulbarg Society, where over 60 were killed during the riots.

The complaint was filed by 12 residents of the society. The museum was reportedly shelved.

Following the bail rejection, Setalvad, including her husband Javed Anand, former MP Ehsan Jafri’s son Tanvir and two office bearers of the Gulberg society – Salimbhai Sandhi and Firoz Gulzar may face arrest.

The Ahmedabad crime branch had already started searching for her. They have contacted Mumbai crime branch to locate her.

Setalvad has said that the allegations are politically motivated. She is likely to move the Supreme Court tomorrow for anticipatory bail.

(Agencies)

Modi won't be able to attend Kejriwal's swearing-in ceremony

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AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 7 RCR. Photo: PMO Twitter account

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 7 RCR. Photo: PMO Twitter account

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not be able to attend Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor and Delhi chief minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal’s oath taking ceremony on Saturday, party leader Manish Sisodia said on Thursday after a meeting with the PM.

The meeting which took place at the Prime Minister’s 7 Race Course Road residence lasted half an hour and was described as cordial.

“Unfortunately PM Modi will not be able to attend Arvind ji’s oath taking ceremony,” Sisodia, who accompanied Kejriwal, told reporters after the meeting with Modi.

Kejriwal extended an invitation to Modi for the ceremony but the PM is scheduled to travel to Maharashtra to inaugurate the new Krishi Vigyan Kendra building in Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar’s stronghold of Baramati on Saturday.

“We had a good talk with the PM and told him there is a full majority government at the Centre and in Delhi and this is a golden opportunity. It is an opportune time to grant full statehood to Delhi,” said Sisodia.

He said the PM assured them that the Centre will think on the issue of giving full statehood to Delhi.

Kejriwal’s meeting with the PM comes a day after he met Union home minister Rajnath Singh and urban affairs minister Venkaiah Naidu and sought full statehood for Delhi.

Speaking to home minister Singh, Kejriwal also underlined the need for “constructive cooperation” between the central and the Delhi governments and noted that political differences should not come in the way of taking the city forward.

Kejriwal will also invite his one-time colleague and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who was the BJP’s CM candidate in the Delhi polls. Bedi too had congratulated Kejriwal asking him to make Delhi a world-class city.

The AAP won 67 seats in the 70-member Delhi House on Tuesday, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed a distant second place with merely three seats. The Congress, reeling from a string of defeats since it was routed in the Lok Sabha polls, did not even open its account.

In the run-up to the Delhi polls, the battle for the city-state saw a fierce war of words between the PM, and Kejriwal, who lost to Modi in Varanasi in the April-May general elections.

But, Modi congratulated Kejriwal after the AAP’s poll triumph and promised him Centre’s co-operation in the development of Delhi.

(Agencies)

Real time data system to be put in place to curb female foeticide in Karnataka

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Bengaluru: Faced with the challenge of curbing female foeticide which continues despite a ban, the state government is mulling to take the help of technology to fight the same.

Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader who announced the same during the Legislative Council informed that a ‘real-time data system’ will be put in place to ensure that every scanning centre is put under round the clock surveillance.

The system will be put in place within a year said Khader replying to a question on Monday, February 9. Once the system is in place, information from an ultrasound centre will go into a central repository system automatically.

The overall female-male sex ratio in Karnataka rose from 965 to 968 between 2001 and 2011 census, the child sex ratio (between 0 to 6 years) declined from 946 to 943.

SC slams Centre: 100 Crore for R-Day parade, but no compensation to farmers

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Make in India tableau

New Delhi: The Supreme Court slammed the Union government today for spending crores on the Republic Day parade but delaying the payment of compensation to farmers for land acquired from them.

“You spend Rs. 100 crores on Republic Day parade but when it comes to payment of compensation to farmers, you file appeals,” Chief Justice HL Dattu told the Centre.

The court’s observation came during a hearing of the Defence Ministry’s appeals relating to compensation to farmers on land acquisition in cantonment areas in Punjab.

The Punjab and Haryana high court had awarded a substantial compensation to farmers and the ministry had appealed against it.

But the Supreme Court declined to interfere, saying, “farmers are deprived of reasonable compensation”. The government, the court said, spends “so much money on litigations” but “takes a different stand” when it comes to paying farmers.

The Chief Justice also criticised the Union government for not creating enough infrastructure for the functioning of tribunals. “If you are unable to provide accommodation, why create such tribunals?” the court said.

Justice Dattu said recently, a retired Supreme Court Judge who was appointed on a tribunal, was not provided accommodation.

“I am anguished that you are pushing them (Judges) to Commonwealth village. Why different treatment for them? You must create infrastructure before creating tribunals,” the court said.

(Agencies)

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