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Saina in quarters, Prannoy, Kashyap lose in Malaysia Open

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Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP

Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP

Kuala Lumpur: World No.1 Saina Nehwal reached the quarter-finals while men’s singles shuttlers H.S. Prannoy and Parupalli Kashyap suffered crushing defeats in the second round of the $500,000 Malaysia Open Superseries Premier at the Putra Stadium here on Thursday.

Olympic bronze medallist Saina registered a facile 21-13, 21-9 win in 30 minutes against Chinese qualifier Xue Yao in the second round of the women’s singles event.

In the last eight stage, the 25-year-old Hyderabadi, who currently trains under Vimal Kumar in Benagluru, will face World No.15 Sun Yu. The Chinese worked hard for her 21-17, 20-22, 21-17 victory over Malaysian Beiwen Zhang.

Prannoy, who jumped three places to be 14th in the World rankings on Thursday, lost 15-21, 14-21 in 52 minutes to five-time World champion Lin Dan of China.

World No.17 and Commonwealth Games champion Kashyap received a 10-21, 6-21 thrashing in 35 minutes at the hands of reigning World champion Chen Long of China.

In another heartbreak for India, leading Indian women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa lost 23-21, 8-21, 17-21 in 58 minutes to the Indonesian pair of Nitya Krishinda Maheswari and Greysia Polii.

In the quarter-finals, World No.1 Chen will face Kento Momota, who crushed Hu Yun 21-6, 21-9. Two-time Olympic champion Dan awaits the winner between India’s Kidambi Srikanth and Chinese Tian Houwei.

(IANS)

IAF plane carrying 168 Indian nationals from Yemen lands in Kochi

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Kochi: An IAF plane carrying 168 Indian nationals evacuated from Yemen landed in the government’s first major mission to rescue Indians stranded in the strife-torn nation.

The Indian nationals, including nurses and workers, among others, reached home by the special flight–Indian Air Force’s C17 Globemasters– bringing an end to their about a week-long ordeal.

The flight landed at 2 a.m.

The evacuees were welcomed at the airport by Kerala Minister for Diaspora K C Joseph, PWD Minister Ibrahim Kunju and Ernakulam District Collector M G Rajamanikyam.

They were part of as many as 350 Indians who yesterday reached at Djibouti after being evacuated on a Navy vessel from Aden, the seaport city of Yemen.

Parents of Jincy and Tincy, two nurses working with government hospitals in Yemen, are concerned about their elder daughter whose flight from Sana’a was cancelled even after a boarding pass was issued.

Talking to PTI from Kochi airport, mother of the nurses, Omana, hailing from Vadakkancherry of Palakkad district, said only Jincy, working in Aden, could reach home safely.

“We are happy that our daughter Jincy is coming back on the special flight. But we are concerned about the safety our elder daughter Tincy who is in Sana’a. We hoped that she would also be reaching safely tonight.

“Jincy could not come as the flight did not take off because of the last minute developments at Sana’a airport,” said Omana who came to the airport along with her husband Soman to receive their daughters.

A Kerala government official said the Non-Resident Keralites Affairs (Norka) cell would give Rs 2000 each to the people who returned from Yemen at the airport besides providing them free transportation facilities to reach home.

A spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry has said of 350 evacuees, 206 belong to Kerala, 40 are from Tamil Nadu, 31 from Maharashtra, 23 from West Bengal and 22 from Delhi besides other states.

Another Air Force flight with 190 Indians evacuated from strife-torn Yemen landed at Mumbai airport at 3.30 a.m. on Thursday.

The Central Railway is providing food and assistance with ticketing and is making arrangements for their further journey home.

The Indians were evacuated late on Monday night by INS Sumitra, which was diverted from its anti-piracy patrol in the region. It waited for hours to get local clearances as heavy fighting was reported in the city.

(PTI)

Two minor sisters kidnapped, gang-raped by 5 at gunpoint in Badaun

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Badaun: Two minor girls, both cousins, were allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped at gun point by five persons in Jareef Nagar area here, almost a year after a similar incident in the district had stirred Uttar Pradesh and opposition had attacked the government over law and order.

The accused, two of them brothers, held the girls captive at gun point when they had ventured out of home for some work last night, Senior Superintendent of Police Saumitra Yadav said here today, adding the girls were gang-raped by them.

The accused were later nabbed by the villagers when the victims raised an alarm and handed over to police, the police officer said.

“A case has been lodged and the girls were sent for medical examination,” the SSP said. Their medical examination report is awaited, he said.

Last year, two cousins, aged 14 and 15, went missing from their house on the night of May 27 and their bodies were found hanging from a tree in the village in Ushait area the next day.

They were allegedly raped and hanged with a tree.

However, later, CBI in its probe said that the girls were neither murdered nor raped and had committed suicides. The case is sub judice.

(PTI)

Moment truly painful: IAS officer Khemka on 45th transfer in 24 years

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Chandigarh: Terming his transfer as “painful”, whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who shot into limelight after he questioned Robert Vadra’s land deals in Haryana, said he tried to address corruption and bring reforms in state transport department despite “severe limitations and entrenched interests”.

“Tried hard to address corruption and bring reforms in Transport despite severe limitations and entrenched interests. Moment is truly painful,” 49-year-old Khemka said in a tweet a day after he was moved to Archaeology and Museums Department by the Manohar Lal Khattar government.

Meanwhile, Haryana’s Health Minister Anil Vij came out in Khemka’s support, saying he will talk to the Chief Minister regarding the officer “who had worked to weed out corruption during the previous Congress regime”.

Khemka has been transferred 45 times in his nearly 22-year long career, with the officer not occupying any post beyond few months.

When asked about the decision, Vij told reporters in Ambala, “I will talk to the Chief Minister regarding Khemka’s transfer.”

Vij, an outspoken BJP leader and Ambala Cantt MLA, said that he had always stood by Khemka, “who had worked to weed out corruption during the previous Congress regime”.

The BJP Government in the state had last night issued transfer and posting orders of nine IAS officers including Khemka with immediate effect.

Khemka, who was in November last year posted as Transport Commissioner and Secretary, Transport Department, has now been posted as Secretary, Archaeology and Museums Department and Director General, Archaeology and Museums, a posting considered as “low profile”.

The government did not mention any reason for his transfer. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s OSD Bhupeshwar Dayal termed it as an administrative matter.

However, Haryana’s Transport Minister Ram Bilas Sharma maintained that “transfer is not a punishment” and stressed that it was a “routine” matter.

“Transfer is not a punishment, a promotion or demotion. Transfer of senior officers is a routine matter. There is nothing special or extraordinary about it,” he said while replying to queries on the issue.

He said decisions are taken after the chief minister holds consultations with his council of ministers.

Notably, as Transport Commissioner, Khemka had refused to issue fitness certificates to over-sized trucks and trailers for carrying automobiles leading to a truckers’ strike in January.

Later, the truckers in Haryana withdrew their strike after the state government gave them one year’s time to get their vehicles modified as per the Central Motor Vehicle Rules (CMVR), 1989.

Khemka, in a tweet then, had said that “60 per cent of road accidents due to overloaded and over-sized transport vehicles. Industry cooperation needed to stop this road menace.”

The Transport Minister denied that the move to replace Khemka as Transport Commissioner was related to his decision reagrading truckers.

“No. Nothing like that. It is a routine matter,” he said to a query on the issue.

In one of his tweets last week, Khemka while quoting Rabindranath Tagore had mentioned “If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone”.

Earlier in 2012 when he was posted as Director-General of Land Consolidation and Land Records-cum-Inspector General of Registration, Khemka had brought land deals of businessman Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, under the scanner.

During the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government, the official had cancelled the mutation of the multi-crore land deal between Vadra’s company Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd and DLF, terming it as illegal. However, the previous Hooda government gave clean chit to Vadra in the land deal.

Last week, Khemka in a tweet had said that his action in Vadra-DLF land-licence deal has been “vindicated in the CAG report..”

“Undue favours” to builders, including Robert Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality, by the Haryana Government during the Congress regime has come under attack from the Comptroller and Auditor General.

(PTI)

IGP Mohammed Wazir Ahmed: A valiant cop, a voice for the oppressed and voiceless

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by Qaisar Mahadi

Mohammed Wazir Ahmed Born on 12th March 1955 at Amruthur Village in Kunigal Taluk of Tumkuru District. He had his early education at Government High school, Amruthur followed by Pre-University education at Government Higher Secondary school, Kunigal. An Alumnus of Bangalore University. He has completed his Master Degree from that university and joined the challenging career of Police force during the year 1980 as probationary Deputy Superintendent of Police.

He held the position of Deputy  Superintendent of Police with distinction and worked in places like Madhugiri, Challakere, Chikkabellapur, Kolar & Hospet. After his promotion to the cadre of Superintendent of Police he was drafted for duties to nab the notorious forest brigand Veerappan and he worked in this Special Task Force from 1982-1992. During his stint in this task force he had encounters with the gang of Veerappan and in the process he had the distinction of nabbing many of Veerappan associates of the forest brigand and seizing fire arms etc. During his stint in the special task force he was responsible for seizing loads of Sandalwood from the gang of Veerappan which is having Cores of rupees. As Superintendent of Police COD he had to deal with the murder of a Press Reporter in Mandya district. As a competent police officer known for impartial investigation he is responsible for arrest of sitting MLA  in the said murder case and he has been charge sheeted along with his associates.

Sri Mohammed Wazir Ahmed was promoted to IPS in the year 1995 and was posted as SP(Lokayukta) and posted to Bangalore & Chittardurga. During his long service of 34 years as police officer. He worked as S.P. Hassan as long as 3 years and had the rare privilege of earning the goodwill of public on the one hand and respect from his senior officers on the other hand.  From the beginning of the service he is in the habit of giving respect and cordial relation with his superior officers of the Department, as well as guiding the sub-ordinate officers.  He also worked as Deputy commissioner of Police(Administration) Bangalore City &  AIGP (Crime), Bangalore.

During the year 2004, he was promoted and posted as Dy.Inspector General of Police, Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement, Bangalore. Thereafter he was deployed as Director, Personnel and Environment in KSRTC, Bangalore. Additional Inspector General of Police (Crime) Bangalore, DIG (CRE Cell) Bangalore, DIGP (KSRP), DIGP(Fire Force) Bangalore. In the year 2009 he was promoted as IGP & posted as IGP(CRE cell) Bangalore. As IGP Karnataka Human Rights Commission he had the distinction of undertaking innumerable cases of enquiries relating to Human Rights Violations. He was awarded President’s Gold Medal for his meritorious service from His Excellency, Hon’ble President of India. He has served as IGP North-Eastern Range, Kalaburagi  for a period of about 2 ½ Years   and he came down heavily on anti social elements,  particularly the rowdy sheeters in Kalaburagi Range.  Later he was transferred and posted as Inspector General of Police (Training),  Bangalore where in he worked there for a period of 10 months and later he was promoted and posted as Additional Director General of Police (Civil Rights Enforcement ) Bangalore.

Sri Mohammed Wazir Ahmed was a voice for the voiceless, oppressed and harassed people of the society. Any oppressed person can  simply and frankly walk into the chambers of Sri Mohammed Wazir Ahmed regardless of his position of IGP and put forth their grievances for redressal. It should be told to the credit of this great police officer who had ears to listen to the problems of weaker sections and downtrodden of the society. After completion of 35 years of service in the cause humanity he is laying down office on superannuation on 31st March 2015. On this occasion it is our moral responsibility to salute this great police corp.  We are missing his service to the Police Department consequent to his superannuation which is inevitable.

We wish him and his family members a happy  and peaceful life. The almighty God be bless him and his family members a good health and cheerful retire life.

Girl shot dead inside Bengaluru Residential school

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Bengaluru: A Pre university student was shot dead and her frend injured when an attender opened fire at them at the hostel, in kadugodi, today morning . The deceased has been identified as Gouthami, a student of Pragathi College and a native of Tumukuru. The accused Mahesh who was on the run has been arrested, as per the police sources.

The Management of the residential hostel informed the police at around 10.30 AM. According to sources, the parents of Gouthami were informed that their daughter has slipped and fallen and was injured only to find out that she was shot dead, when they rushed to the spot. There were heated arguments between parents and the hostel Managment.

Currently the girl’s friend who was injured in the attack is said to be critical.

Karnataka Home Minister K J George, City Police Chief M N Reddi and other senior officials rushed to the spot.

(Agencies)

Nun rape case: Four suspects detained in Ludhiana

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Nuns demonstrate against gang rape, church attack in Nadia of West Bengal on 15 March 2015 (Photo - IANS)

Nuns demonstrate against gang rape, church attack in Nadia of West Bengal on 15 March 2015 (Photo – IANS)

Chandigarh: Four Bangladeshi nationals were detained in Ludhiana in connection with the gang rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal’s Ranaghat town last month.

DCP Navin Singla told the media here Wednesday that four Bangladeshi nationals were detained from Ludhiana’s Motinagar area.

Punjab Police additional DGP Dinkar Gupta said that the suspects were being questioned.

The suspects were detained following their photographs being made available to police authorities in various states.

The 72-year-old victim, a sister superior in a convent school in Ranaghat town, was gang raped by the accused who had entered the school premises to commit dacoity on March 14.

(IANS)

Sonia Gandhi's skin colour made her President of Congress: Giriraj Singh

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New Delhi: Union Minister Giriraj Singh said  that colour of Sonia Gandhi’s skin made her the Congress President.

On Wednesday, April 1, media reports quoted him as saying, “If Rajiv Gandhi had married a Nigerian and if she wasn’t of white skin, would Congress have accepted her as a leader?” said Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP from Bihar’s Nawada constituency.

The comment received a flak from the Congress party which immediately demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat criticised his comments and called it derogatory. “This is racist and I strongly condemn it. How dare he make such racist statements? The entire statement shows the low level of public discourse,” Karat said.

Relief to Manmohan Singh, others in coal scam case

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New Delhi: In a relief to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Supreme Court today stayed the trial court order summoning him as accused in a case pertaining to grant of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 to Aditya Birla group company Hindalco.

The stay, which also applied to Hindalco Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, former Coal Secretary P C Parakh and three others, came after senior counsel Kapil Sibal questioned the legality of the summons to the former Prime Minister citing lack of sanction as required under the CrPC and contended that allocation of a coal block was an administrative act without any criminal intent.

“We issue notice on all six petitions. The trial court order shall remain stayed,” a bench of justices V Gopala Gowda and C Nagappan said after hearing arguments by Sibal, who represented the former Prime Minister, and other lawyers in the case.

82-year-old Singh’s daughters, Upinder Singh and Daman Singh, were present in the court during the proceedings.

The bench also stayed the proceedings before the trial court and issued notice to the Centre on a plea challenging constitutional validity of section 13 (1)(d)(iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The other three summoned as accused are Hindalco, Shubhendu Amitabh and D Bhattacharya, its officials. All the six were summoned by Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar to appear before the court on April 8.

“I must confess that I have not been able to find out what is the illegal act done by the petitioner in the case,” Sibal said at the outset of the 35-minute proceedings.

Sibal said it is not an illegal act to allot a mine contending that the administrative acts of the Prime Minister cannot be faulted on the ground that he did not follow the recommendations or procedures adopted by the screening committee.

He also referred to the earlier Supreme Court judgement by which all the coal block allocations were quashed on the ground that screening committee procedures were illegal.

“The trial court, in its order, says that you did not follow the screening committee and this is contrary to law,” Sibal said, adding that the order summoning the PM does not stand the scrutiny of “public reasoning”.

He also said that the trial court order does not deal with the provisions on requirement of prior sanction to prosecute a public servant under the criminal procedure code (CrPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Referring to the essential ingredients of an offence, Sibal said that “there is no reference of meeting of minds to commit an illegal act by the accused persons”.

During the hearing, the bench asked the counsel for Singh to satisfy it on provisions relating to grant of sanction to prosecute a public servant.

Sibal referred to various Supreme Court judgements and said “even if I am the Coal Minister at the relevant time, I don’t lose the status of the Prime Minister who has got plenary power. Everyday, I take decisions as minister and reject the advice, should I be sent to Tihar Jail?”.

There has to be a meeting of minds to do a criminal act with regard to allocation of Talabira coal mines to a private firm, he said, adding, “Where is the criminal conspiracy? Is it an offence to grant coal mines to a private sector company?”

(PTI)

Karnataka firm on Mekedatu project, says CM Siddaramaiah

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Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday informed the Legislative Assembly that the State Government was committed to implementing the Mekedatu dam project proposed across the Cauvery river in Ramanagaram district.

He would convene an all-party meeting to discus the project and lead a delegation to Delhi to appraise the Centre of the necessity of the project for Karnataka, Mr. Siddaramaiah said during his reply to the debate on the State Budget.

Mr. Siddaramaiah said Rs. 25 crore had been set aside for preparing a detailed project report. The project was conceived to meet the drinking water needs of people residing in the parched districts around Bengaluru. It would act as a balancing reservoir and harness water flowing into the sea.

“There is no politics in Krishna and Cauvery waters. We are building the Mekedatu dam within our state, they (TN) will not have any problem from it, and we know how to face this legally,” the Chief Minister said.

Tamil Nadu observed a bandh on Saturday opposing the plan for the Mekadatu project this side of the border.

The Opposition parties-backed state-wide farmers’ bandh over the Mekedatu dam row, though the state government has distanced itself from it.

The bandh call is to press the Centre to rein in Karnataka from going ahead with its proposed plan build a dam at Mekedatu and to urge it to set up the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water Regulatory Authority.

Affiliated trade unions of eight state-run transport corporations of these parties, traders’ associations, retailers, vegetable traders and sand lorry operators are among those who had expressed support for the shutdown.

(Agencies)

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