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SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016
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Centre Should Not Treat International Maritime Boundary Line As Settled: Jayalalithaa NEWS IN BRIEF Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Changing Name From India To 'Bharat' New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea demanding changing the name of 'India' to 'Bharat' as it took strong exception to the petitioner asking him whether he thinks it has nothing else to do and reminded him that Public CONTD. ON PAGE 2
Day After Raj Thackeray's Hate Speech, Auto Rickshaw Set Ablaze In Mumbai Mumbai: A day after Raj Thackeray's hate speech against immigrant workers in Mumbai, an auto-rickshaw was set on fire in the city's Andheri area on Thursday evening. Police said the miscreants were "unidentified people" and at this point, there is no clarity CONTD. ON PAGE 2
Yogesh Tyagi Takes Charge As 22nd Vice Chancellor Of Delhi University New Delhi: Former South Asian University Dean Yogesh Tyagi on Thursday assumed charge as 22nd Vice Chancellor of Delhi University, over four months after his predecessor Dinesh CONTD. ON PAGE 2
Raising Question Over Woman's Character May Lead Her To End Life: Court New Delhi: Regular uttering of words raising question over a woman's character would lead her to end her life, a Delhi court has said while sending a man to over three years in jail for harassing and abetting his wife's suicide. The court said CONTD.
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Gujarat Nuclear Plant Shut Down After Major Leak, All Workers Safe New Delhi: An emergency has been declared within the nuclear plant at Kakrapar in Gujarat after a major heavy water leak in a nuclear reactor. No worker has been exposed to radiation, said officials, adding that the employees remained CONTD.
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Women Fighter Pilots Advised To Put Off Motherhood By 4 Years New Delhi: India's first three women fighter pilots have been advised by the Indian Air Force (IAF) to restrain from motherhood for the next four years so as not to adversely impact their ongoing training process. CONTD.
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Samajwadi Party Walks Out Of Left Front In Bengal Over Congress Tie-Up
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Congress Will Fight Assam Polls Against PM Modi's Injustice: Tarun Gogoi
'If We Criticise Everything, Why Should World Look At Us?' PM Modi At Sri Sri Event New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to critics of the mega cultural event organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living was delivered not just in his brief speech today, but also in the time he spent at the festival, which began in Delhi this evening. For about two hours, the Prime Minister watched music and dance performances and sat through many speeches before he made his, saying, "India has a cultural heritage that the whole world seeks...If we keep denigrating ourselves, criticise everything, then why will the world look at us? That is only possible when we are proud of our heritage." The three-day extravaganza has been cloaked in controversy for days with environmentalists alleging that the festival, spread over 1000 CONTD. ON PAGE 2
“We Need Art Of Living To Follow Our Dreams�: PM Modi
World Culture Festival Is Like The 'Kumbh Mela' Of Art: PM New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi today attended the opening of the World Culture Festival on the banks of River Yamuna by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living. Addressing the thousands present there, PM Modi said, " If we keep calling ourselves bad, criticise every-
thing, then why will the world look at us." Here are the highlights of his speech: I heartily welcome you to the land of India India has so much diversity The world is not only CONTD. ON PAGE 2
New Delhi: Government today indicated that it has put in cold storage a bill to make marriage laws more women-friendly and allow both parties to file for divorce on the ground of "irretrievable breakdown" of marriage. In a written response, Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda informed the Rajya Sabha that "at present there is no proposal to bring any legislation in this regard." He was asked whether the government intends to reintroduce the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to include 'irretrievatCONTD. ON PAGE 2
Congress Slams PM Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal Over Art Of Living Event New Delhi: The Congress today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of "blatant political and constitutional impropriety" by supporting and participating in the World Culture Festival. "The support and participation of both in an event that has been legally held to be an 'ecological disaster' and a wrongdoing punishable by a fine, characterises gross hypocrisy of the BJP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)," said Congress spokesperson PL Punia. "While organising a CONTD.
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New Delhi: A Delhi court today allowed a plea by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy
NATIONAL HERALD CASE and summoned certain documents pertaining to financial details of Indian National Congress (INC) for the year 2010-2011 in the National Herald case. Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen partly allowed Mr Swamy's plea in which he had sought summoning of documents related to financial details of INC, Associated Journals Pvt Ltd (AJL) and Young Indian Pvt Ltd (YI) in connection with the case.
Besides INC's documents for the year 20102011, the court also summoned AJL's documents for the same assessment year. "I am partly allowing your application," the magistrate said while pronouncing the order. Mr Swamy had sought summoning of these documents contending
that they were required for the purpose of investigation in the National Herald case. He had referred to the court's June 26, 2014 order summoning Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi, Motilal Vora, Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey and Sam CONTD. ON PAGE 2
New Delhi: STill three months ago, tycoon Vijay Mallya appeared under no pressure to pay back nearly a billion dollars of loans accrued by his Kingfisher Airlines. Even after he was declared a "willful defaulter" by the State Bank of India, Mr Mallya held a blowout birthday party in December at his famous Goa villa, with about 200 guests, a fireworks display, and pop singer Enrique Iglesias as the headline act. Now, regulators, banks and the judiciary are all chasing Mr Mallya, whose departure from India was reported a week after he flew to London by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi. SEBI, the markets regulator, has begun an CONTD. ON PAGE 2
Government To Conduct Special Audit Of Opposition Alleges Aadhaar Data Could Be Used For Telecom Firms: Ravi Shankar Prasad Mass Surveillance
sharing of revenues by private telecom service providers during 2006-07 to 2009-10 has indicated there was a total understatement of Rs. 46,045.75 crore in gross revenues by six operators," Mr Prasad told a hurriedly-convened press
RSS Says Govts Must Check 'Anti-Nationals' In Universities New Delhi: The R a s h t r i y a Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS, ideological mentor of the ruling BJP, has said the central and state governments must deal strictly with "antinational and anti-social forces" in universities, and suggested that places of education not be allowed to become "centres of political activity." "The acceptance of the national discourse has been gaining steadily and the resultant
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New Delhi: The government has decided to conduct a special audit of telecom companies to check possible understating of accounts as indicated by the country's official auditor, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. The remarks follow the tabling in parliament of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which pointed toward understating of revenues by six telecom companies and causing the exchequer a loss of nearly Rs. 12,500 crore. "The CAG report on
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RSS asks govt to deal strictly with 'anti-nationals' in universities 'Don't let universities become hub of political activity', warns RSS The comments came as govt is under fire for mishandling JNU case unease among anti national forces have come to light through recent incidents. The CONTD. ON PAGE 2
conference in New Delhi. "This has a corresponding impact of Rs. 3,752.37 crore on license fee and Rs. 1,460.23 crore in spectrum usage charge," the minister said. "I have taken a grim CONTD. ON PAGE 2
New Delhi: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today tore into the provisions of the Aadhaar Bill, insisting that there is apprehension that it can be used for "mass surveillance" and "ethnic cleansing". Participating in the discussion on the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016, Tathagata Satpathy (BJD) said there are fears that a government of the day may use the provisions of the bill for "mass surveillance" and "ethnic cleansing". When a BJP member
countered him saying there are no different races in the country, Mr Satpathy said there are at least four groups in the country and Indians can be divided on these lines. He claimed that the United Nations had recently "misutilised" biometric data of refugees coming from Iraq and Syria to help certain countries keep a tab on them. "More dangerous is collection of biological data," he said opposing the Bill. He said be it the UPA or the NDA, the mindset remains the same. With a variety of cards CONTD. ON PAGE 2
Jat Stir Caused Over Rs. 250 Crore Damage To Railways: Official Gurgaon: The Jat community's recent violent agitation for reservation in education and jobs caused a loss amounting to over Rs. 250 crore to the Railways, a senior Northern Railway official said today. The amount of loss was revealed as Senior Divisional Manager Deepankar Jha along with other departmental officers arrived here to review development works. The team visited Farukhnagar Railway station to review
'Vijay Mallya A Gentleman, Not a Crook,' Says Farooq Abdullah New Delhi: Hours after he tweeted that he was no absconder, liquor baron Vijay Mallya received support from a former colleague in Parliament, Farooq Abdullah, who called him a "gentleman, not a crook". In Parliament, the gov-
ernment and the opposition have clashed over the businessman's "escape", possibly to the UK, in the middle of attempts to recover nearly a billion dollars owed by his collapsed Kingfisher airlines to banks. CONTD. ON PAGE 2
Shashi Tharoor's Bill To Decriminalise Homosexuality Defeated In Lok Sabha New Delhi: For the second time in three months, Lok Sabha today voted against the introduction of a private member's bill brought by Congress member Shashi Thraoor to decriminalise homosexuality. Mr Tharoor's private member bill sought to amend the "colonial era" Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that criminalises homosexuality. In effect, the bill aims to decriminalise sexual intercourse in private between consenting adults, irrespective of their sexuality or gender by restricting the appliCONTD. ON PAGE 2
Anti-Terrorist Front Writes To Mamata Banerjee Against Hosting Pakistan Kolkata: The Anti-Terrorist Front of India (ATFI) that has threatened to dig up the Eden Gardens slated to host the India-Pakistan tie in the World Twenty20, has written to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against hosting the cricket match. The ATFI has been opposing hosting of the Pakistan team until the terror masterminds behind the Mumbai, Pathankot and the recent Pampore attacks are handed over to India by Pakistan. "Hosting the Pakistanis is an CONTD. ON PAGE 2
Arunachal Chief Minister Kalikho Pul Allocates Portfolios To Ministers
beautification work being done there. The team also enquired about the progress of the work being done by Reliance company. Replying to a query by
media persons, Senior Divisional Manager Deepankar Jha said that Railways had to bear over Rs. 250 crore as violent protesters torched several CONTD. ON PAGE 2
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul today allotted portfolios to the newly-inducted ministers keeping finance, planning, health and family welfare, forests and environment departments. Deputy Chief Minister Kameng Dolo will look after home, rural development, panchayati raj besides textiles and handicrafts. Chowna Mein, who was also sworn-in as Deputy Chief Minister, was allotted public works department, social welfare and child development, social justice CONTD. ON PAGE 2