5 killed, 12 injured in blast at Batamaloo bus stand in Srinagar
At least five people have been killed & more than 15 injured after a grenade blast at the busy Batamaloo bus stand in Srinagar on Thursday. Unidentified persons hurled a grenade on a Jammu-bound bus at the bus stand located in the periphery of Lal Chowk in afternoon.
The injured were immediately admitted to the nearby hospital. The grenade was hurled when the group of labourers from other states were boarding a bus to Jammu on way to their native places.
Government won Trust Vote in Lok Sabha
UPA has on Tuesday won the Trust vote polling 253 in favour vis-a-vis 232 against in a House of 487 with two abstention in the Lok Sabha. But this final tally may change later after counting of voting slips.
The voting was both automated as well as manual. The Prime Minister & Sonia Gandhi were immediately surrounded by a galaxy of members after UPA won Trust Vote in Lok Sabha.
Earlier, the Opposition members rushed to the well of the ….
Dera Sikh Row: Punjab & Haryana Bandh announced on July 23
The Gurmat Siddhant Parcharak Sant Samaj & the Damdami Taksal has called for a bandh in Punjab & Haryana on July 23 demanding the arrest of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Damdami Taksal members are on dharna from July 9 against the failure of the Central government to arrest the Dera chief.
Protesters are also demanding the sealing of Naam Charcha centres of Ram Rahim , besides initiating an inquiry against him. They stated that the Dera chief ….
Earthquake struck Japan
A strong earthquake struck off the east coast of Honshu on Saturday. The US Geological Survey said that the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck beneath the north Pacific Ocean, 123 km from east northeast of Iwaki, Japan at a depth of 40 km.
There were no initial any reports of damage from the quake. Nuclear power facilities in the area were unharmed & were continuing to operate as usual. The earthquake was epicentred in the same area as a June 14 tremor ….
1 More Sikh killed in Dera Followers-Sikh clash in Haryana
A sikh has been killed in a clash between a group of Dera Sacha Sauda supporters & Sikhs in Dabwali town in Haryana’s Sirsa district. The clash broke out after an altercation between two sides during morning prayers naamcharcha of Dera supporters in Dabwali.
Deputy Commissioner V Umashankar said that the district administration had not been told about the Dera programme in advance. He said, “Generally, we are informed ….
Mediapersons attacked by Asaram Bapu supporters in Ahmedabad
The supporters of spiritual Guru Asaram Bapu have on Friday attacked mediapersons in Ahmedabad on Friday, damaging cameras of television crews. The attack happened at a press conference called by Asaram Bapu’s ashram.
Asaram Bapu ashram has been facing protests after the bodies of two boys were found near the ashram on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on July 6. Several organizations have called for shutdown in Ahmedabad on Friday to protest what they see ….
“Ahmedabad Bandh” turns violent
Situation worsened in many parts of Ahmedabad on Friday as bandh called to protest against the death of two boys, of Asaram Bapu’s ashram, under mysterious circumstances turned violent with protesters attacking busses in many parts of the city.
Maninagar, the constituency of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, has also been affected as people tried to block the roads in the area. Nirnaynagar has been most affected as clashes broke down between the police & people. Police used lathicharge to disperse ….
ABC correspondent arrested on drug charges
The ABC’s South Asia correspondent Peter Lloyd has been arrested in Singapore on drug charges. The 41 years old was arrested earlier this week & is expected to be charged with drug-related offences today.
He will face up to 20 years jail & 15 strokes of the cane if found guilty of drug charges. Police from Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau arrested Lloyd on Wednesday. He is accused of supplying a Singapore man with methamphetamine, ….
Landslides killed 14 in Uttarakhand
At least 14 people have been killed & 12 others injured after a passenger bus was hit by landslides at Sukhidhang area of Chamawat district in Uttarakhand on Friday. The bus carrying 34 passengers was bound for New Delhi from Thal in the hilly Pithoragarh district when it was trapped in heavy landslide following rain.
As the bus was nearing Champawat town, a landslide hit the bus & damaged its front. Ten bodies have been recovered so far while the injured ….
UP multi-crore provident Fund scam: High drama witnessed in SC
High drama was witnessed in Supreme Court during the hearing of Provident Fund scam in Uttar Pradesh when Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan appeared to drop hints that he may rescue from the case after a senior counsel challenged a decision of his.
Balakrishnan told Shanti Bhushan that he had taken some decision on the administrative side & if he has to withdraw then an amended prayer has to be filed. Names of 26 members of judiciary, including an apex court judge, ….
SAD decides to vote against UPA govt. on Nuke deal
The Shiromani Akali Dal will vote against the UPA government when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeks a vote of confidence in Parliament on July 22. Parkash Singh Badal said that the party cann’t go along with any ruling dispensation in which the Congress is a constituent or has provided support. While ruling out the possibility of Akali MPs abstaining from voting, he said there was no need to issue a whip as the party stood united on the issue.
He denied ….
Blast in Chechnya killed 9 Russian soldiers
At least nine soldiers have been killed on Tuesday & four others injured after an explosion in ammunition in the war-ravaged southern Russian province of Chechnya.
Defence Ministry said, “An uncontrolled explosion occurred as ammunition was being transferred from a tank into a vehicle near the town of Shali”. Two of the six injured following the explosion died in surgery, raising the initial death toll from seven to nine.
Prosecutors have opened an inquiry into the explosion & Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov ….
20 killed in accident in Patna
At least 20 people have been killed when a jeep carrying a marriage party fell into a water-filled ditch in Patna in the wee hours on Tuesday. Anwar Hussain, SP of Patna said, “The dead include 10 women & nine children”.
He said that the tragedy occurred when the victims, all belonging to the bride’s side, were returning to their home in Janipur locality in the state capital after solemnising the marriage at a temple in Alamganj in the old city ….
Miss Venezuela becomes Miss Universe 2008
Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza has won the Miss Universe pageant. The 22 years old stunner beats runners-up from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Russia & Mexico to clinch the diamond-studded golden crown.
Miss Universe 2008: Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza.
1st Runner Up: Taliana Vargas (Columbia).
2nd Runner Up: Marianne Cruz Gonzalez (Dominican Republic).
3rd Runner Up: Vera Krasova (Russia).
4th Runner Up: Elisa Najera (Mexico).
Attack on Sakshi Newspaper’s office
The Christian Groups have on Sunday attacked the offices of Telugu Daily, owned by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s family, to protest the publication of a blasphemous picture of Jesus Christ. The daily’s Sunday edition carried a picture showing Jesus with a beer mug in one hand & a cigarette in the other. The chief minister’s family, which practices Christianity, has tendered an apology. The chief minister’s son & newspaper owner YS Jaganmohan Reddy & the chief ….
Read More: Attack on Sakshi Newspaper’s officeBJP: UPA failed to control Inflation
The BJP alleged that the UPA government has failed to control inflation & was so helpless that now even the finance minister has stopped giving alibis.
BJP said, “Inflation is almost touching 12 per cent now. The government is entangled in the situation. Price rise is a demon beyond their control. The govt is clueless (about what to do) & the proof of this is that even the finance minister has now stopped giving any alibis on the situation”.
BJP further said, ….
After CBI’s clean chit, Rajesh Talwar gets bail
The CBI has on Friday made it clear that they had no evidence against Dr Rajesh Talwar. CBI joint director Arun Kumar said, “As per our investigations Krishna, Rajkumar & Vijay Mandal looked like the prime culprits. We have no evidence against Rajesh Talwar”.
However, CBI made it clear that all revelations were based on the narco-analysis & lie detector test & the agency still has to find corroborative evidence to nail the guilty. Meanwhile, CBI has arrested the third accused ….
Communal tension in Bangalore
An eerie silence prevailed in the communally sensitive area of J C Nagar, near Palace Grounds, in the Karnataka capital after baton charge by the local police on Friday. Trouble was started in the afternoon when lumps of pork were thrown inside a religious place in the area by a small group of troublemakers. They entered the religious place & damaged a few tiles, reportedly, in retaliation to a stone-pelting incident on an adjacent religious place of another community two ….
Read More: Communal tension in BangaloreSix used bombs recovered in Amritsar
Punjab Police has recovered six used bombs which were laying abandoned in the garbage. A senior official of Police has said that when employees of Municipal Corporation were on their routine job found six bomb shells from garbage.
The empty bomb shells approximately 5 inches long were packed in the gunny bag. The official said that such type of explosive material being used in the army.
Six kg opium seized, 2 arrested
The Punjab police has arrested two notorious drug smugglers, believed to have political connections, & recovered 6 kg of opium from them in Amritsar. Both the arrested drug smugglers, Gian Singh & Jagjot Singh, of Tarn Taran district were intercepted by a police patrol party near the old Sabji Mandi Hall Gate.
Six kilogram of opium was recovered from them. The consignment, smuggled from Rajasthan, was to be delivered to a person in Amritsar. Meanwhile sources in the police department informed ….