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Navy commissions missile frigate INS Beas

     Kolkata: Chief of Naval staff Admiral Arun Prakash formally commissioned the multi-weaponary 3,600 tonne vessel "INS Beas" at the dock of Public sector Gardenreach Shipbuilders and Engineering Company(GRSE) here today. The ''INS Beas'' is the third Brahmaputra class frigate and has been built at a cost of Rs 900 crores. The INS Beas will be a member of the front line deep sea fleet of the India Navy, and will be placed under the operational control of the Western Naval Command. The vessel has been armed with 16 Russian made URAN surface to surface missiles, each having a range of 40 km, a fully automatic Israeli made multi-layered anti-aircraft and anti-missile defence system. It also has a BARAK long range laser guided canon with a range of 82 km, medium range HUMSA sonar for detecting and targeting submarines and all underwater attacking systems and a fully integrated anti-air missile defence capability and the anti- submarine capability, The 125 metre long ship with a displacement of 3600 tonnes can cruise at a maximum speed of 38 knots (55 km) carrying a total of 28 officers and 270 sailors for up to 4500 km at a stretch. INS Beas can operate in all environments, including one that is contaminated by nuclear, chemical or biological fallout. Launching the warship, naval chief Admiral Arun Prakash said the Navy has approved a tie up with France for production of submarines and is awaiting a nod from the government. "There is a proposal before the government for starting a submarine production line in Mazgaon docks. So after going through due process of selection and evaluation, we had made a proposal to government of India that we should produce six submarines of the Scorpene design which are of French origin," he said The Indian Navy, the world's fifth largest navy, operates a total of 140 vessels including an aircraft carrier, missile-capable warships, minesweepers, over a dozen submarines and the latest aircraft. Many of the warships are of indigenous design and have been constructed in Indian shipyards.

Maharashtra Assembly adjourned amid chaos (Go To Top)

     Mumbai: Maharashtra Legislative Assembly was adjourned for the day today due to chaos in the House following Speaker's announcement to give final ruling on petitions filed by leaders of both the groups of Shiv Sena after going through the matter. Assembly Speaker Babasaheb Kupekar said he received the demand for adjournment from both the ruling and Opposition members. "Such a demand was unprecedented", he said. Expelled Shiv Sena leader Narayan Rane today filed a petition at State Assembly Secretariat, asking the Speaker to disqualify 23 Sena MLAs as they did not attend the meeting on July 8 called by Rane in his capacity as the Leader of the Opposition. "Although, a three line whip was issued to all Sena MLAs asking them to be present at the meeting, some MLAs chose to stay away from the meeting and only ten attended," Rane told reporters at Vidhan Bhavan here.

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray meets party MLAs at a hotel (Go To Top)

     Mumbai: Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray alongwith his son and party executive president today met party MLAs, who have been staying in a five star hotel, in the wake of State Assembly's adjournment following political chaos over disqualification of MLAs. After the meeting, Uddhav Thackery restrained from disclosing what senior Thackery told his MLAs. Uddhav expressed full faith on the speaker's decision and looked very confident. He said that the truth will come to light by tomorrow itself. On asking that Narayan Rane is planning to drag the issue to court, he said that that is his (Rane's) old habit to terrorise others and that will not last for long. "I have full confident on speaker's decision. Rane is trying to trap us into legality but can't do anything. Things will be clear tomorrow in the house," said Uddhav Thackery. He said they, too, have enough things to terrorise him. (Said in the context that they are not legally afraid as Rane is trying to do so because they have appointed Karan Jawar and Company solicitors for legal advice). On Friday, of the 63 Sena members in the Assembly, only 10 had attended the meeting, convened by Rane, who had also claimed that 26 more legislators have extended their support to him on phone as they were being kept captive by Uddhav group.

LeT commander, two other militants killed in J-K (Go To Top)

     Srinagar: Mohammad Hafiz Peer, the divisional commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba has been killed in an encounter in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. The Army has also recovered an AK-47 rifle and a satellite phone. Mohammad Hafiz had been heading the militant group of Lashkar operating in Doda for a long time with code name Delta Four. The Army has claimed that Hafiz was an IED expert and had been involved in motivating many children to join the militant ranks in the past since 1996.

TN withdraws from challenging Kanchi seer's bail (Go To Top)

      New Delhi: The AIADMK Government in Tamil Nadu today withdrew its appeal from the Supreme Court challenging the bail granted to the Sankaracharya of Kanchi, Jayendra Saraswati, in connection with the 2002 Radhakrishnan assault case. A three-judge bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice R C Lahoti, Justice C K Thakker and Justice P K Balasubramanyan dismissed the appeal as withdrawn after the Tamil Nadu Government's counsel, Subramonium Prasad, announced that his client did want to go ahead with the appeal. During the hearing of the appeal on January 17, the Supreme Court had asked the Jayalalithaa-led Government to file a report detailing the injury received by the victim. The Court had said that it would like to see the details of the injury sustained by the temple manager before it proceeded with the State appeal challenging the Madras High Court order of January 3 granting bail to the Kanchi seer. The Sankaracharya was arrested on November 11 for his alleged role in the Sankararaman murder case, and while in custody, he was formally arrested on November 23 in connection with the Radhakrishnan case. The seer had filed two petitions in the Supreme Court seeking bail in the Sankararaman murder case as well as the assault case. On Jnuary 10, the apex court had granted bail in the murder case and did not take up for hearing the other petition as by that time the Madras High Court had already granted him bail in the assault case. The case relates to an assualt on Radhakrishnan, his wife and attendant that took place in September 2002. The charges include IPC sector 307 (attempt to murder) and 120B (conspiracy). Twelve persons were arrested in the case out of which contractor Ravi Subramaniam turned an approver. Ravi Subramaniam has also turned an approver in the Sankararaman murder case. Last month, a Special Investigation Team probing the case in which Kanchi seers Jayendra Saraswathi and Vijayendra Saraswathi are among the 11 accused, had filed chargesheet in a court in Chennai. The 600-page chargesheet, citing 81 witnesses and 181 documents, was filed in the court of 23rd Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Uma Maheswari by a public prosecutor.

UK police arrest Pakistani, three others (Go To Top)

      London: British police have arrested four people, including a Pakistani in London under anti-terrorism laws, but said their link to last Thursday's underground and bus bombings in the centre of the city is yet to be established. "Three people have been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act at Heathrow Airport but it is not known at this stage whether those arrests are linked to this inquiry or not," a senior London police spokesman, Commander Brian Paddick, told a news conference. "Those people are still being detained." "I am told that it is inappropriate and pure speculation at this stage to be drawing any direct linkages with the attacks in London, and at this stage we are not in a position to give any further information" Paddick said. Meanwhile, a Pakistani has been detained at Stansted Airport outside London, allegedly with a map of the underground system and the three bombed train stations circled, reports TIME magazine quoting a US intelligence source. The deadliest peacetime attack in Britain claimed 50 lives and injured some 700. Meanwhile, British investigators are looking into whether Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaedas top operative in Iraq, may have helped supply explosives for the London bombers.

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