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SC dismisses Pappu Yadav's bail plea

     New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dismissed the bail petition of RJD MLA from Purnia Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav as withdrawn in the Ajit Sarkar murder case. Yadav withdrew his bail petition after the Apex Court showed reluctance to entertain his plea. Yadav, currently lodged in the Tihar Jail in connection with former CPM MLA Ajit Sarkar murder case, was produced in the court of additional district and sessions judge of Patna Jayant Kumar Sen through video-conferencing. The Supreme Court had ordered that Yadav be shifted from Beur prison in Patna to Tihar jail in Delhi to "prevent him from tampering with evidence and threatening the witnesses." It had said the trial of cases against Yadav at the sessions court in Patna should be conducted through video-conferencing. In exceptional situations where the Sessions Judge felt that the personal appearance of Yadav was required, the accused could be taken from Tihar jail with adequate security. The Judges had said the authorities should follow the rules and no special privileges should be given to the accused. On the visitation rights of his family in the jail, the Bench had said only those who were permitted by the Prison Manual would be allowed to meet him. The Bench had noted that Yadav had not shown any respect to the repeated orders of the court and, in fact, defied them to roam around in Madhepura, hosting a dinner in the jail on his release on bail and using cell phones and entertaining a large number of visitors while in custody. In its transfer order, it also had taken into consideration the manner in which he had addressed a public meeting while in judicial custody and the "royal treatment" given to him at the Patna Medical College hospital.

4 killed, 50 hurt in Srinagar car bomb blast (Go To Top)

     Srinagar: At least four people, including three security personnel, have been killed and about 50 others injured, in a car bomb blast in Srinagar. Official sources said that militants triggered a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) kept in a car at Jawahar Nagar Chowk around 10.45 a.m. The three security personnel and a civilian died on the spot. The injured were admitted to different hospitals where the condition of several of them was stated to be critical. A senior Border Security Force (BSF) officer was quoted as saying that the explosion was so powerful that it damaged number of vehicles and window panes of nearby houses. The car carrying the IED was blown to pieces in the blast. This was the first major strike by militants after last week's Darbar move. The blast took place on a route that is frequently used by state cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats. On the same day, militants fired a couple of rifle grenades towards a security force camp at Karan Nagar, about half a km from the Civil Secretariat.

Uttar Pradesh police nab Muzaffarnagar baby killer (Go To Top)

     Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh): Uttar Pradesh police have arrested a gang of contract killers, who were said to have been behid the assault and muder of at least 11 children, including infants. Apart from the Shahawaz, the ring leader of the gang, four other persons have been taken into custody. The gang was nabbed as they were on their way to kill another person for Rs.25,000. "This is a three member gang ,which is involved in contract killing. Through our network and surveillance we have nabbed them. During investigations they revealed that one of the accused, Shahnawaz was a contract killer. He was arrested in 2000 and was in jail. He committed 11 murders all of children after which he was arrested",said Dava Sherpa, SSP, Muzaffarnagar. Shahnawaz alias plastic denies the charges framed against him but accepts his involvement in Chand's murder four years ago. Chand, a local boy was murdered by Shahnawaz four years ago . "I am not involved in the killings, somebody is conspiring against me, they are trying to fix me. I was only involved in the murder of Chand",Shahnawaz said. Family members of Chand still cannot forget their son's murder and want the accused to be punished for the crime. "Shahnawaz took my son after he came from playing and murdered him brutally. He should be punished for murdering my son",said Jamila, Chand's mother.

IAF Jaguar crashes near Gorakhpur, kills pilot (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: A Jaguar aircraft of the IAF crashed near Khalilabad village near Gorakhpur on Wednesday at around 8:20 am in the morning. The aircraft had got airborne from Gorakhpur air base and was on a low level-flying mission. The press release from the IAF said that the pilot was killed in the crash, though no damage to civil property was reported. IAF has ordered an inquiry in to the incident. Today's crash is the fourth crash involving IAF planes this year. Earlier, two Mig-21 fighter jets crashed near the Nal airbase in Bikaner, followed by an HPT trainer aircraft mishap near Hyderabad. Jaguars, which were inducted into the IAF in the late 1970s as a deep penetration strike aircraft has a good safety record.

WB appoints Swiss professor to mediate Baglihar dam dispute (Go To Top)

     Washington: World Bank officials have said that they have named a Swiss professor to mediate in the Baglihar dam dispute between India and Pakistan. Raymond Lafitte is a civil engineer and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The World Bank in its statement said that Professor Lafitte would be asked to make a finding on the differences between India and Pakistan on the construction of the Baglihar dam project. "Professor Lafitte will be asked to make a finding on differences between the two government concerning the construction of the Baglihar project," a statement from the bank said. Pakistan has from the very beginning opposed the construction of the Baglihar dam over River Chenab and said that not only was the construction in violation of the Indus Water Treaty 1960, but it also had the possibility of diverting the rivers waters according to India's advantage. It has also said that upon completion, the dam would deprive Pakistan of as much of seven-eight thousand cusecs of water per day, in the process adversely affecting wheat production in Pakistan's Punjab province. Earlier following the failure of the bilateral talks to solve the issue, Pakistan approached the World Bank to arbitrate the imbroglio by appointing neutral experts. The Chenab River is one of the rivers comprising the Indus river system. After the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Indus Waters Treaty was concluded with support from the World Bank. The Treaty divided the river systems between the two countries. The Bank is a signatory to the Treaty and earlier this year was approached by Pakistan to appoint a neutral expert to deal with the differences that had arisen between the two countries. Both India and Pakistan have found Professor Lafitte suitably qualified as a neutral expert. His findings will be made known in time. Under the terms of the Indus Waters Treaty, his determination will be final and binding. The Indus Waters Treaty was concluded by India and Pakistan on September 19, 1960. The World Bank is a signatory to the Treaty for certain specified purposes. It is not a guarantor of the Treaty. Many of the purposes for which the World Bank signed the Treaty have been completed. There are now three remaining responsibilities for the World Bank under the Treaty, relating to the settlement of differences and disputes.

India, Pakistan agree to start Amritsar-Nankana bus service (Go To Top)

     Islamabad: Pakistan and India on Wednesday agreed in principle to start a bus service between Amritsar and Nankana Sahib in Lahore. Indian and Pakistani officials attending the first round of technical level talks for the operationalization of Lahore- Amritsar bus service, which lasted for two days, issued a joint statement to this effect a short while ago. According to the joint statement, the two sides discussed the modalities for operationalization of the Lahore-Amritsar bus service, including the designated route, bus terminals, facilities for the bus crew, modalities of visa arrangements and a Protocol/MOU for the Lahore-Amritsar bus service. They also agreed that the next technical-level meeting between the two sides would take place in New Delhi in July. Both sides described the May 10-11 meeting as being held in a friendly and cordial atmosphere. The Pakistan delegation was led by Mohammad Abbas, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Communications and the Indian delegation was led by Alok Rawat, Joint Secretary, Department of Road Transport and Highways. Before leaving for New Delhi, the Indian delegation called on Pakistan's Minister for Communications, Muhammad Shamim Siddiqui.

30 killed in north Iraq bomb attack (Go To Top)

     Baghdad: At least 30 people were killed and 35 were wounded in suicide bomb blast in Northern Iraq on Wednesday. Twenty others were also reported killed in other parts of the country. In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle in Tikrit among a crowd of mainly Shi'ite migrant workers from southern Iraq who had gathered to try to find work on construction sites. Police said at least 27 people were killed and more than 60 wounded in the blast. In the town of Hawija, southwest of the strategic oil city of Kirkuk, a man strapped with explosives walked into an army recruitment centre and blew himself up, killing 19 people and wounding 25. A suicide car bomb also exploded outside a police station in the southern Baghdad suburb of Dora, killing at least four people and wounding dozens.

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