Lohardaga, Gumla (Jharkhand), Four persons died when lightning struck them in Lohardaga and Gumla districts, the police said. Three persons died at Nadinagra village in Lohardaga while they were working in the field while an elderly woman was killed by the thunderbolt at Mahuatoli village in Gumla district, the police said.
Sunday, 17 June 2012
New MLA
Chennai, Jun AIADMK's Karthik Thondaiman, who emerged winner in the June 12 bye-election to the Pudukkottai Assembly constituency, would take oath as member of the Tamil Nadu assembly. Assembly Speaker D Jayakumar would administer the oath of office and secrecy to Thondaiman in his office,officials said.
Thondaiman, secured 101,998 votes, defeating his nearest rival N Jahir Hussain of Desiya Murpokku Dravidar Kazhagam by 71,498 votes. The bypoll was necessitated by the death of CPI legislator SP Muthukumaran in a road accident in April.
Friday, 15 June 2012
Hyderabad
Hyderabad: At least nine people have died and 10 are critically injured with severe burns in a blast at the government owned Vizag Steel plant in Andhra Pradesh.
The Police Commissioner of Vishakhapatnam, Purnachandra Rao said the blast happened at the high pressured oxygen house of the plant.
The injured have been admitted to the steel plant's General Hospital.
There are fears that the number of casualties could rise.
A technical problem at the unit was suspected to be the cause for the mishap. Sources said the explosion could have been caused due to abnormal build up of pressure in the unit.
Officials at the plant say, the fire due to the blast has been doused. The chairman of the plant who is on leave and out of the country is slated to return today.
Jodhpur
Jhakhar, who had allegedly disposed off Bhanwari's body, had been brought to the court by the police in connection with another case in which he is facing criminal charges. He was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in January this year and has been lodged in the Jodhpur Jail since.
Bhanwari Devi, a trained midwife and nurse, went missing in September last year and the remains of her body were discovered by the CBI four months later. The CBI, in its chargesheet, has alleged that former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and ex-MLA Malkhan Singh conspired to get rid of the 36-year-old nurse after she began blackmailing them.
The duo hired two men, Sohanlal and Shahabuddin, to kidnap Bhanwari from a bus and kill her.
Jhakhar, who is a member of the Bishna Ram gang, was assigned to get rid of her corpse, according to the CBI. Bishna Ram took the body to his village in Jalora where his gang burnt her body, smashed her bones and then threw the remains in a canal which were found by the CBI in January.
Thursday, 14 June 2012
President again
Hyderabad, Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today said there is a leadership crisis in the country and hoped that A P J Abdul Kalam becomes the President again.
"We have a leadership crisis today. We need a Leadership which takes risk and that will happen only when you elect people properly... I expect the next president will be Abdul Kalam," he said at a function here.
He also said terrorism should be dealt with strongly. "You have to make a resolve that you will not negotiate with terrorists until they are ready to surrender. This is the fundamental decision you have to make. Retaliation should not be just killing terrorists. That's not enough as new terrorists will come up. We have to find out their objectives and take a tough line. It needs willpower," he said.
Nitish Kumar
Patna, A P J Abdul Kalam, who has been backed by Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party for Presidential race, arrived here today on a scheduled visit and was welcomed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at the airport. Kumar's receiving Kalam at the airport assumes significance in the backdrop of TMC and SP rooting for his candidature for the post of President. Kalam will attend two separate functions in the city on June 15th.
Sangma
New Delhi, Former Lok Sabha Speaker and Nationalist Congress Party leader P A Sangma today said he remained a candidate for the post of the president and was in touch with all political parties to garner support. "I am in the race that is important. Since I am in the race, I do not like to comment on other candidates," he said and added there was nothing wrong in names being suggested for the post of President.
"We all know that my candidature has been sponsored by two most powerful leaders of the country, honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalithaji and also honourable Naveen Patnaikji who is the Chief minister of Odisha," he told Times Now. Sangma also said he had been given to understand that NDA would discuss his candidature at its meeting tomorrow.
"I have friends everywhere and I do not like to have any enemies.... I have appealed for support to all political parties... I am very much in touch with them," Sangma added.
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