NEWS IN BRIEF – JULY 10, 2012
1. False alarm: AI plane makes emergency landing in Pak, Passengers, Crew Brought To India On Relief Aircraft: New Delhi/ Islamabad: A four-hour Air India flight from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi turned into a 13- hour ordeal for the 128 people on board when a ‘false warning’ about a rarest-of-rare malfunction led to the Airbus A-319 making an emergency landing in Pakistan’s Nawabshah city on Monday. [TOI p1]
2. Ansari set to get second term as Vice-President : New Delhi: Vice-
President Hamid Ansari, who lost out to Pranab Mukherjee in the race for
the UPA’s nomination for President, is set to get a second term as VP with
the Congress veering around to supporting his candidature and PM
Manmohan Singh initiating consultations with allies and other parties. [TOI
p1]
3. Ansari may Get 2nd Term, NDA to Contest Veep Poll, BJP may back
a nominee put up by another Opposition party, as it did in the case of
Sangma: NEW DELHI : Hamid Ansari is likely to have another term as
vice-president. There were clear indications that the political line-up
backing Pranab Mukherjee’s candidature for president would remain
undisturbed in the vice-presidential election too. [ET p2]
4. Ready to talk to Mamata: Pranab : Kolkata: UPA presidential nominee
Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday that he was ready to talk to Mamata
Banerjee as and when she was ready, giving clear indications that the
repeated Congress overtures to the Trinamool Congress hasn’t had the
desired result. [TOI p11]
5. NDA trying best to keep flock together : New Delhi : The BJP and its
allies will strive to avoid a split in their ranks in the contest for the
vicepresident, which was not the case in the presidential race, say their
leaders. Though discussions are yet to begin on identifying a common
candidate for the polls slated for August 7, senior leaders said they will try
to ensure a straight fight between the UPA candidate and non-Congress
parties, including the NDA.[HT p13]
6. Sangma raises signature issue : New Delhi : Presidential poll candidate
P.A. Sangma has urged the Election Commission to re-scrutinise the
nomination of UPA contestant Pranab Mukherjee, which was accepted by
the Returning Officer even as the Sangma camp’s objection on the “office
of profit” issue was rejected.[The Hindu p10]
7. Leaders complain to EC about Pranab’s nomination : New Delhi :
Janata Party leader Subrahmanian Swamy, BJP’s Satya Pal Jain and Biju
Janata Dal’s Bhartruhari Mahtab gave a petition to the Election
Commission on Monday asking the returning officer to re-scrutinise
Pranab Mukherjee’s nomination papers. [HT p9]
8. Cong directionless, only seen Rahul’s cameos : Khurshid : New Delhi
: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said the root of the problems
plaguing the Congress was the lack of “ideological direction” from its next
generation leader Rahul Gandhi.[IE p1]
9. No alternative to strong anti-Naxal response : Raman : New Delhi :
Amidst criticism that some innocent villagers were killed in the recent
encounter in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, an unapologetic Chief
Minister Raman Singh has said there was “no alternative” to a “strong and
firm response” to Maoist violence.[IE p2]
10. Economy will revive, says PC defending PM: New Delhi: Home
minister P Chidambaram on Monday stepped forward to exude confidence
that the economy would get out of the current downturn and return to high
growth trajectory, underlining his re-emergence as a key player in the
economic arena. [TOI p7]
11. Chidambaram Made Telecom EGoM Chief to Counter Oppn,
Congress wants to send message to Oppn that it rejects charges
against home minister:NEW DELHI : Congress is determined to counter
Opposition’s onslaught against Union home minister P Chidambaram over
his appointment as chairman of the EGoM on telecom spectrum. Senior
party leaders said the decision to appoint Chidambaram, whose role in 2G
spectrum allocation has been questioned by the Opposition, was intended
to send out the message that he enjoys the full confidence of the
Congress leadership. [ET p2]
12. Repeal of Article 370 remains BJP’s core agenda : Advani : New
Delhi : Amid differences within the NDA camp over its prime ministerial
candidate and presidential election, senior BJP leader L K Advani on
Monday asserted his commitment to repealing Article 370 from the
Constitution, one of the BJP’s core agendas that was kept aside to float
the NDA regime.[IE p3]
13. Normal of Advani to defend Modi, says Nitish : Patna : Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said there was nothing unusual about
BJP leader L K Advani defending party man Narendra Modi on Gujarat
riots, as is revealed in Kuldip Nayar’s book, Beyond the Lines.[IE p3]
14. PC slams BJP : Don’t forget Time article onVajpayee : New Delhi :
Terming the BJP’s criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s
performance as “distasteful” over the Time magazine’s article, Home
Minister P Chidambaram said, “I think the most charitable way to describe
that comment is extremely distasteful. [IE p3]
15. 2G scam : High court notice to CBI on Raja’s plea : New Delhi : The
Delhi High Court on Monday sought CBI’s stand on former
telecommunication minister A Raja’s plea challenging the trial court order
on framing of charges against him in the 2G spectrum case.[HT p11]
16. PMO seeks report on Visva-Bharati outrage : Bolpur/New Delhi: The
Prime Minister’s office on Monday took serious note of an incident where a
Class V student of Visva-Bharati’s Patha Bhavan school was forced to lick
her urine as punishment for bedwetting. [TOI p1]
17. ED to attach Adarsh assets : Mumbai : The Enforcement Directorate
(ED) will soon begin attachment proceedings of the flats in connection with
its probe in the Adarsh scam. The agency, which has already registered a
case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act
(PMLA), may initiate action after perusal of the latest CBI chargesheet
filed. [HT p13]
18. Essar Oil’s 3 accounts frozen in Rs. 8K- cr case :New Delhi : The
Gujarat government froze three bank accounts of Essar Oil Ltd of the
Rs.1.5- lakh crore Essar Group on Monday, taking the first step to recover
Rs. 8,414- crore sales tax dues. The action comes two weeks after the
Gujarat high court rejected a petition by Essar Oil to be allowed to pay
R6,169 crore in eight yearly installments.[HT p1]
19. Aid to riot-hit shrines against statute: Guj, ‘Will Go Against Tenets Of
Secular Governance, No Help Extended To Quake-Hit Structures’:
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government on Monday said
compensation to religious structures damaged in the 2002 riots would be
against the tenets of secular governance and justified its stand in the
Supreme Court by saying it had given no grant for repair of such
structures damaged by the 2001 earthquake. [TOI p7]
20. Cong-BJP spar over PM underachiever tag : New Delhi : The
“underachiever” tag slapped on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by the
prestigious Time magazine has vevived the debate on the performance of
the UPA Government and led to a bitter was of words between the BJP
and Congress.[Pioneer Daily p1]
21. As storage in dams dips, Centre rings alarm bells : New Delhi : An
alarming depletion in the water levels (at 57 per cent of last year’s
storage) of important reservoirs, owing to the delayed and weak southwest
monsoon, has prompted the Central government to issue an advisory to
the States on Monday to make “judicious and regulated” releases.[The
Hindu p1]
22. With BJP in disarray, Cong hopes to revive party in K’taka : New
Delhi : The disarray in the ruling BJP in Karnataka manifested by
repeated change of guard has given the Congress a hope of reviving its
fortunes in the state after more than a decade.[HT p13]
23. Modi baiter fears for life, asks PC for help: New Delhi: Claiming a fresh
threat to his life, BJP leader Sanjay Joshi, a known detractor of Gujarat
chief minister Narendra Modi, has written to home minister P
Chidambaram seeking enhanced security cover. The government said it
was examining the request. [TOI p1]
24. Joshi’s complaint gives Cong ammo : New Delhi: BJP leader Sanjay
Joshi’s missive to home minister P Chidambaram seeking security
because of a threat to his life has given fodder not only to Narendra Modi’s
detractors, but also to the opposition Congress.[TOI p10]
25. Nitish calls UPA “non-performing” : Patna :Bihar Chief Minister Nitish
Kumar on Monday attacked the Union government, calling it “nonperforming,”
and alleged that its claim of integrated development was
“hollow.”[The Hindu p7]
26. BJP leaders line up to be Shettar deputy : Bangalore :With the BJP
mollifying the Lingayats in Karnataka, the single largest caste block in the
state at 17 per cent of the population, by anointing community leader
Jagadish Shettar to be the new chief minister, a battle has now opened up
among BJP leaders from other caste combinations for a possible position
of a deputy chief minister that the BJP is considering to balance caste
equations.[IE p6]
27. Reject interlocutors report on Kashmir in toto : Advani : New Delhi :
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, a BJP think tank, on
Monday organised a felicitation-cum-remembrance function on the
occasion of Mookerjee’s 111th birth anniversary. The function was
attended by veteran BJP leader LK Advani.[Pioneer Daily p3]
28. BJP wants Bahuguna’s nomination nixed : Haldwani :Accusing the
ruling Congress of rigging the Sitarganj bypolls, the Uttarakhand BJP
lodged a complaint with the Election Commission seeking cancellation of
Congress candidate and Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna’s nomination from
Sitarganj Assembly seat..[Pioneer Daily p4]
29. Campaign ends in Dasuya, SAD-BJP Congress upbeat : Chandigarh
:Campaigning for Dasuya assembly bypoll ended on Monday with both
ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and opposition Congress making efforts
to romp home victorious.[Pioneer Daily p4]
30. JD-U leaders too are free to join BJP : Nitish : Patna :In the midst of a
recent row between the BJP and the JD-U here over fence-sitters
switching their loyalties and joining each other’s camps, Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar said that any member of his party wanting to break
ranks and join the BJP was free to do so.[Pioneer Daily p7]
31. Being rich doesn’t disqualify me from getting bail : Jagan : New Delhi
: YSR Congress party leader and Kadappa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy
told the Supreme Court today that being wealthy or in public life does not
disqualify him from getting bail.[IE p7]
32. SP to appoint observers for LS seats : Lucknow : Carrying forward the
process of selecting candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, the ruling
Samajwadi Party has called a meeting of its senior leaders on Tuesday to
select observers for all 80 constituencies.[IE p2]
33. BJP, JD(U) on different pages over time remark : New Delhi : The JD
(U) did not endorse the BJP’s “we-knew-it” approach in response to the
Time magazine’s criticism of PM Manmohan Singh on Monday, saying the
report doesn’t deserve attention and launching into a generalised critique
of Time magazine, capitalism, the west. [HT p13]
34. BJP-JD(U) Ties Turn Messier in Bihar :PATNA : Coalition partners
JD(U) and BJP seem to be growing apart by the day. Chief minister Nitish
Kumar showed no reticence in reacting to BJP state unit chief CP
Thakur’s claim that JD (U) leaders were in touch with BJP, reports Ashok
K Mishra.[ET p2]
35. Can you fight an election with just Rs 24,344? : Lucknow : How much
money should a political leader spend for contesting an assembly
election? Pose this question to Samajwadi Party legislator Narad Rai and
he would say just Rs 24,344?[Millennium Post p2]
36. SAD opposes Tytler inclusion in Olympics delegation : Chandigarh
:Opposing the Centre’s decision to depute Congress leader and an
accused in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Jagdish Tytler, to lead the Indian
delegation to the Olympics, the SAD Monday said the “inclusion of a
person accused of grave human rights violation is an insult to humanity
and will send wrong signal worldwide”.[IE p2]
37. Dhumal’s district gets new tehsil :Shimla : The Himachal Pradesh
Cabinet at its meeting on Monday decided to establish a new tehsil called
Tauni Devi in Hamirpur, the home district of Chief Minister Prem Kumar
Dhumal. Multan, a sub-tehsil in Kangra, has been upgraded as full tehsil
and new sub-tehsils will be set up in Tihra in Mandi district, Nagrota
Surian in Kangra district and Darlaghat in Solan district.[The Hindu p5]
38. Metro line between Noida, Gr Noida approved, Board Also Clears
7Km Link To Noida Extension: Noida: Nearly four months after the
government in Uttar Pradesh changed hands, the three development
authorities — Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway — held their
long awaited board meetings on Monday. [TOI p4]
LEGAL/CRIME NEWS
39. Nation Best Bakery case: Too little, too late : Ahmedabad : The Best
Bakery case in Vadodara, in which 14 people were burnt alive, was one of
the two cases related to the 2002 riots which were re-probed and the trial
shifted outside Gujarat after the intervention of the Supreme Court. The
other was the Bilkis Bano rape and murder case.[HT p9]
40. SC verdict in 94 Bihar DM murder case today : New Delhi : The
Supreme Court will pronounce Tuesday its verdict on former MP Anand
Mohan’s plea against his conviction and life sentence in the 1994 murder
of erstwhile Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah.[IE p7]
