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Volume No. 02
Issue No. 49
Mumbai
TMC govt cracks down
on ‘Narayani Sena’,
bans training camps in
Cooch Behar district
Kolkata: In a major crackdown
on the ‘Narayani Sena’, a private
army of the erstwhile Maharaja
of Coochbehar, the Trinamool
Congress government on Wednesday
banned all training centres where its
volunteers were given arms training.
According to reports, the move
comes a day after TMC accused
the central government of trying
to disrupt smooth functioning of
the state government. The party alo
alleged that the BSF was providing
“training” to ‘Narayani Sena’,
a private army of the erstwhile
Maharaja of Coochbehar. The BSF,
however, denied the allegation
and termed it as “baseless”. “It is
a deep-rooted conspiracy against
the state government. How come
BSF is giving training to Narayani
Sena and other elements who are
involved in smuggling?” senior
TMC leader and state parliamentary
affairs minister Partha Chatterjee
had told reporters. “We have
officially expressed our grievances
and lodged a complaint.
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A powerful 6.2 earthquake
that struck central Italy
on Wednesday has left at
least 73 people dead, the
country’s civil protection
unit said.
Cipla 555.55 Lupin 1577.25 Ril 1014.85 ONGC 241.95 SBI 258.50
73 KILLS IN ITALY
Grenade attacks on
police party in Jammu
and Kashmir’s Pulwama
Pulwama: At least 18 policemen
were injuread in two grenade attacks
in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama
on
Wednesday.
Reportedly,
militants hurled a grenade, followed
by firing, at security personnel
who were on duty near the Degree
College in Pulwama town. A Dy SP
was also injured in the attack. The
area was immediately cordoned off
and an operation was launched to
track down the assailants. Earlier,
in the day, Home Minister Rajnath
Singh paid a visit to Srinagar amid
heightened security and strict
curfew almost all over the Kashmir
Valley. Also, an 18-year-old boy
was killed in firing by security
forces in a south Kashmir village
on Wednesday. A police officer
said Amir Gul Mir was killed
after he sustained pellet injuries
in a clash between protesters and
security forces in Pinglina village
of Pulwama, some 30 km south of
Srinagar. The teenager was removed
to a hospital where he succumbed,
the officer said. With Mir’s death,
the toll in the ongoing Kashmir
unrest has risen to 69 - including
two policemen.
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Rome : Immacolata
Postiglione, the head
of the unit’s emergency
department, announced
the new toll at a press
conference in Rome as
rescue efforts continued
in the mountain villages
devastated by the quake.
The hardest-hit towns were
Amatrice and Accumoli
near Rieti, some 100
kilometers northeast of
Rome, though the quake
was felt beyond the Lazio
region into Umbria and
Le Marche on the Adriatic
coast. The epicentre of the
quake was about 170 km
northeast of Rome near the
town of Norcia in the region
of Umbria. The tremors
were sufficiently strong to
wake residents of central
Rome. Sergio Pirozzi,
mayor of Amatrice, a
mountain village close to the
epicentre, said that the town
Defamation case: Rahul
Gandhi takes U-turn
Watch out Mumbai!
Autos and taxis on
strike from August 29
New Delhi : Congress vice
president Rahul Gandhi took a
complete U-turn on Wednesday
over his reported statement in
which he had allegedly blamed
the Rashtriya Swayamsewak
Sangh for Mahatma Gandhi’s
assassination.
Appearing
on behalf of Rahul Gandhi,
noted lawyer Kapil Sibal told
the Supreme Court that his
client never blamed RSS as an
institution, but those associated
with it who killed Mahatma
Gandhi. “Rahul Gandhi had
never accused RSS as an
institution for the crime,’’ Sibal
reiterated. Senior counsel Sibal
made these observations before
a bench of Justice Dipak Misra
Mumbai : Taxi and autorickshaw drivers
under Jai Bhagwan Taxi Rickshaw
Sanghatana have announced they would
go on indefinite strike from August 29
in Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai
demanding the state government to
regulate operation of cab aggregators
such as Uber and Ola. “We have lost
hopes from the state government and
the chief minister, who did not fulfil his
promise to come up with rules or Act to
regulate these app-based aggregators,
who are eating into our money and
passengers,” president of this relatively
new association Balasahab Sanap said.
“Now, we are left with no another option
but to resort to indefinite strike. We gave
government ample time to look into our
demands...it did nothing but only made
fake promises,” he said. Sanap claimed
that over 95 per cent taxi and autorickshaw
drivers under the association and their
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says never blamed RSS for Mahatma
Gandhi’s assassination
and Justice RF Nariman while
referring to an affidavit filed
by Gandhi before the Bombay
High Court challenging the
defamation proceedings against
him by a RSS worker. The
bench, while taking note of
Gandhi’s statement before the
High Court, said that it can
dispose off the matter after the
Congress leader’s unequivocal
statement that he had not blamed
the RSS as an organisation for
the assassination of Mahatma
Gandhi, but only the people
linked with it, However, the
court deferred the hearing till
September 1 as senior counsel
Umesh Lalit, appearing for the
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‘isn’t here anymore’ and
many residents are buried
under the debris. At least
10 people died in Pescara,
a hamlet that is part of the
bigger village of Arquata
del Tronto, as per the civil
protection officers cited by
the ANSA news agency.
Six bodies were recovered
at Amatrice, according to
the president of the Lazio
region,
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New Delhi: Sensitive documents
detailing the technical and stealth
sensitive information that is highly
classified, according to Australia’s
‘The Australian’ newspaper.
The data tells the submarine crew
where on the boat they can speak
safely to avoid detection by the
enemy. It also discloses magnetic,
electromagnetic and infra-red data
as well as the specifications of
the submarine’s torpedo launch
system and the combat system,
it said. It details the speed and
conditions
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An earthquake measuring 6.8
on the Richter Scale struck
Myanmar on Wednesday
with strong tremors being
felt in West Bengal. Tremors
were also felt in Kolkata,
Malda,
Birbhum,
West
Bengal and in parts of Bihar
and North-East. Witnesses
in Patna said the tremors
were felt for 10-12 seconds
at around 4:09 pm. Offices
were evacuated in Kolkata
and Metro services were
temporarily
suspended.
There were no reports of
damage or casualties so far.
“There is no report of major
damage in Tripura, Mizoram,
Assam and adjoining areas of
the northeast yet. However,
we are yet to get complete
information from all affected
areas of the northeast region,”
Disaster
Management
Coordinator Sarat Das told
IANS, citing reports from
District Magistrates across
the region. According to
the Indian Meteorological
Department
in
New
Delhi, the epicentre of the
earthquake was at a point
190 km south of Myanmar’s
historic Mandalay city and
about
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DAHI HANDI FESTIVAL:
SC refuses to lift restrictions on height
of human pyramid, calls it ‘risky’
Sensitive data on Scorpene submarines
leaked, Parrikar seeks report
capabilities of India’s Scoprene
submarines designed by French
shipbuilder DCNS have been
leaked, with Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar seeking a report
from the Navy chief on the matter.
The leaked DCNS data, running
to 22,400 pages, details the secret
stealth capabilities of six new
Indian submarines, including what
frequencies they gather intelligence
at, what levels of noise they make
at various speeds and their diving
depths, range and endurance -- all
6.8 magnitude
earthquake hits
Myanmar, strong
tremors in West
Bengal, Bihar and
North-East
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court on Wednesday refused
to lift restrictions on 20 feet
high human pyramids during
the Dahi Handi festival,
which will be held across
the country tomorrow. The
apex court, while refusing
to reconsider the petitions in
this regard, termed it highly
‘risky’ any move to raise the
height of human pyramids.
The order was passed by a
bench comprising justices
AR Dave, UU Lalit and L
Nageswara Rao. The apex
court passed its order on the
Maharashtra government`s
plea in connection with the
issue of human pyramids in
the Dahi Handi fest.
The
Maharashtra
Government had moved
the apex court on August
3, seeking a clarification
regarding the height of human
pyramids for the celebrations
after the Bombay High Court
last week pulled up the
government for its failure
to obtain clarification from
the apex court in this regard.
The fresh plea in this regard
had been filed by Mumbaibased Jai Jawan Krida
Mandal Govinda Pathak.
The organisation contented
that since youth below 18
years of age have been barred
from participating in the
Dahi Handi ritual, the cap
on the height of the human
pyramid should be relaxed
as adventure is part of every
sport. If there is no adventure
in a game, then there is no
point in celebrating it, the
Krida Mandal had argued.
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