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Fire at ordnance factory in MP
BHOPAL: A fire broke out at Ordnance
Factory, Khamaria in Jabalpur district
of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday evening, setting off a series of explosion.
No casualty has been reported yet, District Collector Mahesh Choudhary said.
“Smoke is billowing from a section of
OFK. Explosions are still taking place,”
Choudhary said over phone from the
spot at around 8 pm. Fire brigade personnel are trying hard to put out the
blaze, he said. PTI
Nariman questions Yogi’s
appointment as UP CM
NEW DELHI: Eminent jurist Fali Nariman
on Saturday raised questions over the
appointment of Aditya Nath Yogi as the
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, asking
Prime Minister Narendra Modi “if it is
the beginning of a Hindu state.” Referring to the developments in UP after the
polls, he said the Constitution is under
‘threat’ and those who cannot see the
motive behind appointment of Aditya
Nath are either spokespersons of political
parties or they must get their head and
eyes examined. “The prime minister may
deny it but that is my assumption that
appointing a particular person...as the
chief minister is in itself an indication
that he wishes to propagate a religious
state,” Nariman said. PTI
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Kejri, 5 others put on trial in defamation case
A CIVIL DEFAMATION
SUIT HAS ALSO BEEN
FILED BY JAITLEY
BEFORE THE DELHI
HIGH COURT IN THE
MATTER SEEKING
RS 10 CRORE AS
DAMAGES.
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal and five other
AAP leaders were on Saturday
put on trial by a court here
in a criminal defamation case
filed by Union Minister Arun
Jaitley in the DDCA controversy, amid chaotic scenes in
the court room. During the
proceedings, some advocates
got into a heated argument
over non-appearance of Jaitley
and on the issue whether the
matter should be adjourned.
After one of the lawyers issued threats to another counsel inside the court room, the
accused persons--Kejriwal,
Ashutosh, Kumar Vishwas,
Sanjay Singh and Raghav
Chaddha--who were present
in the court, said they were
facing a serious threat and cited
Notice was also
framed against
another AAP leader
Deepak Vajpai who
was represented by
his counsel.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
the JNU sedition case violence
a year back when men in the
black robes had beaten up var-
Scam in U’khand unearthed
DEHRADUN: The newly elected Trivendra
Singh Rawat government in Uttrakhand
has claimed to have unearthed a ‘scam’
running into hundreds of crores of
rupees in the acquisition of land for a
national highway. The state government
has written to the Centre asking for a
CBI probe while six senior officials have
been suspended over their suspected
role in the scam. “Irregularities worth
Rs 240 crore have been detected in the
acquisition of farmland for the purpose
of the proposed NH-74 in Udham Singh
Nagar district between 2011-2016,”
Chief Minister Rawat told a press conference. PTI
Capt calls meeting
to review security
in state prisons
Pakistan looking for Basit’s
replacement as India envoy
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan is mulling options
to replace its hawkish envoy to India,
Abdul Basit, after his tussle with the
decisions-makers in Islamabad following the elevation of his junior Tehmina
Janjua as Foreign Secretary. Basit, the
Pakistan High Commissioner to India,
was appointed in March 2014 after
he suffered a major disappointment
when he was sure of being appointed
Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary but lastminute wheeling and dealing resulted
in the appointment of Aizaz Ahmad
Chaudhry. Basit, who has completed his
a turbulent three-year tenure in New
Delhi, again failed to get favours from
the decisions-makers in Islamabad last
month when Janjua was appointed his
boss to become Pakistan’s first woman
Foreign Secretary.
PTI
Two dead, 28 injured in
Bangladesh terror attack
DHAKA : At least two civilians were killed
and 28 others were injured on Saturday when Islamist militants hurled
explosive device on people after army
commandos stormed their hideout in
Bangladesh’s north-eastern Sylhet following a nearly 30-hour security siege.
“Two civilians are killed and 28 people
including two inspectors of bomb disposal unit sustained injuries in the blast,”
Golam Kibria, commissioner of Sylhet
Metropolitan Police, was quoted as saying
by The Daily Star. The blast took place at
6:50 pm on a road, around 400 metres
off 5-storey building.
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 Expresses concern
over frequent
clashes in jails
 Promises major
prison reforms in
state
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Chandigarh
Taking a note of the violence
in Gurdaspur central jail, Chief
Minister Captain Amarinder
Singh has convened a highlevel meeting of police and
Home Department officials
next week to review the security in the state’s prisons.
It is learnt that Chief Minister
Singh is concerned over ‘frequent incidents of violence
and clashes in jails’ since
the past several years. Apart
from directing authorities
concerned to review the security conditions in prisons,
Captain has promised sweeping reforms to eliminate the
rot from the jails.
At the meeting next week,
the government will review
the report submitted recently
by the high-powered committee on jail reforms and will
initiate measures to improve
the prison administration in
Punjab. “Chief Minister Singh
has ordered the concerned
officers to deal with the situation in Gurdaspur jail as they
deem fit and ensure that law
and order is restored in the
prison without delay,” said
Raveen Thukral, Media Adviser to the Chief Minister,
on Saturday.
In his preliminary report on
the incident in Gurdaspur jail,
Home Secretary N S Kalsi has
claimed to have resolved the
situation through successful
intervention of the police on
the intervening night of March
24 and 25. The report says the
incident occurred when a few
gangsters, undergoing trial in
several murder cases, incited
inmates of one of the barracks
to confront the prison staff after
assaulting three jail warders on
duty.
“We have put up a plan on how
to improve things in the prisons
of Punjab. The chief minister
is keen that the state of affairs
of our prisons should improve.
All things will be discussed
in detail at the meeting next
week,” ADGP, Prisons, Rohit
Chowdhary said. jSEE ALSO P3
sity students and journalists.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
Sumit Dass, thereafter, called
security personnel and ordered
that the court room be cleared
barring those who were con-
nected with the case. Thereafter, notice was framed against
the accused under Section 500
(punishment for defamation) of
the IPC to which they pleaded
not guilty and claimed trial.
Notice was also famed against
another AAP leader Deepak Vajpai who was represented by his
counsel. Later, the court posted
the matter for further hearing to
May 20. Before the court’s order, some of the defence counsel sought discharge of the accused citing absence of Jaitley at
‘such an important stage’ and
said that notice should not be
framed in absence of the complainant. During arguments,
Jaitley’s counsel Siddharth Luthra said that his client had
been appearing in the case
and that there was no need for
the complainant’s presence
while framing of charges in
the case.
PTI
Digvijay asks
Rahul to take
quick decision
INDORE : Congress general
secretary Digvijay Singh on
Saturday urged the party vice
president Rahul Gandhi to decide fast on restructuring the
All India Congress Committee. Singh’s comments came
in the wake of the party’s poor
performance in two of the five
states assembly polls held recently--Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. “Rahul has all the
qualities to lead the Congress.
But I have a complaint with
him. He is not taking quick
decisions on restructuring the
AICC,” he told reporters here.
“The Congress workers’ eyes
are set on him. He should take
the decision on restructuring
AICC fast,” added Singh. “It
is being said that some people
stop Rahul from taking decisions. I say if he wants to take
some harsh decision for restructuring AICC he should
definitely go for it,” he said. “If
Rahul wants to remove senior
leaders from AICC, he should
remove me first. But he should
take the call,” he added. Former MP chief minister said the
Congress is capable of taking
on the BJP.
PTI
White man shouts ‘go back to
Lebanon’ to Sikh-American girl
YOSHITA SINGH
New York
A Sikh-American girl was harassed on a subway train here
when a white man, mistaking
her to be from the Middle East,
allegedly shouted ‘go back
to Lebanon’ and ‘you don’t
belong in this country,’ the
latest in a series of hate crimes
against people of South-Asian
origin. Rajpreet Heir was
taking the subway train to
a friend’s birthday party in
Manhattan this month when
the white man began shouting
at her, according to a report
in the New York Times.
Heir recounted the ordeal
in a video for a Times section
called ‘This Week in Hate,’
which highlights hate crimes
and harassment around the
country since the election of
President Donald Trump. Heir
said she was looking at her
Rajpreet Heir
phone when the white man
shouted at her saying, “Do
you even know what a Marine
looks like? Do you know what
they have to see? What they
do for this country? Because
of people like you.”
Heir, a Sikh, said she was
born 30 miles from Lebanon,
not the Middle Eastern country but a namesake city in the
American state of Indiana.
 Anti-harassment group Hollaback has
received nearly double the usual number
of reports of harassment on the subway.
 Heir’s case a yet another disturbing
incident of racial discrimination.
 Last month, Indian-origin woman Ekta
Desai had posted a video online of an
African-American man racially abusing
her.
 Earlier this month, a 39-year-old Sikh
man was shot while working on his car in
his driveway in Washington state.
Heir said as the man left the
train, she saw a young white
woman in the train staring at
her ‘with tears in her eyes.’
“What had just happened provided evidence of what I had
sensed beneath the surface
for a long time - racism that
can turn violent and lately
does,” she said. The report
added that two fellow passengers stepped in to help Heir
after the incident on the train.
One woman tapped her on the
shoulder and asked if she was
all right.
PTI
CBI books bank officials in `209-cr fraud
JAIPUR : CBI on Saturday lodged
a case against two former AGMs,
two ex-chief managers of Syndicate Bank’s Jaipur and Udaipur
branch, and six others for allegedly causing loss of nearly Rs 209
crore to the bank. Searches were
underway at the residences of
the accused including in Jaipur
and Ajmer, a senior CBI official
said.
The accused were identified as former Assistant Gen-
eral Managers-- A K Tiwari and
AGM Adarsh Manchanda, Chief
Managers--Santosh Gupta and
Deshraj Meena who worked at
the bank’s Udaipur and Jaipur
branch, the official said. Udaipur-based Chartered Accountant Bharat Bamb, his builder
brother-in-law Pavitra Kothari
and four others--Piyush Jain,
Vineet Jain, Shankar Lal Khandelwal and Anoop Bartaria were
also booked for the alleged fraud.
Case DETAILS
The case has been registered under Sections 420
(cheating) 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy),
467, 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471
(using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC and
relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
A complaint was lodged that
the accused hatched a criminal
conspiracy to avail home loans
or credit facilities from the bank
by submitting forged and fabricated documents. PTI
BSF gets first woman combat officer
SHE WILL BE POSTED
TO COMMAND A UNIT
ALONG THE INDIAPAKISTAN BORDER IN
PUNJAB.
GWALIOR: Tanushree Pareek
on Saturday became the
first woman combat officer
to be commissioned in the
51-year history of the BSF,
the country’s largest border guarding force. Pareek,
25, also led the passing out
parade of 67 trainee officers
that was reviewed by Union
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
at the Border Security Force
camp at Tekanpur near here.
Pareek, a resident of Rajasthan’s Bikaner, is the first
woman to join the force in
the officer rank after she was
selected in the all-India examination conducted by the
UPSC in 2014.
The Home Minister himself put the rank stars on the
shoulders of Pareek during
the piping ceremony. The
force had begun induction
of woman officers in 2013.
She will now be posted to
command a unit along the
India-Pakistan border in
Punjab. While praising the
first woman ‘field officer’ of
the 2.5-lakh-strong force,
Singh said the Centre has
 BSF is primarily tasked to guard two of
the most sensitive Indian frontiers with
Pakistan and Bangladesh.
 It is extensively deployed for conducting
anti-Naxal operations and rendering
other duties in the internal security
domain.
Tanushree Pareek being commissioned by Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh. PIB
chalked out a new roadmap
to strengthen border security
and it plans to seal Indian
borders with Bangladesh and
Pakistan. He added the BSF
has built 73 border outposts,
out of 76 such border structures constructed in recent
times.
Lauding the force raised
in 1965, Singh said BSF has
changed the rules of engagement at the international bor-
ders and now it is a ‘known
entity’ in the neighbouring
countries. While paying his
tributes to the personnel of
the force killed in the line of
duty, the minister said government is planning for an
effective grievance redressal
mechanism in the forces. PTI