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| Modi slams anti-Muslim remarks, ally defiant | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - BJP leader Narendra Modi sought to calm fears for religious minorities under his rule on Tuesday, saying he would represent all Indians if they voted for him or not in the current general election. Modi, prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and favourite to become India's next leader, is running on a platform of reviving an economy going through its worst slowdown since the 1980s. But half-way through a five-week campaign to win over the country's 815 million voters, some members of the BJP and its hardline affiliates are facing accusations of trying to whip up a partisan Hindu-oriented agenda. Their statements have re-ignited concerns among religious minorities about a government led by the BJP, which rivals say has a deep-seated bias against India's 150 million Muslims.
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| SC names three-member panel to enforce roads safety laws | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Terming Indian roads "giant killers" demanding immediate attention and remedial action, the Supreme Court Tuesday appointed a three-member committee to scrutinise and monitor enforcement of statutory provisions including the Motor Vehicles Act for making roads safer. "Indian roads have proved to be giant killers demanding immediate attention and remedial action. Such attention and necessary intervention, in the first instance, is required to be made by the concerned governmental agencies," said a bench of Chief Justice P.Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice N.V.Ramana in their judgment. The court said that the central and state governments were expected to enforce the existing laws including with all the might at their command. |
| Saudi watchdog to regulate homegrown YouTube shows - newspaper | |  By Matt Smith DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to regulate local companies that screen shows on YouTube , a senior official was quoted as saying in local media on Tuesday - a move that could stifle its nascent creative industries. The kingdom is the world's top per capita user of YouTube. But YouTube's popularity has now brought Saudi Arabia's homegrown production houses under the gaze of the General Authority for Audiovisual Media, a recently formed watchdog. Riyadh Najm, the Authority's president, told the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat that his organization would soon issue a manifesto to organize - or regulate - the work of YouTube channels.
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| France to unveil plan to fight Syrian jihadist threat | |  France is to unveil policies to stop its citizens joining the Syrian civil war, a government source said on Tuesday, aiming to prevent young French Muslims becoming radicalised and posing a threat to their home country. The Interior Ministry will present some 20 measures on Wednesday, including a plan to stop minors leaving France without parental consent, increased surveillance of Islamist websites that recruit fighters and a system to encourage parents to signal suspicious behaviour in their children. "France will take all measures to dissuade, prevent and punish those who are tempted to fight where they have no reason to be," President Francois Hollande told reporters on Tuesday. With radical Sunni Muslims from outside Syria fighting alongside Syrians against President Bashar al-Assad, Western countries are concerned of the security risk at home.
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| NHRC asks UP Police for report on woman's gang rape | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The NHRC Tuesday sought a report from Uttar Pradesh Police following a media report that officials refused to file a complaint in a gang rape case. Taking suo motu cognizance of the media report, according to which a woman was gang-raped in Haidergarh area of Barabanki district April 13, the National Human Rights Commission asked the senior superintendent of police to file a report within four weeks. "The commission has observed that the contents of the (media) report, if true, amount to serious violation of human rights of the victim," the NHRC said in a statement. |
| 'Rash drivers involved in deaths go free on bail' | | | Pankaj Gupta, 45, and his five-year-old daughter Lineshiya were run over by a city bus Monday while they were waiting for the child's school bus. Resident of Rail Vihar apartments in Sector 47, Gupta was working at the Medanta Medicity Hospital here as cardiologist, while Lineshiya was a nursery class student at the Delhi Public School here. "It took just a few minutes to destroy the life of a family and the accused driver, Harish Singh, was out on bail even before the post-mortem examination," said Vikas Kumar Shah, a software engineer and witness and complainant in the accident case. Shah too is a resident of Rail Vihar. |
| Modi condemns anti-Muslim remarks; colleague defiant | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - BJP leader Narendra Modi on Tuesday sought to calm fears about the future of religious minorities under his rule, saying his government would represent all Indians whether they voted for him or not in an ongoing general election. Modi, prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and favourite to become India's next leader, is running on a platform of reviving an economy going through its worst slowdown since the 1980s. But half way through a five-week campaign to win over the country's 815 million voters, some members of the BJP and its hardline affiliates are facing accusations of trying to whip up a partisan agenda. Their statements have re-ignited concerns among religious minorities about a BJP government, which rivals say has a deep-seated bias against India's 150 million Muslims.
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| Nido Tania killing: Four accused's judicial custody extended | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A court here Tuesday extended, for 14 days, the judicial custody of the four people allegedly involved in Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania killing case. |
| Court extends custody of Saradha kingpin's wife, son | | | Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) A city court Tuesday extended the custody of Saradha chit fund scam kingpin Sudipto Sen's wife Piyali and son Subhojit with the Enforcement Directorate till April 25. "The court today (Tuesday) extended their custody till April 25 when they will have to appear before the court again," said Piyali and Subhojit's counsel Samir Das said. Probing the multi-crore scam, the ED so far has attached numerous properties owned by the Saradha group including those by Sudipta and his family. Ghosh, a former employee of the Saradha Group, had filed a case against Saradha promoter Sudipta Sen for non-payment of her salary which eventually led to his arrest. |
| Government intended to punish Sikhs, reveals Cobrapost | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The Delhi Police succumbed to anti-Sikh sentiments in 1984, thus abetting rioting and arson, a sting operation by news portal Cobrapost revealed Tuesday. The Congress, which was also in power then, sought a probe into the sting operation, while the BJP said it proves that the riots were sponsored by the then ruling party and its coalition ally, the Shiromani Akali Dal reiterated its manifesto resolve to set up fast track courts to nail the guilty and ensure justice for the victims. "The government's intention appeared to be that the Sikhs should get some punishment," said Shoorveer Singh Tyagi, then police station house officer (SHO) at Kalyanpuri area of east Delhi, whom Cobrapost interviewed. "Messages were broadcast directing police to not take action against rioters who were shouting slogans of 'Indira Gandhi zindabad'," Rohtas Singh, SHO at Delhi Cantonment, told Cobrapost. |
| CBI nabs finance ministry director in bribery case | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The CBI Tuesday arrested a finance ministry director for demanding Rs.35 lakh bribe from a Chennai-based man to regularise the irregularities in a nursing college being run by him. A. Paramasivan was arrested from a hideout in Delhi early Tuesday morning following the arrest of his brother-in-law Sivaram, a medical officer, from Chennai in the bribery case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has so far conducted raids at seven places including Chennai, New Delhi and Noida. "During the raids -- conducted at the offices and residences of Paramasivan -- Rs.1 crore in cash has been recovered along with some incriminating documents," said a CBI official. |
| Bihar LS candidate arrested by Meghalaya Police | | | Shillong, April 22 (IANS) Chandra Mohan Jha, an independent candidate contesting the Lok Sabha polls from Bihar's Jhanjarpur constituency and wanted by Meghalaya Police for fraud and selling fake certificates, was Tuesday arrested in Bihar, officials said. "Our CID (Criminal Investigation Department) team along with Bihar Police arrested Jha from Madhubani during his campaign," Meghalaya Director General of Police Peter Hanaman told IANS. |
| 50 Thiruvananthapuram techies booked for thrashing murder accused | | | Thiruvananthapuram, April 22 (IANS) A case has been registered against 50 techies employed in the Technopark campus here for assaulting the prime accused in a gruesome twin-murder case, police said Tuesday. The case was registered by the Kazhakottam Police station as the incident occurred inside the Technopark campus Monday when accused Nino Mathew, who worked with a IT company in the campus, was brought to his office. The gruesome murder was allegedly executed by Mathew to get rid of his lover and co-worker Anu Shanti's mother-in-law but Shanti's four-year-old daughter was also killed and her husband was badly injured in the attack unleashed by Mathew with a baseball bat and a knife at their home last Wednesday. |
| 10 houses gutted in Delhi, no casualties | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) At least 10 houses and two shops were gutted in a fire that started after five cylinders blew up, a fire service official said Tuesday. No one was injured in the blast and the blaze. |
| Train passengers looted in UP | | | Moradabad, April 22 (IANS) Unidentified armed robbers looted cash, jewellery, credit cards and other belongings worth over Rs.5 lakh from passengers of Lucknow Mail up and down services early Tuesday, police said. GRP inspector U.B. Singh said that about a dozen criminals armed with pistols, knives and iron rods barged into AC coaches A-2 and B-3 of the Delhi-bound Lucknow Mail between Moradabad and Gajraula and targeted about 12 passengers, robbing them of cash, credit cards and gold ornaments. Victim Shashi Prakash Gupta of Delhi lodged a complaint, mentioning that passengers who offered resistance were brutally beaten up. |
| Delhi policeman killed in road accident | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A 44-year-old Delhi Police constable was killed when his motorcycle was hit by a speeding car here, police said Tuesday. Prahlad Sahay Meena was hit by a car around 1 a.m. Tuesday near Nawada Chowk in west Delhi. "At the time of the accident, Meena was heading towards his home in Dwarka Sector 16 in west Delhi. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him dead," said a police officer. |
| Saradha scandal returns to limelight in Bengal poll season | | | Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) The Saradha chit fund scam - West Bengal's biggest financial scandal - is yet again grabbing the spotlight in the midst of the Lok Sabha polls, as the ruling Trinamool Congress faces the heat over the issue from its political opponents. While the Congress and the CPI-M led Left front have been clamouring for a CBI probe into the multicrore rupee scam for months, the Enforcement Directorate's recent arrests of the wife and son of scam kingpin Sudipto Sen, has provided the much needed trigger to the opposition who have come out against the Mamata Banerjee government with all guns blazing. With the Lok Sabha poll jamboree peaking in the state, prominent leaders like Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, as also BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi, have all raked up the issue to corner the state's ruling party, one of whose MPs is behind bars for his alleged complicity in the scandal. If Rahul Gandhi during his campaign in the state accused the Banerjee government of "shielding the scamsters", Sonia Gandhi went a step ahead to say the government was hand-in-glove with the looters. |
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