Goa govt spent only Rs 500 on two visits of Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during his recent visits to Goa refused to stay in the state guest house, and only a meagre Rs 500 was spent by the government in the trips, the Legislative Assembly was told August 1.

“The Chief Minister of Delhi was provided vehicles and accommodation at the state guest house. He was received and seen off at the airport. However, he did not avail the accommodation at the state guest house,” State Protocol Minister Dilip Parulekar told the House.

“The state government had presented a flower bouquet amounting to Rs 500 on his first visit,” the minister said.

The question about the expenses on Kejriwal’s visits was tabled by Goa Vikas Party MLA Fransisco Miccky Pacheco.

Delhi Chief Minister had visited Goa twice on May 22 and June 28, during which he addressed a public meeting and also interacted with cross section of society.

AAP has already announced that they will fight on all the 40 seats for the upcoming Goa polls due before March 2017.
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No separate Vidarbha proposal before Maharashtra government: Devendra Fadnavis

The issue of separate statehood for Vidarbha rocked the monsoon session of Maharashtra legislature for second consecutive day. After ruckus in both the houses, the Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad were adjourned for the day.

Not only the Opposition Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress but even the ruling ally Shiv Sena demanded the state government to clear its stand.

Wearing saffron caps with "Akhand Maharashtra"(Unified Maharashtra) written on it, Shiv Sena MLAs raised slogans in the lower house.

"Government should make its stand clear. With Shiv Sena also opposing the issue the govt is now in minority. The govt has no right to stay," NCP Leader Dilip Walse-Patil said.

After the pandemonium, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis assured the house that there is no proposal of a separate statehood of Vidarbha. "The Nagpur pact in 1953 spoke about a separate state of Vidarbha. However the BJP and Shiv Sena have their own and clear views about Vidarbha. Opposition is an opportunist and is trying to politicize the issue...the issue of separate Vidarbha is not a state issue and there is no such proposal before the state in that regards."

The issue also witnessed heated scenes in the Upper House of the Maharashtra Legislature. Leader of Opposition Dhananjay Munde alleged that the BJP is trying to break the state of Maharashtra into pieces for their political benefit. Shiv Sena Leader Neelam Gorhe also demanded that the government should bring in a resolution of united Maharashtra in the house. The Council too was adjourned for the day after uproar over the issue.

The issue also resonated outside the assembly. Aditya Thackarey took to the social media over the issue of separate Vidarbha. "A bill on division of Maharashtra by someone who is part of Government both at Centre-State, doubts the capacity of Govts to govern well," he tweeted.
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The big news: Rajnath Singh to head to Pakistan despite Hafiz Saeed threat, and 9 other top stories

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    AIADMK MP sacked after allegedly slapping DMK legislator, claims there is a threat to her life: Sasikala Pushpa had claimed that a spat broke out between her and Trichy Siva at Delhi airport because he insulted her party's chief J Jayalalithaa.
    No reinvestigation into Amit Shah's role in Sohrabuddin 'fake encounter' case, rules Supreme Court: Activist Harish Mander had challenged the BJP president's exoneration in the case, but Shah's lawyers argued that he has no connection with the matter.
    Police arrest two for allegedly stalking, raping and killing Delhi teenager, burning her body: The suspects were picked up after a friend of the teenager lodged an FIR stating that the duo had sexually assaulted and tried to murder her as well.
    It is not right to identify Islam with violence, says Pope Francis: The religious leader said social injustice and the worship of money were the main causes for the rise of terrorism across the world.
    Former chief ministers are not entitled to government homes, rules Supreme Court: The bench asked six ex-CMs from Uttar Pradesh, including Mayawati, Rajnath Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav, to vacate any such accommodation.
    Taliban attacks hotel for foreign contractors in Kabul, three militants killed: Police officials said the siege had ended, and one of their officers had sustained injuries. No civilian casualties were reported.
    Maharashtra government rejects Anna Hazare’s demand for blanket ban on liquor: Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, however, said the state may adopt the Tamil Nadu model and disallow sale of country liquor.
    Manufacturing sector hit four-month high in July, says survey: Among other factors, greater production and higher demand contributed to the upswing.
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Sohrabuddin encounter: Supreme Court dismisses plea against clean chit to Amit Shah

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to permit social activist Harsh Mander to challenge BJP president Amit Shah's discharge in the Sohrabuddin encounter case.

The Supreme Court said Harsh Mander has no locus standi to challenge Amit Shah's discharge in the case.

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The petition filed by social activist Harsh Mander had sought quashing of the December 30, 2014 order of a Mumbai sessions court giving clean chit to Amit Shah in the case.


The petitioner had also questioned the findings of the sessions court exonerating Shah in the Tulsiram Prajapati killing case, holding that there existed "no case" against him and that he had been implicated for "political reasons".
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2006 Aurangabad arms haul case: MCOCA court likely to announce its order on Abu Jundal today

Mumbai: A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court is expected to announce its verdict on key plotter of 26/11 terror strikes, Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, in connection with the he 2006 Aurangabad Arms haul case.

The 22 arrested accused in the case include Lashkar-e-Toiba operative and key plotter of the 26/11 terror attack case Jundal.

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On May 8, 2006, a Maharashtra ATS team chased a Tata Sumo and an Indica car on Chandwad-Manmad highway near Aurangabad and arrested three terror suspects and seized 30kg of RDX, 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 3,200 bullets.

The Indica, allegedly driven by Jundal, managed to give police the slip. Jundal, who hails from Beed district of Maharashtra, drove to Malegaon and a few days later he escaped to Bangladesh from where he fled to Pakistan, according to the state police.

He was deported to India from Saudi Arabia in 2012.

The court had last year framed charges against the LeT operative in connection with 26/11 attacks case.

Jundal was charged on 23 different counts, including criminal conspiracy, waging war against the nation, criminal conspiracy, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping for murder, cheating, forgery and for abetting the terror attack from Pakistan under Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had filed a charge sheet against Jundal in Delhi for conspiring to carry out terrorist activities in India, including the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

The charge sheet against Jundal has details about his training in Pakistan, preparations ahead of 26/11, LeT hierarchy, the precise role played by those involved, etc.

According to Jundal's confession, LeT training camps enjoyed full support from local, federal police and paramilitary organisations in Pakistan.

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Lok Sabha clears amendments in Lok Pal Act

The Lok Sabha on Wednesday cleared amendments to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, pertaining to dilution of Section 44 of the Act dealing with disclosure of assets of spouses of public servants and those holding positions on the boards of non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

In an unprecedented step, neither the copies of the amendments were circulated to the MPs, nor the Union cabinet had approved them ahead of introduction. Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked special powers, vested to him to approve the Bill without the Cabinet clearance. The amendments will restrict the declaration only of the assets and liabilities of the public servants only, sparing their spouse and dependent children. The amendments will also seek to do away with this proactive disclosure requirement. The public servants includes the government officials, political functionaries that is the Prime Minister, Ministers and also the Members of Parliament.

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Minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh moved the amendments, which was not listed in the business list, assuring the members that a Standing Committee of Parliament will be looking into the amendments in any case. The amendment were cleared without discussion amidst protests from the Opposition benches. On the urgency, the minister said since the date of filing such returns was July 30, it has become necessary to address the impasse.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and several members of Parliament, including nominated member Anu Agha and independent MP in the Rajya Sabha Rajeev Chandrashekhar had raised concerns over the income disclosure clause for trustees and board members of NGOs. According to the minister civil servants, mostly lady officers had also raised the issue that the spouses were working elsewhere and they were not very clear whether they should be asked to make it public and declare the assets.

While the Congress and the Left parties agreed that there was an 'urgency' to pass the bill, they urged that the government should be stringent in imposing the provisions of the bill. Opposition leaders including Mohammad Salim of CPM objected to the introduction of the Bill saying that due parliamentary process was not followed.

As per the rules notified under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013, every public servant shall file declaration, information and annual returns pertaining to his assets and liabilities as well as for his spouse and dependent children on March 31 every year or on or before July 31 of that year. In April, the government had extended the date of filing returns by public servants from April 15 to July 31. This is the fifth extension in the deadline since the Act came into force in January 2014.

As per rules, organisations receiving more than Rs1 crore in government grants and donations above Rs10 lakh from abroad fall under the ambit of Lokpal.
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Magsaysay for Wilson, Krishna

Bezwada Wilson and TM Krishna, the Indian recipients of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, have a lot in common. Both challenged caste hierarchies to lay the ground for social order where human dignity prevailed over everything else.

Where 50-year-old Wilson, born to manual scavengers in Karnataka’s Kolar, worked to liberate thousands of women from the dehumanising practice, 40-year-old Krishna, a trained Carnatic musician, questioned his art for being the exclusive preserve of Brahmins.

Four others who have been selected for the award are — Conchita Carpio-Morales of the Philippines, Dompet Dhuafa of Indonesia, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and ‘Vientiane Rescue’ of Laos.

“My award goes out to all those women who burned their baskets without the promise of rehabilitation from the government. I salute them all,” Wilson told The Tribune from his humble East Patel Nagar office today. His office doubles as his home.

The Award, Wilson adds, will help focus the national attention on lakhs of faceless sufferers still trapped in the inhuman occupation, restricted to Dalits.

“Around two lakh women are still engaged as manual scavengers across India. What’s more — lakhs of cleaners of sewage and septic tanks are suffering silently across our booming cities. No one cares about their deaths. Their liberation and justice to their families is our next goal,” says Wilson, credited with three landmark moments in the history of India’s anti-manual scavenging movement — the passage of the 1993 anti-scavenging law, its replacement with a new 2013 law and a 2014 Supreme Court judgment, which directed the Centre and state governments to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to each family that witnessed death of a ward in a septic tank.

His Magsaysay citation recognises the range of Wilson’s 32-year work. “Awarded for asserting the inalienable right to a life of human dignity,” it says of the man who led the movement to demolish dry latrines in India through his Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA). He launched this movement from Hyderabad with Narayan Amma, the legendary scavenger whose stories are now part of school curriculum.

The citation also mentions how of the estimated six lakh scavengers in India, SKA liberated three lakh. The practice still involves 180,000 Dalit households cleaning 790,000 public and private dry latrines across India.

For TM Krishna, born to a privileged Brahmin family in Chennai, the Magsaysay Citation says: “Awarded for social inclusiveness in culture”.

The Award recognises Krishna’s urge to liberate his art form from the clutches of caste and make it inclusive. “He questioned the politics of art; widened his knowledge about the arts of the Dalits and non-Brahmin communities; and declared he would no longer sing in ticketed events at a famous, annual music festival in Chennai to protest the lack of inclusiveness…Krishna is resolved to break barriers of caste, class or creed by democratising music,” declares his citation also mentioning how Krishna was the sole Carnatic musician to hold music fests in war-torn Northern Sri Lanka.

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