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Chidambaram calls for better utilization of funds

New Delhi, Apr 30 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday called for better utilization of funds, provided by the Centre for development of districts worst affected by left wing extremism (LWE). Chairing a meeting of the Members of Parliament, representing 34 LWE affected districts and West Medinipur district of West Bengal, Chidambaram said the purpose of the meeting was to assess the present trends and review the steps needed for integrated development of these districts.

UP Police arrest two CRPF personnel for selling arms to Naxals

Lucknow, Apr 30 : Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday arrested four people including, two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel on charges that they have been selling arms to Naxals. The UP Special Task Force (STF) raided the CRPF’s Rampur camp and arrested the personnel this morning. Addressing the media, UP Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Brij Lal said ammunition and empty cartridge shells have been recovered from the arrested.

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Major General Nair becomes Judge Advocate General of Army

New Delhi, Apr 30 : Major General CS Nair has been appointed as the 14th Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Indian Army and will take charge on May 1. A post-graduate in English, Major General Nair was commissioned to the Army Education Corps (AEC) in Dec 1978. An alumnus of the Kerala Law Academy (1973-76), he had practised as a lawyer in the High Court of Kerala before joining IMA, Dehradun for pre- commission training.

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Ex-Pak MI chief denies ordering washing-off Benazir’s assassination site

Islamabad, Apr.30 : Former Pakistan Military Intelligence Director Major General Nadeem Ijaz has rubbished allegations that he had ordered subordinates to wash-off the crime scene at Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, where former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on December 27,2007. Ijaz submitted his statement along with some documents before three-member committee investigating the washing down of the incident site. According to sources, other junior officials who have recorded their statement before the fact finding committee reiterated what they have already said before the UN inquiry commission.

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Belgium to become first EU country to ban use of burqa

Brussels, Apr.30 : Belgium is set to become the first country in Europe to ban the burqa after the country’s parliament voted on Thursday night to prohibit the wearing of the face-covering Islamic veil in public. According to The Telegraph,no lawmaker voted against the ban on clothes or veils that do not allow the wearer to be fully identified, including full-face Muslim dress such as the niqab or burqa. There were two abstentions.

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Five women killed in Haryana stampede

Sirsa (Haryana), April 30 – Five women devotees were killed in a stampede early Friday during a religious gathering at the Dera Sacha Sauda sect headquarters near this Haryana town, police said. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced a grant of Rs.2 lakh to the victims’ next of kin. Civil and police authorities later described the incident as ‘an accident’.

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Hyderabad police crack ‘Nigerian fraud’, one arrested

Hyderabad, April 30 – Cyber crime sleuths here Friday claimed to have cracked a case of ‘Nigerian fraud’ with the arrest of one person in Maharashtra for duping a resident of Hyderabad. Alok Raj Saxena, a resident of Hussaini Alam in the Old City of Hyderabad, was duped to the tune of Rs.10.7 lakh by internet fraudsters on the pretext of providing a job in the Emirates Airlines in Britain. Rahul Koshte was arrested in Badlapur in Thane district of Maharashtra two days ago and remanded to judicial custody.

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Rs.80,000 looted from trader in Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad, April 30 – Motorcyle-borne armed robbers looted Rs.80,000 from a trader Friday when he was driving to his office in Ashok Nagar here, police said. Deepak Kansal, a distributor for prestigious brands of consumer durables, was near Ghaziabad Public School (GPS) in Ashok Nagar locality when three men on a motorcycle came close to the driver-side window. Two of them took the keys from the car, slapped him twice and snatched his bag containing cash.

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Radiation case: Delhi varsity teachers seek independent probe

New Delhi, April 30 – Teachers of Delhi University Friday sought an independent probe into the radiation leak in which one person was killed and seven people were affected in the capital. Any inquiry under the university administration will be an ‘eye-wash’, they said. ‘An independent inquiry should be ordered into the matter and the vice chancellor should step down for enabling a fair probe,’ Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) president Aditya Narayan Misra said.

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