New Delhi, April 30 – Light showers Friday evening brought respite to Delhiites from intense heat and the weatherman forecast cloudy sky and a possibility of rain in some areas of the national capital Saturday. ‘The national capital can expect a partly cloudy sky with possibility of thunderstorm in some areas on Saturday,’ said an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 41 degrees Celsius Saturday while the minimum will be around 27 degrees.
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Bangalore, April 30 – Tainted Swami Nityananda was Friday sent to jail till May 12, after being in police custody for eight days answering questions on his alleged sex-romp and other activities. A court in Ramanagara, about 40 km from here, remanded the 32-year-old Nityananda in judicial custody when he was presented before it Friday on the expiry of his police custody. The Karnataka Crime Investigation Department interrogated Nityananda on video tapes showing him in bed with two women, his bank accounts and on reports that he bound several of his followers to non-disclosure agreement about his sexual acts with them.
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Rohtak, April 30 – Three young friends died in Haryana’s Rohtak district after getting drunk and daring one another to consume a lethal insecticide used by farmers to protect their stored foodgrains. A fourth man was battling for life in hospital, police said. The incident took place in Bharan village.
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Bangalore, April 30 – Underworld elements and the betting lobby were behind the April 17 twin blasts in Bangalore ahead of an Indian Premier League (IPL) match, Karnataka Home Minister V.S. Acharya said Friday. The blasts near the M.
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Lucknow, April 30 – Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers and three Uttar Pradesh police personnel were among six people arrested in the state on suspicion of selling arms and ammunition to Maoists, officials said Friday. The sixth is a retired sub-inspector of the state police. Besides the two CRPF personnel, a retired sub-inspector of the state police and a constable armourer of the police academy in Moradabad were held by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force, Additional Director General (Law and Order) Brij Lal told reporters here.
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New Delhi, April 30 – The first phase of the Census 2011 will begin in Maoist-hit Chhattisgarh Saturday along with five other states of Haryana, Delhi, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Maharashtra, a home ministry statement said. Census takers will have a tough task to go house to house for the once-in-a-decade exercise in the Left-wing violence-hit districts of Chhattisgarh. The first phase of the population count, that includes house listing and housing census, began April 1.
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New Delhi, Apr 30 : Union Home Secretary G K Pillai on Friday said that US has assured that Indian investigators would get direct access to Lashkar operative David Headley very soon. Presenting the April month report card of the Union Home Ministry, Pillai said: “We have been assured that Indian investigators would be given direct access to David Headley.” “This is a signal achievement and should put an end to the doubts expressed in certain quarters,” he added. A team led by Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium visited USA from April 24 to 27 to discuss modalities of gaining access to Headley.
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Dharmasala (Himachal Pradesh), Apr 30 : Tibetans-in-exile living in Himachal Pradesh are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama’s arrival in Dharmasala town. The 14th Dalai Lama arrived in Dharamsala on April 30, 1960, from Mussorie, after fleeing his homeland in Tibet in the wake of a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. To mark the occasion, the Central Tibetan Administration is organising a two-day event “Thank You Himachal” from April 30 to May 01, to express the Tibetan people’s gratitude to the people and the government of Himachal Pradesh.
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New Delhi, Apr 30 : Union Home Secretary G K Pillai on Friday said that families of the 74 CRPF personnel killed in the Dantewada naxal ambush have been paid Rs. 28.5 lakh each. Presenting the monthly report card of the Home Ministry, Pillai said each next of kin (NOK) of the deceased CRPF personnel is entitled to receive, ex-gratia from the Central Government Rs 15 lakh, the CPRF Risk Fund Rs10 lakh, the CRPF Central Welfare Fund Rs 50,000, ex-gratia from Chhattisgarh State Government Rs 3 lakh, GPAIS from State Government Insurance Scheme Rs.
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