New Delhi, Feb 28 – A former employee of India’s spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), who created a stir in the Delhi High Court last month when she partially stripped twice before the judge, has been diagnosed as suffering from a form of paranoia, the court was told Monday. Submitting its report before Justice Ajit Bharihoke, the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) said 48-year-old Nisha Priya Bhatia cannot take a competent decision and is not suitable for a job, marriage, or drawing a will.
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New Delhi, Feb 28 – In a sharp 11 percent increase in India’s defence budget to aid rapid modernisation of the armed forces, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday allocated Rs.164,415.19 crore (Rs.1.64 trillion/$36 billion) for its military in 2011-12. Amounting in real terms to an increase of Rs.17,071 crore, the jump in the defence budget was 11.59 percent over 2010-11 budgetary estimates of Rs.147,344 crore, and an 8.47 percent jump from revised estimates of Rs.151,582 crore.
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Mumbai/New Delhi, Feb 28 – With India intensifying Operation Safe Homecoming, around 3,000 Indians are expected to be evacuated by two chartered ships in the next few days as a third batch of 68 Indians landed in Mumbai from strife-torn Libya in a Gulf Air flight Monday morning. Another 600 Indians will be brought back to the country on two special Air India flights late Monday.
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London, Feb 28 – The head of the prestigious London School of Economics Monday said he felt ‘embarrassed’ about the university’s ties with the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The LSE director Howard Davies said the decision to accept research funding from a foundation controlled by the Libyan dictator’s son, Saif Gaddafi, had ‘backfired’, the Daily Mail reported.
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Panaji, Feb 28 – The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Goa unit Monday said the hike in export duty of iron ore and service tax on restaurants and mid-sized hotels proposed in the union budget would cripple mining and tourism industries in the state. Speaking to reporters in Panaji, state BJP president Laxmikant Parsenkar said the budget presented by union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had only succeeded in routing all the money from the people back to the government treasury.
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Bhubaneswar, Feb 28 – The general budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has failed to address the core concerns of the people and will hurt households, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said Monday. ‘The union budget proposals for 2011-12 hardly offers any respite to our common masses from the soaring food prices,’ Patnaik told reporters.
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New Delhi, Feb 28 – A sub-inspector was killed and a constable critically injured when a car hit their motor-cycle in central Delhi Monday, police said. The driver has been arrested.
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New Delhi, Feb 28 – A 25-year-old drug peddler was arrested with about 1 kg of smack worth around Rs.1 crore (over $220,000) in the international market, police said Monday. Mehraj, who hails from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, was held from Nigam Bodh Ghat in north Delhi Sunday when he came to supply the consignment, a senior police officer said.
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New Delhi, Feb 28 – India has contacted the Libyan authorities seeking permission to land its aircraft in the southwestern city of Sabha to evacuate its citizens, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said here Monday. ‘India’s ambassador to Libya (Mani Mecklai) has sought permission to land aircraft in the southwestern city of Sabha,’ Rao told reporters on the sidelines of a function.
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