Ranchi, March 31 – Lok Sabha member and former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi was arrested along with legislators and supporters Thursday when they attempted to demonstrate outside the main secretariat building here against the ongoing anti-encroachment drive in the state. According to police, Marandi, who leads the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P), was arrested with JVM-P legislature party leader Pradeep Yadav and Congress leaders in the Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) campus and taken to Jagannathpur police station.
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New Delhi, March 31 – The Supreme Court Thursday declined to hear the plea of Hasan Ali, the country’s top-most tax evader under investigation for stashing away huge amounts of money abroad, challenging his ‘illegal’ custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for three more days. A bench of Justice B.Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S.S.Nijjar declined to entertain Hasan Ali’s plea on the ground that there was no application or petition before it challenging the Mumbai special court’s order giving his three-day custody to the ED.
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New Delhi, March 31 – A reward of Rs.50,000 was announced Thursday by the Delhi Police for information on a man wanted for murdering his live-in partner and leaving her body stuffed in a bag at the New Delhi railway station. The body was found Feb 10 and the victim was later identified as Neetu Solanki, 30, a law graduate and resident of Navada village in west Delhi.
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Hyderabad, March 31 – Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), Thursday called for use of mobile technology to make the web available to a large number of people in countries with low levels of Internet penetration like India. He underlined the need to teach people to build websites which work well on mobile phones and said the entrepreneurs can build an economy using this technology.
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New Delhi, March 31 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is unlikely to watch Saturday’s India-Sri Lanka cricket World Cup final at Mumbai’s Wankhde Stadium, a senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office(PMO) said here Thursday. ‘Till now, there are no plans for the prime minister to go to Mumbai,’ the official told IANS.
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Hyderabad/New Delhi, March 31 – The population of Andhra Pradesh has gone up by 8.4 million during the last decade to touch 84.6 million, according to provisional results of the latest census released Thursday. The population of the fifth most populous state in India grew by 11.1 percent over the last census.
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Cairo, March 31 – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Thursday set up a committee to investigate the deaths of protesters who were killed in clashes in the cities of Daraa and Latakia, broadcaster Al Arabiya reported. Although no official figures have been given, Human Rights Watch says at least 73 protesters were killed in clashes with security forces in recent weeks.
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Chandigarh, March 31 – After ordering the suspension of two police officers and a magisterial inquiry into the incident of a Sikh man’s turban being removed, the Punjab government Thursday asked the state chief secretary to submit a preliminary enquiry report into the incident within two days. Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal directed Chief Secretary S.C.
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Mumbai, March 31 – The Mumbai police is carrying out background checks on all foreigners who have purchased tickets for the India-Sri Lanka World Cup final Saturday, a senior police officer said. Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy said Thursday the police are also coordinating with various central intelligence agencies and the Anti-Terrorist Squad and collating their inputs on a regular basis.
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