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Traffic cop attacks woman with brick: </br><br>In a horrific incident of police brutality, a head constable of Delhi Police on Monday hit a woman with a brick in posh central Delhi locality after an altercation following which he was arrested and dismissed from service as the incident triggered widespread outrage. Traffic policeman Satish Chandra was arrested and a criminal case was filed against him after a video clip of his attacking a young woman with two children at Golf Links area went viral. Later, he was dismissed from the service. The victim, who was riding a two-wheeler, alleged that Chandra demanded a bribe of Rs 200 accusing her of violating traffic rules and when she refused he abused her and then hit her with a brick in front of her two minor children. The video clip showed the woman picking up a brick and hurling it at the policeman's bike while the constable was seen attacking her with another brick. After the medical check up, the woman said her left hand has sustained fracture in the attack. (Express photo) (11/05/2015)
Jayalalithaa acquitted by HC verdict, set to return as Tamil Nadu CM: AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa was today acquitted by the Karnataka High Court in the 19-year-old disproportionate assets (DA) case, a verdict that is sure to put her back in the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's seat. "All the appeals have been upheld and the convicts have been acquitted," Justice C R Kumaraswamy said as he read out the operative part of the judgement at 11 AM sharp, a minute after entering the jam-packed court and the whole proceedings wrapped up in about four minutes. Setting aside the trial court verdict, the single bench judge also exonerated AIADMK chief's close aide Sasikala Natarajan and the latter's relatives J Elavarasi and V N Sudhakaran, disowned foster son of Jayalalithaa, giving relief from the conviction of four years for all. (PTI) (11/05/2015) 
Arvind Kejriwal attacked in Lok Sabha for 'defamatory news' move:</br><br> Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his government on Monday came under attack in Lok Sabha over the move against 'defamatory news', with BJP saying it was a reminder of the Emergency. The issue was raised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member from Delhi Meenakshi Lekhi without naming Arvind Kejriwal and his government but obviously referring to it. She said the Chief Minister of Delhi has said that defamation cases should be filed against those who do not write favourable about them. At the same time, the "good journalists" from their perspective shall be encouraged through awards, Lekhi said. "Such a move an insult to democracy. The House should condemn it," the BJP member said. "We cannot have a system in which such news is incentivised with the tax payers money which the government (of Delhi) finds suitable. It's an attempt to keep the truth away from the people," she added. It reminds of Emergency when the media was targeted by the then Congress government at the Centre. (PTI) (11/05/2015) 
Rahul Gandhi says Narendra Modi's'suit-boot sarkar' was against farmers, labourers, now fishermen: Rahul Gandhi today accused the Narendra Modi govt of going against the interests of fishermen, saying a ban by the 'suit-boot ki sarkar' was not allowing them to do fishing but foreign trawlers were allowed to do so. Rahul Gandhi accused the Modi government of harming the interests of the weak and all those who earn their livelihood in the country. "Now they have extended the fishing ban and they are allowing foreign trawlers to come in at the expense of our fishermen. The 'suit-boot ki sarkar' is not only harming farmers, it is harming every single person who is weak in this country. Every single person who works for his livelihood – fishermen, farmers, labourers, they are all being damaged by this government," he said. Rahul also said that earlier the 'suit-boot sarkar' was against farmers and labourers, now they are after fishermen. (PTI) (11/05/2015) 
Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan; will do everything to bring him to justice, says Rajnath Singh: Under attack over its statement in Parliament that it was not aware about Dawood Ibrahim's whereabouts, the government today asserted that the Mumbai blast mastermind is in Pakistan and it will do everything to bring him to justice. "Whether we have to pursue Pakistan or pressurise it, we will not rest till Dawood Ibrahim is brought back," Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in Lok Sabha and averred that India has maintained pressure on Pakistan at all levels over the issue. He alleged that Pakistan has "failed" to track him down despite being provided with "overwhelming evidence" about his presence there, based on "credible information". Singh's assertion came amid Opposition attack over a Home Ministry's reply to a question in Lok Sabha last week that it was not aware about the gangster's location. (PTI) (11/05/2015) 
<br>DMK chief says b'day wishes for him was top Twitter trend</br> Thanking all those who had wished him on his birthday, DMK President Karunanidhi today said a whopping 47.67 lakh people greeted him and wishes for him topped Twitter India trends. "Birthday wishes for me on Twitter by using the tag "#HBDkalaignar" was on the first place yesterday in Twitter India trends, I thank them," Karunanidhi said in a statement. A total of 47,66,837 persons had greeted him through SMS, social networking sites Facebook, Google Plus, and micro-blogging site Twitter, his website, besides phone calls and personal greetings, Karunanidhi said in a "thanks message" to those who had wished him well on his 92nd birthday yesterday. (PTI Photo) (04/06/2015) 
Pakistan officer shared Osama bin Laden's hideout info with US, says report: A former Pakistani intelligence officer disclosed the hideout of Osama bin Laden to CIA in exchange of USD 25 million bounty on the head of the al-Qaeda chief, who was living as prisoner under ISI protection in the garrison town of Abbottabad, according to a report. "In August 2010 a former senior Pakistani intelligence officer approached Jonathan Bank, then the CIA's station chief at the US embassy in Islamabad. He offered to tell the CIA where to find bin Laden in return for the reward that Washington had offered in 2001," the Dawn reported, citing American investigative journalist and author Seymour M Hersh. The intelligence official, Hersh said, was a military man who is now living in Washington and working for the CIA as a consultant. "I cannot tell you more about him," he said. (AP) (11/05/2015) 
Court asks Kejriwal, Sisodia & AAP leaders to appear on May 15: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and four other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, accused of violating prohibitory orders here and obstructing public servants in discharge of their duty during an agitation, were today directed to appear before a Delhi court on May 15. Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain was irked that Arvind Kejriwal and other accused had not appeared before it even on the last date of hearing and said there was "no justifiable ground" for their exemption from personal appearance. (PTI) (11/05/2015) -
<b>How merger turned into alliance? BJP asks Nitish Kumar: </b>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today dubbed the coming together of JD(U) and RJD as an alliance of "defeated people" and asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to reveal the "compromise" behind Janta Parivar merger turning into a coalition. "(Nitish) Kumar, Lalu (Prasad) and Mulayam Singh Yadav had been talking about merger, but it suddenly came down to alliance. There had been no consensus among them over the Chief Ministerial candidate and Lalu had publicly said it has not been decided," senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here. "Kumar was suddenly chosen the CM candidate. Prasad clarified he has drunk poison to stop BJP. But the real thing is that his children are not yet ready for politics. He (Kumar) is silent since then. We ask him to reveal what compromise has been struck for this," Prasad said. (PTI) (11/06/2015)
Arun Jaitley moves Blackmoney bill in LS, seeks Opposition support: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today moved in Lok Sabha a bill which provides for penalty and tax up to 120 per cent along with criminal prosecution for those who have parked black money abroad. Piloting the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Bill, 2015 for passage, Jaitley asked the Opposition not to develop "cold feet" in supporting the legislation. He rejected the opposition demand of referring it to the Standing Committee saying delay in enacting the legislation would provide opportunity to offenders to transfer unaccounted overseas wealth to unknown destinations. For those wanting to come clean, Jaitley said there would be a compliance window in two parts — to declare assets and to pay 30 per cent tax and 30 per cent penalty. (PTI) (11/05/2015) -
DTC strike gives hard time to commuters: Commuters in the national capital had a harrowing time today as Delhi Transport Corporation buses stayed off the roads due to a strike call given by its employees who are demanding a compensation of Rs one crore for the family of a DTC driver who was beaten to death yesterday. The DTC Unions have threatened to continue with the strike if their demands are not met, however, DTC has said that they will ensure that busses ply on the roads. Meanwhile, the government has announced to bear all the medical expenses of the wife of the deceased. It said it will also bear the cost of education of the driver's daughter. Peak rush hours saw long queues of people jostling for space at roads and metro stations. Cases of overcharging by auto rickshaws were reported from different part of the city. Several schools, which have engaged DTC buses, had asked parents to make their own arrangements for picking and dropping children. The strike was called against the murder of DTC driver Ashok Kumar (42). He was yesterday beaten to death allegedly by a youth after his bus grazed the latter's bike in Mundka area of west Delhi. (11/05/2015)
