Cong, JMM, BJP in fray for Jharkhand RS poll
Ranchi: Jharkhands ruling alliance partners – the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha ( JMM) – and the opposition Congress have fielded candidates for the May 3 p
olls to two Rajya Sabha seats. Pradeep Balmuchu and Sanjiv Kumar, nominees of the Congress and JMM respectively, filed their papers on Monday, the last day of nominations. BJP candidate S S Ahuwalia had filed his nomination papers last week. JMM is still hopeful that BJP will support its candidate like in the countermanded poll, reports IANS.” We are sticking to our previous stand and this is the reason we fielded our party candidate. We will talk to alliance partners to get their support for the party candidate,” Deputy Chief Minister and JMM leader Hemant Soren told reporters here.
Kudankulam to be on in 40 days: Govt
New Delhi: The first unit of the Kundankulam nuclear power project is expected to start generating electricity in the next 40 days, Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office V Narayanasamy said. He said the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board ( AERB) officials were at the Kudankulam project site and inspecting the plant. ” The first reactor of 1000 MW will be operational within 40 days from today,” Narayanasamy told reporters here. He said the AERB was expected to give its certification to the plant in about a week after which uranium – the fuel for power generation – – will be loaded in the plant.” We will have a trial run for 20 days after which the first reactor will start generating power,” Narayanasamy said, adding the second unit of 1000 MW was expected to be commissioned within two months of the first one.
Police fire to disperse Bengal bandh
Jalpaiguri ( WB): Police fired six rounds in the air and lobbed teargas shells to disperse warring groups indulging in arson and stone- throwing in which two persons were injured during a bandh in the Terai- Dooars region in Jalpaiguri district on Monday, official sources said to PTI. District Magistrate Smarki Mahapatra said, ” Six rounds of bullets were fired in the air to disperse the mob. The situation was under control in most of the places. Tension was prevailing in a few places where police have gone to maintain peace”. Trouble started in Banarhat when supporters trying to enforce the bandh were opposed by local businessmen owing allegiance to the Terai Dooars Joint Action Committee led by the Adivasi Vikas Parishad.
Pro- bandh activists set ablaze nine shops at Banarhat and several shops at Chamurchi near Banarhat, police said.
Police fired six rounds in the air and lobbed teargas squibs to disperse the mob at Banarhat, sources said.
Woman army officer harassed by senior
Dehra Dun: A woman army officer has filed a case against a Lieutenant Colonel here, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the pretext of marrying her. The woman officer, a Lieutenant in the Army Hospital here, filed a police complaint against the Lieutenant Colonel, posted in Uttarkashi, in the Cantt police station alleging that he cheated and sexually harassed her over a period of time after promising to marry her. The woman, a divorcee, also claimed that the officer had married her in a temple, but when she asked him to register the marriage, he refused saying that he was already married. Further investigations into the allegations are on.
SC refuses to stay release of Cyprus ship
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to stay the release of a Cyprus commercial ship, which had collided with an Indian naval ship near Mumbai port, causing, as per the Centre, extensive damage to the latter and a loss of Rs 1,058 crores. Refusing the Centres plea, a bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad, however, said it was ” keeping open” a question of law on the issue and no interim order can be passed by it at this stage.
