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PM’s team to take up Gorshkov deal Cruelty does not mean abetment to suicide: SC Global plan to combat TB launched Eight die after consuming liquor
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Anthrax-infected meat: 8 fall ill Call for boycott of US, UK goods
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PM’s team to take up Gorshkov deal New Delhi, October 25 Sources in the government here said today that while some understanding was reached over the deal, which has been hanging fire for almost two years now, during the recent visit of the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov to New Delhi, some more ground could be covered during the visit of the Prime Minister which begins early November. Although the final agreement still not expected, but reports here said that the two countries could reach on an agreement on some vital grounds during the visit. A high level delegation from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is expected to accompany the Prime Minister. Sources said that there was some understanding on the purchase between Klebanov and the reinstated Defence Minister George Fernandes. A breakthrough on the issue was also expected as the Defence Minister had in his interaction with the media clearly stated that just about 25 per cent of the capital outlay for defence had been spent as yet and the rest of the 75 per cent would be spent before the end of financial year. Defence watchers expect that a large sum from the left over budget might be allocated for the purchase of Admiral Gorshkov. There were also reports of the MoD being in the process of constituting the price negotiation committee for the purchase of Admiral Gorshkov. The expert committee headed by a top MoD official has already cleared the purchase of the aircraft carrier in terms of technical specifications. The official clearance would end the long wait of the Indian Navy for an aircraft carrier. Reports said that technical negotiations — about the state of the ship and what has to be done to restore it along with the additions has been completed. A high level committee of the MoD was recently in Moscow to complete the formalities. |
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Cruelty does not mean abetment to suicide: SC New Delhi, October 25 In a significant judgement, the apex court has held that merely because an accused has been convicted of wife-cruelty “it does not follow that on the same evidence he must also and necessarily be held guilty of having abetted the commission of suicide by her”. Distinguishing the two provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the court said that Sections 498-A (cruelty) and 306 of IPC (abetment) were “independent and constitute different offences”. “Though, depending on the facts and circumstances of an individual case, subjecting a woman to cruelty may amount to an offence under Section 498-A and may also, if the course of conduct amounting to cruelty leaves no other option except to commit suicide, amount to abetment to commit suicide,’’ the court observed. The ruling was given in a recent judgement by a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice A.S. Anand, Mr Justice R.C. Lahoti, and Mr Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, while partly allowing an appeal by an accused convicted and sentenced under Sections 498-A and 306 of the IPC. Appellant-accused Ramesh Kumar had been charged with not only treating his wife Seema Devi with cruelty but also instigating her to commit suicide on June 17, 1986 within one year of their marriage. The trial court held the accused guilty of both the offences and awarded respective sentences of seven years’ Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) under Section 306 and two years’ RI under Section 498-A of the IPC, both the sentences to run concurrently. The Madhya Pradesh High Court later maintained the conviction along with the sentences. The SC in its judgement noted that the findings of guilt on both counts as recorded by the trial court and the high court rested on the testimony of five witnesses, a letter written by the deceased to her father, and her dying declaration. On the principle underlining admissibility of a dying declaration in evidence, the court said that truth sits on the lips of a dying person and it can convict an accused on the basis of such declaration where it inspires full confidence. “There is no reason why the same principle should not be applied when such a declaration speaking of the cause of death exonerates the accused unless there is material available to form an opinion that the deceased while making such statement was trying to conceal the truth, either having been persuaded to do so or because of sentiments for her husband.” The court said on the date of the incident, the husband probably told the deceased that she was free to go wherever she wished and this may have revived the earlier impulse of the deceased to commit suicide. The dying declaration, the court said, corroborates the inference flowing from the writings contained in the diary. The conduct of the husband trying to put off the fire and taking his wife to hospital also improbablises the theory of having abetted suicide. “In our opinion there is no evidence and material available on record wherefrom an inference of the accused having abetted the commission of suicide by the wife may necessarily be drawn’’, the judges observed.
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Global plan to combat TB launched New Delhi, October 25 The broad coalition “Stop TB Partnership” — said vulnerable and poor populations across the globe were specially at the risk of contracting the killer disease. Stating that Afghanistan and Pakistan were among the world’s worst-affected countries, the two world bodies said hundreds and thousands of refugees were living in cramped conditions along their common border. “In these circumstances, there is a real risk that even more people will fall victim to the disease,” a World Bank release said here. Twentytwo countries, including India, comprise almost 80 per cent of the global TB burden. The initiative, launched in Washington, appealed to the governments in both developed and developing countries to substantially increase their financial backing for it. With a death toll of nearly two million people last year alone, TB’s deadly association with the HIV and AIDS pandemic, coupled with its growing drug resistance, has made it an imminent public health emergency, the partnership said. The plan proposes national access to DOTS, the internationally accepted strategy through which healthcare workers and community volunteers treat people suffering from TB with a powerful combination of medicines, in ways that ensure success of their lengthy treatment. The complete course of medicines costs less than Rs 500. The global plan also includes prevention of multi-drug resistant TB, research and development of new drugs with a shortened treatment period and strategies to better treat HIV positive people who have TB.
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Eight die after consuming liquor Kolkata, October 25 Some people of the village under Joynagar police station consumed the liquor last night after returning from a “darshan” of Durga Puja pandals in Joynagar and were taken ill immediately, they said. While eight of them died this morning, others were admitted to the local Padmarhat Hospital, nearby nursing homes and in Kolkata hospitals, the police said. The Subdivisional Police Officer (SDPO), Baruipur Kalol Gorai, was on the spot with a large contingent of policemen. PTI |
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Magistrate suspended in temple entry case Lucknow, October 25 Magistrate Alok Verma and Circle Officer Shailendr Kumar Rai have been suspended with immediate effect following the report submitted by ADG (Intelligence) Himanshu Kumar to the state government on the incident, Principal Secretary (Home) Naresh Dayal said here. A departmental inquiry had been ordered against them, Mr Dayal said in a press note, adding that Urban Development Secretary Jai Shankar Mishra would conduct the probe.
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Anthrax-infected meat: 8 fall ill Purulia (West Bengal), October 25 Initially three were taken ill on October 23 and the number of the affected mounted to eight today, Purulia District Magistrate D.P. Jana said. However, the affected were not required to be hospitalised and were receiving medication at home as prescribed by a government doctor, he said.
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Call for boycott of US, UK goods Kanpur, October 25 The general secretary of the city Jamiat Ulama, a Sunni organisation, Maulana Matinul Haq Ossama Kasmi, told mediapersons here that the decision was taken following a fatwa issued by the Darul Ulum Devband and directions given by the president of the Amiat Ulama Hind, Maulana Saiyad Asad Madni.
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