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Wednesday,
July 6,
2011, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)
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Maken sacks foreign coaches, orders probe
Union Sports Minister acts as doping scandal gets murkier
 New Delhi, July 5
Taking a very serious view of the recent dope cases involving Indian athletes, Sports Minister Ajay Maken today ordered the sacking of all foreign coaches attached with Indian athletes, including chief coach Yuri Ogrodnik of Ukraine, with
immediate effect.
Sports page:
Two boxers under doping cloud
NIS
probe will open Pandora’s box
NIS
director hits out at Ogrodnik
Improve
own system, NADA tells IOA
Don’t
recruit tribals as SPOs to fight Naxals: SC to govt
Orders CBI probe into attack on
Swami Agnivesh, Dantewada arson
New Delhi, July 5
Expressing “horror” over the
government arming illiterate tribals to combat the problem of Naxalites
in utter disregard for human rights and constitutional provisions, the
Supreme Court today directed Chhattisgarh and the Centre to immediately
give up the practice. “We, in this court, are not unaware of the
gravity that extremist activities pose to the citizens, and to the
state.” However, the Constitution does not allow the government to
adopt any means to deal with the problem, a Bench comprising Justices B
Sudershan Reddy and SS Nijjar ruled.
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The Supreme Court today lifted the
stay on the impeachment proceedings against Sikkim High Court Chief
Justice PD Dinakaran on the charges of corruption and land grab,
observing that that the CJ was using “every possible tactic to
delay” the inquiry being conducted by the Rajya Sabha-appointed panel
headed by apex court Judge Aftab Alam.
However many times you played the
video clip showing Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad calling sexual
involvement of men with men “unnatural” and a “disease”, he
would insist that he didn’t say so, was misquoted by the Press and
words were put into his mouth. That’s exactly what happened today evening when the minister, in a hurriedly convened press meet (which happened after he had met the PM and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi over the Telangana
crisis).