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- The Biography of Balwant Singh Rajoana
- Shootout at Wadala to be career defining for John Abraham
- Rajoana to be hanged till death rules Court
- Antony blames Army Chief for inaction in Bribery Case
- Sachin from India wins YouTube Space Lab 2012 Award
- US preparing to impose Economic Sanctions on India
- Nitish confident of Bihar getting Special Category Status
- Ayodhya Verdict Judges provided with Z-Class Security
| The Biography of Balwant Singh Rajoana Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:59 PM PDT
His elder brother Kulwant Singh says that, “ He was an intelligent boy, fond of reading novels, ghazals and poetry. He wrote too. In 1986, he joined the Punjab Police and did not come home too often”. According to his brother, he always said that, ” Khalsa Raj has to be brought about peacefully. We do not want violence of any kind. Even now, we have been telling the jathas to move around peacefully”. Baltej Singh, who has been Balwant's friend since childhood, remembers him as a cool, calm and shy boy. "We can never believe that he joined the hardliners. Only he alone can explain how and when he became a hardliner. For us, he is the son of this village and my friend. Balwant Singh Rajoana was a constable and a close friend of Shaheed Dilawar Singh, another serving police officer in the Punjab Police who on 31 August, 1995 assissinated the then Chief Minister of Punjab, Beant Singh. Rajoana was the second human bomb to be used in case if Dilawar had failed in his mission. The blast claimed the lives of 17 others including 3 Indian commandos. Beant Singh was accompanied by his close friend Ranjodh Singh Mann on the day of assassination, who also succumbed. The blast occurred as Mr. Beant Singh was stepping into a heavily armored car at the the main government building in Chandigarh, the capital. It is said that the explosion threw human remains and debris more than 100 yards, and wounded 23 people, some of whom were in critical condition. Jagtar Singh Hawara, Balwant Singh Rajoana, Paramjeet Singh Bheora and Jagtar Singh Tara were the prominent among those charged for assassinating CM Beant Singh. Balwant Singh Rajoana had "openly confessed" an involvement and strongly expressed no faith in Indian judiciary. He refused to defend himself in the court and accepted the sentence. He accused Indian courts for applying dual standards of law and accused Indian system for shielding culprits of Sikh genocide 1984. ”Asking for mercy from them is not even in my distant dreams,” Rajoana said in a open letter to Media. In his will, Balwant Singh expressed desire that his eyes should be transplanted to Hazoori Ragi of Darbar Sahib and visually impaired Lakhwinder Singh.
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| Shootout at Wadala to be career defining for John Abraham Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:24 AM PDT
“People ask me what is this film for you? I say that this film is my ‘Vaastav’ (which had Sanjay Dutt in the lead role). On a serious note, it’s a career defining film and it’s something that I have taken very seriously,” the 39-year-old, who has lately been seen in comedies and dramas, said at an event here. Directed by Sanjay Gupta, “Shootout At Wadala” also stars Anil Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Mahesh Manjrekar, Manoj Bajpayee, Tusshar Kapoor, Ronit Roy and Kangna Ranaut. John, who has turned producer with “Vicky Donor”, adds that he is having a great time with the team of his first production venture. “I am enjoying a lot because my cast of Ayushmann Khurana, Yami Gautam and Anuji (Anu Kapoor) are super talented. Our director Shoojit Sircar, with whom I am doing my next film, we are all a great team. We are really having a great time and enjoying this,” he said. John’s last release was “Desi Boyz” and he is currently gearing up for Sajid Khan’s “Housefull 2″ that hits theatres April 5. |
| Rajoana to be hanged till death rules Court Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:11 AM PDT Balwant Singh Rajoana, the Babbar Khalsa International terrorist sentenced to death in the 1995 assassination of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, should hang as scheduled on March 31, a Chandigarh court ruled Tuesday. The court returned the warrant of death of Rajoana to the Patiala jail authorities. The court also issued a showcause notice for contempt of court to Patiala prison jail superintendent L.S. Jakhar. Patiala jail superintendent L.S. Jakhar had earlier returned the warrant of death issued by the court saying that the legal circumstances of the Beant Singh assassination case were such that Rajoana could not be hanged till the Supreme Court decided all related issues. The matter of two other terrorists, Jagtar Singh Hawara and Lakhwinder Singh, convicted in the same case, is pending before the Supreme Court. The CBI has approached the Supreme Court in Hawara’s case as his death sentence, awarded by the CBI special court in 2007, was commuted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2010 to life imprisonment. The appeal of Lakhwinder Singh against his conviction is also pending. However, the high court had upheld Rajoana’s death sentence in the case as he had refused to defend himself. The Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikh religion, had last week asked the Punjab government and the SGPC to initiate steps to save Rajoana from the gallows. Beant Singh, a former Punjab chief minister (1992-95), who was largely credited with wiping out terrorism from Punjab, was assassinated by a human bomb, Dilawar Singh, at the high security Punjab civil secretariat here Aug 31, 1995. While Hawara was the mastermind of the assassination, Rajoana was the second human bomb to be used in case the first assassin failed. Rajoana, during the entire 11-year trial, had admitted that he alone was responsible for the killing of Beant Singh. The family members of Beant Singh have also stated that they had forgiven Rajoana and that his death sentence be converted to life imprisonment. |
| Antony blames Army Chief for inaction in Bribery Case Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:02 AM PDT New Delhi: Defence Minister A.K. Antony admitted Tuesday that army chief Gen. V.K. Singh informed him about Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh offering a bribe of Rs.14 crore but didn’t want to pursue the matter. Antony told parliament he would investigate the army chief’s allegations and was ready to cancel any contract if there was corruption. The minister Monday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the allegations. “He (army chief) told me Lt Gen Tejinder Singh offered him bribe but he told me he did not want to pursue it. No written complaint was given. Till today I have not received any written complaint from him and after yesterday’s (Monday) report, I have ordered a CBI inquiry,” Antony told parliament. The minister said he started his political career in 1958 as a student union leader and had fought corruption all through his life. “From day one as defence minister I have cleared my position that I am for modernisation of forces but will not tolerate corruption. I have nothing to hide and will say nothing but the truth,” he said. Antony assured the house that he would go to any extent to probe the army chief’s allegation. “Will take action, nobody will be spared. Will cancel all contracts if any corruption was found. If I am wrong, punish me. But I have done my best,” he said. The army chief has disclosed that he was offered a kickback of Rs.14 crore in his office by a retired defence officer, sending shockwaves through the defence establishment. He said he had informed Antony immediately about the conversation. Antony also promised to streamline the defence procurement process. “We are also discussing how to tighten the system and improve the procurement process,” said Antony. Antony’s remarks come a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party said the minister’s indecisiveness could be one of the reasons why the army chief spoke to the media. BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and S.S. Ahluwalia said in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday that they had no doubt about the minister’s honesty, but asked him to clarify why such a charge was being levelled after over a year and why no action was taken. “Over the last few months, the facts that are tumbling out make the situation curiouser and curiouser. There is civilian control over the armed forces, and such confrontations need to be avoided,” said Jaitley. The BJP leader said Antony should have made a distinction between “substantiated charge” and “baseless charge” and should have got the matter investigated. “…putting blinkers on and not getting the charge inquired at all means that we are learning to live with corruption,” Jaitley said. “We are completely with you in curbing corruption in the defence forces,” Jaitley told Antony. “But please maintain a judicious balance between curbing corruption and act on defence preparedness and modernisation of defence forces.” |
| Sachin from India wins YouTube Space Lab 2012 Award Posted: 26 Mar 2012 11:53 PM PDT Sachin S. Kukke from India is the Asia-Pacific region winner of the YouTube Space Lab 2012 Award. The winners of the contest by YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) were announced at a ceremony at the Newseum here Friday. The award has been given to students who have designed experiments to be performed in the outer Space. A total of ^ award has been given, one in each region. Kukke’s experiment explores transfer of heat in ferrofluid – a special liquid that gets magnetized when subjected to a magnetic field. The study can benefit development of advanced cooling and heat transfer systems. A student of mechanical engineering at the BMS College for Engineering in Bangalore, Kukke called on Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao Friday and shared his experience of conceptualising and carrying out innovative scientific experiments, an Indian Embassy release said. Warmly congratulating Kukke on his achievement, Rao said that in India, a country engaged in rapid economic development, “students like Sachin symbolise the hopes and the potential of a dynamic, resurgent India and it’s young population”. She encouraged Kukke to pursue his goals and interests in the specialised area of aerospace engineering and wished him the very best for the years ahead. At the meeting, Kukke was accompanied by Lee Hunter, head of brand marketing for YouTube, and Claudio Lilienfeld, senior policy manager for Asia Pacific at Google. Nearly 40 percent of the total number of entries for the contest came from India alone, an indicator of the skills and level of interest in the field of exploration of outer space among the youth in India. |
| US preparing to impose Economic Sanctions on India Posted: 26 Mar 2012 10:41 PM PDT India may face Economic Sanctions from United States if it continues to import oil from Iran. The Final decision in this regard will be taken by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton towards the End of June, State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland said Previously United States had imposed economic sanctions on India for its series of underground nuclear tests in1998. The United States is in conversation with 12 countries on ways and means to avoid the American sanctions against them, she said. “We are still working with all of these countries and trying to do what we can to help them to reduce their dependence on Iranian oil. As you know, we have 180 days under this legislation, which takes us into the end of June,” Nuland told reporters. “We have 180 days in the legislation to make a determination one way or the other. So we’re continuing to work with them in the intervening period,” Nuland said responding to questions on the time line of the determinations against these 12 countries. In all 23 countries import oil from Iran, last week, the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, had announced that 11 of these nations – mostly those from Europe and Japan – have been exempted from the Iranian sanctions act because of the significant reduction in oil import from Iran. The US says it is in talks with the rest of the 12 countries including India, China, Turkey and South Korea in this regard. |
| Nitish confident of Bihar getting Special Category Status Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:04 PM PDT Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is confident that Bihar would soon get the Special State Status. He was referring to the Inter-Ministerial Committee formed to allot Special Category to some states. The group held discussions with a delegation of officials from Bihar led by Chief Secretary Navin Kumar for over 90 minutes in New Delhi earlier during the day. “Both facts and logic are heavily in favour of the state’s demand for a special status to Bihar and I have confidance that Bihar would definitely be accorded a special state status by the centre,” Kumar said. He described today’s meeting with the members of inter-ministerial group in New Delhi as satisfactory. On the reports of alleged attempts to bribe Army Chief V K Singh, the chief minister said, “Everyday there are reports of one issue after another at the Centre. “This is a phase of instability at the centre and the matter regarding army chief required to be thoroughly probed,” he said |
| Ayodhya Verdict Judges provided with Z-Class Security Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:45 PM PDT Judges involved in the Ayodhya Verdict have been provided with Z- Class Security amid threat to their lives. The security has been provided to Justice S.U. Khan, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice D.V. Sharma (now retired), was owing to threat perceptions emanating from terror groups like SIMI and Indian Mujahideen, the government informed. The writ petition before the HC bench had last week raised issues of security of the judges and lawyers after the arrest of four terrorists by Madhya Pradesh ATS in June 2011. During their interrogation, the arrested terrorists had spoken of plans to attack lawyers involved in the contentious title suits. The two-judge bench Monday issued directions to the respondents to ensure that no car or vehicles should be permitted to enter the premises of the HC without pass and screening/under vehicle search mirror. The bench further said that no person including the litigants and members of Bar shall be allowed to enter into the court premises without due check at security points. The HC bench further directed the competent state authorities and CRPF officials to work on further improvement of the security set up and to inform the court of the action taken report (ATR) in pursuance to the meeting. The court set the next date of hearing on April 19. The court also asked for a gunner and shadow to be provided for Ranjana Agnihotri, the petitioner. |
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