CURRENT AFFAIRS: September 2011

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Man City suspend Tevez

Manchester City have suspended striker Carlos Tevez after he refused to come on as a substitute in their 2-0 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Tuesday night.

GettyImagesCarlos Tevez says he is willing to "fulfil his obligations" at Manchester City

• Warm-up confusion sparked row
• Tevez blames 'misunderstanding'
• Souness: Tevez is a bad apple
• Tevez 'refused' to play for City

Mancini turned to Tevez in the second half of City's European match at the Allianz Arena as his side trailed 2-0 following a first-half brace from Bayern forward Mario Gomez.

Somdev goes down fighting to Baghdatis

KUALA LUMPUR: Somdev Devvraman crashed out of the $850,00 ATP Malaysian Open after losing to Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus in straight sets in the second round of the men's singles event on Wednesday.

Manchester City have been urged ‘get rid’ of Carlos Tevez at the first opportunity by supporters enraged by the former club captain’s refusal to face Bayer Munich as a substitute in Tuesday’s Champions League clash in Germany.

Bangalore, Sept 29: The Kolkata Knight Riders slumped to a third successive defeat in the Champions League T20 and their progress to the next round seems unlikely. When they got past the minimum score in their second qualifier, there were celebrations in the KKR camp. The loss to Somerset in that game hardly mattered as they had achievedqualification into the main draw of the CLT20.

South Africa's AB de Villiers hits a shot during their ICC Cricket World Cup group B match against The Netherlands in Mohali March 3, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa one-day captain AB de Villiers is an injury doubt for next month's limited over series against Australia after fracturing his left hand during fielding practice on Wednesday.

De Villiers, who took over from Graeme Smith after the World Cup this year, had been taking part in a fielding drill with the Royal Challengers Bangalore who are taking part in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday submitted in the Supreme Court it would file a first information report (FIR) against the former Union Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, in the next few days in the case relating to the sale of Aircel to the Malaysia-based Maxis Group as there was enough evidence in the preliminary enquiry (PE).

Advani, Jaitley visit Tihar to meet Kulkarni

Senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani and Arun Jaitley visited Sudheendra Kulkarni in Tihar Jail on Wednesday.

The visit was aimed at expressing solidarity with the jailed strategist who was a former aide of Advani.

Kulkarni was denied bail by a lower court and sent to judicial custody on Tuesday for his role in the cash-for-votes operation.

Two former BJP MPs, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora, are already lodged in Tihar for their participation in the sting operation.

Standing firm behind its two ‘whistle-blower’ ex-MPs and L. K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni in the cash-for-vote scam, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday claimed they were innocent and were only trying to “expose” use of money to save the UPA-I government during the 2008 trust vote.

Mr. Advani, along with Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, on Wednesday visited Tihar jail where the two former MPs - Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora — and Mr. Kulkarni have been kept under judicial custody.

Karadi Sanganna wins in Koppal by-poll

Koppal, 29 September 2011: The BJP candidate Karadi Sanganna won the Koppal by-poll with an ipressive margin of 57,224 votes on Thursday. K Basavaraj Hitnal of Congress and Pradeep Gowda Malipatil of JDS trailed him in the second and third positions respectively.

Pharma firms will not be allowed to exploit: CM

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Pharma companies will not be allowed to exploit patients by over-pricing medicines, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the Assembly on Wednesday.

�The health sector is where the public is exploited the most, the Chief Minister said.� “In every home, there is at least one person who is on medication. We cannot let pharma companies rob us,’’ Chandy said. The� participation of the Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd will be increased to ensure adequate supply of essential medicines at affordable rates, he said.

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday stayed a lower court order directing investigation into the role of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in the 1992 Palmolein import case.

Mr. Chandy was Finance Minister in the K. Karunakaran Cabinet when the deal was inked.

The interim order was issued by Justice K. T. Sankaran on a petition filed by senior IAS officer Jiji Thomson, who is the fifth accused in the case, seeking to quash the order of the Thiruvananthapuram vigilance special court.

Yeddyurappa given questionnaire

BANGALORE: Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa appeared before Lokayukta police on Wednesday in connection with alleged corruption in the Upper Bhadra project.

Maya announces threemore dists in west UP

LUCKNOW: Prabudh Nagar, Bhim Nagar and Panchsheel Nagar will be the three new districts of Uttar Pradesh. Chief minister Mayawati made an announcement about the formation of these districts on Wednesday. The step has been taken to provide better administration, she said after touring the three districts to start her election campaign. With this, UP now has 75 districts. In a swift move, the state government also posted the district magistrates and police chiefs in the new districts.

Lucknow: Ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Chief Minister Mayawati today announced formation of three new districts in the state drawing sharp reaction from the Opposition which dubbed the move as politically-motivated.

Guv should not have consulted AG: Govt

AHMEDABAD: The state government has accused the governor of not following constitutional provisions in justice R A Mehta's appointment as Lokayukta by seeking advice of the attorney general.

Chief Minister defeats CPI(M)'s Nandini Mukhopadhyay by 54,213 votes

It was raining good news for West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday. She won the Bhowanipore Assembly by-election by a convincing margin of 54,213 votes and her party emerged triumphant in the Basirhat Uttar by-election in North 24 Parganas district.

Ms. Banerjee defeated her rival Nandini Mukhopadhyay of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) marking her maiden entry into the Assembly, though she had been consistently elected to the Lok Sabha since 1984, except in 1989.

Mysores festival of awe, splendour begins

MYSORE: Pejawar Seer Sri Viswesha Theertha inaugurated the nine-day Dasara festival - a tradition in place for more than four centuries - atop the Chamundi Hill on Wednesday.

The seer was accompanied by Chief Minister D V Sadananada� Gowda, Gowda’s wife Datty, District in-charge Minister S A Ramadas, Mayor Pushpalatha Chikkanna among others, when he inaugurated the festivities by showering flowers on an idol of Goddess Chamundeshwari placed in a silver chariot, at Tula Lagna (9.25 am).

The 401st Mysore Dasara festivities got off to a colourful start here on Wednesday with Vishvesha Tirtha Swami of Pejawar Math giving a call to Kannadigas to fight passivity and lethargy and work towards progress of the State.

Raids at former DMK minister Anbarasan's house

CHENNAI: The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption on Thursday carried out raids at the residence of former Tamil Nadu Minister T M Anbarasan at Kundrathur near here in connection with a disproportionate assets complaint, police said.

The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption today carried out raids at the residence of former Tamil Nadu Minister T.M. Anbarasan at Kundrathur near here in connection with a disproportionate assets complaint, police said.

Mumbai: A 24-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide in Mumbai by hanging herself at her residence in suburban Andheri.

Nidhi Singh lived with her husband Vikram at a first floor flat at Golden Apartments in the MIDC area. Vikram has now been arrested for abetment to suicide. He is from Uttar Pradesh and had married Nidhi in February this year.

Decision taken respecting sentiments of Telangana people, says Errabelli

All the 32 Telugu Desam MLAs from Telangana submitted their resignation again to S. Raja Sadaram, Andhra Pradesh Legislature Secretary, on Wednesday evening after a seven-hour-long discussion and wait for their Congress counterparts to turn up.

Eye on Tata, vendors hope for a payback

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court verdict on Wednesday has put the vendors for the Tata Nano project in Singur in bigger trouble. Very few of them have filed a writ petition in high court in the same line as Tata Motors but after the verdict, most of them will be happy if they simply get the 'reimbursement' of the money they spent on the Singur land before the Tatas moved out to Sanand.

A court in India has ruled that West Bengal's state government acted legally in reclaiming land where Tata Motors wanted to build its low-cost Nano car.

The 1,000-acre plot of land was acquired in 2006 by the state's former communist government and leased to the company for 99 years.

Chennai: More than a hundred Dalits were tortured and abused during a raid for smuggled sandalwood; 18 adivasi or tribal women were raped in a small village named Vachathi in Tamil Nadu. This was in 1992. And the verdict for these atrocities has been delivered today.

New Delhi: A special court on Thursday pronounced the much-awaited judgement in the 1992 Vachathi case and convicted all 269 accused for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape. The forest, police and revenue officials were accused of brutal assault of tribal people and rape of several women during a search for smuggled sandalwood.

Srinagar: Amid differences between the national parties Congress and BJP, an assembly resolution seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru fell through on Wednesday, creating a chaos in the state assembly, leading to adjournment of the J&K legislature.

Pune: More than 80 per cent of the populace who supported Anna Hazare's campaign against corruption were the youth. The overwhelming support extended by the younger generations was not lost on Hazare, who has now decided to start a blog, Twitter and Facebook account. This he said would help him feel the pulse of the youth. The day and date of the launch of his new blog and Twitter shall be declared soon. Hazare, who has just passed Standard VII, is not worried about net technology.

Telangana protests intensify as general strike continues

HYDERABAD: The proponents of separate Telangana state on Thursday further intensified their protests as part of the ongoing general strike that began a fortnight back.

The hawkers today stopped delivering newspapers as part of the 'Sakala Januma Samme' (strike by all sections of people) which began on September 13.

The Congress on Thursday started an all-out effort to resolve the issue of controversial finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation, which has split the party leaders.

While Congress president Sonia Gandhi held a series of meetings with senior party leaders and ministers on Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was likely to meet Home Minister P.Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee later in the day to ensure that the issue was resolved at the earliest.

New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram are likely to jointly clarify the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government's stand on the controversial note on the 2G spectrum allocation sent by the Finance Ministry to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

Pakistan PM warns U.S. against fanning anti-Americanism

(Reuters) - Pakistan's prime minister warned the United States on Tuesday to stop accusing it of playing a double game with Islamist militants, and said Washington must correct a perceived tilt toward arch-foe India.

Hina widens NYinteractions UNSG briefed on Paak anti-terror response

New York—Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar held meetings with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Russian, Iranian and other foreign ministers at the UN Headquarter, here on Tuesday.

While talking to the UN Secretary General (UNSG), the

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has defended her country’s intelligence agencies in fighting terrorism amid a row with the U.S. over allegations that the ISI had backed the Haqqani network in carrying out high-profile terror attacks.

China's foreign minister urged the United States on Monday to reconsider its decision to upgrade Taiwan's F-16 jet fighter fleet, saying it could harm ties between Washington and Beijing, a U.S. official said.

A stampede triggered when a fire broke out on board a docked ferry in Indonesia left at least eight people dead and dozens injured yesterday, officials said.
More than 500 passengers panicked when a freight truck carrying onions overheated and caught fire around dawn aboard the KM Kirana IX, docked at the giant Tanjung Perak port in Surabaya, eastern Java’s biggest city.

Eight killed in stampede sparked by ferry fire

Eight passengers aboard the KM Kirana IX ferry were trampled to death in a stampede sparked by panic on Wednesday, after a truck laden with garlic caught fire inside the ferry at Tanjung Perak Port, Surabaya.

The fire triggered chaos as passengers attempted to flee the vessel, which was about to leave for Balikpapan, East Kalimantan.

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she hoped Egypt would lift its emergency law before June 2012, the date set by the caretaker military rulers in Cairo.

But Clinton, speaking at a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, said Washington supports the steps Egypt has taken toward democratic elections following president Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in February.

Bedouins watch fire from a previous attack on a terminal of the Egyptian natural gas pipeline in July. Gunmen have attacked the pipeline, which supplies Israel and Jordan, for the sixth time since February. (Associated Press)

Gunmen have attacked Egypt's main natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan for the sixth time since the uprising that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak in February, security officials say.

Internally displaced Tamils at a camp Sri Lanka, where those forcibly removed from the UK face risk of maltreatment, say charities. Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

The government has conceded that it is doing almost nothing to establish what is happening to scores of Tamils who are being forcibly removed from the UK, despite concerns for their safety in Sri Lanka.

A flight chartered by the UK Border Agency was due to depart on Wednesday with up to 50 failed asylum applicants on board, 24 hours after several human rights groups warned that they could face detention without trial, torture or even death.

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa—

Two retired icons and Nobel Peace Prize laureates, the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, are being kept waiting as the South African government weighs a decision on granting a visa for the Tibetan spiritual leader.

Visa Furor Over Dalai Lama Visit to Africa

JOHANNESBURG—South Africa on Tuesday refused to say whether it would grant an entry visa to the Dalai Lama, whose plan to visit next week puts the country's leadership in a tight spot with its largest trading partner, China.

Associated Press

The Dalai Lama in India on Friday.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Manchester City have been urged ‘get rid’ of Carlos Tevez at the first opportunity by supporters enraged by the former club captain’s refusal to face Bayer Munich as a substitute in Tuesday’s Champions League clash in Germany.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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