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Sunday, 07 September 2014 17:05

MAHARASHTRA ON EBOLA ‘SELF-DECLARATION’

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MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Tuesday rapped the state and central governments for depending on self-declaration by passengers arriving from West African countries on whether they have contracted the deadly Ebola virus.A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Girish Kulkarni heard a public interest litigation by activist Ketan Tirodkar stating that the government is not equipped to deal with Ebola and urged for a ban on passengers alighting from the aircraft at the Mumbai international airport. The judges were miffed that affidavits filed by the state and Centre spoke of deployment of medical teams and quarantine measures but did not mention physical screening of passengers for symptoms by experts after alighting from aircraft “You are acting on declaration by passengers. You are not doing it yourself,” remarked Justice Oka. The judges said neither state nor Centre are able to make an “elementary statement” that passengers are being checked at the airport.

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JODHPUR / The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday arrested a wing commander of the Indian Air Force on suspicion of espionage. He was found roaming a few meters away from the Indo-Pak border at Anoopgarh sector in Sriganganagar district on Sunday. After interrogation, the BSF handed him over to district police for further investigation. According to officials of BSF, a person was found roaming nearly 150 metres away from the fencing on the Indo-Pak border on Sunday evening. “The BSF personnel caught him and on interrogation he identified himself as Wing Commander Shashank Shekhar, posted in Chandigarh,” a BSF officer said. When the BSF contacted the IAF to verify his identity, they were told that he was suffering from psychiatric problem and undergoing treatment, said a BSF officer. “When we asked him the reason for being there, he gave a casual reply that he just wandered off to this place. Finding his activities suspicious, we searched him and found him possessing 9 blank cheques of different banks like Axis Bank, ICICI and PNB apart from his identity card and passport hidden in his shoes,” he added. The preliminary interrogation of BSF officials has revealed that Shekhar was on leave from August 23 to September 5 and had started from New Delhi to reach Anoopgarh through Jaipur and Suratgarh. “When we asked about the luggage, he said he lost it somewhere during the travel. But he failed to give us the reason behind getting so close to the border fencing,” said a BSF officer. “The activities of Shekhar has made us suspicious right from his “so-called” wandering off to the border and that too during leave from his duty to his replies,” the BSF officer added. The BSF then handed him over to the police. “He is mentally imbalanced and currently undergoing treatment,” said defence spokesperson Colonel S D Goswami adding that the IAF would take up the case and has ordered a court of inquiry against him. He is currently posted at Chandigarh and belongs to Ambala. The wing commander will now be subjected to a joint interrogation in which different agencies including police, BSF, military intelligence etc. will quiz him for his motive or the cause of wandering off close to the border.

Sunday, 07 September 2014 16:53

US MAIL SERVICE WINDS DOWN IN AFGHANISTAN

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GARDEZ, AFGHANISTAN / Even in the age of emails and internet video chatting, there’s nothing like a parcel or a letter from home for US soldiers on deployment in Afghanistan. The incoming mail at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Lightning consists of everything from televisions and T-shirts to golf balls — and still plenty of handwritten envelopes from family and friends. But the mail service is winding down in parallel with the pullout of US combat troops after 13 years of war and, as bases close, so too do the post offices. Troops at FOB Lightning have been rushing to send out carpets, scarves, trinkets and other souvenirs in their last chance to use the mail depot before it shuts and is replaced by an occasional delivery-only service.Mail will still get through, but it could be less reliable as the US force shrinks from the current 44,000 troops to a 10,000-strong follow-up mission next year. “The mail service is like Christmas time. I’m like Santa,” said Sergeant Michael Claggett, from Fort Hood Texas, who works at FOB Lightning post office in the volatile eastern province of Paktia. “When I have mail, it’s a good day. When I don’t have mail, it’s not so positive for everyone. “(Outgoing mail) is mostly for people who want to get a last-minute gift to send to their loved ones. They might not come back to Afghanistan, so they get something from this country.”

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MOSCOW  The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Ukrainian forces on Wednesday of responsibility for the “barbarous” killing of a Russian photojournalist and demanded an investigation. Andrei Stenin, 33, was confirmed dead earlier on Wednesday by his employers, state-run Rossiya Segodnya, or Russia Today, and by Russia’s Investigative Committee. He was the fourth Russian journalist killed in the conflict between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and had been missing since early August. The Investigative Committee said in a statement it believed Stenin was killed on Aug. 6 while travelling with a convoy of refugees that was fired on by Ukrainian tanks close to the town of Snizhne in the Donetsk region. “He did everything so that people, the whole world, knew the truth about the tragic events in Donetsk,” President Vladimir Putin said in a letter of condolence to Stenin’s mother published on the Kremlin website. The Foreign Ministry issued a statement citing evidence from Rossiya Segodnya that suggested “this is yet another barbarous crime committed by the Ukrainian military and National Guard” and demanding an impartial investigation. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe(OSCE), a security and rights group, said it was appalled to hear of Stenin’s death and also called for an investigation. A senior Ukrainian Interior Ministry official, Anton Gerashchenko, said an investigation would not be possible until the Ukrainian authorities had access to the area where Stenin was killed. “Without access to the body, without specifying how he died, we will not be able to conduct such an investigation,” Gerashchenko told Ukrainian television channel 112. In addition to the Russian journalists killed covering the fighting between Kiev and pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine, an Italian journalist was killed in May.

Saturday, 06 September 2014 18:35

AFGHAN ELECTION CLOSE TO FAILURE

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KABUL  Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah issued another ultimatum over the disputed election result, threatening to withdraw from all efforts to negotiate a solution to the deepening political crisis. Abdullah claims that fraud cheated him of victory in the June 14 election, and fears have risen of a return to unrest of the 1990s civil war after his supporters called on him to form a “parallel government”. As tensions threatened to boil over, the United States brokered a deal between Abdullah and his rival Ashraf Ghani in which they agreed to an audit of all eight million votes and the formation of a post-election national unity government.But Abdullah’s spokesman Fazel Aqa Hussain Sancharaki said his team was on the brink of abandoning both parts of the deal — potentially plunging Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer of power into further turmoil. “Our patience is running out, any announcement of results made by the fraudulent election commission will be rejected by us,” Sancharaki said. “We are setting this deadline — that if tomorrow our logical demands of transparent auditing and an honest political process are not met, we will completely boycott the whole process.” Last week Abdullah pulled out of the audit, but had said difficult negotiations on the national unity government were still under way.

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ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a joint session of parliament on Tuesday as a deepening crisis over violent protests demanding his resignation prompted fears of an army intervention. Sharif enjoys a solid majority in parliament and by convening both houses he seeks to reaffirm that he is fully in control. His office said parliament would be in session all week to discuss the

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HOUNSLOW  Hundreds of children from across the borough have been shaking up their summer, thanks to a council-backed campaign to get kids more active. The 10 Minute Shake Up campaign, organised by Change4Life with Disney, aims to bring a little magic to families, and help get kids across the country moving for an extra 100 million minutes this summer. In Hounslow, hundreds of families have signed up to the campaign, and have received activity packs and ideas to help parents keep their children active over the summer. The council are also running a competition encouraging kids to log their activities for a chance to win a new bike, Disney goodies, Brentford FC tickets or swimming passes. Parents simply need to pick up or download an activity card, log every time their child completes ten minutes of activity, and then send it to the freepost address by 12 September for a chance to win. The more active they are, the more times they can enter! Cllr Sachin Gupta, cabinet member for public ealth and leisure at the council said: “Making sure kids stay active and entertained throughout the long summer

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LONDON / AIDS can be brought under control by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations Aids agency. It said the number of new HIV infections and deaths from Aids were both falling. At present, that 35 million people around the world were living with HIV. There were 2.1 million new cases in 2013 — 38% less than the 3.4 million figure in 2001. What is most worrying is that 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV globally do not know their

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 NEW DELHI-  Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju, who alleged that three Chief Justices of India made “improper compromises” during UPA rule in allowing a judge under corruption cloud to continue in office, posed six questions to one them, Justice R C Lahoti, on the issue. Katju asked if after receiving the adverse IB report against the additional judge, Lahoti, who was then Chief Justice of India, called a meeting of the three-Judge Supreme Court Collegium, consisting of himself, Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice Ruma Pal, and the Collegium, having perused the IB report recommended to the Government of India not to extend the 2-year-term of that additional judge? Katju, chairman of the Press Council of India, put the posers to Lahoti on his blog. On timing of his statement, he said, “Some people have commented about

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