Harsh Vardhan named BJP’s CM candidate for Delhi
New Delhi: Ending uncertainty, the BJP on Wednesday named Harsh Vardhan as the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate for the December 4 Delhi Assembly elections despite opposition by city unit chief Vijay Goel who had staked claim for the post. The decision was taken at a meeting of party’s Parliamentary Board here. Party president Rajnath Singh made the announcement at press conference and said the decision was unanimous and that Goel also consented to it. Singh was flanked by several senior leaders including veteran L K Advani, senior leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar and Delhi Election in-charge Nitin Gadkari. Goel and Vardhan were also both present at the press conference. All members of the Parliamentary Board were in the meeting except Narendra Modi who has given his consent to the decision, party sources said. The party expects that by presenting Vardhan, a former Health Minister who has a clean image, as the Chief Ministerial candidate it will be able to put up a tough fight to dethrone the Congress dispensation which has been in power for the last 15 years. The decision by the party has come despite stiff opposition to Vardhan’s candidature by Goel. (PTI)
CRPF seizes IEDs in Chhattisgarh
Sukma (Chhattisgarh): The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has recovered multiple Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) stuffed with 20 kg of explosives in a joint operation with the state police, a CRPF official said on Wednesday. The CRPF troopers of 150 battalion recovered the IEDs from Chintagufa area in Sukma, a newly formed southernmost district in Chhattisgarh. “The IEDs were buried in the road towards Chintalnar when they were detected on a tip-off. They were destroyed on the spot by our bomb disposal squad,” said the official.
40 homeguard deployed in Katarniyaghat wildlife sanctuary
Bahraich: With a view to ensuring safety to tigers and leopards in Katarniyaghat reserved forest area in this Uttar Pradesh district, the forest department has deployed homeguards in the woods. According to Divisional Forest officer Ashish Tiwari on Wednesday, the Katarniyaghat reserved forest area is located near the international border of Nepal. To check the movement of hunters, the department had sought more security personnel who could be deployed in the forest area. After getting approval of the senior officials, the forest department deployed 40 homeguards under the first phase. They all have been deployed in separate ranges. Katarniyaghat wildlife sanctuary houses a total of 26 tigers and 50 leopards. (UNI)
Three-day-old found abondened in railway yard
Mumbai: A three-day-old boy was found in the railway yard near Kalyan station on Tuesday with injury marks on his neck. The newborn is recuperating at Sion hospital and is said to be out of danger. The Kolsewadi police suspect that the baby’s parents tried to kill him and left him in the railway yard. A commuter was passing by the railway yard when he suddenly heard a baby crying. after a while, he found the newborn and informed the Kalyan stationmanager. The Kalyan GRP took the boy to the nearby Rukminibai hospital, where a doctor stopped the blood flow from the neck. The baby was then moved to Sion hospital. The Kalyan GRP informed the police, who have booked the unidentified parents under IPC Section 317 (exposure and abandonment of child under 12 years of age, by a parent or person having care of it). ‘The injury marks suggest that someone tried to kill him. We are waiting for the medical reports to find out the cause of the injury,’ said asssistant police inspector A S Mahaske. (UNI)
Sunita Narain recovering
New Delhi: Environmentalist Sunita Narain, critically injured in the national capital after a speeding car hit her while she was riding a bicycle Sunday morning, is recovering, a statement said on Wednesday. “She is in good hands and is currently recovering in hospital,” the statement by NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said. Narain, 52, director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and resident of south Delhi’s Green Park area, was cycling towards Lodhi Garden when a car hit her around 6.00 a.m. Sunday. The car driver sped the spot, and remains untraced. Doctors at AIIMS, where Narain was rushed, had to implant two titanium rods in her arms. She also suffered injuries in the face. (IANS)