Fire breaks out in Delhi minister’s office
New Delhi: A fire broke out in Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain’s office at the Delhi secretariat on Tuesday, an official said, adding there were no casualties.The fire department official said the fire broke out in an air-conditioner in the office.”We received a call regarding a fire incident at Jain’s office at 12.40 p.m. Four fire tenders were immediately rushed to the spot to douse the fire,” the official told IANS.He said the fire was put out within 10 minutes. “No casualty was reported in the incident,” he said.”… it seems a short circuit in the AC caused the fire,” the official added. (IANS)
Congress, BJP, CPI(M) have come together: Mamata
Kolkata: Attacking the Opposition parties, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that the Congress, BJP and CPI(M) have come together as rainbow partners “as a result of their frustration.” “CPI(M) and BJP have come closer as rainbow partners and Congress is also helping them,” she told the state assembly. “I do not say about things where I do not have any evidence,” she said when a Congress member asked the chief minister to make a statement on various issues. Targetting the Opposition benches amidst uproar, Banerjee said that on Monday a meeting was held in a Congress leader’s house in Kharagpur which was also attended by the CPI(M) and BJP. She asked the Opposition to find out whether she was wrong. Taking a dig at CPI(M) members, Banerjee said going by the flow of things, some day they would ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come and sit at their party office at Alimuddin Street in the city fearing attack by the Trinamool Congress. “It is unfortunate to see that there is no role of the Opposition in this state,” she said, adding, they are only interested in calling bandhs everyday. She also targetted the media saying that it was only giving negative publicity which was not good for the country. (PTI)
Bofors guns are good: Parrikar
New Delhi: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday described the quality of Swedish Bofors guns as “good” but refused to comment on remarks attributed to President Pranab Mukherjee that the controversy surrounding its acquisition was a “media trial”. “I can only certify that Bofors guns are good. I do not make any statement on President’s statement. If you ask me about quality of Bofors guns, then they are good,” Parrikar told reporters here. Mukherjee was quoted, wrongly, by a Swedish daily as saying, “First of all – it is yet to be to be established that there was a scandal. No Indian court has established it. I was the defence minister of the country long after Bofors, and all my generals certified that this is one of the best guns we are having. Till today, Indian army is using it. “The so-called scandal which you talk of, yes, in the media, it was there. There was a media trial. But I’m afraid, let us not be too much carried (away) by publicity.” However, the video of the interview shows no such comments being made by the President, who is scheduled to visit Sweden next month. The scandal of procurement of 155mm howitzer field Bofors guns plagued the Rajiv Gandhi government in the late 1980s and became a big election issue in 1989 in which the former Prime Minister had to face defeat. (PTI)
Firing in film city: 3 held
Mumbai: Three persons, who were allegedly involved in the firing incident that took place in Film City last week which left owner of a security agency critically injured, have been arrested, police said on Tuesday. “We have arrested three persons yesterday and they will be produced in court today. We are going to request the court to get their remand so that we can nab the absconding accused,” Vilas Chavan, senior police inspector of Arey Colony police station told PTI. The accused — the plotters of the incident — have been identified as Sumit Talekar (22), Jugal Dodiya (26), and Yogesh Kokane (31), he said. Police said three others – the shooters — Suresh Gaikwad, Sandip Khairnar, and Ramesh Kamble are at large and efforts are on to nab them. According to a statement issued by Mumbai police, the accused orchestrated the attack to take revenge over a fight with Raju Shinde (who was shot at) last month, when they went to him in connection with a job. “A month ago, Kokane and three of his friends — Suresh Gaikwad, Rakesh Kamble, and Sandeep Khairnar approached Shinde for a contract in Film City. But they ended up in argument with Shinde who beat and kicked them out,” it said. “Then they decided to kill Shinde and took a motorcycle and went to film city and opened fire at him. But during the chase, assailants the left motorcycle and ran away, which later helped police to nab them,” the statement said. (PTI)
Teacher molested by van driver
Moga (Pb): A 23-year-old teacher was allegedly molested by driver of a school van after taking the vehicle to an isolated area near, police said on Tuesday. A case was registered yesterday against the accused Sukhraj Singh with Moga police yesterday. According to the complaint lodged by the victim, the driver took his vehicle to a secluded area yesterday after dropping the school kids to their residences and allegedly molested her inside the van. When the victim raised an alarm, the accused dragged her out of the car. The driver managed to escape when some passerby came to the woman’s rescue after hearing her cry for help, according to the complaint. The victim told the police that she was a regular traveller of the van. No arrest has been made in the case yet, police said, adding investigation is underway in this connection. The incident came close on the heels of a teenage girl, who was killed after being molested and thrown off a moving bus in Moga recently. (PTI)
Thane man books for sexually abusing boy
Thane: A six-year-old boy from Sawarkar Nagar locality of the city was allegedly sexually abused by a 40-year-old man who threatened the boy to throw him out of balcony if he tells to anyone, police said on Tuesday. Sayli Chavan of the Vartak Nagar police station said today that based on the boy’s mother complaint the police had registered an offence under section 377 and 506 of the IPC. She alleged that accused Ajay Anakake, 40 was their neighbour and between August 2014 and April 04, 2015, the accused wooed the boy to his house under some pretext or the other and showed him objectionable clips in his mobile and indulged in unnatural sex with the boy. (UNI)
