Government proposes panel on MPs’ salaries
New Delhi: The government has proposed to set up a special commission to recommend salaries and allowances of members of parliament, an official release said here on Sunday. The ministry of parliamentary affairs proposes the constitution of a three-member independent Emoluments Commission to recommend salaries and other allowances for MPs. The proposal is contained in the agenda notes prepared by the ministry for the two-day All India Whips’ Conference in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh from September 29. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu will chair the conference, the release said. Chief whips and whips of various political parties in parliament and state legislatures will attend the conference and discuss establishing inter-party forums in legislatures for better coordination to enable effective functioning of legislative bodies. (IANS)
Five policemen assaulted in outpost in West Bengal
Raiganj (WB): A group of men assaulted five policemen on duty in Dalkhola outpost in North Dinajpur district and were arrested, the police said on Sunday. The group allegedly headed by Golam Sabbir was enraged as policemen did not go to his land to stop an ‘encroacher’ from fencing it, without seeing a court order. Superintendent of Police S A Reza said Sabbir and his men then assaulted those on duty in the outpost and they were hospitalized on Saturday. Sabbir and his two sons were arrested. Reza said the Sabbir had purchased a piece of land at Jiagachi under Karandighi police station and he suspected that owner of the neighboring land encroached into his portion while trying to fence it. Following the dispute, the local executive magistrate has clamped Section 144 of the CrPC on the land. But the encroacher continued to fence it on Saturday despite the prohibitory order, Sabbir alleged. However, when he along with others went to Dalkhola outpost to ask policemen to go to the land, he did not bring the order of the executive magistrate, Reza said adding the policemen wanted to see the order before taking any action. Sabbir and his men got angry at this and beat up the five policemen. (PTI)
Kerala govt’s website hacked
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Government’s official website has been hacked by “suspected Pakistan-based hackers”. The Cyber cell police are probing into the incident, which is suspected to have occurred on Saturday night. State government’s official website ‘www.keralagov.in’ has been hacked by Pakistan-based hackers and efforts were on a war footing to restore it, Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said. Chennithala said that once Kerala police’s proposed ‘cyber dome facility’ becomes functional, state government will be able to take necessary precautionary measures. “Such instances of hacking have taken place all over the world. Once the state police’s proposed cyber dome facility at Technopark here becomes functional, security auditing of all government websites will be carried out and we will be able to take all precautionary measures,” he said in a Facebook post. (PTI)
Naxal camp busted in Chhattisgarh
Raipur: Security forces have unearthed a transit Naxal camp after a gun-battle with the ultras in insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said on Sunday. “The face off between a joint team of security personnel and rebels took place in restive Chalechur hills under Korar Police Station limits yesterday,” Kanker Superintendent of Police, Jitendra Singh Meena, said. Acting on a tip-off about the presence of rebels in Korar region, around 250 kms away from here, a joint squad of Border Security Force (BSF) and district force was dispatched. While security forces were encircling the Chalechur hills to clamp down on Naxals, some armed rebels spotted them and opened indiscriminate firing, following which jawans retaliated, the SP said. The ensuring gun-fight lasted for around half-an-hour before ultras fled to the core forests, he said. Later, during the search at the spot, a 2-kg tiffin bomb, ten Naxal bags, uniforms, radio, plastic tents, Naxal banners, literature, pamphlets, medicines and other Maoist related materials were recovered, he added. (PTI)
169 panchayat seats reserved for women in Muzaffarnagar polls
Muzaffarnagar (UP): For the upcoming panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh, 169 out of 498 seats for village heads in the district have been reserved for women candidates. “Of the 169 Gram Pradhan seats reserved for women, 30 seats are for Scheduled Castes, 48 for Other Backward Class and 91 seats for General Castes,” District magistrate N C Chaturvedi said. Out of 6,726 seats for Gram Panchayat members, 2,358 seats have been reserved for women in which 608 was for SC, 728 for OBC and 1,022 for General Caste candidates, he said. (PTI)
