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Home Secretary to convene anti-Naxal meeting tommorow
16.07.2008 02:19
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Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta has called a special meeting of senior officials and police chiefs of four severely Naxalite affected states on July 16, the focus of which will be how to counter the growing Maoist menace. Police chiefs and senior officials of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, which together accounts for over 80 per cent of Naxal violence in the country, are expected to discuss current efforts on the security front to deal with Naxalism. The meeting will be followed by another meeting at the Cabinet Secretary level where these states will be asked to implement Central Government’s scheme in a time bound manner. The meeting has been called in the wake of the killing of Jharkhand’s former Welfare Minister Ramesh Singh Munda and over 50 personnel of the elite “Greyhound” anti-Naxal force in Orissa. This force was created by the Andhra Pradesh Government to deal with the Naxal menace in the state and in other parts of the country. The Central Government also plans to fine tune a proposal to create a specialised security force of 10,000 people before submitting it to the Union Cabinet for approval. Since it will take at least two years to raise the special force of ten battalions, Home Ministry sources said that the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has been asked to provide two battalions (nearly 2,000 personnel) to take up anti-Naxalite operation across various states. (ANI)
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BJP issues whip for trust vote
16.07.2008 02:19
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) issued a whip here today to its Lok Sabha MPs for the July 22 trust vote to topple the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government in the crucial vote of confidence in the Parliament. V K Malhotra, Deputy Leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha told reporters in New Delhi, "All the NDA constituents are together and we are confident that the UPA government will fall.” Malhotra added, “The BJP has issued a whip and we are talking to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents like Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Janata Dal (United), Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and others." Malhotra further said, "Smaller parties and members of United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) are also talking to us to vote against the Government." According to sources, the BJP said that all NDA partners, including and Shiv Sena, SAD would vote against the UPA Government. A meeting of all NDA chief ministers has been called on July 17 to discuss the forthcoming trust vote, necessitated after the withdrawal of support by the Left parties to the UPA Government over Indo-US civil nuclear deal issue. (ANI)
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Two militants arrested in J-K
16.07.2008 02:19
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The Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested a Hizbul Mujahideen militant at Kota forest falling under the jurisdiction of police station Bandipora, Baramulla. Ali Lone alias Azad, resident of Chuntimulla, Bandipora was hiding in the Kota forest. He was a battalion commander of Hizbul Mujajhideen outfit. One AK-47 rifle, six AK rounds, a wireless set was recovered from his possession. In another operation, Shopian police apprehended one Over Ground Worker (OGW) of Al-badr outfit. Muzaffar Ahmad Chopan, resident of Reshipora Harmeen from Mimander Shopian. 126 rounds of Pika and a pouch was recovered from his possession. (ANI)
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Serbian foreign minister to discuss Kosovo in Russia
16.07.2008 02:19
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Kosovo's independence will top the agenda of a meeting between Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to be held in Moscow on Thursday.
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Drive-by grenade attack injures seven women east of Moscow
16.07.2008 02:18
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Russian astronauts successfully complete second spacewalk
16.07.2008 02:18
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Two Russian astronauts on the International Space Station successfully completed a six-hour spacewalk, Russia's mission control said on Wednesday.
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