The Gujarat High Court would on Wednesday take up the state government’s petition challenging the appointment of Lokayukta by Governor Kamla Beniwal. The state government had challenged the appointment of Justice R.A. Mehta as the Lokayukta last month. Beniwal had appointed the Lokayukta as the post was vacant for seven years. Chief Minister Narendra Modi had however accused her of taking [...]
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The Calcutta high court rejected the Tata Motors petition that challenged the constitutional validity of the Singur Land and Rehabilitation Act, but maintained that the company may apply for compensation for damages, if they have suffered any. The verdict was delivered by justice Indraprasanna Mukhopadhyay, who stayed his verdict for a month to enable either party [...]
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Broken beams and mounds of clay lay in heaps Wednesday where a three-story residential building collapsed in the Indian capital, killing at least seven people and highlighting the dangerous housing conditions among the city’s poor. Residents said they feared some people may still be trapped in the rubble from the decades-old building that fell Tuesday [...]
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A metro crash in China’s commercial capital Shanghai sparked fresh fears Wednesday that safety may have been compromised in the country’s rush to develop its vast transport network. State media urged the government to “be more cautious” after the collision of two metro trains on Tuesday injured more than 280 people, just months after a deadly high-speed [...]
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A docked ferry has caught fire incentral Indonesia, triggering a stampede that left at least eight people dead and dozens injured. Brig. Gen. Edi Sumantri, deputy police chief in East Java province, says 500 passengers had already boarded the ferry at the Surabaya port when the fire broke out in a truck that was parked in the vessel [...]
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South Korea’s military has seen more than 2,700 attempts to hack into its websites over the past year, a lawmaker said Wednesday, amid growing concern over North Korea’s cyber warfare capability. Kim Ok-Lee of the ruling Grand National Party said the military’s websites had seen 2,772 hacking attempts from July 2010 to last month, according to data from the defence [...]
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Authorities in Taiwan said Wednesday they had changed more than 690,000 traffic lights throught the island in a project that will save enough electricity to power more than 60,000 homes. Under the Tw$550-million ($18-million) project launched in 2009, the traffic lights have had their traditional bulbs replaced with technology using light emitting diodes (LEDs), the Bureau of Energy said. LED lights consume only [...]
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A former diplomat in Pyongyang cast doubt Wednesday on North Korea’s willingness to denuclearise, saying its officials believe Libya’s regime would have survived had it kept its nuclear weapons. Diplomatic efforts are under way to revive six-nation talks on the North’s nuclear disarmament. South Korea and the United States have held preparatory discussions with the North since July. But Peter Hughes, the outgoing British [...]
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An inquiry into Australia’s print media convened after the British phone hacking scandal could consider penalising the publication of “deliberately inaccurate information”, documents show. The review of Australia’s Murdoch-dominated newspapers and online media could also examine whether publishers should be required to distinguish opinion pieces from fact, according to a formal issues paper released Wednesday. “Unreasonable [...]
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The Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Issa Qaraqi’ on Tuesday said that Palestinian and Arab prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest the Israeli Prison Service’s (IPS) measures against them and their families. Qaraqi’ said in a statement that the prisoners currently held in 23 prisons and detention camps in Israel and [...]
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