PM will go for three-nation tour Sunday
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh undertakes a three-country Asia tour beginning October 24. He will visit Tokyo from October 24-26 for the Annual Summit Meeting with Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan. India and Japan enjoy a strategic and global partnership, that has become multi-dimensional.
On the second leg of his tour, the Prime Minister will pay an official visit to Malaysia from October 26-28 at the invitation of the Malaysian PM Najib Tun Abdul Razak.
The Prime Minister will also travel to Hanoi (Vietnam) on the third and final leg of his Asia tour.
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Maoists lynch sarpanch, 2 Naxals killed
AGE CORRESPONDENT
Raipur
Oct. 21: A sarpanch of Brehebada panchayat in Chhattisgarh’s restive Narayanpur district was beaten to death by suspected Maoists, the police said on Thursday.
Thirty-two-year-old Gulab Singh, a tribal, was abducted from his house in the village of Junadat under the panchayat by a group of armed Maoist rebels on October 19.
His body was recovered from the forest on the outskirt of the village on Thursday morning.
The ultras left a leaflet near the body, in which they justified the killing branding him as a police informer.
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Cops search Infosys after bomb threat
Bengaluru, Oct. 21: The police, assisted by bomb disposal squad, is searching the office premises of IT major Infosys following a phone call on Thursday that stated a bomb is inside the complex.
“A call was received at 9.30 am at the Infosys office stating that a bomb had been placed inside the campus,” DCP B.N.S. Reddy said.
Following the call, bomb disposal and dog squads with police personnel were deployed to comb the entire area, he said. The search operations, which commenced in morning have not yielded anything yet, however, the police is still combing the area to rule out any possibility, the official noted. —PTI
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Court decrees execution of Mary Roy case
Kottayam, Oct. 21: Over a quarter century after the Supreme Court issued orders ensuring equal rights in family property for women of Syrian-Christan community of Kerala along with their male siblings, a sub-court here executed the decree, over-ruling all the legal hurdles that delayed its implementation.
In what has been famously known as “Mary Roy case” in Indian legal history, named after the woman who waged the legal battle, the apex court had in 1986 ordered that women members of the community had equal right in property of their father.
Educator-cum-rights campaigner and the mother of noted writer Arundhati Roy, Ms Mary Roy had approached the apex court seeking gender justice in inheritance. —PTI
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