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OBAMA
OBAMA' VISITES IN JAPAN
Barack Obama paid moving
tribute to victims of the first atomic bomb on Friday, offering a comforting
embrace to a tearful man who survived the devastating attack on Hiroshima.
In a
ceremony loaded with symbolism, the first sitting U.S. President to visit the
city clasped hands with one survivor and hugged another after speaking about
the day that marked one of the most terrifying chapters of World War-II.
“71 years
ago, death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” Mr. Obama said of a
bomb that “demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself”.
Mourning
the dead
“Why did
we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force
unleashed in the not-so-distant past. We come to mourn the dead,” he said.
As crows
called through the hush of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Mr. Obama offered
a floral wreath at the cenotaph, pausing in momentary contemplation with his
eyes closed and his head lowered.
The site
lies in the shadow of a domed building, whose skeleton stands in silent
testament to those who perished.
Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe followed by offering his own wreath and a brief,
silent bow.
After both
men had spoken, Mr. Obama greeted ageing survivors, embracing Shigeaki Mori
(79), who appeared overcome with emotion.
“The
President gestured as if he was going to give me a hug, so we hugged,” Mr. Mori
told reporters afterwards.
Mr. Obama
also chatted with a smiling Sunao Tsuboi (91), who had earlier said he wanted
to tell the U.S. President how grateful he was for his visit.
The trip
comes more than seven decades after the Enola Gay bomber dropped its deadly
atomic payload, dubbed “Little Boy”, over the western Japanese city.
The
bombing claimed the lives of 140,000 people.
As
expected, Mr. Obama offered no apology for the bombings, having insisted that
he would not revisit decisions made by Truman at the close of a brutal war.
As an
eternal flame flickered behind him, however, he said leaders had an obligation
to “pursue a world without” nuclear weapons.
Shinzo Abe
praised the “courage” of the visit, which he said offered hope for a nuclear free
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Rape- murder
The police
probing the rape-murder of a Dalit woman at Perumbavoor have started collecting
fingerprints of adult men residing in the victim’s neighbourhood.
According
to officials, the biometric information is being collected for a massive
analysis to trace the perpetrator. The move takes a cue from the assumption
that the perpetrator could be a person known to the family who had easy access
to the house.
A
squad of the special investigation team (SIT) on Tuesday started collecting
fingerprints of about 2,000 men between the age group of 18 and 70 in the
locality.
Earlier,
the forensic team had collected two sets of fingerprints, suspected to be of
the accused, from the crime scene.
On
Monday, the SIT obtained a favourable order from a local court to seek the help
of the United Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to analyse the
fingerprints. The police decided to approach the UIDAI after the two sets of fingerprints
did not match with that of the suspects in police custody.
The
ongoing investigation focusses mainly on migrant labourers, friends, and
relatives of the victim. As part of the probe, the police have carried out
raids in over 30 migrant labour camps in the region and collected information
on those leaving the place after April 28.
The
sleuths have also prepared a list of those convicted earlier for committing
similar offences and attempts are on to track their whereabouts.
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WARNING TO PAKISTAN
INDIA WILL REPLAY TO PAKISTAN
BSF personnel and relatives of Kirpal Singh receiving his body at
Attari-Wagah border.
The body of Kirpal Singh, the Indian
prisoner who died in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail on April 11 was brought to India
via the Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday.
The body of Kirpal Singh, the Indian prisoner who died in Lahore’s
Kot Lakhpat Jail on April 11 was brought to India via the
Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday.
An autopsy was performed on the body
in the government Medical College Hospital, Amritsar after which Singh’s family
was allowed to take the body for the last rites. Though the Pakistani
authorities had informed that Kirpal Singh died of a heart attack, his family
had demanded a thorough probe into the cause of his death.
Earlier his family had told The Hindu that
they were thankful for the help extended by the Ministry of External Affairs to
bring his body back from Lahore. “We were informed by the district authorities
in Gurdaspur that Pakistan would send his body through the Wagah border by
Tuesday noon,” Ashwini Kumar, Singh’s nephew told The
Hindu over telephone from Gurdaspur.
Kirpal Singh had been imprisoned in
Pakistan since 1992 after he was arrested on charges of bombing of the
Faisalabad railway station in 1991 and was sentenced to death for spying and
terrorist activities against Pakistan.
He had been imprisoned in the high
security Kot Lakhpat Jail of Lahore from where he had been writing regularly to
his family in Gurdaspur. His last letter reached his family after his death in
which Kirpal had expressed his desire to return home. Members of Kirpal Singh’s family had
also staged protests at the Wagah border and against the Pakistan government
because of the delay.
Kirpal Singh’s death follows the 2013
death of Sarbjit Singh in the same prison premises.
Both Sarbjit and Kirpal were accused
of terrorist activities against the Pakistani State and were sentenced to
death. Kirpal Singh was reportedly acquitted later on by the Lahore High Court.
However he remained imprisoned till his death. Indian death in Pakistan jail, Kirpal Singh death
Monday, 18 April 2016
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Friday, 15 April 2016
KING OF MAD
"KING OF MAD"
A North
Korea missile launch meant to celebrate the birthday of the country’s founder
has apparently failed, South Korean and U.S. officials said on Friday, an
embarrassing setback in what was reportedly the inaugural test of a new,
powerful mid-range missile.
The
U.S. and South Korean officials provided few details, including the type of
missile. But South Korea’s Yonhap news agency carried an unsourced report that
a “Musudan” missile, which could one day be capable of reaching far-off U.S.
military bases in Asia and the Pacific, exploded in the air a few seconds after
liftoff.
A
U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence
matters, said that it appeared to be a Musudan missile but no definitive
conclusion had been reached.
Despite
the failure, the North has another Musudan loaded on a mobile launcher and
Pyongyang will likely fire it, according to South Korean and U.S. authorities,
Yonhap reported.
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Friday, 8 April 2016
CHEATING
ITALY CHEATED TO INDIA
An Italian appeals court on Thursday held that former chief executive of Italian defence firm Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, oversaw the plan to pay bribes to Indian officials to secure the 2010 deal for VVIP helicopters, worth Rs. 3,600 crore.
According
to inputs from Italy, over Rs. 360 crore in bribes was routed to Indian
intermediaries.
Mr. Orsi
was first arrested in 2013 and spent 80 days in jail. Towards the end of 2014,
a three-judge panel absolved him of corruption charges, but he received a
two-year suspended sentence for forging invoices for routing payment.
According
to reports, the Italian court also overturned the previous verdict in which
Bruno Spagnolini, who succeeded Mr. Orsi as AgustaWestland CEO, was acquitted
of corruption charges.
A senior
official involved in the probe said the judgment could significantly boost the
probe in India because certified court documents from Italy could be used as
supplementary evidence in Indian courts. The Italian appeals court will publish
its findings within two weeks.
The then
Defence Minister, A.K. Antony, called in the CBI in February 2013 after Mr.
Orsi was held in Milan.
The CBI
registered a preliminary enquiry, but within weeks converted it into a regular
FIR after sufficient evidence was gathered.
Among
those named in the CBI FIR are Mr. Tyagi, his three cousins, Satish Bagrodia (a
brother of the former Union Minister, Santosh Bagrodia) and Pratap Aggarwal (MD
of IDS Infotech). The FIR also named four companies — Indian companies IDS
Infotech and Aeromatrix and Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland.
According
to inputs, over Rs. 360 crore in bribes was routed to Indian intermediaries
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