1 $$$ $ " 1 ! 1 %1 ! ()' ! , , +',-( % " ! # & 0+-*.( 0+.(/ ' Pak quietly jails 'dead' 26/11 LeT handler Sajid Mir for over 15 yrs in Rebels can’t stump for votes in Balasaheb’s name: Uddhav terror financing case As the political crisis in Maharashtra deepens in the wake of the rebellion staged by over 40 Shiv Sena legislators led by the urban development minister, Eknath Shinde, it is now amply clear that it is a battle between the ‘inheritors’ and ‘pretenders’. Shiv Sena President and Chief Uddhav Minister Thackeray, in his address at the party’s national executive meeting on Saturday claimed that the party founded by his father, Balasaheb Thackeray, was the real one and after his demise, Uddhav had assumed its leadership. He asked the Shinde camp not to use Balasaheb’s name for its outfit and dared them to get elected in its name and that of his father. Taking an aggressive stance, Thackeray said, “If you (rebel camp) have the courage, seek votes in the name of your fathers. 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The blaze was reported at Dev Complex, located near Parimal Garden crossroads in the city, in the afternoon, he said. As many as 75 people, including 13 newborns and their parents from the children's hospital, were rescued safely from the storey ground-plus-four structure, the official said. "We received a call around 1.30 pm about a fire breaking out in the server room of an accountancy firm on the third floor of the building opposite the which after hospital, around 20 fire tenders were pressed into service," Om Jadeja, divisional fire officer at Ahmedabad Fire & Services Emergency (AFES) said. At least 75 people, including 13 newborn babies, +2/0" //5&+$ 4 5 #1"/ #&/" %&)!/"+0 %,0-&1 %*"! ! ,+ + &+# +1 4 )(0 /,(" ,21 1 ) &+ 12/! 5 three of them admitted in the NICU, and their parents in the children's hospital located on the fourth floor of the building were rescued and evacuated to the terrace of the building, he said. They were rescued using an aerial ladder platform, and all the patients were shifted to the nearby hospital in ambulances, he said. The children's hospital has around four medical care facilities located in the building, and an ortho care unit was located right opposite the premises where the fire broke out, the official said. $%" ( #$ " " ! "$# $ $ JD-U in spot as BPSC paper leak mastermind is party leader After the arrest of Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) question leak mastermind Shakti Kumar, who is a JD-U leader, a party leader close to Upendra Kushwaha clarified that his party neither frames nor saves any person involved in criminal or corrupt activities. Shakti Kumar has been very active in the party and his association with Upendra Kushwaha is also known. Upendra Kushwaha admitted that Shakti Kumar is a , leader of the party but has now nothing to do with him and law will take its own course. "If any person is involved in criminal activities, law will take action against him. They have to blame themselves. We have nothing to do with it. We neither frame nor save any person. If an arrest has happened, the law will act against him," he said. "In any organisation, no one could claim that party workers associated with clean and honest leaders would not do criminal activities," a party leader close to Kushwaha said. Assam flood situation grim, Silchar submerged for sixth day The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Saturday with the death count rising to 118 and Silchar town in Cachar district submerged for the sixth straight day, officials said. Ten more people have died in the past 24 hours -two each from Barpeta, Dhubri, Karimganj and Udalguri districts and one death each from Cachar and Morigaon -- due to floods and landslides. The total population affected by the floods declined to 33.03 lakh in 28 -"/0,++") !&01/& 21" /")&"# * 1"/& ) 1 #),,! ##" 1"! /" &+ 1%" +,/1%" 01 /"$&,+ districts as against the previous day's figure of 45.34 lakh in 30 districts, a bulletin issued by the Assam State Management Disaster Authority (ASDMA) said. The situation improved marginally in some districts, as rivers showed a receding trend though the Brahmaputra at Dhubri and Kopili in Nagaon were flowing above the danger mark, the officials said. The Cachar district administration is engaged in rescue operations in Silchar to evacuate ma, rooned people to safety with priority on shifting ailing persons to hospital, Commissioner Deputy Keerthi Jalli said. & Violence mars panchayat polls, one dead in Morena WOMAN VOTERS' poll percentage surpasses males Sajid Majeed Mir, one of India's most wanted terrorists and the main handler of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks who was earlier declared dead by Pakistan, has been jailed for over 15 years in a terror-financing case by an anti-terrorism court in the country, which is struggling to exit the grey list of the FATF. The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police, which often issues convictions of the suspects in such cases to the media, did not notify Mir's conviction. His sentencing comes as Islamabad prepares for an on-site visit by the officials from the Paris-based global terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to verify the implementation of Pakistan's relevant anti-money laundering and terrorism-financing reforms. A positive report may facilitate Pakistan's exit from the grey list of the FATF. "An anti-terrorism court in Lahore early this month had handed down 15 and a half years jail term to Sajid Majeed Mir, an activist of banned Lashkare-Taiba (LeT), in a terrorfinancing case," a senior lawyer associated with terror financing cases of LeT Jamaat-ud-Dawa and (JuD) leaders told PTI on Friday. Besides, since it was an in-camera proceeding at the high-security jail, the media was not allowed. Violence marred polls in certain parts of the state with one person reported dead in Morena in GwaliorChambal region on Saturday as the state witnessed first phase of panchayat polls at 26,902 polling booths of 8,702 village panchayats across the state. According to the state election commission, as much as 67% polling was registered till 6 pm in the evening across the state with Neemuch being on the top of the chart with 84.90% polling. Out of the total voters who cast their votes, woman voters' poll percentage stood at 69% and surpassed that of the male voters- 65%. Others' poll percentage was registered at 4.40%, according to the commission. Other places apart from Morena where violence was reported during polling include Bhind, Datia, Rajgarh and Niwadi. In Morena, there were firing between two sarpanch post's candidates at Beelpur village in Ambah tehsil leading to death of a man identified as Vinod Pachori, 50, and injuries to two others. There was a report of firing at Kanai Ka Pura village in Bhind district after police personnel present there foiled an attempt of booth capturing. A police sub-inspector Amit Sikarwar sustained injuries at another village during a ,*"+ 01 +! &+ .2"2" 1, 01 1%"&/ 3,1"0 #,/ 1%" #&/01 -% 0" ,# + % 5 1 ")" 1&,+0 1 3&)) $" &+ %,- ) ,+ 12/! 5 +! 6/&$%1 + ")!"/)5 4,* + "&+$ //&"! 5 /") 1&3" 1 -,))&+$ 01 1&,+ 3 1'2 4*' 34$4' '-'%4+0/ %0..+33+0/ 4*' 401 (+6' &+342+%43 7+4* 10-- 1'2%'/4$)' 4+-- 1. +/%-5&' ''.5%* *'0152 /&02' *$,$152 $/& '*02' stone pelting incident. A ballot box was looted at Rampuria panchayat polling booth by a group of 15-20 armed persons at panchayat Bavadipura in Rajgarh district. The police had to resort to lobbing of teargas to control the mob. An attempt of booth rigging was made at a polling booth in Niwadi district. Two groups of people clashed with each other with one of the groups accusing the other of casting about 500 fake votes. An additional police force had to Lone voter casts vote in 200-yr-old village 8%!1 /,$ 5),,!'% !'/4.) (41$ 2)34!3%$ +),/-%31%2 &1/- (/0!, (!2 /.,8 /.% 5/3%1 %-0,% 01)%23 !(!5)1 !2 1%0/13%$,8 #!23 ()2 5/3% ). 0!.#(!8!3 %,%#3)/.2 /. !341$!8 rush to the polling booth to control the situation. As per another report from Morena spouse of a woman sarpanch candidate allegedly consumed poison to end his life when a group of villagers from Ruphati exerted pressure on the woman candidate to extend support to the candidate of their side. Activist Teesta, ex-Guj DGP held for forgery & conspiracy Ahmedabad Crime Branch after registering a case against former DIG Sanjiv Bhatt, former DGP R.B. Sreekumar and human rights activist Teesta Setalvad, have arrested Sreekumar from Gandhinagar, Teesta from Mumbai and Sanjiv Bhatt, who is right now in Palanpur jail, will be brought under transfer warrant. Detection Ahmedabad Crime Branch Police Inspector D.B. Barad has registered the case against all the three for the offence under the Indian Penal Code 1&3&01 ""01 #,/*"/ "1 )3 ! +! /""(2* / for forgery with intention to cheat, fraudulently or dishonestly use forged documents as genuine, give fabricating, false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence, falsely charge any person with having committed an offence, and Public servant framing in- # 8 # " correct records. Allegation against Sanjiv Bhatt is that the documents submitted by him before the Nanavati commission were forged/fabricated/ manipulated subsequently with an ulterior motive, first before Nanavati Commission, and then later before the SIT, with an intention to implicate various persons under grave sections of law. AlleR.B. against gations Sreekumar are that most of the accusations in the complaint of Jakia Jafri were drawn from the nine affidavits filed by Sreekumar before the Nanavati Commission. # # 2* & 21 * ',/&15 ,# 1%"&/ !"#& &1 !,4+ 1, ,+ ! 5 #,2/ ,# 1%" +'& /,-%5 #&+ ) 1 1%" %&++ 04 *5 1 !&2* ,+ 12/! 5 21 &1 4 0 !%5 / !"0% 1% +(0 1, /2 & ) /2+ )" ! 4%, /" &+ #&/* ,+1/,) ,# 1%" #&+ ) +! )&+$ 1%" 1/,-%5 0 ' 1 1&! / 4%&)" +,1 %"! 2- #&+" / +0% &+ /,2$%1 2- %&0 * &!"+ #&/01 ) 00 # 1, 1 (" &1% #&/01 1%" 0&!" 1, &++&+$0 )" ! )&(")5 1, !" &!" 1%" 4&++"/ 1%" 01 1" &0 )) 0"1 1, /" )&0" &10 !/" * ,# )&+$ 1%" ,3"1"! +'& /,-%5 #1"/ ),+$ $ - Gunman kills two during Oslo Pride festival; terror suspected A gunman opened fire in Oslo's night-life district ear, ly Saturday killing two people and leaving more than 20 wounded in what Norwegian security service called an "Islamist terror act" during the capital's annual Pride festival. Investigators said the suspect, identified as a 42-yearold Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, was arrested after opening fire at three locations in downtown Oslo. The PST security service raised its terror alert level from "moderate" to "extraordinary" - the highest level after the attack, which sent panicked revellers fleeing into the streets or trying to hide from the gunman. PST acting chief Roger Berg called the attack an "extreme Islamist terror act" and said the suspect had a "long history of violence and threats" as well as mental health issues. He said PST first became aware of the suspect in 2015 and later became concerned that he had become radicalised and was part of an unspecified Islamist network. Kashmir Valley witnesses tourism boom BREAKS 10-yr record The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday said the Kashmir Valley is witnessing an exponential increase in the tourism flow due to the successful campaigns to attract maximum tourists towards the region. According to statistics of the Jammu and Kashmir department, tourism March 2022 broke the 10year tourist arrival record in Kashmir, signalling that the tourism industry is finally on the path to recov, ery a statement said. As per the Union tourism ministry, around 1.42 lakh tourists visited Jammu and Kashmir during February alone, breaking the seven-year record. Remarkably, on April 4 this year, the Srinagar InAirport ternational recorded busiest day ever in history, with 15,014 people travelling on 90 flights in and out of Kashmir. , Notably for the first time, the Ministry of Civil Aviation approved the five flights a week between SriUnion nagar-Sharjah. 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