SRINAGAR: A teenage boy, hailing from Larkuti village of Kotranka sub division in Rajouri district, died after he fell from a passenger bus in the district.
Quoting officials, KNO reported that a passenger bus JK11-9702 was on way from Larkuti to Kotranka when a teenage boy standing in entrance portion fell off.
They said that the boy sustained serious injuries after which he was taken to Community Health Center (CHC) Kandi where he was provided medical first aid and then referred to GMC Associated Hospital Rajouri.
Police officials further informed that the teenage boy later succumbed to his injuries during treatment after which medico-legal formalities and post mortem examination was conducted.
A case under relevant sections of law has been registered in police station Kandi.
The deceased has been identified by police as Rashid Hussain (18) son of Mohammad Aftab resident of Larkuti.
Ghaziabad: A class 12th student died after falling from the 20th floor of a society in Sidharth Vihar Colony of the Vijay Nagar police station area, police said.
The deceased has been identified as Paridhi Rawat (16). Her father Sameer Rawat is employed in a company at Gurugram, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kotwali Anshu Jain told PTI.
The girl fell from tower C of apex society where she lived with her family.
A resident of society informed police about the incident around 5.30 pm on Wednesday. Upon receiving information, police reached the spot and seized her mobile.
The body has been sent for postmortem and an investigation has been initiated, the ACP added.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday shot a volley of tough questions at Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Maharashtra Governor while hearing pleas in connection with the political crisis triggered due to rebellion in Shiv Sena. The court said the Governor should not enter into any area which precipitates the fall of a government while questioning his call for a trust vote.
A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud asked Mehta, “can the governor call for the trust vote? Then you’re virtually breaking the party”.
The Chief Justice added that looking at it in hindsight, the then Shiv Sena headed by Uddhav Thackeray had lost the mathematical equation and they were not willing to disqualify the 39 rebel MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde group, as it would be to their disadvantage.
He told Mehta that the governor should not enter into any area which precipitates the fall of a government, and emphasized that in the Maha Vikas Aghadi, the rebel MLAs broke bread for three years with the Congress and NCP. The bench queried, “what happened overnight after three years of a happy marriage?” Mehta replied that he cannot answer this, as that is a political debate.
Mehta said the governor’s primary responsibility is that a stable government continues and a democratically elected leader should continue to enjoy the confidence of the House throughout the tenure of the government. Otherwise, there would be no accountability of the leader, he added.
During the hearing, the bench — also comprising Justices M.R. Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and P.S. Narasimha — orally observed that this is a very sad spectacle in our democracy and this is irrespective of the morality of Shiv Sena joining the alliance with the Congress and NCP.
The Chief Justice said the governor has to ask himself this question, “what were you fellas doing for three years?” He pointed out that if this situation were to occur a month after the election, then it would be different, but they were together for three years and suddenly one fine day a group of 34 MLAs say there is discontent.
The Chief Justice orally observed that the governor must be conscious of the fact that his calling for a trust vote may lead to a situation, which could result in the toppling of a government.
Citing differences on policy issues cited by the rebel MLAs, the Chief Justice asked Mehta, can the governor merely say that you must prove your strength in the trust vote? Governor may actually precipitate the falling of the government.
Mehta pointed out the leader of opposition’s communication to the governor and also the threats which were issued to the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs.
The bench pointed out that the governor had three things before him: one, the resolution by 34 MLAs saying that leadership would be with Eknath Shinde; two, the letter by MLAs about threats and; third the letter by the leader of the opposition.
The Chief Justice said the leader of the opposition will always write to the governor and the threat to security is not a ground for calling for a trust vote.
Mehta emphasized that the governor’s responsibility is to ensure that a stable government is in place. The bench replied that a government was functioning then and they can vote the leader out by saying that the leader is not holding the ethos of the party, but can the governor say that I will ask them to prove it now? Mehta said, “please do not condone it (threats)…”
The bench clarified that it is not condoning the threats which were issued to the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs and in politics, sometimes things are said which are inappropriate and should never be said and added that the court has expressed serious concerns about it.
The bench said in the monsoon session if they have to seek votes of the House, and if the government doesn’t get the vote then they would be out.
The arguments in the matter will continue in the after-session.
Process to verify 7.5 lakh ration card holders be completed in one month, officials found involved in wrongdoing will be taken to task: Dir FCS&CA
Srnagar, Mar 06 (KNO): The government on Monday said that the process to scrutinize over seven lakh ration card holders falling in the category of AAY and PHH in the Valley.
Talking to the news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Director Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA), Abdul Salam Mir said that the process to identify the undeserving families who have been categorized in AAY and PHH has been started. “We have directed the officers to complete the process across Kashmir within the period of one month,” he said.
He added that a total of 1.5 lakh families fall in AAY category while nearly 5 lakh families fall in PHH category. “We have been identifying the families, who don’t deserve to be in AAY and PHH categories and they are accordingly added in APL category,” he said.
Director FCS&CA further said the employees who are found involved in providing AAY and PHH ration cards to the undeserving families are also being taken to the task.
He said in case any family does not deserve for AAY and PHH category, they should voluntarily surrender their ration cards to ensure that the poor families are benefitted. “Surrendering the ration cards voluntarily will not only save our time, but would also help in ensuring benefits to the poor and downtrodden families within the society,” he said—(KNO)
Srinagar, Mar 06: The government on Monday said that the process to scrutinize over seven lakh ration card holders falling in the category of AAY and PHH in the Valley.
Talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Director Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA), Abdul Salam Mir said that the process to identify the undeserving families who have been categorized in AAY and PHH has been started. “We have directed the officers to complete the process across Kashmir within the period of one month,” he said.
He added that a total of 1.5 lakh families fall in AAY category while nearly 5 lakh families fall in PHH category. “We have been identifying the families, who don’t deserve to be in AAY and PHH categories and they are accordingly added in APL category,” he said.
Director FCS&CA further said the employees who are found involved in providing AAY and PHH ration cards to the undeserving families are also being taken to the task.
He said in case any family does not deserve for AAY and PHH category, they should voluntarily surrender their ration cards to ensure that the poor families are benefitted. “Surrendering the ration cards voluntarily will not only save our time, but would also help in ensuring benefits to the poor and downtrodden families within the society,” he said—(KNO)
European Union leaders want to reinforce their controversial “fortress Europe” policies by clamping down even harder on inward migration. This reveals a deep and self-defeating disconnect between the 27-nation bloc’s internal actions and its international aspirations.
The EU’s self-image is that of a benign power and a force for global good. European leaders spend a lot of time telling the world about the virtues of “European values”. There is even an EU commissioner whose sole task it is to promote the “European way of life”. Other countries are constantly taken to task, often through the imposition of sanctions, for their failure to align with international human rights standards.
Yet external perceptions of the bloc are determined not by fictionalised narratives but by the real-life experience of African, Asian and Middle Eastern migrants and refugees who seek EU protection. The EU’s image is also increasingly judged against the treatment of its own black and brown citizens. Regrettably, the record is poor on both counts, prompting justified accusations that the bloc is guilty of double standards and has a human rights policy based on selective outrage.
Internal squabbling, rising numbers of migrant crossings and racist far-right narratives that demonise migrants and refugees have left EU plans for more humane migration management in tatters. Instead, taboos are falling fast and the previously inadmissible is becoming acceptable as a frightening disregard for the human rights of refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East is embedded in EU migration policy.
Having once denounced Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US border with Mexico as morally unacceptable, the bloc now has nearly 20 external steel walls or razor-wire fences, running to a combined length of nearly 2,000km. Twenty years ago there were no walls around the EU.
While these barriers were paid for by national governments, EU leaders have just agreed to “immediately mobilise substantial EU funds and means” to help member states bolster their “border protection capabilities and infrastructure”. In other words, more cameras, drones and watchtowers.
Britain’s blueprint for outsourcing asylum applications to African countries such as Rwanda is now also on EU leaders’ agenda, as are plans to make EU development assistance, trade deals and visa liberalisation policies conditional on countries’ readiness to take back people who are denied EU asylum.
Ukrainians at the Medyka border crossing, Poland, March 2022. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Hans Leijtens, a senior Dutch official and former commander of the military police in the Netherlands, is the new head of Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which faces a spate of criticism, court cases and investigations into alleged “pushbacks” and other breaches of human rights. Leijtens has promised “tangible results” in defending the EU’s external borders, which raises concerns that little will improve on his watch.
The EU’s embrace of the far right’s corrosive “stop migration” agenda is a violation of human rights and a breach of the bloc’s international humanitarian obligations. It is also shortsighted, given ageing Europe’s need for labour and the central role played by migrants as frontline workers, a fact underlined during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Even more damaging, by normalising the policies of far-right politicians – of those who are in government and those outside them – the EU is eroding its own once impressive credentials as a global defender of democracy, good governance and the rule of law. As far-right ideas seep even further into the EU mainstream, Europe’s internal societal cohesion and measures to boost cultural, religious and ethnic coexistence are at risk.
In danger also is the EU’s promise to stop racism, discrimination and police violence against Europe’s black and brown citizens through an ambitious anti-racism action plan. Hastily crafted in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020, the blueprint breaks new ground by calling for EU-wide action to root out structural and institutional racism against Europeans of colour.
Also, significantly, after years of paralysis on the issue – and despite some internal resistance – there is, for the first time, a drive to diversify the “Brussels so white” bubble by recruiting more non-white Europeans as EU interns and members of staff. EU bodies now run seminars on unconscious bias and microaggression. A new EU “coordinator” has been tasked to fight EU-wide racism and discrimination. After almost a year’s wait, the commission also has a new “anti-Muslim hatred” coordinator in addition to the one dealing with antisemitism who has been in office since 2015.
These gains in fighting racism in Europe are modest and remain contested. Their chances of survival are slim if, as many fear, EU politics slide further to the right through a wider alliance between the European parliament’s centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) and the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists party.
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Such a move would give rightwing parties a stronger say in appointing the presidents of the European Commission, the European Council and the head of the European external action service, the EU’s diplomatic arm. It is not even clear if the post of an EU commissioner for equality would survive such an overhaul.
This would have serious consequences for migration and anti-racism policies, but also for the EU’s geopolitical standing. Racism, xenophobia and Europe’s colonial legacies are increasingly acute obstacles to EU efforts to open a new chapter in relations with Africa.
This became clear last year when many African countries declined to join the EU’s stance over the war in Ukraine, arguing, as the Senegalese president Macky Sall did, that the “burden of history” makes them wary of involvement in a new cold war. Contrasting the EU’s warm welcome to those fleeing Ukraine with Europe’s stop-migration policies for others, Martin Kimani, Kenya’s ambassador to the UN, urged the EU to ensure that movement to Europe is also “safe and dignified”.
EU leaders may live in a well-insulated parallel universe where domestic and external issues are unconnected. Kimani’s words are a warning that Europe should practise at home what it preaches abroad. Failure to do so is an abdication of responsibility towards these countries’ citizens of colour and to refugees and migrants. It is also eroding the EU’s global standing.
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Nagpur: An accused in a cattle smuggling case died after falling from the third floor of a building while allegedly trying to evade arrest in Nagpur in Maharashtra, following which his kin and aides protested on Monday, a police official said.
The man was named in a cattle smuggling case registered in Deolapar police station in August last year and was on the run since then, he said.
A team from Deoalapr and Kapil Nagar police stations arrived at his home on Saturday afternoon, and the accused tried to flee by sliding down the sewage pipe from the third floor of the building, the official said.
“He lost his balance and fell to the ground, and died of injuries in a nearby hospital on Sunday. An accidental death case has been registered at Kapil Nagar police station and further probe into the incident is underway,” he said.
Kota: A 20-year-old NEET aspirant from West Bengal died after falling from the sixth floor of his hostel building in the Jawahar Nagar area here, police said on Friday.
It is suspected that Ishanshu Bhattacharya lost his balance and fell on the aluminium railing of a balcony which couldn’t take his weight and broke, Circle Officer Amar Singh said.
He fell from the sixth floor of the building and died on the spot, the officer said, adding that he was declared brought dead by a hospital.
Bhattacharya, a resident of Dhupguri in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district came to Kota in August last year and was preparing for medical entrance exam NEET.
The circle officer said, Bhattacharya along with three of his hostel mates was talking in the balcony on the building’s sixth floor.
Around midnight, when they were going back to their rooms, it is suspected that Bhattacharya lost his balance and fell.
The victim’s body has been sent to the mortuary of MBS hospital for postmortem, which will be conducted after his family members arrive, he said.
In a similar incident on January 29, a 17-year-old JEE Mains aspirant from Maharashtra who was preparing for the entrance test in Kota sustained critical injuries after he allegedly fell from the balcony on first floor of his hostel building.
The injured student is still in critical condition and undergoing treatment in a city’s private hospital.
Hyderabad: A Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) bus carrying 30 passengers started from Mahabubnagar to Srisailam had a close cut-off near the Srisailam ghat section on Sunday. The driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle while driving across the sharp curve and rammed into the parapet railing.
Even though the protective wall was destroyed in the accident, the bus managed to stop due to the iron barricades around it without falling into the valley. Passengers on the bus sighed with relief as escaped unhurt in the incident.
Traffic on the ghat section was congested briefly till the local police helped clear the vehicle and restored normalcy.
A Twitter user posted a video of the incident tweeting about the incident took place “Narrow escape for 30 passengers in a #BusAccident, a #TSRTC bus lost control and rammed into the parapet wall, though the parapet wall collapsed, luckily the iron railing helped stop the bus from falling into a deep gorge on the #Srisailam ghat road.”
