Muharram in UP sees violence in Moradabad
lucknow: Shia mourners clashed with some youth in a village in Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh, 335 km from here, on Friday after a Muharram procession was stoned by miscreants, police said. The violence saw angry mobs pelting stones at passersby, vandalising property and indulging in stray arson. The violence was triggered by the pelting of stones by some young people at a Tazia procession as it passed a religious place, police said.
Cong seeks CBI probe into Shah ‘affairs’
New Delhi: Congress on Friday demanded a CBI inquiry into allegations against former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah of misusing powers and police machinery for illegal surveillance of a woman in 2009. Party spokesman Meem Afzal said Shah should reveal for which saheb this work was being done and why was the saheb "so much interested" in the woman. He also wanted to know why the snooping was being done, when it is illegal to follow any person in such a manner.
Vietnamese leader Trong to visit India
New Delhi: Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, will pay a four-day visit to India beginning November 19. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold wide-ranging talks with Trong on India-Vietnam strategic partnership and host a banquet in his honour, officials said. He will also meet President Pranab Mukherjee, V-P Hamid Ansari, Speaker of the lS Meera Kumar, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
‘Courts should take pragmatic approach’
New Delhi: Guilty will have a field day if courts get carried away by mistakes and give unnecessary weightage to minor ‘errors’ in police probe, the Supreme Court said. A bench headed by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai said courts should take pragmatic approach to decide cases and take notice of mischief done by the investigating agency.