PIl challenges Bharat Ratna to Tendulkar
lucknow: A Public Interest litigation (PIl) challenging Bharat Ratna award to Sachin Tendulkar has been filed in Allahabad High Court, lucknow Bench. In their petition filed here on Thursday, IPS officer Amitabh Thakur claimed that Bharat Ratna is the highest award of this country and must be given after utmost scrutiny. As per the petitioners, there are many other sportsmen like Vishwanathan Anand, Milkha Singh, Geet Sethi etc who gave better results in much more competitive sports than Cricket.
one held for harassing woman in Rajdhani Exp
Kanpur: A businessman has been arrested for allegedly harassing a woman copassenger while travelling in Howrah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express. The cloth merchant from West Bengal Pavan Kumar (38) allegedly misbehaved with the woman, a sales officer in Bareilly, while they were travelling in the same compartment of the train, deputy superintendent of railway police Surendra Tiwari said. The woman raised an alarm and reported the matter to the coach conductor.
Cong leaders lathicharged
lucknow: With heart of city choked for several hours bringing the entire traffic movement to halt and lathi charge on senior leaders to foil their bid from entering Chief Minister Secretariat had brought new lease of life in Congress which almost reached to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the State. Administration had to arrest over five hundred workers including All India Congress Committee general secretary, Madhusudan Mistri, state president Nirmal Khatri, former UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi, MP Anu Tandon, MP Kamal Kumar aka Commando, Pl Puniya etc when they along with a huge crowd took road and staged a massive demonstration to pressurise the State Government to immediately implement Food Security Act. Dozens of Congressmen along with senior leaders were also injured in lathi charge.
Patna blasts: FIR lodged against IM
Patna: An FIR was lodged against the Indian Mujahideen organisation and its suspected operatives on Thursday by the Bihar Police in connection with the serial bomb blasts in the state's capital, police said. At a time when the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is probing into serial blasts in Patna on Oct 27, a first information report (FIR) was registered at the Gandhi Maidan police station.
HC bans ‘Goliyon ki raasleela’ in UP
lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday banned director Sanjay leela Bhansali's romantic saga “ Goliyon ki raasleela Ram-leela” in UP. The lucknow bench of the court comprising justices Devi Prasad Singh and Ashok Pal Singh passed the order to ban the film on a petition filed by Maryada Purshottam Bhagwan Ramleela Samiti, Bahraich. The petitioner had prayed for cancellation of Censor Board certification given to the film and sought that controversial and objectionable dialogues be removed from the film.