BJP, Mulayam spreading violence in UP: Beni
New Delhi: Continuing his attack on Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Steel Minister and senior Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma on Thursday accused him of being in league with the BJP in “spreading” violence in Uttar Pradesh. “The Union Government should take some tough actions, the SP is looting Uttar Pradesh,” he told reporters here. When asked whether Centre should be imposing President’s rule in UP, Verma said, “It would have been done, had it been in my hands.”
‘Munna Bhai’ gang used Whatsapp
New Delhi: The ‘Munna Bhai’ gang, which had allegedly leaked the SSC examination paper last week, used messaging application Whatsapp for sending it to its members here for solving and providing keys to aspirants via Bluetooth devices. The CBI sources said the paper was allegedly procured by Hissar-based mastermind Surinder Kumar, who is on the run, and he sent the scanned copy of the paper to his associates through Whatsapp. The gang members, who were sitting outside the examination centre in the car here, solved the paper in batches of five questions each and communicated the answer keys through hidden Bluetooth devices to candidates who were writing the papers. For providing these services, Kumar allegedly charged `20 lakh from each of the aspirant.
‘No withholding info Pending arbitration’ New Delhi: Pendency of an arbitration proceeding or a litigation cannot be a reason to deny information to an RTI applicant by any Government department, the Central Information Commission has ruled. “The mere pendency of arbitration proceedings is not sufficient justification by itself for withholding the information. The RTI Act provides no exemption from disclosure requirement for sub-judice matters. The case relates to an RTI petitioner who sought from MTNl, through 34 different applications, details of expenditure which are being inquired into by the authorities. The Information officer refused to disclose the information citing section 8(1)(h) of the RTI.
CITU flays 10% IOC disinvestment
New Delhi: CITU on Thursday criticised the UPA Government’s move to further disinvestment of 10 per cent shares of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). Supporting the forthcoming strike of IOC employees on this regard, CITU leaders Tapan Sen and AK Padmanabhan said the “reckless move” of the Government would ultimately collapse the Public Sector Enterprises in the country. “CITU is totally opposed to the move of Government to disinvest further 10 per cent equity of IOC,” CITU leaders said in a statement.