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NEW DELHI: Under attack over 'ghar
wapsi' campaign and vandalisation of
churches, government on Tuesday
said it will not tolerate anything
that disturbs communal harmony
and sought to put the ball into the
court of states, saying they should
act against such activities as law
and order is their prerogative.
Home minister Rajnath Singh also
responded to questions in Lok Sabha
over conversion, saying the
government wants an anti-conversion
law but noted that India is the only
country where minorities do not seek
such a law.
 
PATNA: More than 2500 Indians have
reached Raxaul on the Indo-Nepal
border from earthquake-hit Nepal
since last night even as the toll due
to the high intensity earthquake in
Bihar climbed up to 58 while 180
others were injured.
 
1) Death toll in earthquake hit Nepal rises to over 5000, around 8000 people reported injured; Nepali Prime Minister Sushil Koirala says the death toll could reach 10,000.

2) Six more NDRF teams sent to Nepal as India steps up Relief efforts; 8,200 kilograms of material distributed by Indian Air Force; Nearly 4000 Indians being brought in buses from Nepal. Prime Minister holds review meeting to asses the situation.

3) Rajya Sabha witnesses heated arguments over Prime Minister's 'scam India to skill India' statement during his recent foreign visit.

4) Government not to tolerate anything that disturbs communal harmony in country says Union Home Minister.

5) In West Bengal, ruling Trinamool Congress sweeps urban local body elections.

6) TRAI reveals identity of ten lakh petitioners demanding net neutrality.

7) Centre cancels licenses of nearly nine thousand Non-governmental organizations for violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.

8) Supreme Court stays Maharashtra Assembly's privilege motion notice against writer Shobha De over her tweets on state government order on Marathi films.

9) Supreme Court refuses to entertain petitions seeking a CBI probe or court-monitored inquiry into killing of 20 people in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.

10) Snapping three days of losses, Sensex rallies 219 points; Rupee aprecites 33 Paise against the Dollar.
 
According to a report in Mumbai
Mirror, a family of six in the remote
village of Diyaroo in Anantnag
district are convinced that Salman
Khan has changed their destiny. It
started when the family's 75-year-
old matriarch, Zaina Begum, met the
actor while he was filming in
Pahalgam with an 'application' for
help. Zaina Begum has been
struggling, with her 40-year-old
widowed daughter Dilshada Jaan, to
raise four grandchildren, who moved
into her modest home after the
untimely demise of their father.
 
NEW YORK: A resolution has been
tabled in the New York City Council
to recognise June 21 as 'World Yoga
Day' here in line with the United
Nations' decision to commemorate
the day annually.
The resolution was tabled on
Tuesday by Council member for the
19th District Paul Vallone and calls
on the city to commemorate June 21
as 'World Yoga Day'.
 
STOCKHOLM: Sweden's Supreme
Court said on Tuesday it will hear an
appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian
Assange against his arrest warrant
for alleged rape and sexual assault.
"The Supreme Court grants leave to
appeal," the court wrote in a
statement, without specifying a date.
Sweden issued an arrest warrant for
Assange in 2010 following allegations
from two women there, one who
claimed rape and another who
alleged sexual assault.


http://m.timesofindia.com/world/eur...rrest-warrant-appeal/articleshow/47091170.cms
 
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