R.Equally, it is not clear how the IB ministry missed taking action on the letter from the President’s office about his one-hour ceiling. The IB minister. We will be watching. But Ms Irani taking the blame does not explain the President’s one-hour condition. And she doesn’t, if her conduct in the past is anything go by, doesn’t much care. The postman, too. Most of the others boycotted the event as they found they would be receiving their awards from Smriti Irani or her junior colleague Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.This is not a totally bad thing to happen. The artistes — except the 11 who were presidentially honoured — later wrote a letter of protest to, ironically, the President himself. Since it is official business, the courier agency would be Speed Post. Some sort of casteism, in keeping with the Hindutva ethos now sweeping the nation, must be at work. It also says something for the general lack of fellowship among the artistes themselves — the President’s Eleven did not sign the protest letter.

Rahman and Yesudas, were chosen to be honoured by the President himself. It just means that the idea of the awards is being democratised. Or the postman. The artistes would surely have understood. But this once, she was not directly at fault, though her department might be for overlooking a communication sent from the office of India’s President Ram Nath Kovind. In effect, the best of the national filmmakers would be accepting their awards at the hands of the local postman. The bureaucrats.Information and broadcasting minister Smriti Irani is not a pleasant person by any account.As it happened, out of the 70-odd award winners, 11, including A. On May 2, Ms Irani invited more wrath as the National Film Awards function which is her jurisdiction went off the rails. There will be other events. The police constable. The liberals, who erupted in the social media in indignation following the incident, are happy.Meanwhile, consider this sentence from the letter that President Kovind’s office sent to the IB ministry: "The President attends all awards functions and convocations for a maximum of one hour. The President’s office said, Super ELF for sale in a communication after the disastrous event, that the letter on the one-hour condition had been sent to the IB ministry as early as March. But it is not fair to tarnish the minister just because she is eminently tarnishable. Crores, in fact. It might be then a good idea if what is saved is sent to the poor artistes, quite a few of whom live and die in straitened circumstances.

It also means that not much importance needs to be attached to these honours.” Why? Aren’t the people to whom he is accountable entitled to know? Does the President suffer from a weak bladder? Possible. The media is happy. The latest episode in this serial is that the awards will arrive at the protesters’ door by courier. No action was taken in good time on the import of the letter.

It is not clear if it was addressed personally to Ms Irani. They might be handed over by the President. No matter.Traditionally, the President gives away the awards.. If so, why not saysimply that he will be unable to be present for the May 2 evening because of poor health. In the Age of Dumbing Down, what could be more just than equating the President of India with the Postman of India, that unsung, if endangered, species?If all the awards — fixed and unfixed — arrive by Speed Post, the endemic lobbying for these awards, in a country that is not particularly bothered about merit in general, might ebb, and we will be saving a great deal of money. But a letter, according to reports, from Mr Kovind’s office had been sent to the IB ministry which stated that it was the pleasure of President Kovind to grace all awards functions for a maximum of one hour.It is not clear how the President’s 11 were chosen.As it is, Smriti Irani has taken the blame for what seems to me a case of of overlook by the bureaucrats in her department

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The letter also condemns Obama, saying the former presidents hands are "still wet with the blood of our brothers and sisters," a reference to the deaths ofPalestinian civilians in Gaza at the hands of Israeli forces as well as those killed by US drone strikes in Yemen and elsewhere."

The two blessed attacks in Washington and New York adhered to all universal laws and were a natural reaction to your destructive policies towards the Islamic world," Mohammad wrote. A copy was provided to The Associated Press by lawyers for the prisoner.Mohammad and his co-defendants face charges that include hijacking, terrorism and nearly 3,000 counts of murder in violation of the laws of war in a case that remains in the pretrial stage.

The contents of the letter were first published by The Miami Herald.Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, one of five Guantanamo prisoners facing trial by military commission for their alleged roles in the hijacking plot, also writes in the letter released yesterday that it does not matter to him if he receives a life sentence or the death penalty from the tribunal."

Mohammad sought to send the letter in 2015 but was prevented by prison authorities and later by the military judge presiding over his case at the request of prosecutors, who labelled it "propaganda.Marine Corps Maj Derek Poteet, a military lawyer appointed to represent Mohammad, said his client started the letter in 2014, prompted by civilian deaths in Gaza and said it echoes arguments he has made throughout his time in confinement.."If your court sentences me to life in prison, I will be very happy to be alone in my cell to worship Allah the rest of my life and repent to him all my sins and misdeeds," Mohammad wrote.

"It appears to be a continuation of a consistent theme that he believes Americans do not count the casualties experienced by others around the world, perhaps especially Muslims, as being valuable," Poteet said."And if your court sentences me to death, I will be even happier to meet Allah and the prophets and see my best friends whom you killed unjustly all around the world and to see Sheikh Osama Bin Laden."After litigating the issue, the tribunal allowed the letter to go through last month just as Obama was leaving the presidency.Miami: The man who says he was the mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attack seeks to justify the plot as a "natural reaction" to US foreign policy in a blistering letter weft feeder sent to then President Barack Obama from the Guantanamo prison. They expressed doubt Obama saw it since it reached the White House only days before the end of his administration

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The accident took place when the woman, who accused the BJP MLA of raping her when she was a minor on the pretext of arranging a job for her, was returning after meeting her uncle Mahesh Singh at Rae Bareli jail.The CBI, which is probing the rape case as well, has filed a chargesheet against the MLA and his relatives.Sources said a special team formed by the CBI to probe the case reached the accident site in the Gurubakshganj area of Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district Wednesday. The team will also record the statements of the police officers in the security detail of the woman, and seek their responses on why they didn’t accompany the victim on Sunday when the accident took place, sources said.” Saying he has "yet to see the letter, what is the letter about, who wrote it, when wrote it”, CJI Gogoi said that he has read in the "newspapers that the letter reached July 17, 2019, I have yet to see it.”Saying the letter was yet to be placed before him, Mr Gogoi said: "We have to do something in this highly destructive and volatile atmosphere.

The accident FIR was first registered by the UP police on a complaint by Singh, the victim’s uncle, now in jail.2019”. The CJI has directed listing of the matter on Thursday.The Supreme Court on Wednesday, meanwhile, sought an explanation from its secretary-general on why a letter written by the Unnao survivor to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi fearing a threat to her life was not placed before the CJI till 4 pm Tuesday, after the media starting flashing the news of the letter reaching the court. The numberplate of the truck, coming from the opposite direction on the wrong side, was smeared with black paint, eyewitnesses said.7.2019, the same was not put up either before the bench on the judicial side or before the Chief Justice of India on the administrative side until 4 pm yesterday.

The police arrested Singh and he was transferred to Rae Bareli prison.. The BJP claimed it had suspended the MLA from the party after the allegations had surfaced last year. After the victim accused Sengar of raping her, the uncle was slapped with multiple false case by those close to Sengar, Singh alleged. The CBI has taken over the investigation into the case from the Uttar Pradesh police by re-registering its FIR. A speeding truck hit the car in which the rape survivor was travelling from her home in Unnao to Rae Bareli on Sunday, killing two relatives and leaving her and a lawyer critically injured.In the Supreme Court, seeking an explanation from the secretary-general, the Chief Justice said: "The secretary-general must explain why if the said letter has been received on 17. I have no idea what it is.

The rape victim’s aunt, who was killed in the truck-car collision, was cremated on the banks of the Ganga in Unnao on Wednesday amid tight security. The rape victim’s uncle, Mahesh Singh, who was granted short-term bail to attend the last rites of his wife, was brought to the Ganga ghat from the Rae Bareli district jail to attend the ritual.

The CBI has booked Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and nine others in the car accident case of the Unnao rape Super ELF G2 for sale survivor.”Directing listing of the matter on Thursday, CJI Gogoi sought the report of the registry on the "administrative order passed by the Chief Justice of India yesterday with regard to the letter written by the victim in Unnao rape case, which the media has reported to have been received in the registry on 17.7.A CBI spokesperson said the team inspected the crime scene and the truck which hit the white Maruti Swift car. The CBI team also spoke to police officers who were the first responders after the accident.. It has also booked 20 unknown persons under charges of criminal conspiracy, murder, attempt to murder and criminal intimidation

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But this story has been exposed now.About 60 per cent payment was had already been made. Rights which are due to the people. Nor has he supplied boulders and sand. He just went to the officer and pleaded for the village. The pending bills were cleared after the same CVO gave the clearance. They realise that the Congress is working against the interest of the local people.. But in this case, it is zero.. Don’t you think if the CVO had a genuine case, he should have sent the report to his mother agency and not to the Congress and to the newspaper?A group of contractors came to me and I wrote a letter to the power ministry to examine the matter. We should not question all the time just because you have a political angle to it.

There are reports of money being taken to the Northeast in the backdrop of demonetisation?While the Reserve Bank of India has been sending money to all parts of the country, a case has come to light about money having gone from Hissar to Nagaland’s Dimapur in an aeroplane.Is Goibi Rijiju your cousin?Goibi is from my village and he is not even a contractor. These so-called local contractors were appointed in 2012, again during Congress rule. He himself had visited the location, he himself had cleared all the bills. Everything is under the established law.So you mean to say there is no issue?It is a non-issue and the Congress has dug its own grave by making it an issue against the local people. Most of the payments were already made before I wrote a letter. I did not say make the payment. Never should the federal structure be breached.And about the claims of the chief vigilance officer (CVO) of NEEPCO?What I don’t understand is that even a national publication has used the word "scam”.Nor am I bothered as to who is behind this.Your name has been recently linked to Arunachal Pradesh’s Kameng-NEEPCO dam project where a person named Goibi Rijiju had approached an official seeking clearance of certain pending payments and he has been audio-taped saying that his "Bhaiya” would suitably return the favour if needed. So he said we’ll tell "Bhaiya” so please help us. If there is anything wrong let it be challenged in a court of law.We are very clear that we are living in a democracy and a federal structure and it has to be respected by all means. Goibi is not asking for a favour, he is asking for his right.Reportedly a transport scam has been going on in Arunachal for quite some time now?Yes, the hill transport subsidy is a big scam.Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the principles of federalism have been violated because an FBI team from the US has been allowed free and unhindered access to a jailed terrorist in West Bengal?Not at all. He is not seeking false payments. I just want it to be expedited.This officer will now be held to question for his fraudulently backdating documents, the dates of which are available in the postage stamps.

What do you have to say?Now even as we speak the Congress MPs and local Congress leaders in Arunachal Pradesh, specially the Congress panchayat leaders are blaming the Congress high command of the grave mistake of raising this issue.. The court is looking into it; I don’t have much to comment. But what we can apprehend is that some people in the Congress might have just told the CVO to write a letter and then telling him that an issue will be made out of it as because the AgustaWestland issue was coming up. Everybody in my place calls me "Bhaiya”.Do you think the CVO report was politically motivated?I will not even call Super ELF G2 for sale it politically motivated because the same CVO who had written these backdated fraudulently is the same officer who cleared the bills. The money they get from it is their bread and butter. Congress workers are now leaving the party. The Congress must have searched the country to look for an officer who could have written a cooked-up report.When did this project start?This project started in 2004 and the civil contract was awarded in 2004 when the Congress was in power. Local panchayat leaders have come out openly and have condemned the Congress’ shameful act. Even before I wrote the letter, the pending bills were cleared.So as long he can show his source of income the case is a settled one and legal action cannot be taken. Now a local person has come forward to claim that it is his money. But 10 days before I had written the letter, the payments were all cleared because the same CVO found that the pending bills were alright.There are rumblings of corrupt dealings

There is no question of corruption because the local people are supplying and providing boulders and sand to construct a dam. It is not huge transportation of construction material and other items; it is just a small-time supply of boulders and sand which is being done by thousands of local people.Your reaction has also been quite acidic. So tell me now how can an issue be made out of this? It is not even shameful, it is some kind of a joke. So it was a bogey. The contractors came to me with about 40 per cent pending payment. And the Congress is already paying the price now because its local leaders are no longer interested in staying in the party.Kiren Rijiju, Union minister of state for home affairs, remains unflappable amidst allegations that he facilitated a scam centering on construction of two dams for NEEPCO’s 600-MW Kameng hydro-electric project in Arunachal Pradesh. Also, how can I be held responsible for someone who says "Bhaiya”? The officer then recorded their conversation. Goibi referred to "Bhaiya”. One should be careful about using such words.

It found this particular officer (CVO) and then made him write a letter after he was transferred. The same CVO who wrote the report had cleared all the payments before I had even written the letter. Mr Rijiju spoke to Sanjib Kr Baruah about the secretly-recorded conversation that led to the controversy.Those people who raised this bogey against the poor people, they will be beaten with shoes by the poor people in Arunachal is what I said. Suppose I have recommended in a letter and some Rs 2-3 crore payment were made, then you can still accuse me and say that because of my recommendation some people got money. The Congress now realises that they have made a mistake

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Pronouncing the scathing judgement, Special CBI judge OP Saini said there was no concrete evidence submitted against the accused."Now that the truth about 2G is out in the open, perhaps you too, could come forward in my support, which you could not earlier," the letter read.. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)Former PM Manmohan Singhs reply to A Rajas letter.Reminding Singh, Raja in the letter said: "I assured you several times that I had done nothing wrong but rather acted in the national interest and that I would prove this."The chargesheet of the instant case is based mainly on misreading, selective reading, non-reading and out of context reading of the official record.

Further, it is based on some oral statements made by the witnesses during investigation, which the witnesses have not owned up in the witness­box."There is no evidence on the record produced before the court indicating any criminality in the acts allegedly committed by the accused persons relating to fixation of cutoff date, manipulation of first-come-first-served policy, allocation of spectrum to dual technology applicants, ignoring ineligibility of STPL (Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd) and Unitech group companies, non­revision of entry fee and transfer of Rs 200 crore to Kalaignar TV (P) Limited as illegal gratification," Justice Saini said.

All the accused facing trial in these cases had denied allegations levelled against them by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate.In its charge sheet filed in April 2011 against A Raja and others, the CBI had alleged that there was a loss of Rs 30,984 crore to the exchequer in allocation of 122 licences for 2G spectrum which were scrapped by the Supreme Court on February 2, 2012.Mumbai: Days after a Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court acquitted all 19 accused including former telecom minister A Raja and DMK supremo Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi, A Raja Super ELF for sale has written a deeply emotional letter to his ex-boss and former prime minister Manmohan Singh.”Former telecom minister A Rajas letter to Manmohan Singh."It went on to say: "I also understand the compulsions that prevented you from openly supporting me.Interestingly, to this Singh replied saying, "I am very happy that you stand vindicated in the 2G case.Saini further noted that the chargesheet misrepresented the official record and included oral statements of the witnesses that are not acceptable in law.Assuring Singh of his loyalty, Raja wrote that although he had been a loyal supporter of Singh, "compulsions" prevented the-then Prime Minister from openly supporting him.

I hope you will acknowledge that I remained loyal and faithful to you -- unlike some senior cabinet colleagues -- and ensured that you did not suffer personal embarrassment in the trial proceedings. Lastly, if statements were made orally by the witnesses, the same were contrary to the official record and thus, not acceptable in law", the Special CBI Judge said

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