Newswalla:Bharat edition: New Work Times
April 21, 2012, 4:15 AM
Newswallah: Bharat Edition
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Jammu and Kashmir: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a police officer on
Friday in the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir Live reported. The attack
comes just a few days after an announcement by Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah to remove security bunkers from Srinagar city in the following
months. (Hindustan Times)
Assam: A rhino calf, separated from its mother, escaped the confines of
the Manas National Park in the state and strayed into the neighboring
township of Sarbhog and attacked some locals, the Nagaland Post
reported. Forest officials are trying their best “to chase the rhino
away from the human habitations without causing any harm to it and tame
it and release it back at Manas,” an official told the newspaper.
West Bengal: Business investors are wary of the state government’s
newly introduced draft clause in land-lease agreements. They fear the
new clause may require them to implement new relief packages “even
after they have met the obligations while launching a project,” The
Telegraph reported. A senior government official played down the
retrospective implications. “The spirit of the clause is that whenever
a company starts R&R [rehabilitation and resettlement] work, the
prevailing law at that time will be applicable. Rehabilitation and
resettlement will not be retrospective,” he told the newspaper.
Bihar: A ban on the use of plastic bags inside the Sanjay Gandhi Zoo in
the state capital Patna, will be applicable starting June 5. State
authorities are taking steps to check the environmental degradation
within the zoo, and visitors will be able to buy environment-friendly
bags as an alternative, at the zoo. (Prabhat Khabar)
Maharashtra: In a horrific train accident three people were killed and
fifteen injured in Mumbai on Thursday (Indian Express). The passengers
on the local train were leaning from an over-crowded coach of a
suburban train when an iron pole along the tracks swept them off the
train. V. A. Malegaokar, the chief public relations officer of the
Central Railway, said the tragedy was the result of “extreme
overcrowding” of the railways. “The trains are extremely overcrowded
and there are no violations of norms by the Railways,” Mr. Malegaonkar
told the newspaper.
Gujarat: Accounting for two-thirds of the nation’s total solar power
generation of nearly 900 megawatts, Gujarat made headlines this week as
the largest solar power producer in India (The Hindu). The state
declared its Solar Power Policy in 2009, and within three years the
government of Gujarat has attracted 80 billion rupees, or $1.5 billion,
worth of investment in solar power.
Andhra Pradesh: Eight contract workers and their supervisor were
trapped in the Shantikhani coal mine in Adilabad district for 22 hours
after a technical snag occurred in the elevator that was carrying them.
(CNN-IBN)
Tamil Nadu: On Friday a retired army officer, K. Ramaraj, was sentenced
to life imprisonment by a court in Chennai for the killing of a
13-year-old boy last year. The teenager had entered Mr. Ramaraj’s
residential premises to pick almonds. (The New Indian Express)
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