Current Awareness Service

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22.11.2011
ATUL VIDYALAYA Shaping The Future

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n  Amidst din, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Monday passed a
controversial resolution on splitting the state into four parts by
a voice vote minutes after which the lower house was adjourned
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 Chief Minister Mayawati, who had announced the proposal
N recently to split the state into Purvanchal, Paschim Pradesh,
e Bundelkhand and Awadh Pradesh, presented the resolution saying
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s  As soon as the proposal was passed by voice vote amidst noisy
scenes, Speaker Rajbhar adjourned the House sine-die.
 Rastriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Kokab Hamid said the state
government was not serious about splitting the state and the way
the proposal was passed showed the same.
 SP and BJP will be meeting Governor BL Joshi later in the day to
register their protest against the BSP government.
 In a bid to outsmart rivals ahead of the Assembly elections,
Mayawati had last week announced her plans to bring a
resolution in the House for carving out four new states.

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over the South China Sea and the border
dispute that have strained the relationship.

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n  Accusing the government of reducing the proposed Lokpal
a to an “empty tin box with no powers”, Team Anna on
Monday said they were surprised at the move to exclude
l Citizen’s Charter and lower bureaucracy from the ambit of
the ombudsman, contrary to a Parliament resolution.
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 “The government proposes to remove CBI, judiciary,
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w Group D employees and CBI from Lokpal jurisdiction.
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powers and functions?” a Team Anna statement said.
 On the issue of keeping CBI out of Lokpal’s control, Team
Anna said the Standing Committee proposal on the agency
would reduce Lokpal to merely a post office -- receive
complaints, forward it to CBI, receive CBI’s report and
present it before the court.
 They also demanded that criminal investigation of judges,
which has been left out of Judicial Accountability Bill,
should now be included in the Lokpal Bill.

5. G SIT says 2004 killing of Ishrat by Gujarat
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t  A Special Investigation Team appointed by the Gujarat High Court
has concluded that the sensational Ishrat Jahan encounter of
June 15, 2004 — in which the Ahmedabad police claimed they
N shot dead four Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists on a mission to
e assassinate Narendra Modi — was entirely staged and the
w teenaged girl from Maharashtra and the three men who died with
her were, in fact, murdered by policemen in cold blood.
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 Apart from Ishrat Jahan, the others killed in the fake encounter
were Javed Sheikh, aka Pranesh Pillai, a native of Kerala, and
Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar, whom the police claimed
were Pakistanis but whose identity has never been fixed with
certainty.
 The court observed that the case required “fresh investigation,”
but has yet to decide which agency will conduct it: the SIT, or
some Central agency, particularly the Central Bureau of
Investigation or the National Investigation Agency. Justice Patel
said the court would decide on this after hearing all the parties
on November 23, including the Centre.

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N  The sound of willow on leather was a recurrent pattern at
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India and the West Indies trained at the same time, making
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s wicket but besides the attention on men honing their skills
their craft, the focus was also on two individuals, who
skipped the nets.
 In bowling out India for 209 in the first innings at Delhi and
by scoring 463 in the second innings at Kolkata, the West
Indies has sprung a few surprises. However against Dhoni's
men, who have found their roar with the exception of
Yuvraj Singh, Sammy and company will have to play top-
drawer cricket to stop the Indian juggernaut.
 The match here will give another opportunity to the
quartet to confirm their tickets on the flight to Australia in
December.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who is suffering from a calf injury, is a
doubtful starter

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t  Teenage fast bowler Pat Cummins sealed a dream Test debut when he hit P
the winning runs to take Australia to a two-wicket win in the second and
N final Test against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium on Monday.
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 David Ferrer dented Andy Murray's hopes of winning the ATP World Tour d
Finals on home turf in London with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over the World No.
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 On Sunday, Rafael Nadal opened his account with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(3) o
defeat of American Mardy Fish in a late-night Group B thriller. u
 In the doubles comeptition, India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi r
suffered a 7-6(6), 6-1 defeat to Sweden's Robert Lindstedt and Horia F
Tecau of Romania in their first round Group A match. i
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pair of Lindstedt and Tecau proved to be too good for the experienced a
fourth-seeded Indians who could convert only two of the 11 break points, l
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N  Egypt’s army-appointed government handed in its
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w crisis as thousands of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir
s Square clashed for the third straight day with
security forces in violence that has killed at least 24
people and posed the most sustained challenge yet to
the rule of the military.
 An Egyptian morgue official said the toll had climbed
to 24 dead since the violence began Saturday a jump
from the toll of five dead around nightfall Sunday,
reflecting the ferocity of fighting through the night.
The official spoke on condition of because he was not
authorized to release the numbers. Hundreds have
been injured, according to doctors in the square.

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 In a moving account, a mother on Monday recalled
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e revealed that her murdered daughter's phone was
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s story, and how at one stage the newspaper's action
raised false hope that her child was still alive.
 Asked whether they wanted to say anything toNoW's
publishers, Mr. Dowler said: “We would sincerely
hope that News International and other media
organisations would look very carefully how they
procure, how they obtain information about stories.
Obviously, the ramifications are far greater than what
appears in the press.”
Bob and Sally Dowler, the parents of murdered school girl Milly Dowler,
arrive to attend the Leveson Inquiry in central London, on Monday.