Man held in Delhi for sexually harassing woman on flight
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS): A 56-year-old man was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here for sexually harassing a woman passenger on board an IndiGo flight, a senior police officer said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday evening on the flight that was on way to Delhi from Hyderabad. Ramesh Chand, a resident of Rohini Sector-3, was arrested soon after the flight landed, after which he was taken to the Domestic Airport police station. According to the FIR, the harassed woman, a resident of Hyderabad, said when the flight was taking off, she saw Chand, who was seated next to her, unzip his pants and start a lewd gesture. “The woman immediately informed an air hostess about it and her seat was changed. When the flight landed at the airport, we received a complaint from the woman,” the senior officer said.
Russian oil major Rosneft to tap Indian retail fuel market: Pradhan
Bengaluru, June 18 (IANS): Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said the Russian oil major Rosneft plans to tap the retail fuel market in India in a big way. “The Russian oil major who took over Essar Oil recently is planning in a big way to make inroads into India’s retail fuel market,” Pradhan told reporters after attending the City Gas Distribution (CGD) project to supply piped natural gas (PNG) to households in Bengaluru. To a query on the size of investment to be made by Rosneft and Essar, he said both the companies have invested $13 billion in Indian market in the last financial year. “It was one of the biggest deals in the oil industry in the world,” he said. During the second quarter of this financial year, BP and Reliance Industries have announced a $6 billion investment in India and Pradhan said this “indicates the progressive and reformative nature” of the Narendra Modi government.
Congress blames Kerala health department for dengue outbreak
Thiruvananthapuram, June 18 (IANS): Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala called on Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan here on Sunday to brief him about the “health department’s failure” to contain the dengue outbreak in the state. On Saturday, of the 19,000 patients who reported at hospitals with fever, there were 680 suspected dengue cases, of which 138 were tested positive. Also, 11 people died on Saturday, taking the dengue toll in the state to 115 this year. According to reports, the worst affected districts are Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode and Palakkad. Figures provided by the health department indicate that on an average, in June, daily over 10,000 people came to hospitals with fever.
No-fly list norms likely in July first week: Govt
New Delhi, June 18 (PTI): The norms for no-fly list to rein in unruly passengers are expected to be ready early next month, the government said today amid a parliamentarian being barred by domestic airlines for allegedly creating ruckus. A revised Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) is being finalised after receiving comments from the stakeholders. The civil aviation ministry has already come out with draft rules for a ‘national no-fly list’ of unruly passengers for all domestic carriers, under which the flying ban could extend from at least three months to an indefinite period. The CAR related to the no-fly list is expected to be notified in the first week of July, Civil Aviation Secretary R N Choubey told PTI.
A man has been arrested on charges of running a fake job call centre and duping 200 jobless persons from north Delhi’s Azadpur area, the city police said on Sunday. Narender Gaurav, who allegedly duped young men by promising them jobs in a well-known Ayurveda company in Delhi, was arrested on Saturday night from his Azadpur residence, the police said. Gaurav during interrogation told the police he earlier worked in a consultancy firm but later set up his own fake firm M/S Smart HR Zone and cheated people to make easy money. “Telecallers he had hired called up job aspirants and fixed ‘interviews’ with potential employees. Gaurav took money in the name of security deposits during the ‘final round’ of interview. He had also opened multiple bank accounts in the name of Gaurav Kumar,” the police officer added. The police are looking for his accomplices.
A Keralite woman, travelling from Saudi Arabia’s Dammam to Kochi on a Jet Airways flight, delivered a baby en route on Sunday morning, an official said. The woman, whose name was not known, was travelling alone and suddenly developed labour pains as the plane was in Pakistani air space. The cabin crew sought the help of a nurse who was also on the flight and the mother-to-be was moved into the first class area, where the delivery took place. Following the delivery, the flight was diverted to Mumbai where the mother and baby were taken off and moved to a hospital.
The Border Security Force has seized fake Indian currency notes of the face value of Rs 1,96,000 in Rs 2,000 denominations from West Bengal’s Malda district and arrested one person, an official said on Sunday. Acting on a tip off, troopers of border outpost Sabdalpur detained a suspect on Saturday evening and recovered the fake Rs 2,000 notes from him. “Nijimul Haque, 20, a resident of Ghera Bhagabanpur village of Malda was arrested by the BSF near the border area and 98 fake Rs 2,000 notes of the face value of Rs 1.96 lakh were seized from him,” the BSF’s South Bengal frontier said in a press release.
An elderly farmer, who was in debt, allegedly committed suicide on Sunday in Neemuch district of Madhya Pradesh, taking the number of similar deaths in the state to 11 in a week. Pipallya Vyas village resident Pyarelal Odh, 65, committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in his fields, police said. His family said he had raised a loan of more than Rs 2 lakh which he was finding difficult to repay. On Friday, Jagdish More, 35, had consumed poison in Rampura area of Dhar police station and died later in the day. The deceased farmer’s family told police that he committed suicide as he was upset over the pressure built by the bank for clearing the loan.
Militants on Sunday fired at an Army convoy in Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. Police sources said the incident took place on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Bijbehara area. “There are no reports of any casualty,” a police source said.
