1. Pachauri sent 6,000 'love' messages to colleague
The messages sent by TERI chief RK Pachauri to a former colleague show how he haunted and stalked her with messages over a period of almost two years. In the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police on March 4, the messages attached range from creepy to disturbing and some are downright explicit.
Running 1,467 pages long, the charge sheet contains 41 pages of the original charge sheet, 33 pages of the complaint, 61 pages of the recorded statement, and 126 pages of the call detail records among other evidence, the DNA reported.
2. Gujarat Quota stir: Man takes own life to make government 'wiser'
Upleta and Dhoraji towns of Rajkot remained shut on Friday to mourn death of a youth who had allegedly committed suicide in a guest house "in support” of the ongoing Patidar quota stir on Thursday, reported The Indian Express.
Markets remained partially shut in Dhoraji, the town where Prakash Shaani (36), a Patidar youth had allegedly ended his life by consuming poison the previous day. Shaani, a resident of Moti Paneli village in neighbouring Upleta taluak, had checked in a guest house in Dhoraji in the morning and allegedly committed suicide by consuming pesticide.
He was found dead in his guest house room at 5:30 pm.
3. Soon, pre-owned imported iPhones may sell in India
Apple has sought permission to sell imported pre-owned certified iPhones in India, a development seen as another attempt by the smartphone maker to dig deep into the country which is increasingly becoming crucial to its growth, reported The Economic Times.
"An application from Apple regarding import of certified pre-owned iPhones for sale in India and manufacturing certified pre-owned iPhones for sale in India has been received in the ministry of environment and forests," telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in Rajya Sabha on Friday .
The government has not taken any decision on the matter, the minister said.
4. Budget drops Rajiv Gandhi's name from many schemes
Hidden in the fine print of NDA government's third Budget is a political message -four schemes named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi have been renamed, by dropping his name.
Interestingly, Bharatiya Janata Party , the major party in National Democratic Alliance, hasn't replaced Rajiv Gandhi's name with names of its own political favourites. The schemes now have politically neutral names, said a report in The Economic Times.
So, the decentralisation scheme Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan under the ministry of panchayati raj will be called Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan from April 1.
5. How Jet pilot put flyers in danger
The 120 passengers onboard a Jet Airways aircraft that met with an accident while landing at Mumbai airport on Thursday night were exposed to further danger as the commander did not opt for emergency evacuation though there was a high risk of the plane catching fire.
The aircraft had come to a halt with the right engine touching the ground. The passengers and eight crew members stayed inside flight 9W 354 from Delhi for close to 40 minutes even as fire engines sprayed foam on the plane. Sparks were emitted from under the engine as it scraped the ground during landing, the Times of India reported.
6. 16-yr-old faints in court as mom tells not to name rapist stepdad
A 16-year-old girl fainted in a city court on Friday when brought face to face with her stepfather who, she said, had raped her for more than three months.
A medical check found that the questions put to her about the alleged sexual assault to identify the accused and confirm the allegations had left her traumatised, the Hindustan Times reported.
But the stress was aggravated by the girl’s mother and grandmother who minutes before the deposition were seen by the court staff pressuring the teenager to withdraw the statement accusing her stepfather of rape.
7. Guard killed 70- yr- old to show colony was unsafe without him!
Mohammed Rafique Chaudhry, a former security guard at Mumtaz's housing society Rizwan Apartments, has been arrested for killing the senior citizen. Cops say the accused killed Mumtaz to get his job, from which he was fired, back.
Shockingly, the accused, 28- year- old Chaudhry killed the woman just because he wanted to prove to the society that if he were removed from the job, then such incidents would occur in the society. The accused wanted the society members to realise that he is the best guard to secure the people living at Rizwan Apartments, said a report in Mid-Day.
Cops claim that this is what the accused had told them in preliminary investigations. They are, however, not buying this theory and are interrogating him round the clock to know the exact truth.
8. Parrikar: Let me save money on Rafale deal
India is trying to drive a hard bargain to get a better deal in the long-pending mega contract for acquisition of 36 French Rafale fighters, which will be worth around Rs 60,000 crore, that was announced after the Modi-Hollande summit in Paris in April last year.
“I am a tough negotiator. Let me save money for the nation,“ said defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday , adding that “good buyers“ do not disclose their “weaknesses“ upfront and play with their cards close to their chests. As reported by TOI earlier, India is pushing for an overall price of around Rs 60,000 crore (8 billion euros), though the price will depend on the support and spares package that is finalized during the ongoing negotiations, even though France is demanding much more.
9. Do not attend Yamuna fest: Residents to Pranab
A group of residents from across Delhi-NCR have written to President Pranab Mukherjee, urging him not to take part in Art of Living’s World Culture Festival (WCF) on the Yamuna floodplains, the Hindustan Times reported.
“We request you not to embrace this wanton pollution of the river, this destruction of the riverbed, by your presence at this event,” the letter says.
President Mukherjee is scheduled to be the chief guest at the closing ceremony on March 13.
10. Cops thrash, abuse and extort from BPO workers in Airoli, face probe
When Navi Mumbai youth Amey Mulye tells people that his friends threw him a surprise midnight birthday party with a cake and they stayed out till daybreak, it can be hard to understand why it was the worst birthday of his life.
Until he explains how the police crashed the party, abused and hit him and friends, and demanded a whopping Rs 50,000 just because they were cutting a cake in a public place and not at home, reported Mid-Day.
On his 24th birthday on Wednesday, Amey was on the night shift in his Airoli office, so his friends decided to bring in the occasion with a surprise cake at midnight. They called Amey to the open ground outside the office premises, where 13 of them were waiting with a cake. Just as he was cutting the cake, a police patrol car turned up and the group was surrounded by cops.
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