News4u-news desk, PUNE: The police on Sunday night raided a party being held at a farmhouse at Theur, 27 km from Pune, and detained 489 students, most of them MBA students of Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS).

Eighty-one students and seven others were later arrested for consuming liquor without permits and playing loud music. All of them were released on bail on Monday.

DSP Pravinsinh Pardeshi told TOI the students — aged between 22 and 28 — had organised a ‘‘freshers and friendship day’’ party at the farmhouse, ‘Sindhu’, located along the Pune-Solapur road, and owned by a Pune jeweller family. Pardeshi said the students arrived at the farmhouse in 10 buses around 8.30pm. Disturbed with loud music, residents called up cops around 11 pm. The residents were also angry with the parking of buses which led to traffic congestion.

When cops arrived there, the students told them that they had necessary permissions. Consequently, police approached the organisers, who said they did not have the required permissions. Police said there were 235 girls among the 489 students. They said 302 bottles of liquor and beer were recovered.

“However, nothing incriminating was recovered from students,’’ police inspector Balasaheb Mandge said. Principal director, Symbiosis Society, Vidya Yeravdekar, said the institute has taken a serious note of the incident. She admitted 350 students were from SIMS hostels. She said Symbiosis has appointed a four-member committee to probe the incident. The institute is located at Range Hills, Khadki. Seven doctors conducted a medical examination on the students. The police arrested 81 students and the seven organisers. All the girls were allowed to go, he said.

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News4u-News Desk,Nainital, – The Bharat Ratna Pandit G B Pant High altitude zoo is a major attraction for tourists visiting Nainital.
Located 2,020 metres above sea-level and spread over five hectares of area, the zoo is the only High Altitude Zoo in north India after the zoos in Darjeeling and Sikkim.
The zoo comprises various animals found in Himalayn region. Many of them belong to endangered species. Snow Leopard, Siberian Tiger, Tibetan wolf, Sambar and Himalayan bear are among the many endangered species kept here. It is also home to different species of birds.
One of the attractive features of this special zoo is the way it has been developed. Efforts have been made to develop in such a way that the inmates at the zoo, despite being kept in their enclosures, can feel that there are in their natural habitat.
Annually around 125,000 tourists visit this zoo. Most of them are drawn to watch snow leopard, hill fox, Himalayan black bear and Tibetan wolf at this zoo.
“We have kept all those animals in this zoo that are found at such an altitude. Animals like snow leopard, Himalayan bear and Siberian tiger along with exotic species of birds are kept in this zoo. Other than these rarely found, animals like Himalayan Martin is also found in this zoo,” said Manoj Shah, Range Officer at the Bharat Ratna Pandit G B Pant zoo.
Tourists enjoy a gala time visiting this special zoo with families.
“We saw many animals here and also went to Jim Corbett Park. But, unfortunately, we were not being able to see any of the animals. We have seen leopard, dear and birds here today. It’’s been a nice experience for us,” said Shweta, a tourist from Hyderabad.
The zoo has nicely constructed animal enclosure like of snow leopard and all are at an altitude.
Nainital Zoo is providing a habitat to snow leopard, Siberian tiger, Himalyan black bear, hill fox, Plam civet cat, ghoral, silver pheasants, barking deer, sambhar deer, owl, eagle, Rose ringed Prakeet and many more.
Besides keeping the Himalayan animals and birds, it also conserves steadily vanishing species. Several plants have been planted to maintain the natural habitat at the zoo.
The zoo remains closed for visitors on Monday and on national holidays.

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News4u-News Desk-Buoyed by the remarkable showing of her party in the civic elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday demanded immediate Assembly elections, saying that Left Front major CPI(M) has lost all right to continue in power.

The Trinamool Congress has stormed to power in the prestigious KMC with a two-thirds majority besides registering impressive wins in other civic bodies.

Terming her party’s success as “historic”, Mamata told reporters after arriving from Delhi that “the CPI(M) has lost all right to continue in power in the state. Assembly elections should be held immediately.”

“It is a victory of the ma-mati-manush (mother, land and the people). They have given a verdict in favour of political change in the state. I salute the people. In an obvious reference to her party’s failed alliance with ally Congress for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, Banerjee said, “In this election we had to fight against the ruling party and three to four other forces.”

She said that out of the 81 municipalities across the state, her party would rule in 51, and added that this win would help her party undertake development work.

Stating that she was not demanding imposition of President’s Rule under Article 356, Banerjee said, “Elections can be held within six months (from the scheduled date).
The Election Commission can do it.”

Holding the state Congress leaders responsible for the breakup of the alliance for the civic polls she, however, said, “I want to maintain relations with the UPA.”

Banerjee alleged after the Lok Sabha elections, there was no government in the state. She said there was no change in the state in the last 34 years as the “people were not allowed to vote. We fought a hard battle in which many of our workers were killed.”

Her party’s performance in this election was better than the showing in Lok Sabha election, she said. “It is a marvellous victory. Politics is a struggle. The people have seen our struggle.”

Asked who would be the Mayor of KMC, she said the elected councillors would take a decision.
Buddhadeb silent on civic poll results

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday refused to take questions on the civic poll results that delivered a blow to the ruling Left Front.

Asked if the results of the civic poll, widely seen as a trend-setter for next year’s Assembly election, were on expected lines, Bhattacharjee evaded any reply and left the state secretariat in a huff.

CPI-M headquarters on Alimuddin street wore a deserted look after the results that gave Trinamool Congress a thumping majority in the KMC.

In contrast, there was an air of jubilation in front of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence with party workers celebrating the massive victory.

Overjoyed Trinamool workers took out small victory processions in some parts of the metropolis.

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News4u-News Desk-Lucknow, In a bid to provide better health facilities to the people living in rural areas of the state, Uttar Pradesh government will soon recruit 5,000 medicos.

“The government will soon recruit 5,000 doctors through Public Service Commission,” Health Minister Anant Kumar Mishra said yesterday during a day-long training programme of newly appointed medical officer held here.

For the convenience of the newly appointed medical officers they are being appointed in their home district, the minister added.

“The main objective of training programme is to strengthen health services in the state and ensure that poor people who cannot afford treatment get benefitted,” he said.

“The government will extend all possible support but if any laxity is observed in providing health services to poor stern action will be taken against the guilty,” he warned.

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News4u-News Desk- Afsar Raza -Lucknow, Alarmed over reports of loot by auto drivers in the state capital, police here has been directed to conduct a thorough verification of auto drivers.

With a view to check recurrence of cases of loot as well as misbehaviour by tempo/auto drivers with passengers, a thorough checking of their documents would be conducted, ADG (crime and law and order) A K Jain Jain said, adding the detailed lists would be submitted to concerned police station.

The ADG said that clear cut tasks would be allotted to district police officials in order to ward off chances of any criminal gang operating as auto drivers.

Senior officials have also been asked to check at least ten to 20 autos/tempos every day, he said.

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News4u-News Desk- The overall flood situation in Bihar remained grim on Monday with major rivers in spate while around 1.5 million people have been affected by the deluge in 11 north Bihar districts where floods have claimed 52 lives so far, official sources said.
“There is no let up in the overall situation which continues to be grim,” state water resources department sources said.

Central Water Commission (CWC) sources said that rivers such as Kosi, Bagmati, Mahananda, Kamala Balan and Adhwara group of rivers were in spate following heavy rains in their catchment areas.

Relief distribution in some of the flood-hit areas was suspended because of model code for polls coming into force in the light of the bye-elections in 18 Assembly constituencies in Bihar, state disaster management department sources said.

The 11 districts affected by floods are West Champaran, Sitamarhi, Darbhanga, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Purnia, Saharsa, Supaul, Kishanganj, Gopalganj and Katihar, the sources said.

Standing crops in vast areas and houses worth several crores of rupees have been destroyed in the floods.

“All the embankments in Bihar are safe and flood-fighting continues at places where the rivers are putting pressure on their embankments,” state water resources department sources claimed.

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News4u-News Desk- Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has accused the Centre of neglecting a “backward and cash- strapped” Bihar and said his govt will continue its fight for securing ’special status’ to the state.
“It is highly unfortunate that the Centre has ignored the state’s interests and neglected a backward and cash-strapped state like Bihar,” Kumar told reporters at Patna on Sunday before leaving for undertaking an aerial survey of flood-hit districts like Sheohar and Sitamarhi.

Asserting that the state government will continue its fight for securing special state category to Bihar, Kumar said, it was unfortunate that despite the Congress leaders assured of conceding the demand at the time of Lok Sabha polls, they were “maintaining silence” over the issue.

He said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also assured an all-party delegation members which had called on him in New Delhi recently, of doing the needful, but the demand was yet to be met.

“It is the duty of the Centre to protect the backward states and dream of ensuring inclusive growth in India won’t turn into a reality unless steps are taken for development of such states,” Kumar said.

He insisted that Bihar deserves special treatment as it fulfilled all the criteria required for it.

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News4u-News Desk- Salil- Ahmadabad, Heavy rains lashed north central and south region of Gujarat for the second consecutive day today, bringing much relief to the farmers in the state.

The rainfall is good for the standing crop of cotton, and major oil seed crop of groundnut in the state, industry experts said.

According to official data, some talukas in districts of Vadodara, Tapi, Panchmahal, Sabarkantha recorded heavy rainfall.

Karjan taluka in Vadodara district recorded the maximum rainfall with 127 mm, while Nizer taluka in district Tapi registered 103 mm, Bhiloda taluka in Sabarkantha registered 88 mm and Dhodhamba taluka in Panchmahal 77 mm.

State meteorological department has predicted heavy to very heavy rains in the state in the by tomorrow morning.

Over 75 per cent of cotton produced in Gujarat comes from Saurashtra, North and Central parts of the state.

Acreage under cotton crop has increased by over 2.

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News4u-News Desk-Bhubaneswar, Senior IAS officer Tarun Kanti Mishra will be the new Chief Secretary of Orissa, official sources said tonight.

A 1975 batch IAS officer, Mishra, would succeed Ajit Kumar Tripathy, who is slated to attain superannuation on August 31, they said.

Mishra, currently holding the post of development commissioner, was the state’s Home secretary during communal violence in Kandhamal and other parts of the state in the aftermath of VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati’s killing on August 23 last year.

A multi-faceted personality, Mishra is a distinguished writer and associated with several cultural activities besides discharging his duties and responsibilities as an administrative officer.

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News4u-News Desk-Lucknow, Instructing all the departments to ensure proper implementation of government schemes in the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today said the officials will be accountable if their subordinates fail to execute responsibilities.

“If district level officials are failing to execute their responsibilities with honesty and dedication, accountability of principal secretary or secretary of the department concerned will be fixed and action will be taken against him,” Mayawati said during a high-level review meeting yesterday.

She asked the government officials to “improve their work culture as per the expectations and need of the people and ensure that people get benefit of various welfare schemes”.

Mayawati said that a report submitted by the chief secretary had indicated that working of some department was not satisfactory.

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