AFSPA to be lifted soon, says Omar:J&K CM Omar Abdullah has said the Ar-med Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)would be revoked from parts of the statesoon. The decision has been opposed bythe army and the defence ministry. P 16

Gaddafi burial put off: Muammar Ga-ddafi’s burial has been put off as the loc-ation is still to be decided. The UN hascalled for an investigation into thedictator’s killing. P 22

3 get life term for Pune rape: Threemen convicted of raping a married wom-an in their car at the Hinjewadi InfotechPark in Pune last April were awarded lifeimprisonment on Friday. P 16

US to pull out of Iraq by year-end:Barack Obama has said US troops will bepulled out of Iraq by the year-end as pro-mised by him. The announcement wasmade after failing to reach a deal withthe Iraq government that would have le-ft several US military trainers back. P 22

Path cleared for F1 race: Clearing thetrack for the Formula 1 race in Noida, theSupreme Court has asked the organizersto deposit 25% of the proceeds fromticket sales in a separate account. P 26

Rupee below 50 per dollar: Therupee on Friday closed below the50-level mark against dollar for the first time in 30 months. P 23

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Allahabad: In a judgment th-at questions the UP governm-ent’s land acquisition policybut showers relief on at least50,000 home buyers, the Alla-habad High Court on Fridayquashed the land acquisitionin three villages in the Noidaarea but cleared the takeoverof land in 60 other villages onthe condition that farmersare paid 64.7% more as comp-ensation for the land acquir-ed from them and given 10%of the developed land (not ex-ceeding 2,500 sq m).

Flat buyers can afford asmile for two reasons. One, noflats or plots had been sold inthe three villages of Devla,Yousufpur Chak Shahberiand Asadullahpur where la-nd acquisition has been stru-ck down. Two, the amount tobe paid on account of the hik-ed compensation isn’t large;in fact, in many cases, builde-rs like Amrapali, Supertechand Gaursons have assuredthat the buyers would not ha-ve to pay anything extra.

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Mumbai: Airlines are having a blast this Diw-ali. With most flights packed to capacity andthe rush for tickets rising with it being the wee-kend ahead of the festival, carriers have hikedfares by at least three folds in most sectors.

One-way tickets to cities like Delhi, Kolka-ta, Jaipur and Thiruvananthapuram went forup to Rs 32,000 on Saturday. Not just the soaringrates, tour operators say those making last-minute plans may not even get direct flights tothe destinations of their choice.

According to the operators, the runaway fa-res, however, have not deterred those planningto take a few days off during the weekend. Whi-

le domestic destinations are a favourite at thistime of the year, places like Singapore, Thaila-nd, Malaysia and even Turkey and Croatia arealso drawing a number of Indian holiday-mak-ers. In fact, so high is the demand that fares tothese places too have skyrocketed by about30%, with even LCCs having a dhamaka. P 6

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New Delhi: Despite impressive growth, Gujarat has notbeen able to reduce malnourishment levels, while UttarPradesh and Bihar, among the most backward in the coun-try, have done better in improving the lot of their margi-nalized Dalits and tribals. These are some of the conclus-ions of the India Human Development Report 2011, relea-sed by the Centre on Friday.

According to the report, high rates of child malnutriti-on were a major concern. It said Gujarat was among theworst performers, with 69.7% kids up to 5 being anaemic

and 44.6% suffering fr-om malnutrition, provi-ng that high economic

growth was no guarantor of an improvement in health. Complimenting opposition chief ministers Nitish Ku-

mar and Mayawati, the report said, “It is worth citing theprogress achieved by two of the economically backwardstates of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.” It went further in endo-rsing the brand of politics the two chief ministers have un-dertaken, noting that social movements have helped in bet-ter performance of deprived classes.

Devpt report rapsGuj, pats UP, Bihar

Mumbai: A 24-year-old hotelemployee was stabbed todeath and his friend serious-ly injured by a gang of men inAndheri (West) on Thursdaynight after they protested theeve-teasing of their femalefriends. Three men havebeen arrested for the crime.

Keenan Sentos, a bartend-er in a five-star hotel, and six

of his friends—includingthree women—were waitingat a paan shop in Amboliwhen four drunken men cameby. One of the drunks purpose-ly fell on a woman in Sentos’group, and when her friendsobjected, a brawl ensued.

The four drunks retreated,only to return minutes laterwith, according to one accou-nt, a dozen more men. The lar-ge gang first assaulted Sentosand his male friends—RubinFernandes, Avinash Bali andBenjamin Fernandes—andthen stabbed him and Rubin.Sentos died soon after in a hos-pital. Rubin, a student, is stillcritical.

Drunks brawl withdiners, kill youth

The crime scene in Amboli

Vijay V Singh TNN

Mumbai: The National Con-sumer Disputes RedressalCommission (NCDRC) on Fr-iday ordered that a compens-ation amount of Rs 1.73 croreshould be paid to the US-bas-ed husband of a child psych-ologist who died in Mumbaidue to medical negligence.

This is perhaps the high-est compensation amount or-

dered by the commission forsuch negligence. Howeverthe three guilty doctors and ahospital, all Kolkata-based,will have to pay only Rs 1.34crore after reductions order-ed by the Supreme Court.

The complainant, Dr Kun-al Saha, said he and his wifeAnuradha, 36, were of Indianorigin and settled in the US. InApril-May 1998, they were ho-lidaying in Kolkata when An-uradha contracted Toxic Epi-dermal Necrolysis (TEN), wh-

ich the NCDRC termed a “rareand deadly disease”. A TENpatient loses the epidermis inlayers and the exposed lowerskin must be treated like a su-perficial burn wound.

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her bill has been introducedin Parliament to protect wh-istleblowers,” he said.

Stressing that the UNanti-graft convention wouldfacilitate international coo-peration in trans-border ca-ses, Singh said, “To meet therequirements of the conve-ntion, we have introduced abill in Parliament to makebribery of foreign public of-ficials an offence.”

The anti-graft law hasso far been focused on corr-uption among public serv-ants, leaving the private se-ctor out of the ambit, andthe proposal underlined bySingh marks a radical shiftin the Centre’s approach.

st Corruption which Indiaratified earlier this year.“We are considering chang-es in our laws to criminalizeprivate sector bribery. Anot-

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New Delhi: Acknowledgi-ng that the agitation for aLokpal has put the spotlig-ht on corruption, Prime Mi-nister Manmohan Singh onFriday announced that hisgovernment was workingon proposals to criminalizeprivate sector bribery andalso make illegal gratifica-tion of foreign public offici-als an offence.

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