The accused, identified as 58-year-old Ajit Vadakayil, a retired captain of Merchant Navy, was arrested on Thursday, police said.
According to them, the actor had complained that “false messages” were being circulated through electronic media, which claimed donations sought on his TV show were going to a trust working for a particular religion. “Vadakayil was arrested and was immediately granted bail. Today, we filed a charge sheet against him in the court,” a crime branch officer said.
The accused has been booked under relevant sections of the Information Technology Act and for defamation under the Indian Penal Code.
Last month, Aamir Khan had met Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Sadanand Date at Mumbai Police headquarters and briefed him about the “false and malicious messages” being circulated on social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp that were damaging his image and the reputation of his reality show. The Cyber Crime Investigation cell had later blocked the content on the website.
Khan, through a social networking site, had said false and malicious messages were circulating through various electronic media, including Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks alleging donations are being sought in his television programme Satyameva Jayate, in relation to an entity by the name of Humanity Trust working for a particular religion.
Khan had said West Bengal’s Humanity Trust had nothing to do with Humanity Trust referred to in the messages. The actor had also clarified “all donations sought in the show are used and channelised for entirely deserving and secular causes, contrary to the content of the highly mischievous/malicious insinuations in the messages, being circulated by vested and unscrupulous interest.”
A Nepali migrant worker killed himself by hanging from the ceiling of his hostel in Malaysia.
The deceased has been identified as Bire Nepali of Fulkharka-2, Dhading.
Nepali, 33, was a worker at NW Garment Company. He was found hanging from the ceiling in the toilet of the hostel on Thursday.
He was survived by his wife, two sons and four daughters.
Meanwhile, another Nepali migrant Birendra Rai of Lumfabung-5, Paanchthar has been killed in a motorcycle accident.
He met with an accident while returning from his work station at Nirvana Company last Sunday. He died on the spot.
Another pillion rider has sustained critical injuries. He has been undergoing treatment at a local hospital.
APR 25 -
A Virgin aircraft flying from Australia is believed to have been hijack ed at Bali airport, reports quoting Indonesian officials say.
Police have told Indonesian TV that a passenger tried to enter the cockpit and take over the plane but has since been arrested.
An Indonesian air force spokesman told the BBC that troops had boarded the plane, which had flown from Brisbane.
A Virgin aircraft flying from Australia is believed to have been hijack ed at Bali airport, reports quoting Indonesian officials say.
Police have told Indonesian TV that a passenger tried to enter the cockpit and take over the plane but has since been arrested.
An Indonesian air force spokesman told the BBC that troops had boarded the plane, which had flown from Brisbane.
KAVRE, APR 25 -
A passenger has been killed in a minor brawl with one assistant driver on Friday.
The deceased has been identified as Shyam Napit,18, of Panauti-7.
It has been learnt that assistant driver Ajay KC and Napit had a brawl over getting off the mini bus(Ba 2 Kha 3364) on Thursday.
Napit succumbed to his injuries at the Bir Hospital this morning. He had sustained head injuries.
Meanwhile, KC is under police custody.
A passenger has been killed in a minor brawl with one assistant driver on Friday.
The deceased has been identified as Shyam Napit,18, of Panauti-7.
It has been learnt that assistant driver Ajay KC and Napit had a brawl over getting off the mini bus(Ba 2 Kha 3364) on Thursday.
Napit succumbed to his injuries at the Bir Hospital this morning. He had sustained head injuries.
Meanwhile, KC is under police custody.
Climbing to the roof of the world is becoming less predictable and possibly more dangerous, scientists say, as climate change brings warmer temperatures that may eat through the ice and snow on Mount Everest.
Nepal was left reeling when a sudden ice avalanche slammed down onto a group of Sherpa guides on Friday and killed 16 in the deadliest single disaster on Everest. While it is impossible to link any single event to long-term changes in the global climate, scientists say the future will likely hold more such dangers in high-altitude regions.
Avalanches of snow, rock or ice could increase. Climbing and trekking terrains would become unsteady. Glaciers may be more unpredictable. Storms will become more erratic, and the Himalayas in particular could see more snow as warming oceans send more moisture into the air for the annual Indian monsoon that showers the 2,400 km mountain range.
Friday’s disaster occurred at the Khumbu Icefall, long recognized as one of Everest’s most dangerous spots, as the edge of the slow-moving glacier is known to crack, cave and send huge chunks of ice tumbling without warning. “It’s Mother Nature who calls the shots,” Tim Rippel, an expedition leader, said in a blog post from Everest base camp. “The mountain has been deteriorating rapidly in the past three years due to global warming, and the breakdown in the Khumbu Icefall is dramatic,” he said. “We need to learn more about what is going on up there.”
There is nothing to prove the icefall was behaving unusually on Friday. But scientists say mountaineers should assume that everything is now in flux.
What makes the situation so risky, scientists say, is the uncertainty itself. While scientists are sure things are changing, they’re not entirely sure how. Much of the evidence is anecdotal, and there isn’t enough data or decades of scientific observation to draw solid conclusions. Rigorous glacier studies have only begun in the Himalayas in the last decade, and no one is studying snow patterns on a large scale, Nepali glaciologist Rijan Bhakta Kayastha at Kathmandu University said.
Meanwhile, as global temperatures have gone up 0.75 degrees C in the last century, according to the International Panel on Climate Change, studies show the Himalayas warming at a rate up to three times as high. “You can be sure that if the climate is changing—- and it is—then glaciers are changing and the danger is shifting,” said US hydrologist Jeff Kargel of the University of Arizona who is leading a global project to measure and map the tens of thousands of Himalayan glaciers through satellite data.
Kargel said population in the vicinity also plays a role. “The more people you have living or trekking in the mountains in seemingly blind disregard for a changing hazard environment, the more catastrophes you’ll have,” he said on Wednesday in a telephone interview.
More than 4,000 climbers have scaled the 8,848m summit since 1953, when it was first conquered by New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
The numbers have skyrocketed in recent years along with guided expeditions charging up to $75,000 to help even novice trekkers reach the peak. More than 800 climbers tried during the 2013 spring season, and there were likely at least as many signed up this year. But some, spooked by Friday’s disaster, have already packed up and left.
The legendary Apa Sherpa, who holds the record in summiting Everest 21 times, has been warning about rising risks from climate change for years. When he first summited the mountain in 1990, the trails were covered in thick layers of packed ice and snow. “Now, the trail is full of bare and exposed rock,” he said, making it harder for climbers to gain footholds with their spiky metal crampons meant for digging into ice.
“The danger level has significantly risen for climbers,” said Apa, 53, who now lives in Draper, Utah, and last conquered Everest in 2011.
The Sherpas who died on Friday were some of today’s most skilled Everest climbers, underlining the fact that experience is no guarantee of safety.
Heavier snow storms would lead to more snow accumulating, raising avalanche risks. Shifting wind patterns may also affect how snow and ice behave, scientists further warn.
“People will get in trouble if they rely on what they knew in the past,” said American glaciologist Tad Pfeffer with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “They have to have their eyes open and not go somewhere or do something simply because it worked out five years earlier.”
KATHMANDU, APR 24 -
The two-week-long fuel crisis in the Kathmandu valley has not eased despite government assurances that regular supplies would resume by Tuesday. In fact, motorists can expect the shortage to worsen as Nepal’s supply lines will be cut when the Indian border is sealed for elections there.
Nepal Oil Corporation ( NOC ) had initially cited unpaid import bills for the reduced supplies of gasoline. Now it says that the upcoming Indian polls could disrupt imports. On Tuesday and Wednesday, NOC paid IRs 3.64 billion out of the about IRs 5.90 billion it owes to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to keep the tankers rolling. IOC is NOC ’s sole supplier of petroleum products. However, NOC Spokesperson Mukunda Ghimire said that the elections in India may affect petroleum supplies to Nepal despite the partial payment.
India has announced that the Jogbani border adjoining southeastern Nepal will be closed from Tuesday to Friday. NOC said it planned to keep the oil flowing by channelling imports through Kakkarbhitta on the eastern border.
“We are planning to hold adequate stock considering a possible sealing of Raxaul border on May 7,” said Ghimire. Nepal imports about 80 percent of petroleum products from IOC’s Raxual depot.
Amid supply constraints, pumps in Kathmandu have not been able to provide fuel to motorists.
Although the NOC announced on Sunday it would supply additional fuel within the week, petroleum dealers said the supply still fell short of demand. NOC had said it would distribute more than 450kl of petrol against the demand of 400kl.
“The shortage still continues as NOC distributed only 362kl of petrol on Tuesday and Wednesday,” said Lilendra Pradhan, president of Nepal Petroleum Dealers’ National Association.
NOC , however, claimed the supply was increased to 560kl on Wednesday. “And, we will supply 400kl of petrol on Thursday despite being public holiday,” Ghimire said.
There are 108 petrol pumps in the valley, including 11 run by government entities like the police, army and Sajha. Pradhan said about 35 percent of the petroleum supplied to the valley goes to pumps run by the government.
Meanwhile, diesel is also in short supply in the valley. Pradhan said they were getting only 500kl of diesel against the daily demand of 600kl.
The two-week-long fuel crisis in the Kathmandu valley has not eased despite government assurances that regular supplies would resume by Tuesday. In fact, motorists can expect the shortage to worsen as Nepal’s supply lines will be cut when the Indian border is sealed for elections there.
Nepal Oil Corporation ( NOC ) had initially cited unpaid import bills for the reduced supplies of gasoline. Now it says that the upcoming Indian polls could disrupt imports. On Tuesday and Wednesday, NOC paid IRs 3.64 billion out of the about IRs 5.90 billion it owes to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to keep the tankers rolling. IOC is NOC ’s sole supplier of petroleum products. However, NOC Spokesperson Mukunda Ghimire said that the elections in India may affect petroleum supplies to Nepal despite the partial payment.
India has announced that the Jogbani border adjoining southeastern Nepal will be closed from Tuesday to Friday. NOC said it planned to keep the oil flowing by channelling imports through Kakkarbhitta on the eastern border.
“We are planning to hold adequate stock considering a possible sealing of Raxaul border on May 7,” said Ghimire. Nepal imports about 80 percent of petroleum products from IOC’s Raxual depot.
Amid supply constraints, pumps in Kathmandu have not been able to provide fuel to motorists.
Although the NOC announced on Sunday it would supply additional fuel within the week, petroleum dealers said the supply still fell short of demand. NOC had said it would distribute more than 450kl of petrol against the demand of 400kl.
“The shortage still continues as NOC distributed only 362kl of petrol on Tuesday and Wednesday,” said Lilendra Pradhan, president of Nepal Petroleum Dealers’ National Association.
NOC , however, claimed the supply was increased to 560kl on Wednesday. “And, we will supply 400kl of petrol on Thursday despite being public holiday,” Ghimire said.
There are 108 petrol pumps in the valley, including 11 run by government entities like the police, army and Sajha. Pradhan said about 35 percent of the petroleum supplied to the valley goes to pumps run by the government.
Meanwhile, diesel is also in short supply in the valley. Pradhan said they were getting only 500kl of diesel against the daily demand of 600kl.
Top tourism officials in Nepal are on their way to Mount Everest 's base camp to negotiate with Sherpas who want to abandon the climbing season after an avalanche killed 16 of the mountain guides.
Tourism Minister Bhim Acharya and a delegation of others boarded a helicopter bound for base camp, according to his assistant, Prem Gautam.
Friday's avalanche , Everest 's deadliest ever, has exposed an undercurrent of resentment by Sherpas over their pay, treatment and benefits.
With the entire climbing season thrown into doubt, the government is taking unusually urgent action to avert an all-out strike.
The talks will likely be tricky as the Sherpas have no single leader, and the motivations for their walkout range from honoring the dead to holding out for more benefits.