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[00:00.000 --> 00:05.600]  Set back to Army Chief General as the Defense Ministry formally rejects his appeal, seeking to correct his date of birth.
[00:08.000 --> 00:11.840]  Foreign Minister Isem Krishna writes to the family of Anoj Bidwai, who was killed in UK,
[00:11.840 --> 00:15.600]  assuring all help in bringing back the body, the government will bear the expenses.
[00:16.320 --> 00:20.320]  Anna Hazari may still be waiting for Parliament to pass a strong anti-corruption law,
[00:20.320 --> 00:23.840]  but he has named a baby in his native village exactly that, Lokpa.
[00:23.840 --> 00:32.800]  Hello and welcome, I'm Kiyangri Atop story. The war of words that we saw on the Rajasapathal,
[00:32.800 --> 00:37.760]  the early hours of Friday morning, has not died out. Political leaders, well as the government
[00:37.760 --> 00:42.720]  or the opposition, members of the team, Anna, everyone continues to speak out their mind
[00:42.720 --> 00:47.120]  on the move that resulted in the Lokpaal Bill not going through this Parliament session.
[00:47.120 --> 00:53.120]  If that was freedom at midnight, this was literally freedom at midnight.
[00:53.120 --> 01:11.120]  Here is the case when the assassins are living the victims.
[01:11.120 --> 01:15.680]  Well, orchestrated by opposition, joint opposition.
[01:15.680 --> 01:24.320]  This is a very good producer of BGP, the director of the second party, the director of the third party,
[01:24.320 --> 01:31.680]  the music of the party, and the actors of the Kremlin, the sub-he party.
[01:31.680 --> 01:37.200]  Last night what we saw through the day was another 10-letter word and that was a caricature.
[01:37.200 --> 01:45.680]  Now after 27th of December, there has been a change of mind on that issue. As I said earlier,
[01:45.680 --> 02:07.440]  it is a matter that we need to sit and talk with the TMC.
[02:07.440 --> 02:17.200]  Anti-congress focus, to at least a bifocal vision, where at least some drawbacks and errors
[02:17.200 --> 02:25.360]  of the BGP also occasionally are visible together.
[02:25.360 --> 02:46.240]  Do not let us oppose the 256 pages for the next four pages,
[02:46.240 --> 02:50.800]  The blame game continues over whose responsible for the midnight fiasco and if TV's Rahul
[02:50.800 --> 02:55.800]  Shivasa has exclusive details on what led to the disruption.
[02:55.800 --> 03:01.600]  Perhaps the government till the end, till what we are hearing, till 1145 in the night,
[03:01.600 --> 03:05.800]  did not tell the chaperce and all the Rajasavar secretariat, whether it was interested in
[03:05.800 --> 03:07.120]  passing the bill.
[03:07.120 --> 03:11.760]  If we go back last year, we should know if you remember that there was a very clear indication
[03:11.760 --> 03:16.480]  after a nudge from Sonya Gandhi, the UPHA person that the Congress wanted the women
[03:16.480 --> 03:21.760]  reservation bill to be passed and then the clear indication was sent to the Rajasavar secretariat
[03:21.760 --> 03:25.840]  and the Rajasavar chairman and then what had happened if you remember that when members
[03:25.840 --> 03:31.040]  started protesting, tried to stall marshals were called inside the house and they were
[03:31.040 --> 03:35.200]  the people who were protesting were taken out and then the bill was put to vote and the bill
[03:35.200 --> 03:38.640]  had sailed through the Rajasavar though it is yet to come up in the looks of up.
[03:38.640 --> 03:42.880]  Perhaps we should do that clear indication was lacking and that is why the chair could not
[03:42.880 --> 03:44.160]  decide which way to go.
[03:44.160 --> 03:48.080]  The second crisis arose when what to do about the extension of the house because because
[03:48.080 --> 03:53.200]  was speaking till virtually as late as 1115 in the night, the government went to the chair
[03:53.200 --> 04:00.400]  person chairman Ms. Arachava and told him at 1142 that the government does not want an extension
[04:00.400 --> 04:01.600]  of the session.
[04:01.600 --> 04:07.440]  What it meant that barely 15 minutes before the clock would take 12 or midnight, the chair did not
[04:07.440 --> 04:09.440]  really know which way to go.
[04:09.440 --> 04:11.520]  The bill does not really die.
[04:11.520 --> 04:17.600]  It remains alive for five months, 29 days that means within six months it can be taken up again.
[04:17.600 --> 04:22.560]  That is good news for the local bill that perhaps that within six months the debate can start
[04:22.560 --> 04:25.600]  all over where it had left off in the Rajasavar.
[04:25.600 --> 04:30.320]  The adjournments can be taken up but there is a right additional that perhaps given the fact
[04:30.320 --> 04:36.000]  that it is a contentious bill and the local and the budget session is a very crucial session for
[04:36.000 --> 04:40.480]  the government perhaps the government's first indication which we have got is that budget first
[04:40.480 --> 04:41.480]  local next.
[04:41.480 --> 04:46.240]  So that is why the second half could well be the time of the budget sent when the local
[04:46.240 --> 04:48.560]  bill can come up.
[04:48.560 --> 04:52.560]  In the Arab system the government says the local bill is not in cold storage.
[04:52.560 --> 04:57.200]  Varisandhi Pukhan explains the budget session in March comes with its own complications.
[04:59.200 --> 05:02.960]  The UPN ever had the numbers to push through the local bill in the Rajasavar.
[05:02.960 --> 05:07.840]  The picture was further complicated by the Trinimal Congress who refused to support the government
[05:07.840 --> 05:13.280]  bill but predictably for the government the BJP became the main villain of the peace.
[05:14.160 --> 05:20.240]  So does all this effectively mean that the local bill has been put to sleep at the stroke of midnight?
[05:21.120 --> 05:25.120]  For the record the government says it will try to revive the bill in the next session of
[05:25.120 --> 05:30.160]  parliament and the budget session of parliament but the key question is will the government bring
[05:30.160 --> 05:36.560]  such a controversial bill that may end up the political class especially at a time when it
[05:36.560 --> 05:42.000]  has to pass important economic legislations like the budget and the food security bill.
[05:42.000 --> 05:43.120]  That is the key question.
[05:44.720 --> 05:49.360]  In a decisive set back to the army chief general VK Singh the defense ministry has formally
[05:49.360 --> 05:52.720]  rejected his appeal seeking to correct his date of birth.
[05:52.720 --> 05:57.120]  This means he will have to retire in May 2012 but he can now approach the courts.
[05:57.120 --> 06:02.720]  General Singh has met Prime Minister, General Singh has also met Finance Minister Pranambhukhaji,
[06:02.720 --> 06:04.800]  Michael Lee Gsudhi Ranjansen has a details.
[06:06.000 --> 06:09.840]  The defense ministry has officially today communicated to the chief of army staff that is
[06:09.840 --> 06:15.920]  statutory complaint in which he had said that his date of birth or the year of birth is 1951
[06:15.920 --> 06:21.120]  and now 1950 cannot be accepted. The Attorney General has said since he was made a chief of army
[06:21.120 --> 06:26.240]  staff with the with the consideration or with the calculation that he was born in 1950 cannot
[06:26.240 --> 06:31.680]  be changed at this stage. This opinion had been conveyed to the to the ministry sometime ago
[06:31.680 --> 06:36.880]  today it has been communicated. In this statutory complaint the army chief had made it very clear
[06:36.880 --> 06:42.080]  that he is not fighting for tenure because if his age and which is there in his matriculation
[06:42.080 --> 06:47.200]  certificate as 1951 he gets another year. But in this statutory complaint the chief has made it
[06:47.200 --> 06:52.080]  very very clear that he is not fighting for tenure but it is his personal honor that he is fighting
[06:52.080 --> 06:59.040]  for because he says or the army believes that if the chief of army staff's age is being doubted
[06:59.040 --> 07:04.000]  what he has stated is being doubted then you are doubting the chief's intention and the entire
[07:04.000 --> 07:09.600]  office of the chief of army staff is under a club. So it is basically a question of personal
[07:09.600 --> 07:15.360]  honor that the chief has been fighting for. After being targeted relentlessly of allegations
[07:15.360 --> 07:20.480]  of favoring a former client the home ministry has asked all officers to show drafts of letters
[07:20.480 --> 07:25.520]  if the letter says that a decision has the approval or concurrence of the ministry.
[07:25.520 --> 07:29.360]  So Dhammaram has said his ministry has issued a directive to all officers
[07:29.360 --> 07:34.160]  that when a draft is being prepared and finalized with a note that this issue has the approval
[07:34.160 --> 07:38.960]  of the home minister or home secretary the draft must be put up to either of the two.
[07:42.560 --> 07:47.840]  At least 27 people were killed after cyclone Thane hit North Coast will care not North Coast
[07:47.840 --> 07:53.520]  will Tamil Nadu early on Friday leaving a trail of destruction. The cyclonic storm is weakening
[07:53.520 --> 07:58.560]  over land but rains are continued expected to continue in the coastal districts of the state
[07:58.560 --> 08:01.680]  and also in southern anthropadish over the next 24 hours.
[08:09.680 --> 08:15.440]  They have agreed by cyclone Thane that cross coastal Puducheri and Keralu district of Tamil Nadu
[08:15.440 --> 08:20.400]  early on Friday. The wind speed was upwards of 120 kilometers per hour.
[08:21.360 --> 08:28.800]  As far as next 24 hours is concerned it is likely to rain at most at many places in Tamil Nadu
[08:28.800 --> 08:33.760]  and Puducheri. One of the places may experience heavy to very heavy rainfall.
[08:33.760 --> 08:38.960]  Early in the morning tomorrow is when Meddi Patmata official say cyclone Thane will make landfall
[08:38.960 --> 08:42.880]  and that's in the coastal district of Keralu anywhere between Puducheri and Keralu
[08:42.880 --> 08:47.840]  and this rainfall is expected to last till afternoon or tomorrow evening. Of course,
[08:47.840 --> 08:52.480]  people have been asked to stay in shelters, government has taken precaution to
[08:53.360 --> 08:58.480]  move the people in the coastal districts of to safer places. Of course, heavy rainfall
[08:58.480 --> 09:04.960]  expected and also very high speed winds. Some 250 coastal villages inhabited by fishermen
[09:04.960 --> 09:15.600]  have been put on high alert and the atmosphere all night long. Several hundredths were evacuated.
[09:15.600 --> 09:45.440]  The whole extent of the damage reached by cyclone Thane is still to be assessed. People say they have not
[09:45.440 --> 09:50.720]  seen such a cyclone in several years but the worry is going to be about the days ahead
[09:50.720 --> 09:55.120]  because many of these fishermen along the coast have lost their livelihood because the
[09:55.120 --> 10:00.640]  catamaranth and the boats have been destroyed. With Madhuvarti in Puducheri, in Chennai with
[10:00.640 --> 10:07.440]  Kamraperson Nagraju Umar Sudhir in DTV. The capital woke up to a white blanket of fog on Friday
[10:07.440 --> 10:13.760]  morning as visibility dropped disrupting rail and air traffic. As many as 75 flights were delayed
[10:13.760 --> 10:18.560]  and 43 trains cancelled, the Madh department has said the fog is likely to continue into the
[10:18.560 --> 10:26.080]  new year. A relatively warmer morning in Delhi but as the temperature went up to 6.8 degrees,
[10:26.080 --> 10:31.520]  dense fog closed in affecting road, rail and air traffic. Visibility at the airport dropped to
[10:31.520 --> 10:38.000]  below 50 meters and many flights had to land using the cap 3-be landing system. On the
[10:38.000 --> 10:45.840]  holds, 75 flights were delayed, 15 cancelled and 7 flights diverted.
[10:59.120 --> 11:03.440]  At the railway station, things were no different. Over 40 trains were cancelled and an
[11:03.440 --> 11:08.240]  equal number either running late or diverted, leaving many passengers stranded.
[11:08.240 --> 11:13.120]  We hear the announcements that sorry about the inconvenience but the trains are going to be delayed
[11:13.120 --> 11:17.680]  that the situation has got to do with the fog. We see the fog clearing but nonetheless,
[11:17.680 --> 11:21.440]  a lot of the trains are still coming in later. There are passengers out here.
[11:21.440 --> 11:24.880]  Here is Pheedabha, here is Pheedabha. Here is Pheedabha.
[11:24.880 --> 11:27.440]  Here is Pheedabha. Here is Pheedabha.
[11:27.440 --> 11:32.480]  But the worst affected was with the Pradesh. In Mathurav, four people died in a roadmiss
[11:32.480 --> 11:37.920]  have due to fog. And in neighbouring Shah Jahampur, another road accident due to blinding fog
[11:37.920 --> 11:42.480]  came five lives. The metapartment has focused fog over the next few days affecting
[11:42.480 --> 11:47.680]  new year plans of most commuters. With Hina Gambir, Umi Kulsu and DTV.
[11:50.240 --> 11:55.120]  The Ministry of External Affairs has stepped in to assist the family members of Anoj Bidwai
[11:55.120 --> 12:00.480]  and Indian student who was brutally shocked dead in Manchester City in United Kingdom last week.
[12:00.480 --> 12:05.600]  The consulate in Birmingham is expediting the visa process for two members of Anoj's family
[12:05.600 --> 12:07.760]  and will also bear the travel expenses.
[12:11.200 --> 12:15.360]  A murdered son and now the torturous wait for his body.
[12:16.080 --> 12:21.280]  The family of 23-year-old Anoj Bidwai, a victim of hate crime in the United Kingdom,
[12:21.280 --> 12:26.160]  urging the government to exert diplomatic pressure on authorities in Manchester to release their
[12:26.160 --> 12:31.280]  son's body at the earliest. The Ministry of External Affairs has asked the coroner's court
[12:31.280 --> 12:37.360]  to expedite the process and has promised to bear all expenses. The Lancaster University has told
[12:37.360 --> 12:42.000]  the MEA that they will return Anoj's tuition fees. You can police wants us to be
[12:42.560 --> 12:49.200]  coming there because they have a process of body identification and we will also try and get
[12:49.200 --> 12:53.760]  Anoj Bidwai with us. Meanwhile, unlike the counterparts in Australia,
[12:53.760 --> 12:58.560]  with several Indians have been attacked, the British police was quick to treat the murder as a hate
[12:58.560 --> 13:04.480]  crime. We have not yet established a clear motive for this murder and there is no
[13:05.440 --> 13:10.640]  evidence or information at this time to suggest it's racially motivated. However,
[13:10.640 --> 13:14.080]  because of concerns in the community and perceptions in the community,
[13:14.080 --> 13:18.320]  we are going to treat treating this as a hate crime.
[13:19.520 --> 13:24.480]  For the family back in Pune, the weight getting that much harder to achieve closure.
[13:25.360 --> 13:31.280]  In the last two decades, the UK has seen racetrime rates go down considerably,
[13:31.840 --> 13:38.480]  but it still continues to be a very real threat and this is something that the home office will
[13:38.480 --> 13:44.480]  have to take into account when it starts to probe the murder of Anoj Bidwai. Of course,
[13:44.480 --> 13:49.280]  the police investigation which is currently on has admitted that it is a race crime,
[13:49.280 --> 13:54.160]  but is also according to sources saying that they are looking into whether it could be
[13:54.160 --> 14:13.200]  a gang in a seashore. Time for a break, news updates continue on the other side.