CORRUPTION

Bengaluru, June 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a special experience towards the end of his eventful five-nation tour when he visited Mexico---the final country in the itinerary. Enrique Pena Nieto, the president of the North American country, drove Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a restaurant for a vegetarian dinner himself.  Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay drives with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during her visit at Thimpu in Bhutan in October 2015. PTI Ministry of External Affairs sporkesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted a photograph showing Modi sitting beside the 49-year-old Nieto driving the car. [A glance at stories on Modi's visit to US] While Modi's car had a left-hand drive, Didi got ride in a rigt-hand drive car Modi, however, is not the first Indian leader to get a lift from a foreign leader while paying a visit.

Mathura: The  Uttar Pradesh  Police on Tuesday said that the post-mortem report of 19 people, out of 29 killed during the  Jawahar Bagh  violence here, shows none of them died of bullet injury. Of the 19 whose post-mortem reports are available, 12 died of burn injuries and seven due to injuries received in lathi blows and stone-pelting. In a joint press conference, Mathura Senior Superintendent of Police Babloo Kumar and District Magistrate Nikhil Shukla denied reports of bullets found in the body of those killed.  Twenty-nine people - including then SP (City) Mukul Dwivedi and Station House Officer (Farah) Santosh Yadav - were killed during clashes between police and encroachers at Jawahar Bagh in Mathura last week. The two officers said DNA test would be conducted to ascertain the identities of the bodies that have not been identified. Strict action would be taken against those police officers who are found guilty of abandoning the SP an...

Mathura: A US-made rocket launcher was found by the Uttar Pradesh bomb disposal squad from the encroached land in Jawahar Bagh area in Mathura district. The deadly weapon was found when the security officials were searching the 280 acres of government land, which was encroached by Swadheen Bharat Vidhik Satyagrahi outfit. Mathura SSP Bablu Kumar said, "We have recovered equipment (from Jawahar Bagh) which says "Launcher, Made in USA". He further said that officials are verifying the details. The police is now probing as to who supplied the sophisticated weapons to the group.

The Supreme Court is likely to hear a plea seeking direction to Samajwadi Party-led  Uttar   Pradesh  government to recommend a CBI probe into the horrific violence in Mathura killing two police officers including the Superintendent of Police and over two dozens squatters, today.

DOHA:   Vowing to root out corruption in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he has "faced problems" by depriving the "sweets of many" and saved over  R s.  36,000 crore annually  by stopping leakage and theft in government schemes. Addressing the members of Indian community at the end of his two-day visit to Qatar , PM Modi said, "We have only cleaned up the surface (on corruption) and a detailed clean-up remains." "We have stopped the sweets of many and in doing so, I have also faced problems. But I get the strength to face these problems from the love received from 125 crore Indians," he said, likening criticism of the government's action to a child getting angry on being deprived of a sweet by his mother. PM Modi, who was repeatedly cheered by the Indian community members, said efforts to ensure financial transparency, discipline and efficiency have started yielding good results. "Can you imagine? We have saved  R...