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Lazy brits lost three million jobs to immigrants
London: Lazy and incapable Britons have lost nearly three million newly-created jobs to immigrants since 1997, a senior government official has said. Work and Pensions Secretary Lain Duncan Smith said it was a “sin” to give millions of jobs to foreigners. At least 70 percent of the four million jobs, created since 1997, had gone to immigrants because British people were not ‘capable or able’ to do them, the ‘Daily Express’ quoted Smith as saying. He said a new system would be put in place that would have tougher penalties for those who refused to take jobs. A programme will be introduced to help people return to the workforce, with some long-term jobless people required to do unpaid community work. But unemployed people who persistently fail to turn up for jobs or turn them down and refuse to apply will lose their 65 pound-a-week jobseeker’s allowance. The allowance will be removed for three months on a first offence, six months the second time and three years on the third, with no appeal.
Doing business on dead
Lucknow: Three government hospital staffers, including a doctor, were arrested in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh for selling unclaimed corpses to private medical colleges, police said.
“Preliminary investigations indicate that the three were selling unclaimed bodies to medical colleges, which use them for carrying experiments,” deputy superintendent of police Manoj Pandey told reporters in Meerut.
Dr. Pankaj Giri, pharmacist Hari Singh and his helper Anand Kumar. Who worked in the Central Police Hospital in Moradabad, some 350 km from Lucknow, were arrested by a team led by deputy inspector general of police Ashok Kumar Singh. The hospital is governed by the office of the district chief medical officer (CMO).
“Our team raided the Civil Lines Postmortem House and came across two bodies tied to each other and kept in a separate room,” he added.
According to police inspector Anil Kumar Raghav, the bodies did not have a single cut on them, and the postmortem certificate attached was fake.
The civil Lines postmortem House comes under the jurisdiction of the Moradabad District Hospital.
The two bodies were found near the Moradabad railway station, and sent to the Postmortem House. Unclaimed bodies from all over the district are brought here, and doctors and staff of the Central Police Hospital too can access the facilities.
A case under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the three, Raghav said.
“We cannot rule the possibility of the involvement of other health department officials,” he added.
Police, however, are mum on financial details of the racket, saying that investigations are in progress.
Meanwhile, Moradabad CMO R.K. Saxena told IANS that the pharmacist and his helper have been suspended, and that he had written a letter to the state government recommending Dr. Giri’s removal.
“Since the doctor is a class I gazetted officer, he can be suspended only after state government orders,” he said.
Taliban true followers of Islam: Pak minister
Islamabad: The Taliban are “the true followers of Islamic ideology”, says a Pakistan minister who also believes that “America is the biggest terrorist of the world”.
According to federal Minister for Tourism Maulana Attaur Rehman: “Ulema and Taliban are the true followers of Islamic ideology and America is the biggest terrorist of the world, which is creating hatred against them”. Dawn quoted Rehman as saying at a public gathering in Allai area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that terrorism could not be brought to an end until the US and the world gave equal rights and respect to the Muslims.
“It is a misconception that ulema and Taliban are against co-existence of people with different religions.
In fact it is America which is against the interfaith harmony to maintain its hegemony on the world,” said Rehman.
The Pakistan Army has been battling heavily armed Taliban guerrillas in the mountainous Waziristan region. The well entrenched rebels put up a stiff resistance against the advancing soldiers.
The country has faced a string of terror strikes and the Taliban has been blamed for the Dec 27, 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi.
Atomic scientist in jail but, reported 'Missing'
Chennai: In an anti-climax of sorts, a missing scientist of the Indira Gandhi Centre for atomic Research, for whom a hunt was launched following a complaint from his wife, traced at the Chennai central prison.
Sheeja had lodged a complaint at a police station in the suburbs of Chennai alleging that her husband V V Radhakrishnan (37), who worked in the electrical section of the IGCAR in Kalpakkam, has been missing.
According to her, the scientist, who hails from Kerala, had left home for work but did not return. He had left behind his personal belongings, including bank ATM card, office identity card and cell phone behind.
Even as the media went to town with the news, the police launched a massive hunt for the missing scientist with all sorts of theories about his safety doing the rounds.
However, on seeing his photographs in newspapers, an inspector at the Pallavaram police station in South Chennai realised that the image matched with that of a man who was arrested four days ago on a sexual harassment charge. But in the station records, the man’s name was mentioned as Shyamsundar, a software engineer working in HCL in Bangalore.
The inspector alerted his higher-ups who conducted a probe: finally it came to light that the Shyamsundar who was in jail was actually none other than the Malayali scientist Radhkrishnan.
“Radhkrishnan had approached a young HR professional Shanawaz after seeing an advertisement issued by her. Later, he sent her obscene SMS messages asking for sexual favours. The lady promptly lodged a complaint and Radhkrishnan was arrested. However, Radhakrishnan concealed his identity and gave himself an assumed name of Shyamsundar of Bangalore to avoid embarrassing his family and friends. He went to jail hoping he could come out on bail,” a senior police officer said. Radhkrishnan’s wife was taken to the Central Prison where she identified him.
London: Lazy and incapable Britons have lost nearly three million newly-created jobs to immigrants since 1997, a senior government official has said. Work and Pensions Secretary Lain Duncan Smith said it was a “sin” to give millions of jobs to foreigners. At least 70 percent of the four million jobs, created since 1997, had gone to immigrants because British people were not ‘capable or able’ to do them, the ‘Daily Express’ quoted Smith as saying. He said a new system would be put in place that would have tougher penalties for those who refused to take jobs. A programme will be introduced to help people return to the workforce, with some long-term jobless people required to do unpaid community work. But unemployed people who persistently fail to turn up for jobs or turn them down and refuse to apply will lose their 65 pound-a-week jobseeker’s allowance. The allowance will be removed for three months on a first offence, six months the second time and three years on the third, with no appeal.
Doing business on dead
Lucknow: Three government hospital staffers, including a doctor, were arrested in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh for selling unclaimed corpses to private medical colleges, police said.
“Preliminary investigations indicate that the three were selling unclaimed bodies to medical colleges, which use them for carrying experiments,” deputy superintendent of police Manoj Pandey told reporters in Meerut.
Dr. Pankaj Giri, pharmacist Hari Singh and his helper Anand Kumar. Who worked in the Central Police Hospital in Moradabad, some 350 km from Lucknow, were arrested by a team led by deputy inspector general of police Ashok Kumar Singh. The hospital is governed by the office of the district chief medical officer (CMO).
“Our team raided the Civil Lines Postmortem House and came across two bodies tied to each other and kept in a separate room,” he added.
According to police inspector Anil Kumar Raghav, the bodies did not have a single cut on them, and the postmortem certificate attached was fake.
The civil Lines postmortem House comes under the jurisdiction of the Moradabad District Hospital.
The two bodies were found near the Moradabad railway station, and sent to the Postmortem House. Unclaimed bodies from all over the district are brought here, and doctors and staff of the Central Police Hospital too can access the facilities.
A case under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the three, Raghav said.
“We cannot rule the possibility of the involvement of other health department officials,” he added.
Police, however, are mum on financial details of the racket, saying that investigations are in progress.
Meanwhile, Moradabad CMO R.K. Saxena told IANS that the pharmacist and his helper have been suspended, and that he had written a letter to the state government recommending Dr. Giri’s removal.
“Since the doctor is a class I gazetted officer, he can be suspended only after state government orders,” he said.
Taliban true followers of Islam: Pak minister
Islamabad: The Taliban are “the true followers of Islamic ideology”, says a Pakistan minister who also believes that “America is the biggest terrorist of the world”.
According to federal Minister for Tourism Maulana Attaur Rehman: “Ulema and Taliban are the true followers of Islamic ideology and America is the biggest terrorist of the world, which is creating hatred against them”. Dawn quoted Rehman as saying at a public gathering in Allai area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that terrorism could not be brought to an end until the US and the world gave equal rights and respect to the Muslims.
“It is a misconception that ulema and Taliban are against co-existence of people with different religions.
In fact it is America which is against the interfaith harmony to maintain its hegemony on the world,” said Rehman.
The Pakistan Army has been battling heavily armed Taliban guerrillas in the mountainous Waziristan region. The well entrenched rebels put up a stiff resistance against the advancing soldiers.
The country has faced a string of terror strikes and the Taliban has been blamed for the Dec 27, 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi.
Atomic scientist in jail but, reported 'Missing'
Chennai: In an anti-climax of sorts, a missing scientist of the Indira Gandhi Centre for atomic Research, for whom a hunt was launched following a complaint from his wife, traced at the Chennai central prison.
Sheeja had lodged a complaint at a police station in the suburbs of Chennai alleging that her husband V V Radhakrishnan (37), who worked in the electrical section of the IGCAR in Kalpakkam, has been missing.
According to her, the scientist, who hails from Kerala, had left home for work but did not return. He had left behind his personal belongings, including bank ATM card, office identity card and cell phone behind.
Even as the media went to town with the news, the police launched a massive hunt for the missing scientist with all sorts of theories about his safety doing the rounds.
However, on seeing his photographs in newspapers, an inspector at the Pallavaram police station in South Chennai realised that the image matched with that of a man who was arrested four days ago on a sexual harassment charge. But in the station records, the man’s name was mentioned as Shyamsundar, a software engineer working in HCL in Bangalore.
The inspector alerted his higher-ups who conducted a probe: finally it came to light that the Shyamsundar who was in jail was actually none other than the Malayali scientist Radhkrishnan.
“Radhkrishnan had approached a young HR professional Shanawaz after seeing an advertisement issued by her. Later, he sent her obscene SMS messages asking for sexual favours. The lady promptly lodged a complaint and Radhkrishnan was arrested. However, Radhakrishnan concealed his identity and gave himself an assumed name of Shyamsundar of Bangalore to avoid embarrassing his family and friends. He went to jail hoping he could come out on bail,” a senior police officer said. Radhkrishnan’s wife was taken to the Central Prison where she identified him.
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