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Appeals court allows prayer at Texas high school’s graduation

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prayer at Texas graduation schoolIn a cry for religious freedom and sentiments, Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott supported an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley Independent School District against the ban imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, on prayer at their graduation ceremony. The original law suit by an agnostic family whose son attends Medina Valley High School in Castroville. They were of the opinion that their son would suffer “irreparable harm” if anyone prayed at his graduation ceremony.

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Supreme court warns high court not to summon government officials

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Warnning about officialsThe High court judges were warned by the apex court that, they should not summon the Government officials for unnecessary reasons as it will result in causing disastrous effect on their governance. The court passed this order when it was found to be improper that even after continuous advise from the apex court, of not summoning the Government officials except in exceptional cases, the Allahabad High Court summoned the U.P government’s principal health secretary for non-compliance of its 21year order. The bench clearly stated that a large number of cases are charged against these officials which are only for the ego satisfaction of the judges. Adding up to the same it was said that the judges of higher judiciary (High Court and Supreme Court) should have high degree of modesty and humility and should not possess any kind of ego problems. Also the court advised the judges to show respect to these officials of the executive. A mutual respect between the executive and the judiciary is an important phenomenon without which the whole system will collapse.

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CBDT retains right to tap phones of tax evaders

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The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the controlling authority of Income Tax CBDT to tap phone department, will continue to have the right to tap phones of tax evaders on specific information, According to the sources from the department its vital for the revenue department to have this power as all crimes were linked with financial transactions. CBDT was given the power to tap phones during the tenure of P Chidambaram as finance minister in 2005-06. After the leakage of phone taps linked to corporate lobbyist Nira Radia to the media, the government this year decided to review tapping powers to agencies.  The matter was discussed by a committee of secretaries whether tapping powers should be withdrawn from CBDT. It was later left to the home ministry and the finance ministry to take a decision on the issue.

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World No Tobacco Day 2011

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world no tobacco World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world today (May 31st 2011). The World Tobacco Day now is observed around the world every year on May 31st. It is observed under the Aim to encourage a 24 hour period of abstinence from all form of tobacco consumption across whole world. The world tobacco day was created by the World Health Organization in 1987.

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Woman takes attacker’s penis to the Police Station

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Sex Crime SceneA 40 year old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man’s penis during an attempt on rape by a man of 40 years married and father of five. The woman took the attacker’s penis to the police station as evidence. The woman is married and mother of three. The police officers said that she was attacked while sleeping in her shanty in Jhalakathi district which is 200Km away from south of Dhaka. And the man had been harassing her for six months. The cut-off penis has been kept at the police station and the rape suspect was undergoing treatment in hospital. The police said that “We will arrest him once his condition gets better”

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