Saturday, 19th Jan 2013

Headlines

• Kerala has no jurisdiction over Italian marines
• Diesel price hike for bulk consumers to push rail road fares and cement costs
• President rule imposed in Jharkand

National News

• Kerala has no jurisdiction over Italian marines says supreme court
• while India is entitled both under its Domestic Law and the Public International Law to exercise rights of sovereignty up to 24 nautical miles from the baseline on the basis of which the width of Territorial Waters is measured, it can exercise only sovereign rights within the Exclusive Economic Zone for certain purposes.
• The incident of firing from the Italian vessel on the Indian shipping vessel having occurred within the Contiguous Zone, the Union of India is entitled to prosecute the two Italian marines under the criminal justice system prevalent in the country. However, the same is subject to the provisions of Article 100 of UNCLOS 1982.”
• “Admittedly, the incident took place at a distance of about 20.5 nautical miles from the coastline of the State of Kerala, a unit within the Indian Union. The incident, therefore, occurred not within the territorial waters of the coastline of the State of Kerala, but within the Contiguous Zone, over which the State Police of the State of Kerala ordinarily has no jurisdiction.

International News

• U.S, U.K fume as hostage crisis continues
• A group called al-Mulathameen, a group affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is believed to have held the hostages captive in a gas plant jointly operated by Norway’s Statoil, Britain’s BP and Algerian state-owned Sonatrach.
• The Algerian government has strictly monitored all information regarding the crisis, though the militants have indicated that the kidnap was a response to the recent French intervention in neighbouring Mali.
• No deal on Parchin;Iran-P5 + 1 talks to continue
• U.N. experts returned from Tehran on Friday without sealing a long-sought deal on Parchin.This could restart suspicion that Iran worked on atomic armsand add to doubts about success of the upcoming Iran-P5+1 talks.

Editorials, opinions, columns

• Opinion on the state of research in the country compared to other countries