07:59 Dinakaran cracks before cops, confesses to meeting middleman in bribery case:
AIADMK (Amma) leader TTV Dinakaran has confessed to meeting Sukesh Chandrasekhar, the arrested middleman in the EC bribery case, under the impression that he was a high court judge, police said.
Dinakaran, who is being grilled by the Delhi Police, had so far maintained that did not know Sukesh nor had he met him.
The leader, who is accused of trying to bribe an Election Commission official in a bid to retain the ‘two-leaves’ symbol of AIADMK, however, denied having paid any money to Sukesh in this regard, police said.
On sustained quizzing, Dinakaran said he had met Sukesh, who had posed as a high court judge and sought to help him in the matter, police sources said.
However, he denied paying money to the middleman, the sources said, adding the Crime Branch officers also confronted Dinakaran and Sukesh.
00:25 Trump calls for sanctions against North Korea: United States President Donald Trump on Monday called for United Nations Security Council sanctions against the nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes of North Korea, terming it as a very big problem.
“The status quo on North Korea is unacceptable. The (UN Security) Council must be prepared to impose additional sanctions on North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programme,” Trump told ambassadors of countries on the UN Security Council during a working luncheon in the White House.
North Korea, he said, ‘is real threat’ to the world.
“It is a big world problem,” he added.
Noting that it has been left unattended for a long time, Trump said it is time to resolve the North Korean problem.
“It is now time to solve the problem,” he said. — PTI
Source: Rediff